We got the #3 pick. Discuss the possibilities.

Lillard is 33

Towns is 5 years younger and plays a position with less talent around the league

Towns or Ayton

I don't think there's other big available

Embiid would be a dream

 

OR Ayton?! For Dame?! Ahahaha

 

3rd overall pick who played for the blazers:

-- Enes Kanter Freedom
-- Carmelo Anthony
-- Darius Miles
-- Raef LaFrentz

 

No need to apologize. You have been consistent and like I was saying you may not be wrong. What are they going to do when they are paying him 33% of the cap space? One positive is he will be up for his next contract in a couple years? I wonder what he will demand?

 

The Trade Dame clowns make me sick

 

Not so sure about that. If Lillard sees no way forward, he may ask for a trade.

 

Well you got your wish the last couple years i guess. Hope that was enjoyable for you.

 

We started the year with Nurk/GrantHart/Simons/Dame.

It was so mediocre/bad, that we chose to end up tanking and THEN played all the young kids.

 

Have to admit December was a bad month. The one point loss to Denver and back to back losses to OKC might have been the tipping points. They also could have won that Warriors game but just seemed to miss shots at the end. I was at the Jan 22nd loss to the Lakers when they had that game but just melted down. I think that game was the final nail in the coffin.

It's weird how a few losses can change a season. Lots of people say early games don't matter but it's obvious they do matter very much.

 

Fuck it, I'll do it myself if I have to

 

And none of them was DRAFTED by the Blazers. Guess why we were able to get them cheap? #3 picks that aren't shit tend to get locked up by their team.

 

FUCK no

 

...and is shit

 

...Yes...and it'll be a good thing?

 

Only happens if they exhaust every option trying to trade the pick and every package sucks.

 

Those loses are what helped us see reality and stir to the path of getting the number 3 pick.. it was a blessing

 

It was good for Utah.

 

So you think December was really bad; I'd contend it was July that was really bad when the roster was put together that @TBpup mentioned?

If the Blazers had some more wins in December they would've just came back to reality in January. That roster was a joke for trying to legit win with Dame. A few losses in December didn't rob the team of some winning contending chance, that roster just never had it.

The team put themselves in a position of having to full on tank midway through the year from either incompetence or an elaborate entire year stealth losing campaign. I'd love if it was the latter, but I'm afraid it was the former and we're now getting set to repeat that process the following year.

 

I thought we gave it one last shot vs Philly late in the year in Nurk’s first game with Thybulle. We played great but lost on an Embiid shot late. That broke us.