If you don't like our offseason, who would you have signed instead?

Agree with this.

 

Repped. I like this answer.

 

From everything I've heard, Hinrich is washed up. There's a reason why we haven't heard his name mentioned much, but Blake was supposedly fairly sought after.

 

No, but i have a reading comprehension book for you.

You said the Frye deal was bad, but you didn't explain what orlando should have done. How dare you criticize a move without giving an alternative. Should I go back to teh FA thread and see what other moves you said were bad without giving examples of what they should have done.

wait let me slow down for you:

If . . . you . . . thought . . . an . .. off . . . season . . . contract . . . was . . .too . . . much . . . . money . . . what . . .should . . . they . . . have . . . done . . . with . . . the . . . money? You . . . can't . . . have . . . an . . . opinion . . . about . . .a . . .move . . . without . . . giving . . . an . . . alternative . . . according . . . to . . . you.

 

I meant I was glad he at least had an option he liked instead of saying "I hate blake"... he had reasonable expectations. Even if he did say I hate blake I wish we had Hinrich it'd of been okay.

 

And you said I was being punchy or whatever you said? I'm sorry if it rubbed off on you. lol.

 

Do you happen to have a link? I must admit I didn't watch him play during 2013-14 season.

He was a solid defender a few years ago.

 

The Magic had cap space. They could afford to overpay to fill a need.

We did not have cap space. We could only afford the MLE to fill our need at the backup center position. Kaman was arguably the best we could do with what we had. Frye was a sought after free agent and the Magic probably paid him more than he was worth to secure his signature.

 

Rubbing off one, eh? Naughty, naughty.

 

Just what the Bulls fans on the forum have said (IE Denny).

 

I knew my wording was poor! Damnit!

 

Expectations were high going in. The market was a bit crazy though and glad we did not overpay. It would have been nice.to get Hawes but it was his decision.

As said before, we have to have some of the projects start to contribute if we are going to get better.

 

I'm good with the Kaman and Blake signings.

I would have preferred:
(MLE) Livingston
(BAE) Jason Smith - I read NY is looking at him, perhaps with their tax-MLE.

 

I really wanted Livingston, but I'm guessing Neil didn't think he was worth the MLE OR that he wasn't a good fit.

 

Wait a minute, just a few minutes ago you called the Frye contract stupid.

What should have the magic done? Isn't that the basis of this thread? If you think the magic threw out a stupid contract, what would you have done instead?

 

Not a good fit would be my guess. Livingston has like 7 three-point attempts in his entire damn career.

There's not being a good three-point shooter and then there's being such a non-entity from range that you can very literally be ignored. He can post up and shoot a bit from mid-range, but that wouldn't necessarily mesh well with Aldridge when they're on the court together.

 

The basis of this thread is what do YOU think the Portland Trail Blazers should have done. I don't think I mentioned the Orlando Magic or stupid deals anywhere in this thread.

 

The guys I wanted resigned with the Spurs so I moved on awhile ago

 

MLE: Patrick Patterson. A good, versatile defender who can also shoot a bit (over 40% on treys with Toronto). He could give LMA more rest AND play along side him in a small-ball lineup. An upgrade over TRob because of his more well developed skill set/higher BBall IQ.

BAE: Jameer Nelson. Not as explosive as Mo - but a defensive upgrade and much less mistake prone.

Of course, this ignores the possibility that someone like Thomas, Marion or Deng will get stuck signing a bargain contract.

 

Well my frustration is your question makes it sound like if you don't have an alternative to what the Blazers should have done, than the opinion of not liking the off season has no merit. Maybe that is not what you intended, but that is how I interpreted that question.

It's a frustrating question in my eyes because what a multi-million dollar franchise should do within the parameters of the CBA, the dynamics of players and agents and all other factors is a very hard, in fact impossible question to answer. I really don't think anyone on this board has the knowledge to know what the Blazers could or could not have done this summer.

So if I went on tilt and attacked you, it was probably because I though you were implying that unless you are capable of saying who should be signed, then not liking the offseason moves isn't valid (and that is where I tried to show that you ahve made many statements of not liking moves without saying what should have been done instead)

Personally I have no idea who I would have signed as a Blazer GM . . but I can say I don't like the Kaman signing (except for the contract term of the buyout) and I don't think the Blake signing helps much (but easy for me to accept Blake signing because I like him as a person and player)