An easy way to tell the difference. If it's positive about the Blazers, it likely isn't heimer it's weizer.
what is the thread about? I'm pretty sure it is about Blazer management and I'm pretty Portland is managed by Olshey besides, I have to counter-balance you because I know in a thread like this you will show up with your
yeah OKC replaced their SF with a good player, and was left with holes at SG and PF. Sorry if I am not impressed.
A "good" player? Paul George might get first team all NBA ahead of Durant this year. Their starting SG has been injured for 1.5 yrs and they took a big swing and a miss at Melo. But at least they tried. What did Neil do? Let all of his value free agents walk and draft two 19 year olds?
Pau Gasol took one million under what the Blazers were offering him to go play for the Spurs not many seasons ago. Damian Lillard and CJ both begged Carmelo Anthony openly, in the media to come play here, not that long ago either. I don't have time to post all the talent that I have seen Oshley go after, just like all the other NBA teams. But there are several other players that didn't come here as well. Not that I am a fan of Oshley's, nor trying to defend him. But, in today's NBA, the best players have so much say on where they land the league has become very "clicky'.
I just hate how Neil's small market narrative has seeped into Dame's psyche. It's nothing more than an excuse. Outside of GS, these are the other five top winning teams: Milwaukee, Toronto, Indiana, Denver, OKC Which of those teams is a free agent destination or big market? Toronto is massive, but when have they ever landed a big FA?
Saying this team doesn't have enough talent is an easy excuse for Stotts apologists. We have more talent than them the Spurs, Clippers, Grizzlies, etc. No roster is perfect (other than the Warriors) and I have criticisms of Olshey too. But to say we don't have enough talent on this team is nonsense.
They gave up an allstar guard and a good young PF to get an allstar and the result is they are no better off. And swinging big for Melo is not worth any praise
wrong again bud....I love sunshine...real sunshine. I just don't confuse it with the glow from a cheap grow-light.
These are Dame's words, not mine. “When you look around the league, you just see the talent. Teams are stacking up on talent,” Lillard said. “You see a lot of guys teaming up and guys wanting to be on the same team. When you want to compete with that — like on a championship level — you gotta try to fight that with firepower. For us, I think our chemistry, our style of play, and the coaching we have — that’s a big thing for us. So like, we lean on that. We’ve been successful with it. But when you talk about a championship level, it’s tough to compete with those ultra-talented teams — Golden State, Oklahoma City, teams that just have player after player after player." He's the one out here thinking we don't have the talent that these other teams do. He's the one thinking we can't compete for a championship.
congrats. That's quite a skillset to be able to tell the difference between "real" sunshine and a grow light. I can hardly wait for more of your skill sets to be revealed.
oh for chrissakes...is that the best you can do? We could have some worthwhile back and forth going here but you're falling way short in the passive insult department I mean, you could have at least told me to "stick that grow-light where the sun doesn't shine"....sure, it would have been a remedial dig, but it would have at least been emotive. Step up your game man
No need to step up a game for a bottom ringer, but thanks for the positivity. Now please ignore me as obviously I am residing in your head and it's not much fun in such a vast empty space. No further responses are needed as I am done with you in this thread.
I don't see anyone here saying that the Blazers currently have the talent to compete for a championship. The question is how do you go about getting that talent to come to a cash-strapped small market team. Ropp is using a strawman argument that many here seem to have fallen for. It goes something like Olshey hasn't brought in the talent needed so he must be satisfied with it and is trying to get us gullible fans to accept that this nice bunch of guys is the best we can do. I don't buy that BS for a minute. Olshey screwed up in 2016 and overcommitted salary space on guys who weren't good enough to deserve the money they got. There were reasons that he made those moves, not the least of which was the fact that the money had to be spent that summer or it would go poof when Dame and CJ got their new contracts. In any event, it's effectively tied Olshey's hands. He's tried to use uneven trades and trade exceptions as a means to improve the team, but found the market for those assets to be nearly nonexistent. You can say that he deserves to be fired for those mistakes and I'd at least acknowledge that there's a good case for that. Personally, I think it's more important at this point, now that those contracts are nearing their end and may be more moveable, to see what he can do to make deals that would improve the team. But if ownership wants to find another person for the job next summer, more power to them. I just don't buy that anyone on the team or in management is complacent with where the team is at. Ropp is full of BS on that point.
