That was never the issue. I've said it multiple times (I'm sure people love that) but his circumstances here were never going to be optimal for him ... or the team. Best of luck to him, I hope it works out for him and he'll certainly have a great mentor, if he's willing to take the tutelage.
I had sworn I wasn't coming back here (the Blazer forum, not S2), but this is just too good. No wonder they fired KP....he was the only person associated with the team who isn't a total fucktard. Everybody is hurt - again, Roy is turning into Roybe more every day, they overpay for Matthews, they are actually going to rely on Rudy to contribute, and now this. The hits just keep on coming!
This is how I feel, and I guess I expected a move because they moved Johnson ahead of Bayless in the rotation.
Y'know, some people in the organization were ready to pull the plug on the Telfair experiment and draft Chris Paul. But John Nash overruled them - after all, Telfair wasn't even 20, was he?
I appreciated Bayless' hard work, attitude (& lack of attitude about not getting as many minutes as he wanted) but he's always been a disappointment. He was never a good fit here and I never considered him to be a necessary piece to the long term success of this team. That said I wish him all the best in NO.
Which beat writers have ever broken a story? It's always the national guys. My guess is that they pay somehow for information, be it food or otherwise.
Yes, but I wasn't saying that his age meant Bayless shouldn't have been traded. I was responding to someone who said he "never" lived up to expectations which, while trivially true, is a pretty silly thing to say about someone only two seasons into his career and only 22. It would have been equally silly to say that Telfar had "never" panned out at that time. Still more than defensible to trade him, in order to draft Paul, but not because he had "never" lived up to expectations.
Ok, I admit I'm stupid about this, but why does it list what it is for 4 years? Isn't it only 1 pick....?
When a pick is protected, it rolls over to the next year if the pick lands in the protected area. So they're saying that if it's top 7 in year 1, Portland gets their pick the next season instead. If it's top 8 in year 2, Portland gets their pick the following year instead, etc. After 4 years, Portland gets their pick, no matter where it is.
