We got the #3 pick. Discuss the possibilities.

We can all propose rumors and such but I think in the end and this is a prediction -- outside of keeping 3 let's say a trade does happen.

I think the final deal that has the 3rd pick being traded will be a multi team deal but IF that happens again I worry that Cronin will not totally screw it up.

 

You worry that Joe won't totally screw it up?

 

A stellar point of attack defender would be huge for this team.

 

Let me tell you if your a fan that is not worried that Cronin and/or Jody will not find a way to screw this up then I want to know what rock you have been living under the past couple years.

This is the same GM that signed GP3 KNOWING he needed surgery and prolly knowing he would not be ready til the new year to all star break. Then you have the Clipper trade and the CJ trade do I really have to go on or does this rest my case.

I really hope that Cronin is not as bad as he has shown and he was under orders to not go over the hard cap etc and now this offseason Jody is like ok go at it do what ya need to do to help get the team and Dame a chance at a ring but I kind of doubt that.

 

Research double negatives and how those affect logic.

 

Thybulle is a good POA defender, but even he gets lost in the Billups zone. There's just too many Blazers guarding spots, and letting ballhandlers run right past them.

If there was no 3 second illegal defense rule, the Blazers could get more stops. But once the Center clears the lane (or there is no Blazers Center in the game), it becomes open season for drivers to take flight.

 

2018-19 bench: Curry, Hood, Turner, Collins, Layman, Kanter, Simons, GTJ

 

That's the best one so far and I guess it was a good one.

 

If Dame don’t ask for a trade now, he will be like CP3 when he gets old. Getting pass around from team to team.

 

Bridges is a two way talent who showed in Brooklyn he has better offensive skills than he showed in Phoenix. He's not just a 3 and wing.

You're dealing in absolutes. Dame may retire before he gets to that point. I don't see Dame as a guy who becomes a decent player hanging on.

 

This is wrong. Off-hand, Curry just did it last year.

 

Pretty sure Duncan did it, and Dirk

 

I don't get the knock on Bridges not being an All-Star. We don't care what he did in the past. We are projecting what someone is going to do in the future. And he is a slam-dunk (injury non-withstanding) of being one next year, if not dealt. Otherwise you would never pick a player in a draft (haven't proven a thing) and would always deal high picks for vets.

 

High picks are 19. Bridges is 27.

 

Well, Bill Oram at the Oregonian is all-in on keeping the pick, even if it means saying goodbye to Dame:

https://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/...-to-draft-their-next-star.html?outputType=amp

 

Should probably make a thread about it. That's what the cool kids are doing.

 

well written and measured with some semblance of common sense? what is this I'm reading from the O?