Yep, and Dirk was picked 9th in that draft. Those are exactly the kind of guys I was referring to that, in hindsight, should have been top 3 picks. So yeah, steals where they were picked. BNM
Hey I know people dont like LMA around here now, but he was traded on draft night for Tyrus Thomas. Thats a similar best/worst trades. Least I know who Tractor Trailer is, I dont think Tyrus made it more the. 4-5 years...
Great trade as well. Can’t believe that year, starting off with just the #4 pick, we got LA AND BRoy!
Both lasted 7 years (technically, Tyrus Thomas played 8 seasons, but he only played 7 minutes in his 8th year, so I don't really count it). For their careers, Traylor scored 2085 points and Thomas scored 3093 points. Career PER (14.8 for Thomas and 14.5 for Traylor) and WS (13.0 for Thomas and 13.3 for Traylor) are pretty much a wash. So, it comes down to who was traded for the better player. I think that one's pretty clear cut... BNM
Yep, I said it on draft night - we got the best big and the best guard in the draft. And still Stephen A. and Jon Barry were talking shit about POR not having a clue what they were doing. BNM
Westbrook has never been traded, and with that contract, he never will be. I'm cool with that. I'd love to see him spend his entire career in OCK winning nothing. I said it during the 2013 playoffs, no team with Russell Westbrook as their PG will ever win an NBA championship. Given that they had been to the finals the year before and appeared to have a dynasty in the making with Durant (23), Westbrook (23), Harden (22) and Ibaca (22). I was practically laughed out of the forum. In the end, history will prove me right (and prove you to be a clueless fanboi). BNM
Great point @HCP . With our talent, 3rd shouldn't even be part of the discussion. #1 or #2 is all we should be considering! Ok, back to reality. CAN we come in third? Sure. LIKELY? Nope. I think we got 'lucky' and a lot of things fall our way last year. If anything, the West has gotten even tougher, and we've probably taken a half step back talent-wise (I think losing Ed will hurt us more than we think at the moment). I think this GM survey got it pretty close for the Blazers. No GM chose the Blazers to get third. Only 17% think we'll get 4th. Overall average lands us 6th or 7th. I'd say that fits about right. To quote Michael Johnson, the 1996 Olympic gold medalist in the 200M & 400M - "You don’t get a silver medal running for second. You get a silver medal running for first."
Who is the best head coach in the NBA? 1. Brad Stevens, Boston – 47% 2. Gregg Popovich, San Antonio – 30% 3. Mike D'Antoni, Houston – 7% Steve Kerr, Golden State – 7% Also receiving votes: Rick Carlisle, Dallas; Quin Snyder, Utah; Terry Stotts, Portland Which head coach runs the best offense? 1. Steve Kerr, Golden State – 40% 2. Mike D'Antoni, Houston – 23% 3. Brad Stevens, Boston – 20% 4. Quin Snyder, Utah – 13% 5. Terry Stotts, Portland – 3% Last year: Steve Kerr – 59%
... And Stephen A Smith was telling everyone the Blazers had a bad draft that year - ""They look like they don't know what they're doing right now." Wow.
Agree with both (though I see "Trent becoming a solid rotation player" being much more likely than "Simons being a steal of the draft"--both awesome for where they were selected), though DAL being able to move up from 5 to get Doncic and Porter, Jr being there at 14 will likely be much more productive to their teams more quickly. I'm still really high on Doncic
I think Tyrus has waaaay more of an NBA career than Tractor, but I could be wrong. They're both more accomplished than Rafael Araujo.
Hell, Meyers Leonard is more accomplished than Rafael Araujo. Hell, Meyers accomplished as much in his rookie year as Araujo did in his entire career. I think we officially have a new benchmark for suckage. The next time someone starts bitching about Meyers, we can say, "could be worse, he could be Rafael Araujo". BNM
I was too busy ingesting high-quality caloric material and listening to heckling obfuscators to do anything but eloquently state the status as I saw it at the time. Where's Roy now? CHEEZY POOFS!
