So, it all comes down to the word "separate?" Maybe "separate" because the plan is to trade for player x, y, and/or z and if they can't/don't then they'll have to discuss plan b. I mean, WATCH THE DAMN VIDEO. After he says the "separate" thing he IMMEDIATELY alludes to what he had been discussing moments early, which was essentially--and I'm paraphrasing--why go somewhere else because nothing is for sure. He has said repeatedly that he wants to be here.
Ugh.... Well I guess I should be happy it's not just 3 Ant for Pascal. Seems like we're trading away the two best young talents there for average forwards on expiring contracts that won't make us contenders. I'd probably be much more excited for the 2023-24 season. But Id be crazy worried this is a Jermaine O'Neal 2.0 situation.
Can you ever remember a time where there was SO much uncertainty? We don't know who's going to be there at 3. We don't know if there's going to be a trade. We don't know how serious Dame is about asking out. We don't know if Joe Cronin is a moron. We don't know how much control the Vulcans have. We don't know why it's raining in June. We don't know when this god awful inflation will go down..... WE DON'T KNOW!
True, we probably all should spend less time on this site. I look at it as Thursday we'll have the draft then a few days later free agency and that's probably it. Nothing after that until the pre season, and these decisions could impact the next 10 years. It's insanely rare to have a team that could go in such wildly different directions, trying to win with an all NBA player now or totally rebuild with #3 and other assets.
You just made an analogy between being employed by someone and being married to someone. You're trippin.
LMAO. You weren't quoted in my post yet here you are quoting me again. Looks like i'm the one living rent free. Go on and post another thread about "Dame giving cryptic signals that he wants to be traded" LMAO. What's your address ? Gonna send you a new tinfoil hat
there's an irony here, personally, in that one of my biggest complaint about the Olshey era was all the fence straddling. Not picking a lane now, with, as you said, two paths leading in such wildly different directions, I actually think straddling a fence might be the best course of action. No matter which direction Portland goes there are just too many variables and unknowns right now. It might be the worst time to pick a lane. That's why I was hot for keeping the pick, keeping Dame, and doing something like trading for DeRozan. Give Portland some breathing room to see is their pick choice was good, if a competitive team was to be had...if there was an alternate path than those two wildly different ones if Portland does eventually end up trading Dame, I think they'd get a much better return approaching next season's trade deadline than in July
You wrote this gem: Imagine if any of us married people were asked in public what lady x y z in the neighborhood do you think would be a good lady to date if you ever got divorced? Yeah you answer that question with anything but 100% commitment to your wife and see what your wife thinks. I'd love to hear you try to explain your way out of that one. That Dame would answer the question shows the relationship is crazy fragile. Maybe it gets repaired, maybe not. I'm sure as hell not trading away the #3 pick when and the Blazers might break up in a few months either way. It's not like this is the sole indicator, it's exhibit 1 of 50 that the Dame as a cornerstone of the Blazers time may be ending.
You posted about people wanting to trade Dame. I responded. That's what we do here. We post, people respond, and then we post again. That's how forums work.
If you want to call them objective opinions based on historical data of thousands of players then yeah, sure. That's a much more logical way to evaluate the ideal team building strategies than blind homerism and faith in one old player who people have an illogical emotional biased non-objective love of.
Says the future-seeing banned guy...how did you get back in here anyways? did you have to pay @SlyPokerDog ?
So many blanket statements and assumptions with your posts. It's irritating. You don't even know my position, you just say weird shit.
