What's your worst case fears about this offseason?

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  1. Natebishop3

    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    Barring a trade involving Dame (because that would be the OBVIOUS biggest fear for everyone), what is your biggest fear for this offseason?

    What would be your worst nightmare for how this offseason plays out?
     
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    No fear but it would disappoint me if we were not able to sign Norm Powell after we traded away CJ and Ant for a big forward.
     
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    1. Dame trade demand



    2. Unforeseen injuries
    3. Bringing back the same roster
    4. Losing Powell for nothing
    5. Nurk trade demand
    6. Hiring an inexperienced coach who makes our team worse.
     
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    Hiring a shitty coach.
     
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    Bad trade(s) for CJ/Nurk that make the Blazers worse as Dames window continues to be wasted
     
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    - Hire retread
    - CJ is back
    There are tons of potential terrible things I suppose be realistically these two are urgent
     
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    Im this order

    1. Losing Dame

    2. Hiring a garbage Coach

    3. Powell leaves

    4. Neil doesn't make any significant upgrade to improve the roster

    5. CJ is still on this team
     
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    not fear, just recognition that Seattle is fucking up big time by not firing Olshey. Maybe he'll surprise me by actually making some significant changes, but I'm certain the changes that are needed are exactly the ones he's loathe to do

    I think he'll just rinse-repeat the roster believing a new coach will turn the team into a contender. lunacy
     
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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    I was listening to Brian Noe's show from Monday and he had Danny Marang on. He asked him this question and Danny's answer was trading CJ for Porzingis.
     
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    God no
     
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    that marang dude is kinda clueless. talks like he's hot shit and is super condescending, but in reality, he doesn't really know anything, and i question what he understands about the game.

    really don't understand how he has his platform.
     
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    The franchise is at a fork in the road. For that reason, my biggest fear actually isn't losing Dame. It's not choosing a direction and ending up in a disastrous wreck...

    Justified or not, Dame is frustrated, that much is obvious. The onus is upon the franchise to decide what to do about it. To me, you have 2 choices -- push all of your chips into the middle and go for it, or do Dame a solid and move him.

    Don't get me wrong, I don't want to move Dame, but given the cap situation after this year (only Little and Nas under contract), moving off of Dame, CJ and Nurk for young players and draft picks would not be the worst way to kickoff a rebuild. The other move is the obvious one we all want -- fucking go for it.

    My biggest fear is Neil doing Neil nibbling around the edge and adding incremental pieces, jeopardizing the future cap situation and not making an appreciable difference to the situation, inevitably resulting in getting less for Dame, CJ and Nurk, screwing up our future, etc.

    Commit to a decision and go all in one way or the other.
     
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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    Right place. Right time.
     
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    B-Roy If it takes months

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    Bringing Melo back.
     
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    Hire crappy retread coach.
    Keep CJ
    Keep Melo
    Keep Kanter
    Lose Norm for nothing.

    The darkest of timelines.
     
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    Olshey + Legacy = Melo. Resistance is futile
     
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    I don't love cj for porzingis, oft injured big man doesn't seem like the right move. He's having trouble fitting in with a ball dominant Lula, how does that look paired with dame? I guess I'd have to see what an eventual nurk trade looks like after, because I don't think KP can play PF at all, so you couldn't really get away with having both on the floor.
     
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    Yeah.... I'm not sure I wrote that correctly. Danny said that CJ for Porzingis was his nightmare trade.
     
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    CJ should be traded but trading him for Porzingas doesn't make a lot of sense

    to start with, salaries are the same so no gained flexibility on the cap, which is really needed...unless an elite player is coming in. It's a non-all-star for non-all-star deal so the won/loss trajectory isn't really altered either. I'm not even sure the fit is better

    the only significant positive of this could be clearing the way to re-sign Powell. But with the Porzingas salary, Portland's tax hell is still the same

    Blazers need to find a better trade
     
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    B-Roy If it takes months

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    Losing Powell for nothing would be a disaster. But I think a likely scenario is S&T him for a TPE, then hopefully using that TPE to absorb another player later. Maybe Harrison Barnes or an equivalent salary that plays a forward position.
     
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