humor...doesn't stick around here anymore.(I put green font on now) .one is his cousin one is his best friend....I'd say he could be referencing being loyal to keepin them around now that he's got new teammates...not that that's a bad thing but Dame is being cryptic so my guess is, he's trolling the media hacks
How many years have we been living with this as our mantra? There is always some excuse why we should be patient.
That should be the slogan of every Blazer fan. The time for excuses and patience is over - has been over for some time. This franchise has embraced a business model of perpetual failure and shitting all over the fans.
Yikes! Your name fits you well. Nobody is making excuses, Einstein. New Coach, new GM and more moves to be made. If Dame is being patient, i think we can hang on a tad bit longer. Don't forget to take your meds, they won't work as well if you skip a day.
Yes, no offense to Dame, but being loyal to that Idiot Stotts and not really putting presure on Olshey earlier was a huge mistake.
Do we have olshey this year? Do we have stotts? So how can it be the same. If you're never happy with the team what makes you continue to be a fan? Honest question. I'm honestly curious what makes you continue to follow the team if nothing they've done for a decade has been to your satisfaction? Has there been a moment in the last decade that brought you joy from the team? Dame? The shot? WCF?
Frustration doesn't mean one is not a fan. Apathy does. I can appreciate passionate fans who feel like the last 10 years of one of the most impactful players to ever come through this franchise, has been a bit disappointing.
Yeah. But preemptively deciding things are a disaster before they even play one single minute is a bit silly.
Knowing your favorite team has a building block star and you never try to maximize on him being so loyal is pathetic. You have to do whatever it takes to land guys around him for help. Swing for the fences man. Or move on from that star.
Sometimes you swing for the fences and strike out...ball has to connect with the barrel...doesn't mean you aren't swinging away though.
So we're gonna villify Cronin too for the other 9 years? Trust me, I get being upset at olshey. I was all aboard the olshey/stotts firings and was happy they happened. But this subverted my original question. Why is someone who is so against everything the blazers have done for the decade still a fan? Is it frustrating that we didn't win a championship? Sure. But you can also find things that are/were good even in the shit pile that was olshey. But to then just assume Cronin was gonna hit a home run right out the gate is like expecting Bartolo Colon to get a base hit every time he came up. Also, let me ask, if OG was a home run (strictly speaking in hypothetical on that) was the package of Sharpe, ant, and another first worth it then? I understand WANTING to hit the home run, but then you also have to play with what you got -- and maybe we just don't have that. Cronin cleared the deck and tried to make things happen. But we cant just get guys as home runs because that's what we expect. There's also being realistic. Our assets kinda sucked and the big one was #7 and Toronto wanted more. I get being frustrated, but if you're always angry because your expectations weren't met given that reality well... "Expectations are a resentment waiting to happen".
Good question. Right now, it is like watching an old and cherished friend on trial for some heinous crime. Loyalty and tradition are at war with anger and disgust. You ask how it can be the same? They changed some individuals...but has the franchise changed? Replacing Olshey with his top aide hardly qualifies! IMHO, they have yet to do anything to win back the benefit of the doubt. If the team makes a deep play-off run next spring, I will be glad to admit I was wrong and I will cheer for them.
I don't see how it can be done. Brooklyn is not going to hard-cap themselves (they can't because they are already over the apron), so that eliminates Simons and Nurkic. Portland is hard-capped so they can't guarantee Bledsoe and use his 19M salary. Portland has to come up with at least 41M in outgoing salary and without Dame-Simons-Nurk-Bledsoe (19M) the blazers only have 36M in salary left and that includes Sharpe
STOP with the loyalty/patience/poor Dame shit. He keeps signing extensions and is A-OK accepting those checks. He can LEAVE whenever he wants. All NBA stars can. It happens every year.
Hard cap didn’t exist. Hard cap didn’t exist. Hard cap didn’t exist. And…… hard cap didn’t exist. Also those were the Trader Bob days when we actually swung for the fences.