Dame makes impassioned plea to keep (?) Ed Davis?

If anyone besides Dame is untouchable on a team perennially hovering around .500 you are setting yourself up for failure. Dame needs to let Neil do his job...

 

I disagree. You always need that low key scrapper like him. Harlem, Tristan Thompson at one time.
Almost all championship teams need that blue collar worker like him. Unfortunately we have a few more not quite as good as him. Keep Ed and get rid of the rest.

 

No argument there....but it's not really doing anything to make us a contender.

Yes Championship teams do. Portland is no where in the ballpark of that and he's an ending contract that likely doesn't return....so get something while you can.

 

If he wants to be here, let him be here.
But it should come dirt cheap.

 

Agreed that Dame needs to let NO do this job, but I also don't have any issue with him requesting that Ed stays.

Ed provides more to the team via energy & hustle than he would bring back in a trade. Everyone is so concerned about his pending FA, but as long as he's treated right - I have no doubt that he'll re-sign.

 

Dame likes Ed.
Any fan worth their salt likes Ed.
Olshey likes Ed.

And he’ll trade him in a heartbeat if he’s the missing component to a difference-making trade.

Olshey knows this.
Ed knows this.
Any fan worth their salt knows this.
Dame knows this.

But let’s have a five page thread about the obvious.

Sheesh.

 

Could been handled behind closed doors

 

Don't be so Fucking Stupid.... who's gonna do Dame's lawn

 

Players complain to the owner about what's being done/not being done to take advantage of their prime years.

Then they complain when one of their friends isn't retained.

Dame can't have it both ways. Either he wants the team to do everything it can to better the team..... or they want us to keep his buddies on the roster.

 

Jeezus, how many of you bitching about Dame actually read the fucking article???? I read it twice and not once does Dame say don't trade Ed Davis. Nor does he say Ed is too important to trade. Both the thread title and the article title (especially) are misleading:

Damian Lillard says Ed Davis might be too important for Trail Blazers to trade

No, actually he didn't say that. That's a writer, or more likely an editor putting words in his mouth to attract more clicks. He said a bunch of stuff about how Ed's impact extends to what he does off the court, no nowhere, not once did he ever say don't trade Ed, or Ed it too important to trade. In fact, he acknowledged that “He’s probably going to be a wanted man,’’ meaning there will be interest in him at the deadline, which may means he may be gone.

At least the thread title included a question mark.

He wasn't complaining, just praising a teammate. Some of you are so fucking quick to jump to conclusions and bash our players. Slow down, get past the article title and read what Dame actually said.

BNM

 

Read the article? Fuck, I have been on reddit too long.

 

The twitter generation doesn't have the patience or attention span to get past the first 280 characters. They read the article title and get up in arms. Of course, I also blame the person (most likely an editor) that wrote the misleading title. When you say somebody "says something" you better have a direct fucking quote to back that up. There is no such direct quote.

BNM

 

The buzz phrase of the new century is "Out Of Context."

 

What do you make of this?

And in a statement that will likely reverberate all the way up to Neil Olshey’s office, Lillard on Monday gave an emphatic endorsement.

Citing the bond that existed in Miami between Dwyane Wade and Udonis Haslem, which kept them together for 13 seasons, Lillard said he wants to create the same legacy with Davis.

“Look man, for me, the same way D-Wade was in Miami all those years and Udonis Haslem was there because he brought something to the team nobody else had … that’s how I feel about Ed,’’ Lillard said. “I always want Ed to be on my team. That’s the best way I can put it. I always want him on my team.’’

 

He likes Ed Davis, but even the example he uses, Wade and Haslem eventually split up. Wade never told CHI or CLE, "you want me. you have to sign Udonis too".

Dame likes having Ed on the team, but nowhere does he ever say, don't trade him, or he's too important to trade. There's a BIG difference between saying you like to play with someone and demanding that they not be traded.

BNM

 

Yeah, can't have your cake and yada yada.
Leave the personnel decisions to the GM.

 

Silly. Vonleh is gonna get paid. Teams will offer him more than we're willing to pay. We won't match Vonleh. Mark my words.

And don't ask stupid ass questions like the last one.

 

e_blazer and Boob said what I was going to say. Dame didn't say he's going to throw a fit if Ed is traded. He talked about how great and valuable Ed is, and said he doubts we'd get an adequate return on trading Ed to make it worthwhile. Which to me actually implied that if trading Ed improves the team, so long Ed, but if it doesn't, then don't. Kind of common sense

 

Yeah, that shit was long, bra

 

He gets a lot more than "Wade money", Ed is likely to want a lot more than "Haslem money", and the fans/team/owner want a lot more "Wade-level Winning."