nowhere? I’m not sure what your angle is here… both guys could easily not be traded or be traded elsewhere. all we’ve heard is we are running it back…like we’ve done for years. Why would we think anything different?
Do you know for a fact that they are "running it back"? Hell even if Neil said it (and I don't think he has) I am not sure I would believe it. It would seem like a smart thing to say in order not to appear desperate in trades. There is plenty of time for me to get pissed off. Today is not that day.
Lol. Okkkkkkkk. I want nothing to do with that website. You shouldn't want anything to do with those people either. You can go picket the team for me. I'll sit here and continue to bitch about Neil until he does something. Hey guys, I have posted with these people for over 20 years but i'm not a fan because glazeduck said so.
If Neils past gives us any clues, yes, he will end up running it back. Trust me. I'll be stoked if he does make a deal that benefits us. I have zero confidence in that happening.
I see many complaints, but not many actual solutions. I’m certainly not gonna sit here and waste time crying about who they gave minimum contracts to. These *shouldn’t* be players that are gonna be asked to contribute much outside of Zeller, the one guy that probably deserved more than the minimum. The path to massive improvement was never supposed to go through free agency.
This is the big thing here. We ALL at least seemed to know that we need to make a trade in order to fix this roster. That the answer wasn't going to come in free agency. Going into free agency, we wanted Powell back, and to get rid of Carmelo and Kanter. Those have been done. I'll be just as pissed as everyone else if this is the roster come October. And no I'm not "giving Neil the benefit of the doubt". I'm doubtful a big deal gets made. Or even a small needle mover like RoCo last year. But the constant bitching after 24 hours and 3 minimum signings is just laughable.
what "looming trade demand"? The one the Lakers set up? Dame could've easily said Zach, Melo and Blevins gotta go....addition by subtraction...what Dame said is we weren't good enough and we weren't....what Neil said is we need a stronger bench...so we got bench players..I don't get the angst...and we can still make a trade if not now, at the deadline...Dame has had the meeting with Chauncey and Neil....he knows exactly what the plan is
Many actual solutions? They all signed with other teams. You realize we haven’t used our TPMLE yet? If you’re telling me this is the best we could do filling out the roster then fine… Look at what all these other teams are doing. The solution is to fire olshey
So where is that point in time? * when Portland has 14/15 players under contract (ie - Thursday or Friday this week)? * when the FO goes on 'vacation' from mid-August until October? * at the start of training camp? * at the trade deadline? * when Dame's contract expires in 2025? The honest truth is that by the end of this week, the roster will likely be set for the start of training camp... Sure, a trade could still happen, but the likelihood of that is <5%.
this is pent of from years of incompetence. I myself have taken this stance every off season. Nba draft comes..hoping we do something..nothing happens…then it’ we’ll free agency is around the corner…that must be the time…nope…but we have so much time to make a trade before the season….crickets…the trade deadline is when we finally make the needle moving deal!!! Nope It’s the same thing every year dame said urgency..not complacency
Both of these comments are far too rational and calm for this board right now. HOW DARE you not immediately demand a man be fired even though his job is only 1/3 over! Let alone the fact that you have zero intimate knowledge of anything else that's playing out. Or how Dame feels about these additions. Or how the meetings have gone. Or how Billups envisions using these players......
The Wall for Westbrook deal was talked about for awhile and then consummated a week after free agency began. I can only hope at this point. But all signals are that Olshey doesn't want to trade CJ.
Cryptic. What are your sources? Lol I do know we are close to the luxury tax and using the TPMLE while filling out the rest of the roster puts us over. Aren’t we 6 mil under? Hmmmmm
So if a trade is not made by the end of the week the likelihood of it happening in the next two months is less than 5%? I don't believe those stats to be correct.
