Is William a 1 or 2? Is Bayless a 1 or 2? Is Rudy a 2 or 3? To be bitching about having 5 SGs when only 2 (Roy/Matthews) are true 2's is dumb. Boo-hoo. No big trade happens, at least we will have plenty of talent when they all get injured.
I think I'm more concerned about us having so many guards. There's no way we're going to be able to play all those guys. Miller Johnson/Mills Roy Rudy Bayless Matthews Williams
Me thinks (recently extended) Buchanan and Born spearheaded the move to acquire Matthews. Paul and Vulcan bought that....with the caveat that the new GM (Cho) would be responsible for clearing the excess(es) at the 2.
Every pathetic weakass team in the league is 2 or 3 moves away from being a contender. Apparently Mr. Choad is a glass-is-half-full kind of guy, like me.
Babbitt replaces Webster Ibekwe replaces Juwan Howard Matthews replaces Fernandez Armon Johnson replaces Diener Elliott Williams replaces Mills The plan works for me. I see all upside (except the 1 year of Ibekwe).
Also- I don't understand what some posters have against having 15 players. It's like they think we're supposed to consolidate down to 9. We are ALLOWED to have FIFTEEN players. The better all 15 of those guys are the better.
Well, it will be interesting to see what happens now. Matthews is official, Cho is in place, now what? I would assume that Rudy will be gone in the next few weeks.
BP said, "I told you so", today. I'm still maintaining a wait-and-see approach. IMO, it's too early to exact this type of judgement....waaaaay too early.
What? With so many trades being made around the NBA? Clearly the Blazers are being left out in the cold. We only used our MLE on a guy. We need to make at least seven moves in the offseason if we HOPE to improve. Ed O.
I think I was either taken out of context (an ABM favorite) or didn't explain my self well. All I was alluding to was that before we hired a GM (which means it could have been a few months before they found one they really wanted) we used our MLE to overpay a project player (and our 5th SG) and we had no other trades pending. I anticipated we would hire a GM sooner rather than later who would develop some quick plans for unloading a modestly talented SG or two, but that wasn't the point. The point was the Blazer brain trust had no plans set when they went after the 5th SG. None. I just found it irresponsible. I mean, I pretty much felt it would all turn out OK in the end, but they went about everything haphazardly.
Supposedly Rudy has been requesting a trade since December (per Quick's story today) and he shit the bed in the playoffs. The Blazers decided that when they entered free agency they really wanted Wesley Matthews because A) he defends well on the wing and B) he shoots 52% from the left corner and 38% overall from 3 point range and they drafted a low twenties project shooting guard who won't expect to play. Like it or not that actually is a plan and it was executed exactly as they wished to. Cleaning up and balancing the roster comes after you obtain your free agent target, not before otherwise you end up potentially whiffing and ending up with nothing (See: Nets and Clippers).
