Nobody cares for Bobby Portis? I wouldn’t be opposed to any of the three players the Knicks are saying goodbye to.
Portis would be a great backup PF. I suspect he'll get more $ than what I'd be willing to offer as a Blazer fan.
I was including him in my question, as it is already done. So from here out, if we only add role players through free agent signings, is this enough to win a championship?
I think that we all know the answer to that is that, in addition to adding the right role players, it depends on external factors. There aren't any players that we can add that will make the Lakers, Clippers, Nuggets, or Jazz worse (I would have put the Warriors in this group before yesterday)...and that's just in our conference. I'd say that the addition of Covington and other right role players puts the Blazers on equal footing with the Nuggets and Jazz, but probably still behind the Lakers and, maybe, the Clippers (not a fan of their chemistry). So, I'd say that the Blazers would have to stay healthy, have some of our young guys progress, and catch some breaks with other teams having issues with health or other personnel problems.
yeah...the Pelicans are in there. I'm not sure why I should exclude that sweep from the record, especially considering Dame-CJ-Nurk were all healthy and participating. But you apparently missed I said Portland has shown they can beat other flawed pretenders in the playoffs. And New Orleans showed Portland can be beat by other flawed pretenders too. In other words, I didn't 'ignore' the successes, just put context around them. But that's only a 1st step. I'd think the next step would be to actually win 2 or 3 games in a playoff series against an elite team, and they haven't done that since 2016 when they beat the Warriors, at home, who were missing Curry. The context I want to see is improvement over the previous high water mark. They got swept by the Pels in 1st round; then made it to the WCF....where they got swept; than got swept in 1st round. That's not improvement. In the last 4 years, they've played in 6 series. They won two and got swept in the other four. That's not upward trajectory I was replying to a post talking about what Portland might, or might not, accomplish in this 'off-season'. Maybe Olshey has some big blockbuster trade lined up. But if past is predicate, it will just be changing out role players. That's been the M.O. and it hasn't moved the needle in 7 years
If we got some good role players, I think we would have as much talent as Miami did last year. Then IF we could play as well together and as tough as Miami, we could be a contender. Of course that's a really big IF.
If we get career years from Dame CJ RoCo Nurk and one of our young guys makes a leap, yes. We wouldn't be a favorite but could sneak out a title like the Raptors, Mavs, Pistons have done. We aren't as far as some people think. But even if it CAN be a possibility, it doesn't mean its LIKELY or that we WILL.
You could alternatively exclude all of the Warriors series since they were the greatest team of all time, nobody ever expects us to contend against them, and they are likely irrelevant this season.
I cannot understand what Detroit is doing. Giving up Kennard for peanuts, taking on Ariza, now trading for Dedmon. I don't think they have cap space to hand Wood a serious offer anymore. Wtf
