Dame all but demanding vet roster

its amazing me how little you are listening to yourself.
Its like a science peoject.

you obviously do care or you would be a le to move on. You care sooo much you have to rebuttal everything over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.. and then get butthurt when people decide to give up.

Maybe you shoild care about other peoples’ thoughts a bit more and you might find more reciprocating responses to your opinions.


you want everyone to listen to you but you dont care how you are coming across????




This is getting out of hand. I dont want to put you on ignore but your selfish behavior leaves little choice….

 

Let's do the Time Warp again. This is essentially the same discussion I had with Nate yesterday or the day before.

Next I knew I was spammed with 15 quoted replies saying the exact same thing 15 times.

 

To me that completely ignores the tone of his statements. This isn't just text on paper. We have the advantage of being able to see Dame and hear Dame as he's saying these things.

 

Cool. I'll put you on ignore and you can put me on ignore and be done with it.

 

Of course he's not certain he'll be here. Jody and Joe could decide they don't actually care about winning. That would pretty much move Dame along...

 

They might decide they don't care about winning right now. They might decide they don't want to be another also-ran. They might decide they don't want to be another first-round victim. That doesn't mean that they don't care about winning.

 

I've seen all the interviews and I don't hear it the same way you do apparently. If you think it's a 100% lock, then that's your opinion, and he may prove you right the day after the draft. Based off everything I've watched, heard, etc. I'm not comfortable saying it's a certainty.

 

That Dame will request a trade?

 

I think it does. Most teams who hit the "reset" button don't win for nearly a decade. It's the right decision when you have no other options. We have other options. If Joe is capable at all we have the assets to be a HCA team next season.

 

- Damian Lillard

 

I'm gonna be honest.... I don't think we will become a good team until Jody is gone. I don't think Jody is fully committed to winning. I think Joe wants to win very badly. I think if Paul was still here it would be different. It's very hard to get a read on what this team is actually doing right now. It seems like there's too many cooks in the kitchen.

 

Correct.

 

Do you think Dame has been clear about what he wants?

 

Exactly

 

I believe he wants to win a championship in Portland. I think that's clear, but if others hear differently, then I guess he hasn't been clear.

 

No, I mean what he expects out of this offseason. You don't think he has been clear?

 

Agree 100%. I don't think there is any way we wind up being a good team if Dame leaves. The only chance IMO is if Dame stays and Joe can work a miracle with the assets we have... hopefully in that time the NBA forces Jody to sell...

 

I don't know what he expects to happens this off-season. I believe he would like the franchise to move in a direction where the team is closer to contending than they have been in the last few years. Maybe that is what he expects?

 

That's a pretty damn low bar my man.

We have been a lottery team the past two years.

This is the part I guess baffles me about some of you guys. He comes out and makes some statements and you're like, "but we have no idea what Dame thinks!" It kinda feels like you're the clueless guy that has no idea that the girl likes him, and she has to strip down in your bedroom for you to finally think, "Oh maybe she likes me?"

 

Also, to be clear, I have never said that it's 100% a lock that he demands a trade. I have been saying that Dame has been clear on what he expects, and that he indicated that he would seek a conversation about potentially leaving the team if it's not possible or if the team doesn't use our assets to compete. I don't know what the outcome of that conversation will be, but that's the first time that he has actually said something that indicates that he would start a conversation about leaving the team.