Would you trade CJ for Doncic?

Hell yes!

 

They are NOT competing for anything now as constructed... Doncic and Parsons keep Blazers at least as good as they are now, but with a high upside... Doncic has a very low bust potential... he has been playing against grown men in 2nd best league in the world for years now

 

Remind me of when Darko won MVP of the Euroleague?

 

Sergio Rodriguez won it a few years back remind me how great he was...

 

You are just failing to understand that you will have to gamble a little bit on the unproven to change things with this team... no one is giving up even an equal talent to CJ with more size to play SF of PF... 6’3” undersized SG are the easiest type of player to find... the difference between CJ and many gaurds that come out of draft is a coach giving them a green light to shoot... you are basically saying keep things status quo since you are not willing to take any risk

 

Willing to take risks, but not this one. It's easy to say take risks, but when / if it doesn't work we'd all be here to tell NO how stupid it was to take to the risk.

 

No, I would respect Neil for going for it... the reason most people hate on Neil is for playing it safe for a team just good enough to make playoffs so they can sell tickets

 

Right so if they did, this Doncic turns out to be not that good, Parsons stays down on the end of the bench next to Meyers, and the Blazers win 30 games, people would be so thrilled he took the risk on the Blazers way to winning 35 games.

 

No matter how good the kid is....I don't see the Blazers banking on a rookie this season...I thought the kid said he wanted to stay in Europe another year?

 

So if they stand pat next year with Dame and CJ and win 42 games and lose in 1st rd again will people will be thrilled? What’s your point, anything can happen either way... it’s a matter of trying something new vs trying to force the issue with something you know doesn’t work

 

Was he 19 at the time?

 

That would be so funny / sad if they traded CJ for him and he stayed in Europe another year (this isn't likely though).

 

Yeah that would be so funny if he stayed in Europe another year and Blazers got another lottery pick to go with Doncic and Collins, building a true contender 3 years out when Warriors start to fade... so funny

 

You're probably right, but I'm asking what YOU would do. (Personally, I would be amazed if Doncic was available at #4 - although....)

I will bet you any money you like that he is playing in the NBA this coming season.

 

I respect your opinion. We could be wrong about Luka.

I would also say that there's a chance with as tough as the west is becoming, that we are fighting for the last spot in the playoffs or worse with the same team next year.

So where are we really? Disagree?

 

That would be a zero dollar bet....good to know though.

 

Ah so we're building now around a guy who's played 0 in the NBA, a guy who's rookie season showed "a bit" of promise, but had a PER of 7.5 and shot less then 40% from the field, and another lottery pick. Sounds like we want to be more like Sacremento than Golden State...

 

"Is Doncic the best Euro prospect ever?"

 

I don't know, and you very well could be right, I'm not a proponent of just sticking to CJ and Dame for the heck of it. The margin in the west among the 3-10 teams is razor thin, they could easily not even be in the playoffs year.
I just don't really think this is the deal I'd go for.

 

I guess it just depends on how good you think Doncic will be, I've watched the highlight video's and youtube, and read probably the same or similar things to what you've seen or watched. I'm not really convinced. You might be, and that's fine. The question was if I'd do the deal and I said no, mainly because I'm not convinced. Saying he's great in Euroleague to me, doesn't necessarily mean he will be great in the NBA, it might be the 2nd best league in the world, but the gap is still pretty big...