Would you go all-in on the playoffs?

ummmm no. I thought he was calling me nuts for thinking we could trade Leonard for Love. lol or me insinuating that Leonard has the value of Love and LMA. Was I wrong? lol

 

Exactly. They bred a losing culture for a new years. Got their draft pic. signed a key free agent and they suck, because thats all they know. To suck. Watch Minni and Phili end o=up the same way. The good players on these suck teams will move on and be key players with contenders who know how to breed a winning mentality.

But winning starts with effort. If your not preaching winning from the get go, it wont matter who we bring in here. It will be a mess...

 

The Blazers will not have a 'losing' culture if they finish in the lottery this year. Not after only one bad year, and never with Damian Lillard running the show.

 

Im speaking more on intentionally losing brought on by management.

 

As for going "all in" for the playoffs? I interpret that as trading young valuable assets for seasoned, older vets to try to get over the hump and try to make waves in the playoffs. No, I'm not in favor of that. I want to grow our own team and cultivate our own winning culture for the long term, not a short term fix and disappointment.

 

I mentioned on another thread the it would benefit Alexander and Montero to play a few D league games

 

Yes. I was being sarcastic. Didn't use a green font.

Gramps...

 

Yeah the D-League just isn't cutting it.

 

Revisiting this question, anyone change their mind? I'm starting to come around to the fact that there's a good chance we're losing that pick. This is such a strange season. It's not so much that we're over-achieving as it's that the west is under achieving. Everyone thought that Utah would take a big step forward this year, but they're still pretty crappy. The Jazz and the Pelicans have been huge disappointments. People talk about how great Anthony Davis is, but he can't seem to elevate that team at all. He's nowhere near the same level as a LeBron or a Chris Paul (in his younger days).

 

Or a Damian Lillard, today.

 

I mean, Dame is great, but LeBron basically elevated that crappy Cavs team to the Finals by himself. CP3 got the Hornets into the WCF in his first couple years and that roster was sad. Davis can't even get his team into the top 8 right now, and it's a down year for the west.

 

I think as with any trade, and I know it's kind of a cop out answer, but it all depends on the cost. I'm perfectly happy to make a trade to push for the playoffs. I'm also content with allowing the guys we have out there to make that push, and win or lose with what we got.

I don't know who might be currently available, that could potentially both fit our timeline, and help us out more this year I don't know who might be available that would be worth the potential missed minutes of a currently developing player(trading for Brook, taking away minutes from Leonard and Plumlee, trading for a better PF, taking away developmental minutes from Vonleh, for example). I can see something involving Henderson, where we maybe get a comparable player and an asset of some sort. To Brooklyn for Joe Johnson, Chris McCullough, and rights to Juan Vaulet?

 

I want playoffs every season..if I had a choice, I'd trade the pick for an impact player and go for it. If you watched the Cavs dominate the Spurs last night, you can see that with all the star power in SA, they are completely beatable..Kevin Love destroyed Lamarcus..LA and Ginobli were horrible..Lamarcus is way slower than last season and he stood and watched Lebron finish layups without raising a hand over and over...sometimes these superstar, max allstar guys are hyped up to be more than they actually are. Kevin Love impressed the hell out of me the last two Cavs games..he has mastered 3 out of the four main skills in basketball..shooting, passing, rebounding....number 4 is defense as we know. He owned Lamarcus all night. There are a lot of teams with good players that are losing and that's a good place to look for a trading partner. Win win...playoffs or lottery...I watched a bunch of college games this week and still didn't see any impact players unless they had mismatches...college ball is just full of guys who will never play an NBA game

 

It seems like we haven't heard anything about Brook Lopez, so I'm not sure where any of that came from. He's the kind of guy that would help give us that push though.

Rudy Gay is supposedly available, but that guy has been on 3 teams and he usually outstays his welcome after two years. I think small forward is a good spot to target though.

 

I'd love to see what it would take to pry Kyle Korver from the Hawks..if ever there was a player who fit Stotts system, it's him

 

You're not going to get a team that's in the playoff hunt to give up a key piece.

 

They're starting to lose...Henderson is a few years younger and they need a backup center like Kaman if they are a contender in the east. They don't look the same since Carrol went to Toronto
and they have been rumored to have Teague on the trading block as well