Being a terrible complementary player to Dame and making 30M while doing it makes me wish for anything that would complement Dame in return for CJ... even if they're not guaranteed to stay here as long as CJ is.
What would Beal's numbers go to if he didn't have Russ with 93+ touches a game, on a bad team? Teams focus on Dame and Beal. Heck we hope for Russ trying to take over games.
You keep harping on Gasol but ignore the fact that they also lost Ibaka. Ibaka was their best interior defender. With Gasol and Ibaka last season, they took Boston to 7 games in the 2nd round when no one predicted they would after losing Kawhi.
You know, for a while I feel Dame likes what they are doing in Portland and that he enjoys being the local ICON and face of the franchise. He himself had made it real clear over the last few years that winning a cship would be sweet but it doesn't define him. I would think he himself re-evaluates where the team is and where it should be headed, I doubt he puts up with a nose dive for the rest of the year. He has class and respect and will handle it his way regardless what fans or others think. If he has something to say, he WILL say it, to whomever he needs too.
They also had second best regular season record in entire league. Better compared to the previous season.
Now he plays 24mpg for the Clippers when he’s healthy at a $9m contract when he made $23m last year for the Raptors. He knew the Raps were a fluke title.
Wait, according to Stotts defenders, Harkless and Aminu were the reason we got swept in 2019 and Kanter is the biggest reason why our defense sucks now...
I don't believe I said that's why we got swept. Though even if someone said that, exchanging Aminu, Harkless, Curry, Meyers, and Kanter for Whiteside, Gasol, Mario, Bazemore, Tolliver, Mario was a step in the wrong direction.
I'll go out on a limb and say they're not a championship contender next year with 1 or 0 all-stars on their roster. Same thing I say about our roster.
I believe we have been in position to draft Antetokounmpo, Jokić, Mitchell, and Gobert. 12 more of the all-stars have been traded since 2012, so they were available, if we had the right assets and we were willing to move them. This is also discounting our ability to trade up in the draft, which is an option if you have desirable assets. If the question is how can Olshey trade for an all-star without moving anything but fringe players, he can't. He needs to draft well, trade for extra assets (picks), and sign players to team friendly deals. Make just a couple of those moves, you'll have enough for a 2nd all-star, if you're willing to part with guys like CJ, Ant, Nurk, etc when their values are at their highest.
lol....watering down the definition of "star" till it means nothing at a bare minimum, a "star" should be someone with a couple of all-STAR games in his resume
then trade his ass so he can "star" on another team and make all his fans happy. He sure as shit isn't going average 28 in Portland
Not necessarily you, but a lot of people did. Aminu hit over 3 threes a game on 43% from outside and his shooting got blamed for us not being able to deal with the trap. It seems like you're completely forgetting the situation we were in during the off-season of 2019. We had no chance of keeping Curry due to us not having his bird rights, losing him is not Olshey's fault. We also had to choose between Hood and Kanter since we had neither of their bird rights and had to use the MLE to sign one of them, and he chose Hood, which would've been the right move had Hood not gotten hurt. Otherwise, we lose Aminu, Harkless, and Meyers. None of those guys were major losses whatsoever, and looked worse because of the injuries that hit us.
