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When to trade Dame?

  • Trade Dame now

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Blazers below .500 half way through the season

    Votes: 7 17.5%

  • Blazers 1st round exit

    Votes: 3 7.5%

  • Blazers 2nd round exit

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Don't trade Dame

    Votes: 30 75.0%
  • Total voters
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SharpesTriumph

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Dame would fetch a huge trade package and is on the wrong side of 30. What lack of success would you be ok with the Blazers exploring Dame trades?
 
Trading Dame is only a good move if we're upgrading in talent/expected potential.

Trading Dame for draft picks or unproven rookies that you hope would be 80% of Lillard would be a foolish move. If we could get Luka, Zion, etc. sure you'd have to think about it... that isn't happening though.
 
HELL NO NEVER! He would have to request a trade, and then it would be like a thousand shots to the Jewels. Generational talent only comes around once in a Blue Moon. The draft is a crapshoot. And Dame has invested so much in the community. Most great players couldn't wait to take the fast train out . Dame is rip city.
 
If you have a nice car and bad driver in F1. Do you change car or driver?
Trading best player Blazers had in years would be nothing, but organization failure. Give him players, coach and stop with this nonsense.
 
royo said:
If you have a nice car and bad driver in F1. Do you change car or driver?
Trading best player Blazers had in years would be nothing, but organization failure. Give him players, coach and stop with this nonsense.
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What players? How?
 
I am pretty sure, if you give me few millions, I would give you proper answer tomorrow.
For now, from fan perspective the answer is: Good players. Fast.
 
Does this thread go in the same collection with "This is the worst Blazer team i have ever seen" thread?

Talk about fanatical?
 
If you define "don't succeed" as failure then the greatest failure we could have right now is trading Dame. So your question is impossible to answer. We should never trade Dame because that would be the definition of not succeeding in this situation.
 
I don't even ever go on the Trade Dame thread even though I love dreaming up trades. But if I am reading things right, Lillard is now not 100% committed to staying. If this season does not go well, I believe he will be asking for a trade. So if the season starts to go bad, I think we would need to trade as soon as possible.
 
SharpesTriumph said:
Dame would fetch a huge trade package
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what makes you think that?

* James Harden was just recently traded for the injured Oladipo...and a collection of crappy draft picks
* Chris Paul was traded for Rubio & Oubre and a likely 28-30th pick next year
* Paul George was traded for Oladipo and Sabonis, then for SGA and Gallo...and a collection of crappy picks

Odds are extremely high that Portland will be much worse after a Dame trade and remain worse for years. The notion that somehow Portland will get some great trade package is in conflict with recent NBA history
 
Remember, there are forumers who called Dame Fools Gold.
 
If the Blazers don't succeed you fire Neil Olshey. If Dame then demands a trade then you have to do it. I wouldn't do it unless he wanted out though, which I think could happen depending on how things go.

If they trade Dame and don't can Olshey I'll be pissed.
 
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Yes Yes and Yes… Dame getting his Gold Medal and deserves an NBA ring
 
Doesn't CP3 and the Suns show that there is a path to deep playoff success and possible championship even if you have your best or 2nd best player "on the wrong side of 30?"
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Doesn't CP3 and the Suns show that there is a path to deep playoff success and possible championship even if you have your best or 2nd best player "on the wrong side of 30?"
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Yeah. That path is "everyone else gets injured".

I kid, kind of.
 
B-Roy said:
Yeah. That path is "everyone else gets injured".

I kid, kind of.
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yeah, they have had a path thru notable opponent injuries to the finals

however, they arrived in the playoffs with the 2nd best record in the NBA and the best road record

and in the playoffs, their record is 14-4; that's a .778 winning percentage (would be 64 wins in a standard NBA season). The margin of victory in their 14 wins is 13.3 points. Their overall MOV is +7.6. What makes that even more impressive is that the combination of Booker, Ayton, Bridges, Johnson, and Payne had a total of 68 minutes of playoff experience, and all of that was by Payne. Conventional wisdom would say the Suns would have failed because of that inexperience. But of course, the Phoenix GM was smart enough to mix young talent with a couple of savvy veterans

it's also worth noting that CP3 missed two games in these playoffs and Phoenix won both of those games.

it only took the Phoenix GM, James Jones, 3 seasons to build a contender. Sure, he had some luck but when you look at it almost all of that 'luck' was him capitalizing on opportunities instead of pissing them away (like another GM we all know). He's been brilliant
 
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