Dame for Simmons? (last poll, promise)

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Dame for Simmons?

  • DO IT NOW!

    Votes: 3 8.8%

  • Maybe if it's Simmons plus extras (Thybulle? Maxey?)

    Votes: 5 14.7%

  • Let's see how we are at the trade deadline

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Let's wait until the offseason

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I'm okay with trading Dame, but not for Simmons

    Votes: 12 35.3%

  • I will never be okay with trading THE GREATEST BLAZER EVAH!!!!

    Votes: 14 41.2%
  • Total voters
    34
Rastapopoulos

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Our roster doesn't fit the coach (or, possibly, any coach). Dame is possibly already in decline and will be owed a shit ton. This is probably the last year you can get a decent haul for him. But no contenders have any high picks to trade. Simmons is the most talented player out there hanging that we know we can get for Dame. Olshey's gone now. And let's assume that trading Dame is the ONLY way we could get Simmons, because, let's face it, it's true. There is no fucking way in Hell any package with CJ as our best contribution will tempt Morey.
So... pull the trigger?
 
SIMMONS SUCKS.

DAME IS A MASSIVE OVERPAY.
 
No. Stop it. You don't trade a multi-time all-star and franchise leader/cornerstone and perhaps the most clutch player in the NBA in the last decade....for a player like Simmons. Would love to have Ben hear for a variety of other reasons....but not for Dame.
 
I said I was okay trading Dame, but not for Simmons. If you trade him, you better be getting equal value back. Simmons is not equal value. I would rather see the team built around Dame.
 
Too soon. If other moves to get a better core around Dame aren’t able to be put together and the team still sucks by the deadline, I think you have to consider trades. I personally would want to look for a better core piece than Simmons and would only make that trade with multiple picks thrown in.
 
How do you answer this? Dame is a consumate professional. Nobody here has the faintest idea what he wants.

I will say this - if Dame indictates he no longer wants to be here, you trade him ASAP before anybody gets wind of it and you lose all leverage.
 
This is how teams get stuck in everlasting purgatory. And Dame never gets a shot at a title. But hey, loyalty!
 
Rasta has been pushing the "Trade Dame, Keep CJ" crap for 6 months. I guess Olshey getting fired won't change that
 
Rastapopoulos said:
You've been looking at a team built around Dame at least since Aldridge left, and probably before. Do you like what you see?
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This team was never built around Dame. It was built around CJ and Dame by Olshey's fucking ego
 
Rastapopoulos said:
You'll be happy to know that my position has evolved. I no longer want to keep CJ.
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good

if Dame asks for a trade the Blazers should just gut the team and start from scratch. Keep Simons and Little, trade anybody over 24 for as many picks as they can yield...then hope to land somebody as good as Dame in the future for one of the high lottery picks they'd have for sucking
 
wizenheimer said:
good

if Dame asks for a trade the Blazers should just gut the team and start from scratch. Keep Simons and Little, trade anybody over 24 for as many picks as they can yield...then hope to land somebody as good as Dame in the future for one of the high lottery picks they'd have for sucking
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The OKC route?
 
wizenheimer said:
or the Philly route

just don't choose the route that tries to win now with CJ, Nance, and Powell
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Nance has been a bit disappointing to me especially on the offensive side, he's very reluctant to shoot, drive or back in to the hoop.
 
wizenheimer said:
if Dame asks for a trade the Blazers should just gut the team and start from scratch. Keep Simons and Little, trade anybody over 24 for as many picks as they can yield...then hope to land somebody as good as Dame in the future for one of the high lottery picks they'd have for sucking
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If the barrier to starting again is "we're not likely to get anyone as good as Dame" then you'll never start again. Dame is in the All-Time Blazer starting lineup for the foreseeable future. But his best years are already behind him and his salary is about to balloon, and if you don't trade him now, you set the rebuild back about 3 or 4 years.

Truth be told, the market for Dame has probably shrunk considerably since the start of the season. Small guards (other than S. Curry) are suffering with the new rules, and him most of anyone, and now we know he has a nagging injury. I wonder if we can even get Simmons for him at this point, especially given how well Maxey's played. Morey might want a forward now.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
If the barrier to starting again is "we're not likely to get anyone as good as Dame" then you'll never start again. Dame is in the All-Time Blazer starting lineup for the foreseeable future. But his best years are already behind him and his salary is about to balloon, and if you don't trade him now, you set the rebuild back about 3 or 4 years.

Truth be told, the market for Dame has probably shrunk considerably since the start of the season. Small guards (other than S. Curry) are suffering with the new rules, and him most of anyone, and now we know he has a nagging injury. I wonder if we can even get Simmons for him at this point, especially given how well Maxey's played. Morey might want a forward now.
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not sure where I said it was a barrier

but the goal of any rebuild is to be able to land a couple of players that will be at Dame's level, or at least at the level he was last season.
 
wizenheimer said:
not sure where I said it was a barrier

but the goal of any rebuild is to be able to land a couple of players that will be at Dame's level, or at least at the level he was last season.
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That's like saying the goal of every draft is to achieve that. Actually, the goal of every rebuild is to land a couple of players that are MJ and LeBron James. But nobody's going to trade you those players.

There is literally no player in the league who can replace Dame. There are better players, but none has the history and character. He's irreplaceable. But that doesn't mean he shouldn't be traded.
 
What interfering mod added a redundant last category to the poll? Fuck you, start your own poll.
 
Don't make promises you can't keep Raspy.
 
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