Trade Aldridge?

Seems legit in the Blazers' present scenario.

But, for whom?

 

LaMarcus for DeMarcus, anyone?

 

Demarcus and Robinson then you'd have my attention.

 

Nay. LaMarcus for DeMarcus and Marcus..

 

I think it really just all depends on what is available. We need a combination of:

1. Young players

2. Draft picks.

If there is a team out there that could use Aldridge, while also having the assets to put something together... great.

 

We don't need young players. And the only draft picks we need could only be acquired by us being so horribly bad to be one of the worst 3 teams in the league.

 

I think the best idea might be some kind of draft day trade

 

Any franchise player or projected franchise lottery player will be untouchable though.

 

That's not necessarily true.

 

Typical ABM. Starts a somewhat inflammatory and then runs and hides.

Well, I say keep LA.

 

But it usually is. If there's a shoo-in #1 consensus change the game type of player, a team isn't going to trade him. Especially when that team is so bad that they get that top pick...they're not going to trade for LaMarcus Aldridge since they don't have the talent around him because they were so bad they did get that lottery pick.

 

Absolutely not. LMA is going to blow up with Lillard by his side. It's the first time he's had a guard of this caliber that can both feed him the ball and hit the trey, a dynamic duo you don't break up. Mark my word.

 

LMA already blew up yo. Just need a second option. We need legit scoring at the 2/3 position badly.

 

I was watching the debate?

I simply asked a question. Inflammatory? How so? I said that in the current scenario (i.e. according to many in this forum, the Blazers may very well be encroaching on a rebuilding mode), Aldridge appears to be the one that would garner the highest return. if so, then whom?

 

LMA's just getting started. Lillard has the skills to be #2 and Batum is who this thread should be about, he needs to become the #3 or be shopped.

 

If you want to trade him, you wait for a fire sale superstar.

Throughout the year of Orlando shopping Dwight Howard, I posted about 3 times that Orlando would leap with lust if we offered Aldridge. He was so much more than the piddly rumors we read about the Nets offers, that Orlando would have thrown in every #1 pick to us that they have for a decade.

But I added that Howard wouldn't stay here. So my point is, we can get a top league star for Aldridge in a fire sale, but we were correct to not make that Howard.

 

Why would Sacramento do that?

 

I'm open to trading anyone for the right deal but I don't get why people are in a big rush to dump LA. So we can get what, a draft pick or a player that might turn out as good as him? Or we end up with another superstar who puts us in the same boat as we are in now? This year our strategy should be to see how Lillard works out with LA.

 

I'd possibly do it IF the season is going very badly and its obvious this is going to be a full fledged rebuild that takes years. Assuming we could get good value at the deadline I think it's a reasonable option, it all depends on getting good value for LMA.