People may not want to hear this, but I don’t think they care what super basketball fans like. They are trying to catch the casual viewers eyes. Basketball junkies are going to watch no matter how much they complain. We were doing crazy shit in Tokyo…what are fans going to do, NOT watch? Thats not happening anytime soon.
Not sure what to tell you sir….I watched the Pacers and the Raptors feeds last night. Saw it quite a bit, so there’s that. But you keep thinking that the PORTLAND TRAILBLAZERS are the ONLY team doing it if it helps you. In fact I’ll have the Warriors director on here today for a broadcast Q&A if you want.
I know he's built like fine china, but AD when healthy is unstoppable. LAL is the only team who would take on a 50m contract...just sayin. Could include a 3rd team to take on AD for picks. What the team needs most is everything.
This team needs a heart transplant. A few too many performances like this. I've seen Blazers teams with nowhere near this talent gut it up and play better than we've been doing lately.
take ur pick 1) Stay the course, add a few pieces here and there, hope for better next year? 2) Trade best assets--Ant and Shaedon--essentially to give Dame elite help? 3) Accept the fact that it's done. It's over Johnny. Blow it up for reals. Get picks. Young talent. Give Dame to the Lakers. Who else would want him? Most likely the first option is what will happen. Sign some new retreads and give it a go.
We again, definitely need size behind Nurk along with the good small rebounders we have that will also provide paint defense.
Nope! He's more of a driver then spread the court player (like Ant). If you're talking chemistry Dame needs more, not less catch and shoot players around him... plus dude is 33.4 years old. If I'm trading Ant, it's not for someone currently only arguably better who's career is about to end. STOMP
This team is in between a rock and a hard place. Dame is the face of this franchise. Unless he requests a trade he will remain here. You don’t trade Ant/Shaedon unless you get an All-NBA player like KD, PG, etc to help Dame. Ant/Shaedon are the future. We don’t want a repeat of Jermaine O’Neal. This team isn’t even as close to winning a title as the early 2000’s team. I really don’t know what course the team should take.
If it's a healthy all NBA SF then you definitely trade Ant and Shae for them but if Joe feels hesitant to do that, he should tell Dame and the two of them should come to the conclusion that the team needs to youth rebuild around Ant and Shae. That would mean trading Dame, JG, Hart, Justise, GP2 and Nurk for the most you can get. I want to try and build and champion around Dame so I would guarantee Chicago the pick and trade any (Ant, Shae and any pick after 2024 included) any of our other young players to make this team a contender. This straddling the line between competing now and securing our future thing is not really going to work. We can keep a piece or two for the future on a roster that wants to compete now but if we're serious about trying for a championship any talent we think has potential but isn't tapping into it now will be traded to teams building for the future.
What pick? None were mentioned. Trade Ant, Shae to Chicago for who? I'm confused, what great talent do the Bulls have? STOMP
Holy fucking shit! Keep the fuck up! We owe Chicago a first round pick, so I'm saying in a win now deal we would guarantee that 2023 pick we owe the Bulls to open up our first round picks in 2025, '27 and '29 to be traded for the best player(s) possible to win now. I honestly don't know why this has to be explained and can't be shorthand for people that actually follow our team.
Fair enough. Though i think Derozan’s defensive side is the fit next to Dame. Time sure does fly though. I thought Derozan was more Grants age. My bad.
If a trade happens it will be just before deadline as that's when teams may decide to re-engineer some and offer star type players. A lot of season left.
