The Telfair days gave us something this team has never really given us, and that is hope. Multiple firsts is great. Contending is great. This is the worst possible scenario. Going nowhere with no hope. Dame is great, but after that?????
I think Norm is a legit starting 2 on a championship caliber roster. I think we can get a lot better by trading CJ, RoCo, Nurk and future picks. Not more talented, just a team that makes sense with Dame, Norm, Nas and Ant as the players who are good enough to significantly contribute to a contender.
it was bad but not anything like the lockout season....I seriously almost gave up on the team that season...I was still cheering for every other chapter of the Blazers..
Yeah - the year after the championship was some of the best basketball I've seen up until Walton got hurt and the team completely derailed. That was a huge downer.
I remember when Bill Walton went down and we were 50 & 10 the year after the 76/77 championship. Tell that point there was a lot of talk about dynasty and this team was rolling. Then he said he was leaving the Blazers and blamed them for his foot issue. Things unraveled much quicker than they are now.
If you were an NBA team, what would you give up for CJ, Nurk or RoCo? I wouldn’t give anything that would help Dame for any of those guys
The lockout season is weird, because that late December before any games were even played so utterly destroyed the soul that it didn't matter that bad news kept coming.
No. It'd be somewhere in that time frame when Darius Miles was our best player and we had Khryapa and I can't even remember who our GMs were ... those years still are a blur. I don't even drink and I still don't completely remember them.
Honestly if I were the Sixers I would very quickly take CJ and RoCo for Simmons. CJ is much better at what they need than the combination of Seth and Maxey let alone one of them. So they could keep those two on the bench, start a defender (Shake or Thybulle) with CJ and have RoCo off the bench which would be huge for them. RoCo, for their style of play is much better than Niang. They just get worlds better with that trade and we get the athleticism, length and defense we need... along with inside scoring, ball handling and passing. Nurk is good for a lot of teams actually. Toronto needs a legit big, Golden State could use Nurk and there are a few other teams. Boucher is having a really bad season with the Raptors and needs a change of scenery. I think we could get Boucher, filler players that we would waive and draft considerations for Nurk. Nurk just dropped 30 like it was nothing. I don't know if coaches out there think they could get more from CJ but he already brings a lot as a scorer. I guarantee you that with the inconsistent level of play from Nurk and RoCo that has been consistently good at different times in their careers, there are GMs and coaches out there that think they could get a lot more out of them than we are. And they probably can.
The darkest days stuff is crazy... always got to be hyperbole... like that crazy thread last year about THAT being the worst team. Might've been the best team of the last 3 years.
