Actually, OneLifeToLive, you should open a Twitter account, put up a 25 cent website, and call yourself "national media". Some of the moderators here would believe anything you typed as being credible.
I may have only 15 posts but I have followed the game for many years and know of this guy for over 12 years and there is nothing credible about his game.
Boozer, Deng, and Taj is 3 rotation players for a team that had a godawful bench last year. Boozer pretty much led the team to 5th seed and the 2nd round. 4PPG and more RPG in less minutes than LMA. How did Aldridge do? Anyhow, that's the kind of package the Bulls might offer. It is what it is.
Let's see - get no better at three positions (PG, SG, and SF), get much worse at one (PF), and get marginally better at one (C). If the idea is to position the Blazers for a good pick in 2014, that's a good way to do it.
4.) They're coming from the Bulls - who are trying to lower Aldridge's trade value and get the Blazers to swallow something less than he's worth.
Olshey calls LMA's agent: "Are these rumors true"? LMA's agent: "What rumors"? Both: "People on the internet are fucking ridiculous, huh?"
You are in denial my friend. Bucher Amico Goliver Rice etc etc etc These aren't coming from bleacher report. I'm not sure what you want exactly. It's obvious that the Blazers are at least listening to offers. The point is that you, and others, are throwing a tantrum because of these rumors. Rather than discuss them, you go into every thread and bash the other posters and complain about how it's unrealistic. So if Aldridge is traded tomorrow, or sometime this summer, will you post a public apology to the people who saw it coming? I'm just curious.
I sure hope they're listening to offers. It's not like he's untouchable, but the shit platter for an All-Star PF scenarios I read here get tiresome. Will you post a "public apology" when LMA is in the line-up for the first game of next season? Childish...
Rice can't say anything on twitter about what he actually knows behind the scenes or he could lose his job. Bucher is ridiculous and is never right when he is the first person to announce something. Amico is a good reporter but all he said was that we wouldn't say no to a trade if it met specific guidelines. Goliver is simply re-posting/tweeting what others have already said he isn't breaking any news. It seems like a lot of people are looking way to into LMA answers and drawing their conclusions from months old stuff instead of any actual quotes saying that he wants out. Should we be listening to trades for LA and gouging his trade value? Hell yes we should, that doesn't mean he has requested a trade or that we will trade him. All these reports coming to light that all seem to be made up have me coming to one scenario. When you want to get a deal done and you know its not going to get done at the price you want whats the best way to attempt to get the asking price lower? Spread lots of rumors and misinformation about it and try and cause a little havoc and chaos. This has the sound of the Cavs leaking information that LA wants out of Portland to try and get Portland to accept any combination of 1/19/waiters/TT, something that apparently the Blazers have turned down without thinking twice about it.
If they move him. .. they move him. My issue is with the "vision" of posters here to build a shitty team of role players that will....be role players. hoop fam
I'm not the one going from thread to thread attacking people and calling their posts idiotic and stupid.
No, you're just calling them "childish" for pointing out the idiocy of the posts. You poor victim, you. Will you apologize when LMA is on the team in late October?
That's my biggest issue. If LMA can be traded and it makes the team more competitive, then of course you make that trade. What I see are a bunch of LMA bashers like NateBishop03 take any rumor, and then come up with weird trade scenarios that puts the teams at least two years behind again, simply because he might not be here in two years..
By the way, Nate, I was perfectly fine having you on ignore until you begged to be a moderator again. Now, you're still one of the biggest trolls on this board, and you do it with the bully pulpit of "moderator".
