Sheldon from Utility Sports. Blazers were big draft winners. A phenomenal draft. Getting the #2 prospect in the draft with the 3rd pick is very difficult. Future is extremely bright. Scoot and Dame together is intriguing because they are not the same. Scoot Henderson is not like CJ McCollum. Scoot is more of a downhill force and a facilitator. He talks about the Trail Blazers at the beginning of the video.
As a draft it was a great draft when grading it in terms of the value we got where we picked and drafting rookies with both high floors and high ceilings (Scoot and Rayan having the higher ceilings while Scoot and Kris have the higher floors). That's the context I think a draft grade should be given in. The fact that we drafted three promising rookies when Dame said he didn't want that anymore and that we needed to add proven talent and that one of those rookies is undeniably a point guard in my opinion spells the end of Dame Time which is kind of heartbreaking but we shouldn't be surprised besides trading for Grant and maybe re-signing Nurk, every move that Cronin has made has seemed to point toward a rebuild.
Still not sure if signing GPII was a win now or rebuild move. We sign a 4th guard that is 6'2" with a core injury awaiting surgery. Same surgery that kept Lillard/NAS out for an entire year. And we got hard capped. Just no explanation for that. I'm just grateful the Warriors were dumb enough to give us 4 second round picks to get that scrub back. Hell I might have given them 4 second round picks just to take him away.
That signing was the most head scratching move that Cronin has made. I thought the LAC trade was horrible, but I understood why he did it. I think he was ordered to get us under the tax. But the GPII signing was just..... bizarre.
That one had everyone scratching their heads... we needed size and we went full MLE on another smallish guard. We got out of that contract though and get a fistful of second rounders. No damage done except to all of our opinions of Cronin. The fact is it was a win now move that Cronin recanted into a rebuilding move. The same could be said for acquiring Josh Hart just to move him for a lesser player at the same position and a first round pick that we used. When the team re-signed Nurk, kept Hart through the off season, acquired Jerami and for whatever fucking reason signed GP2 weeks it was a halfhearted attempt at win now but there was no roster balance and by mid season we undid half of those win now moves.
