You know, you guys really make someone want to admit they're wrong when you slam the shit out of them for doing so. It sends a great message. You should keep it up.
Let it go. You already admitted you were wrong about it. Some people want to continue a conversation while some want to beat you down with a club. Avoid the latter.
For some teams I think the strategy is sound. Cleveland should have traded LeBron. Denver traded Melo. Utah traded Deron Williams. Sometimes a star player wants out, they make it clear they want out, and you need to trade them while you can still get reasonable value. The Cavs were never going to get fair value for LeBron. How do you get fair value for the best player in the league? If you were Cleveland, and you could go back, would you trade LeBron knowing that he's going to skip town? In our case, it worked out for us, and I give most of the credit to Neil, but I also give props to LA for stepping up his game. He has been a huge part of our success this year.
I think we all can agree that the ones that thought about trading Aldridge for picks and lower tier role players was a very bad idea. Glad that Olshey knew what he was doing!
Give him what he wanted "center" and he will. I was wrong to ever think he should play center. Glad Olshey and the coach agrees. Adding Lopez probably was the biggest move that helped propel Aldridge into a superstar. Amazing how a bench role player now becomes so important to this ball club!
When you stop reinventing the past. There you go again with your revisionist's history. I never said or claimed I thought we would be 3rd in the west. I said we shouldn't make a trade out of fear of what a player *might* do, regardless of our record. You're building strawmen to deflect the attention about your ridiculous guarantees.
Oh, I forgot about that already. lol How could I right? That one was HUGE. Hollinger was ALL OVER that for years with PER and stuff. Fail.
LA can be resigned right now. It is fairly simple Olshey has one choice and that is to offer the max to LA. LA cannot argue with a max offer if he is interested in staying nor could he claim that such a conversation would be considered a distraction. The fact that it has not happened yet might not mean anything or it might suggest that LA is merely leaning towards resigning and is not ready to commit yet.
Terrible post. LA can only get a 2 year extension right now, if he waits 5 months it can be for 3 years. Its a much better idea to wait.
Olshey and LA can negotiate the start time for this summer if they want. LA has decided to stay with the Blazers will sign official extension this summer that would be a good headline. It does nothing to our cap figure this summer and would make it easier to sign someone for the MLE knowing LA will be sticking around.
Man how quickly a thread can get hijacked and turned into a pissing contest. I'm sorry for my part in it but lets get back on topic instead of beating nate with, what has to be by now, a broken "you were wrong" stick and get back to what should be jubilance at the fact our Franchise player is happy and wants to sign an extension. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk
He and Brian still continue to post trading Aldridge was the correct strategy at the time so many of us will respond with our disagreement. If you don't want to read about it you are free to ignore such posts.
What? Where? I've explained why I felt the way I did at the time, but I haven't said that I still think we should trade Aldridge. Pretty sure I've said we should sign him to an extension...
Every time you and Brian talk about it you bring up the results since the summer as some unexpected reason trading Aldridge is now suddenly a bad idea. I and other are saying it was a bad idea regardless of what the Blazers have done this year. If the team was out of the playoffs right now it still would've been a bad idea to trade Aldridge months ago for less than fair value. Both you and Brian belittled posters who were unconvinced of your perceptions of Aldridge's feelings. So when either of you bring up these "unexpected events" as the reason your bold statements were wrong some of us will continue to point out your error.
