Blazers may ask Roy to retire? (Merged)

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  1. Fez Hammersticks

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    Re: Blazers may ask Roy to retire?

    Would be so classless of the organization.
     
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    Re: Blazers may ask Roy to retire?

    Yet a very smart basketball move.
     
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    Re: Blazers may ask Roy to retire?

    Are his injuries that bad?
     
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    Re: Blazers may ask Roy to retire?

    Yes.
     
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    Re: Blazers may ask Roy to retire?

    He still seems to think he's a star. I doubt he'll retire. Most athletes like him spend a few years embarrassing themselves before giving up.

    He has good games every once in a blue moon, but since he returned, the Blazers went back to their slow, plodding half court offense.
     
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    Re: Blazers may ask Roy to retire?

    They "might" ask him. Wow, they "might" do a lot of things or the "might" not.
     
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    Re: Blazers may ask Roy to retire?

    Agreed.

    They will use the Amnesty clause in the new CBA if they can to be rid of his contract.
     
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    Re: Blazers may ask Roy to retire?

    For a player to retire doesn't that means he waives the last years of his contract?

    No way in hell is he going to do that.
     
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    Re: Blazers may ask Roy to retire?

    in other news, my wife asked me to do the dishes last night, i said no
     
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    Re: Blazers may ask Roy to retire?

    Stand tall, stand tall.
     
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    Re: Blazers may ask Roy to retire?

    basically trying to illustrate the obvious...we can ask all we want, not gonna make a difference
     
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    Re: Blazers may ask Roy to retire?

    I assume they mean medically retire. Bone on bone is a degenerative condition.
     
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    Re: Blazers may ask Roy to retire?

    Roy is trying some sort of plasma therapy all summer and hopes to be back playing. I think talking him into retiring under a medical condition will not succeed. If so, and if we have an Amnesty clause in the new CBA, we will have to use it if we want to have salary space to build a better team. If not and we keep Roy's salary, then we greatly limit our ability to construct a team that can contend.
     
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    Re: Blazers may ask Roy to retire?

    With two bad knees, he is still the only player on the roster who can consistently create his own shot, or offense for others, in the playoffs. Hopefully the plasma treatment alleviates some of the pain.
     
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    Re: Blazers may ask Roy to retire?

    He's done the plasma treatment before on his hamstring a few years ago and most recently when he had both knees "cleaned out" this season. It appears effective for temporary relief, but the lasting effects are likely little once the wear and tear of several weeks to a few months take their toll on his bone on bone knees. The key is do we want a role player who earns a huge salary who so far has had a difficult adjustment to coming off the bench? And a players whose knees will very lilely only worsen over time. realistically i think Roy gets another season to realize how bad his knees are, but if an amnesty clause comes with the new CBA I think POR uses it.

    Note that IMO this idea of the team perhaps "asking" Roy to retire IMO is another clusterfuk by mgmt if true. I do not think Roy is at all ready to do that, I think it takes one more season of bad knees and bad play to do that.
     
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    Re: Blazers may ask Roy to retire?

    Maybe we're talking semantics, but I don't think he can consistently create his own shot anymore. He's smart enough to get open without the ball, but his quickness, explosiveness and jumping ability have been reduced at least 50%.
     
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    Re: Blazers may ask Roy to retire?

    I would agree with this. It's hard for a top tier athlete to fully understand he can no longer play.
     
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    Re: Blazers may ask Roy to retire?

    Especially when he outplayed the guy starting in front of him in the playoffs.
     
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