Trail Blazers' list of concerns after Game 1 should include the future of LaMarcus Aldridge

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  1. SlyPokerDog

    SlyPokerDog Woof! Staff Member Administrator

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    MEMPHIS - It was 40 minutes before Game 1 here Sunday when Trail Blazers owner Paul Allen arrived at FedExForum and caught the eye of LaMarcus Aldridge.


    The Blazers star was in the midst of his pregame warmup when he stopped to run over to the corner baseline to greet the man who has paid him nearly $90 million over his career.


    As they stood and visited, Allen told Aldridge he visited the Memphis Music Hall of Fame.


    "Did you have fun?'' Aldridge asked.


    Allen shrugged his shoulders with indifference.


    "Well, hope you have fun tonight,'' Aldridge said, shaking his hand again, and patting the owner on the shoulder before returning to his shooting routine.


    A couple hours later, after the Blazers were embarrassed by Memphis, I'm beginning to wonder whether Allen, and the rest of the Blazers, shouldn't be the ones offering Aldridge the well wishes.


    After an atrocious performance by the Blazers that at one point left Aldridge sitting alone on the bench as his teammates joined a late-game huddle, the Blazers need to worry about more than just losing this series.


    They need to worry about losing one of the greatest players in franchise history.


    Some Blazers players have already said they are worried free agency will take Aldridge away from Portland this summer. Earlier this month, before a home game, a Blazers player estimated the chances of him returning to Portland at 50-50...

    http://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/i...ers_list_of_concerns_after_game_1_should.html
     
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  2. BlazerCaravan

    BlazerCaravan Hug a Bigot... to Death

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    Yeah, I would be super-concerned if I were Allen. But let's see how the rest of the series goes. If LA keeps putting up 30 a night while his bandmates fuck up over and over, he has every right to tell this team to get bent.

    The Blazers have to win three games to regain lost pride and to keep LA (in my opinion).
     
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  3. SlyPokerDog

    SlyPokerDog Woof! Staff Member Administrator

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    I played golf with Lanny, Wookee and Homer. Then had drinks with Bbert.

    Today was a good day.
     
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  4. magnifier661

    magnifier661 B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

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    If LMA leaves this team I will be so depressed. It will be the Blazer curse where old blazer stars leave and actually win their ring on another team. How many have done this so far?

    Walton (but won on in Portland too), Drexler, Kersey?(I can't remember), Porter, Sheed, Smitty, who else?
     
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    I'm not wishing him away but if he does decides to leave I can see him on the Spurs, Warriors (depending on what they do with David Lee and Draymond), or Cavs (if Kelvin loves leaves)
     
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    BBert Weasels Ripped My Flesh

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    What Blazers player said it was 50/50 Aldridge would leave?
     
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    Damn if only his sidekick superstar can make him think twice. This is where the problem is. Great players usually leave teams when they have no help. It's so critical Lillard and others atleast be respectable to the point LA can atleast think he has a great team.
     
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    That's the only thing that stood out in the article. 50/50??? Really?
     
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    That's not scary to you? At one point he was a lock now 50-50??
     
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    BBert Weasels Ripped My Flesh

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    I would like some verification on this 50/50 claim.
     
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    LOL. I still don't see LA leaving. This team was 30-8 before the injuries. It's not like we suck; we're crushed by freakish injuries.
     
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    Well hopefully he stays but if he does leave hopefully he lets the Blazers work out a sign & trade from his desired teams he wishes to play for.
     
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    If LMA leaves I can play power forward.
     
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    One thing I will say. Aldridge for the past few months has been going one direction and the rest of his teammates have been going the other. I'm not sure what this means. But I do find it kind of odd that a player who was willing to come back for the team after his thumb injury to play and compete for a title, the teammates haven't followed suit. Nic's heart is not there. Damian seems listless. The soul of this team has seemed down the entire year. Not sure what it means. I'm going to take a stab at it though. Because that's what I do. Perhaps they know he is gone. So they don't feel the need to go out and sell out because he is not with them anyway. He is somewhere else. I made a comment a few months ago after his thumb injury that it seemed liked he was putting on a show for Cuban. That I hope him coming back, was not his way of saying good bye to the team, fans and ownership. As if If he thought he owed it to them.

    I still hope that is not the case.
     
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  15. PDXFonz

    PDXFonz I’m listening

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    Probably somebody ridiculous like Alonzo Gee or Tim Frazier, lol.
     
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    5/127 sounds a LOT better then 4/90
     
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    Kevin Love for Aldridge?
     
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  18. SlyPokerDog

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    Dear God, no.
     
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    Nic played fine. Lillard on the other hand, good grief. Getting Afflalo back will help.
     
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    You would make this deal if LA leaving was a certain and you didn't want to lose him for nothing though right?

    I would.
     
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