No what you have in quotations only means what you have there. However. There is a thing called "Taking a statement out of context" maybe you should read the entire statement? Here i will post it again and i will darken specific parts that have meaning in the original statement. How about we also add the Mavs. It would be a bad idea against that team also. You see how easy that is? It's really not that complicated. If i were to write in words you could read better would that help? Lol, LMAO, Sigh, R U now. This isn't just me kid. Read the entire statement and give people a chance to express their opinion. Then here is another piece of advice. THIS Right Here is just SAD Fight your own battles. Calling for support on here makes you look like a clown.
The clown is the guy saying what he said isnt actually what he meant and arguing stuff he made up. Thats just stupid. You do a horrible job of explaining what you apparently mean, which is why I literally asked you a question by quoting yourself back to you. Let people say their opinion? I literally asked you a question by quoting your opinion back to you. Yet you decided to give your usual passive agressive response. So screw off. I'm not here for your weird mid-life crisis, either.
Communication 101 for anyone struggling: If you don't mean "we'd start every game in a hole", then dont say "we'd start every game in a hole". If you say that, then people might think that you mean the team would start every game in a hole. If you do make that mistake, don't be passive aggressive when questioned. I'll let this guy continue his ego trip. I'm grabbing some popcorn.
I can definitely say this, three games in and some folks around here are already in “a hole” character.
For the proposed question, I think it would have made sense 2 years ago (if we had a guy like Simons and what he projects to be sometime within the next 6 months to 2 years). CJ's hot and cold game seemed better suited as a 6th man, and I thought he was a 6th man on a championship contending team and not a starter. But I think in the last two years he's found ways to still contribute when his shot isn't falling making him less of an anchor. No way does it make sense at the moment. When Simons gets to their level, might be worth looking into, although Simons would be a good 6th man for all the same reasons as CJ. I guess you start whoever is better at that point. Maybe it plays out similarly to Clyde, Porter, and Strickland. Hopefully, with better results.
Call me crazy (and you probably will), but I really feel like Portland and Philly are destined to make a trade to balance out both rosters. They have a surplus of high quality bigs. We have a surplus of quality guards. Different conferences, same win-now timeline (while Embiid is still healthy). It all just kind of lines up. After Dec 15 both CJ and Tobias Harris are tradeable. Portland could start Ant or just give him a more featured role off the bench by starting Bazemore. Of course, I've been predicting a trade between Portland and Philly for around 3 years now. Kind of reminds me of the saying that economists have predicted 8 of the last 3 recessions. I'm bound to be right eventually!
I think Philly acquiring CJ for Tobias would make them the prohibitive favorite to win the title. Not certain I can say the same for us with Harris, especially in the west.
Question here is do you think CJ will retire a Blazer? He is 28 and this is his 7th season on the Blazers. That is a long time on any roster in the NBA. There are League MVP's that get traded. Stands to reason that eventually CJ is going somewhere else. Philly would be as good a place as any.
It wouldn't make us the favorites, but it probably would make us more competitive than we are now. There's no realistic scenario I can see where we are the prohibitive favorite in the west. But this scenario probably puts us in the upper echelon. If Philly benefits in their conference more than we do in ours, well, good for them. I think a lot of Philly fans would look at a swap for CJ as a downgrade, TBH. He's a better crunchtime scorer on a cheaper (relative to Harris) contract, but a lot of the stats favor Tobias Harris.
CJ can't be traded until January 30th. I just don't get the point of signing him to an extension with 2 years left on his contract if the Blazers were going to trade him. They are riding with Dame and CJ.
I only see if it if things go really, really sideways and maybe locker room issues spring up (SO I DON'T THINK IT'S GONNA HAPPEN).
Who cares about the starting guards? It's more important that Dame won't play the entire 1st quarter every game.
