Portland Trail Blazers rebuild, what do you think?!

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  1. Schilly

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    We are going into summer #3 of the full rebuild process. I call it 3 AA (After Aldridge) when he left we were considered to be a bottom 5 team and yet we've made the playoffs both seasons since, and we are still in rebuild as our starting lineup isn't really set yet.
     
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    No not immediately. Wait until we have a couple of rising stars and are on the verge of competing. Then blow it up. That's the ticket.
     
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    Why does it feel like we are ubdervaluing the trio of Turner, Harkless and Aninu at the 3?
     
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    I have not given up on Jake. He is the best outside shooter of that group and has the best hops. I hope after some trades he will enter the 3 deep. Players usually improve quite a bit from year 1 to year 2.
     
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    Only after the fan base unnecessarily turns on our best players.
     
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    What?
     
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    read he did not, post was too long
     
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    His loss
     
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    In response to the OP:
    So Reggie Miller's career was flushed down the toilet?
    So John Stockton's career was flushed down the toilet?

    If Dame is happy being the Blazers version of Miller/Stockton, I'd be happy with that too. I'd rather he be our David Robinson/Tim Duncan, but I'll take Miller/Stockton over Porter/Clyde.
     
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    What's good ol' Beggers!
     
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    And here I thought you were Francis Begbie!
     
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    HOU was already better than us, so their improvement doesn't affect our standing.
    LAC was better than us, and now they most certainly are NOT. +1
    MIN was worse than us, and now on paper might be better than us. +0/-1

    Just looking at these three teams, the worst case scenario is +0, best case scenario +1.

    It'll be interesting to see what happens with SAS, MEM, and UTH. This is where we might make some real ground in the standings. I have to think we'll be better than MEM at the very least. UTH seems primed to follow in our foot steps - have a great year, followed by disappointment. SAS always seem to find a way to stay at the top, but how are they going to do it this time? With Parker/Ginobli breaking down, and no legitimate talent outside of Kawhii/Pau, Pops is in a really tough position.
     
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    Harkless is decent as a player, but I would argue much better than decent for our needs.
    Turner sucked last season - I'm really hoping he turns it around in Season #2. If Turner turns into a net positive player, then we will be fine at SF.
    Aminu is a train wreck.
     
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