Lottery pick: #6, 2nd Rnd Picks: #36, and #57

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  1. KSF-ERIC

    KSF-ERIC Well-Known Member

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    If Pels make playoffs, we're not totally screwed. We still have Milwaukee's 2025 pick as a tradable asset. By 2025, Bucks may suck or it could be a year that Giannis sits out with an injury. Does anyone know if it's protected or not?
     
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    It wasn't protected by the Bucks but yeah it's got a top 4 protection for the Pels because our GM gets walked all over.
     
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    And staying the course was rank idiocy.
     
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    oldmangrouch persona non grata

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    Over a month till the lotto.
    Once it finally arrives, we have a better than 50% chance the #6 pick becomes 7-10.
    I don't know the exact odds are we don't get that second pick, but it is too high.
    We then have another month+ for our bottom-feeding front office and ownership to make trades for another U-Haul full of crap no other team wants.

    I tried to care about this team again. I wanted to care about this team again. I guess I have just reached the "acceptance" stage.
     
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    Bitterness isn't acceptance.
     
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    sure it compares....I just did it
     
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    If he wanted to be like LeBron CJ would still be here.
     
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    oldmangrouch persona non grata

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    Which is why I consider the question I was responding to to be off target.
     
  9. BoomChakaLaka

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    At # 6
    Damián Lillard

    At # 11
    Meyers Leonard


    Can we do better than 2012?
     
  10. Mediocre Man

    Mediocre Man Mr. SportsTwo

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    At # 6
    No

    At # 11
    We’d God damned better
     
  11. Scalma

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    funny thing is Leonard turned out to have a longer career than pretty much everyone picked immediately after him. He’d probably still be in the league if he wasn’t an idiot.
     
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    Oh you have sources too?
     
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    Were you trying to be facetious with the last part? If you weren’t, I don’t get what you’re trying to say. If you were, it’s fine I didn’t get it anyways so no reason for me to look at you sideways lol.

    I haven’t really changed my mind on the Jeremi Grant situation. If you can unprotect next year’s first with just the MEM second and give up a top-10 protected pick another year to DET for Grant, fine. I expect us to not be in this position for awhile, so I don’t mind giving up a future first, even lightly protected. But I’m not giving up 4 cheap years of Sochan or Eason for possibly one year of Grant.

    I honestly laugh at everyone who says “have you talked to Grant? How do you know what’s going on in his head?” lol. What you do speaks more to me than what you say. He took the same amount to go to a worse team and be the man, his stats got worse, why is “he’s on a bad team” suddenly justify his efficiency? We can always agree to disagree on the matter—but Grant is worth more like a non-lotto pick + Louzada + Bledsoe’s contract to me, not a lotto pick.

    ____/Little/Sharpe
    Grant/Eason/Watford? Yes please. But

    ____/Little/Sharpe
    Grant/Watford? I’m good chief.

    I don’t need the lotto picks to necessarily start right away. If Bledsoe’s contract and the TPE plus future assets can land a PF, I don’t have a problem starting Little.

    I’d be alright with Grant for the NOP pick if someone who’s talked to him and knows what’s going on in his head can tell me he’s willing to stay on for more than just a year and not go off to the next rebuilding city though. That’d really ease my mind lol.
     
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    Yeah no, I’m not saying Grant isn’t better than Larry or RoCo. No disagreement there. I’m just saying I don’t find “he’s better than the two guys we made dumb decisions to trade draft picks for” as a good reason to be like “LET’S DO IT AGAIN” LOL.
    For a lotto pick, I’m schleepin’ too…
    Snooze snooze

    And to be fair, that doesn’t mean I don’t want him on the team at all. Our evaluations on his true value are just wildly different.

    We’ve traded pick 15 for a quarter season of Aaron Afflalo before. Grant is a better player and only worth trading a pick 4 spots higher for, and we’d get him for four times as long as Afflalo too. My worry is we ideally want to keep him around about 12-16 times as long as Afflalo, not four. Ya know what I mean?
     
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    Yeah, people have posted about wanting to work out an extension before pulling the trigger on Grant for the Pels pick and I think that would be the way our team should do it... I doubt they will but that would be the smart move.
     
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    If they trade both picks I dunno….will be more pissed with the team than I have in a long time.
     
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    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    Hasn’t been announced yet, but they are finalizing the details on a draft lottery party. Maybe I’ll go for good luck!
     
  18. Fairly-Hard

    Fairly-Hard Former Member Gone New!

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    He'll be back also. I'm betting as soon as next season.
     
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    So you absolutely do not want them to trade for a veteran even though they have pretty much said they will do exactly that?
     
  20. calvin natt

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    I absolutely do not want them to trade the two picks.
     
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