This lineup makes no sense. The Blazers need to go with youth or try to win now. If you acquire Grant then your aiming for a win now veteran. If you draft and start Sochan your building for the future with youth, not trying to win now. I don't see the point in the Blazers trying to win now as they don't have the assets to be able to do it. But them actually trying to do both at the same time would be even dumber.
Yeah, and with sell low Joe in charge of the negotiations, and the whole league basically having the same conclusion of our team pressured to win now; I don't like the odds of us getting equal value back of veterans in a trade. Many posters are saying the #7 pick for Grant or OG is an overpay. I sadly wouldn't be shocked if we give up an additional asset in addition with the #7 pick. It's likely the most sad depressing time to be a Blazers fanatic since the Roy career ending injury.
If you're willing to make your own disastrous predictions into your reality then I guess you're right. I'm pretty sure we're getting Dame back this upcoming season and he's saying that he's feeling better than he has in the last five or more years... five years in which he was one of the top 5-7 players in the league. We're waiting to see what Ant can do after he lit the league on fire for a short time last season. We have the seventh pick in a deep draft. We have really nice role players who will hopefully be coming off the bench in Hart, Justise and Nas. We have a host of young guys who haven't proven that they're good yet but also haven't shown that they don't have a chance to be contributors in Trendon, Keon, Greg and Didi. There's a real chance that we get Nurk and Ant on team friendly deals (I'm not holding my breath on that one). I know there aren't a lot of people who love the idea of mortgaging our future first rounders to try and win now but doing what small thing it takes to guarantee Chicago our first next season or just changing the conditions so we could trade future firsts in another option. There are a lot of positive things that could happen this offseason and we'll start to get a clearer picture of what those things are in just over three weeks but you keep clinging to glood and doom.
A refresher from a few years back regarding the quantitative value of a pick. Based on this, 7+ 36 should be able to get you to #4.
My favorite part people forget is we're getting back a top 10 player in the league (and top 75 all time) who was injured for years and still put us on his back... And he's going to be healthy. Healthy. And people just gloss over this all the time. I'm excited for whatever. I still don't want grant, but a prime healthy dame is freaking exciting.
I dont like his release of this. It makes sense in the NFL, not so much the nba. It implies Charlotte with 13 and 15 can trade up to #3. There's no chance of that happening.
i think it has more to do with how those picks have turned out in history, not necessary just their value in trades. he goes into a lot more detail about his formula, but it's hidden under insider. https://insider.espn.com/nba/insider/story/_/id/19658707 obviously it oversimplifies this concept of trade value into a singular quant, but i think it's a good guide to reference at times.
With each team only having 5 players on the floor at a time, individual players are MUCH more valuable in the NBA
I haven't forgot this. But I also understand Dame is on the wrong side of 30. I also am not excited about seeing a bubble level performance from Dame if its for a poor playoff team. Maybe you are. Who is Dame's best teammate? Compare that to the rest of the west, and we're one of the worst teams.
Dame said some of these comments before the season. I'll believe he is better than he has been the last 5 years when we see it. The sad part is even if he is better, the team is unlikely to have enough other talent to matter.
Bobby Marks made a wacky prediction. Portland trades up to #3 for Banchero. I would take back every criticism of Cronin if he could pull that off. What would it take? 7 + 25 Mil pick + Keon and take back a contract they dont want?
With a statement like that, it is very poor on the others parts to not follow up. That is quite the projection.
Proposals with Ant and our pick need to stop. Those deals do not happen in the NBA. It's more obvious than the other obvious tampering that goes on, and would most certainly be flagged.
