Game Thread NBA PLAY-IN - PELICANS @ CLIPPERS - APRIL 15, 2022 - FRIDAY - 7:00 PM (PDT) TNT

The 2022-23 season doesn't start tomorrow.

 

Thanks. I was worried I might be going more insane.

 

CJ is also going to keep Zion there and get him to get into great shape... CJ really is a leader and that team has a bright future. They also have a mid lotto pick that they could get lucky with.

 

His rapport with possible free agents. Him having a certain type of player he wants and he was getting interviewed for front office jobs before he decided on coaching.

Hire a cap guru and then put his seal of approval on shit

 

People on this message board have speculated things over and over many times before, but the volume of which an echo chamber says the same story over and over doesn't make it any more or less true.

I didn't love the trades. I didn't love our roster/salary situation before the trades. However, I'm not the one saying there were better deals because I don't know of one. If people are going to say there were better deals, then please provide something other than a fictional story or Dwight Jaynes speculation to back it up.

The trades were a sobering reality of how bad our salary/talent situation had got. How we had pissed away 1st round picks for marginal role players. Olshey was able to spin stories for a few years. Blamed Stotts last year, only for us to look even worse to start the season this year. In some ways, it's a shame he didn't have to see his problem to the end and own it.

 

Portland needed to dump CJ. Arguably (I've argued it), they might have done better at the time with an additional layer of draft assets, but they absolutely needed to dismantle olshey's idiotic roster and the trade deadline is a much better time than the off-season

 

I hope you like CJ for the next several years because there isn't a team in the NBA that would give up an unprotected pick for him, unless they were already guaranteed a playoff spot.

 

Are we magically going to trade for some.star players that want to come.to Portland? So we can compete with the other contenders in the league? You really trust our ownership and Cronin to do that?

 

Hey, there is the measured blazerkor we know and love!

 

So much to unpack with this game.

Just a gutpunch not getting that extra pick. Powell and RoCo playing like they did so many times for the Blazers. Batum was huge for the Clippers to the point that the game turned when he went out. And Pandemic P strikes again, literally this time.

Ugh. What a crummy development.

 

Billups can help us get free agents w/out being a GM, so that's good news. We already have a cap expert, so that's good.

Do we have an owner willing to spend for us to win? Do we have the assets it will take to build a contending roster? That I'm not as confident about.

 

It's kinda crazy that our three starters people were so upset we didn't get more for, were all subpar tonight. Hard to imagine Powell/RoCo getting significant minutes on a healthy LAC roster next year.

 

No matter what side of the CJ-trade ledger you fall on, and think we can all agree on that.

 

Nobody is saying we could have gotten Giannis for him. Hart and a 2025 Bucks 1st is disappointing.

You call it an echo chamber. I call it a place where fans stick up for the Blazers even if they shit in a box and called it our starting small forward.

 

That's me. Bringing S2 together.

 

you might be right

but here's the loopiness I see: posters saying the Blazers can't make good trades with this GM and owner, turning around and saying Portland should trade Dame for a "great haul"

 

I agree it's disappointing. Having to face reality that our assets have minimal value around the league sucks. However, that doesn't mean that there were better deals out there. Could there have been? Of course.

My issue is that people are saying there WERE better deals, but nobody can point to one of them.

 

It is actually true if Olshey had browsed the BE forums and saw my post and said "Wow Idog1976 is right and I'm going to randomly believe him and make a pivotal choice based on an anonymous internet poster and draft Giannis over CJ!".

So bad example