Is Chris Paul worth it?

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  1. Minstrel

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    Short answer, yes with an if, long answer, no with a but.
     
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    1. No it isn't.
    2. If it is, it's because (a) Wade's got a ring, and (b) Wade recruited the other two. Neither true of Brandon. Brandon is probably pretty conflicted about this.

    Here's my thinking: I agree that if you're going to acquire Paul, it makes most sense to swap Brandon for him. BUT: Brandon Roy is a Blazer, nothing but. Paul is a Hornet. Paul would be a great Blazer the way Scottie Pippen was a great Blazer, and maybe for about as long.

    Who prefers the Pippen Blazers, where the best players were acquired from other teams where they were already established (except Sabonis, of course) to the Drexler Blazers, whose great years were all as Blazers (okay, apart from Clyde's championship, but that came later)? Nobody who saw both teams.

    Now, if we get Paul, there's no way I'm not going to be excited, and there's no way I'm not going to root for Paul. But I can't understand people who can get instantly attached to a bunch of players who were your enemies just because they've just this second put on a Blazers jersey. As far as I'm concerned you might just as well imagine the Miami Heat players are wearing Blazers' jerseys. Or you're one step away from thinking the jersey doesn't matter at all, and you can just root for the Lakers because they're the bestest players.
     
    Rastapopoulos, Jul 22, 2010
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    I think you're overestimating how good CP3 is. He's probably not the best PG to play the game since Magic.

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    Rastapopoulos, Jul 22, 2010
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    Pippen was 34 when he played his first game for the Blazers. He'd been in the NBA for 12 seasons, including 11 for the same city.

    Paul would be 25 if he gets traded this offseason, with five years in the NBA and only the last three in the same city (since he spent the first two with the Oklahoma City Hornets).

    I see no reason that Paul couldn't have his best years as a Blazer and go down as the best PG the franchise has ever had.

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    2 of the starters on the Clyde teams were acquired by trade.

    If they are wearing a Blazer uniform, they are Blazers.


    Oh yes....about Roy: at the point he puts his personal glory above the team's success, he can pack his bags.
     
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    pretty much how I see it too.
     
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    Then why are the Knicks on his list?
     
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    Buck, yes. But are you including Duckworth? Did he even play one game for the team that drafted him? (Spurs?)

    Couldn't they be cunningly disguised impostors?
     
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    Because I imagine someone *cough* Amare *cough cough* has told him that he, Amare, and Melo would be just as good as the Terrible Trio in Miami.
     
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    14, but who's counting? :devilwink:
     
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    I agree with this I think every aspect of Roy's game would improve efficiency wise. He probably would lose an assist or two off his game but his FG% would soar. I also think he would become a better defender with more energy. I'm just thinking this would be so huge. Roy wants to win more then anything and I think with Paul that's a foregone conclusion. I think Roy's ego could handle it. Also Roy will STILL be our closer as he is >>>>>>> the Paul at closing out a close game so he would have mega hero factor plus he's homegrown just like BlazerHippie's stash.
     
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    I've always loved CP3 even when he was killing us in games I had so much respect for him. He's a class act non-dirty player. I've ALWAYS loved CP3 and him in a Blazers uniform might be enough for me to start batting for the other team.
     
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    Who's better? Your only REASONABLE option is DWill and I would argue on that one that he has been in a vastly better system under a first ballot HOF coach. CP3 >>>DWill and nobody else should even be in the conversation I mean come on Rasta you need to be disbarred so you can no longer be the Devil's attorney after this thread.
     
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    Fuckin A! Repped for keeping your eyes on the prize!
     
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    Really? Now you're arguing a team should only be built through the draft? I'm sorry but in that era Free Agency was but an acorn compared to the mighty Oak of FA today. Even with increased restrictions free agency is vastly more fluid then ever before.
     
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    Chris Paul was a Blazer, before we traded him for Martell. Right? We are just trying to bring him back home.
     
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    No, that was Williams, and he was never a Blazer either because the trade was done before the draft.
     
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    that's not really true.

    [video=youtube;9F3tptzEWmM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F3tptzEWmM[/video]

    but yes, chris paul is definitely worth it. he's the best pg on the league and at the very least a top 5 player overall.
     
    rocketeer, Jul 22, 2010
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    Wasn't it CP3 who taught Roy during an All-Star weekend to cry and whine after every drive? :D
     
    BlazerCaravan, Jul 22, 2010
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