I am not enjoying the process. If you will pardon the vulgarity, it feels like I am very constipated and just wanting it to go already.
Fully enjoying the youth movement, but wont be able to enjoy the blazers until the Dame thing is resolved. Certainly hope its resolved prior to preseason but understand if it isn't. need to hold out for the best possible package up until the trade deadline. Dame might be wasting another year of his career the way this is looking to play out.
How? Dude is going to be 1/2 a billion dollars richer by the time his contract is up. How, on any level, does that equate to wasting a year of his career? If forced to take a lie detector test, what percentage of the players that have sustained 1o years of grind in the NBA, do you think would cite an NBA Title, over being set for life as their #1 desire?
What's Oregon's income tax again? If you were going to be worth 250 million dollars, would you be okay with giving up 20 million of that? And I say this as someone who thinks the taxes have been abnormally low for decades. Dude's getting out of dodge before he has to pay state tax lol he'll be fucking pissed spending a year here.
Modern NBA’s money ball style is based around length (ability to guard multiple positions), outside shooting and the ability to get to the foul line. All aspects in which we really lack.
I am sure Dame has plenty of tax shelters in place etc. Our ex “president” paid no taxes for fux sakes
I would have liked to see Joe push for some coaching changes. If Brooks is supposed to be a mentor, well, that doesn't appear to be working out that well. Don't know if he and Billups just don't mesh, but whatever it is I would have brought in some fresh energy. Also think I would have looked for a different guy to coach the defense.
We can't get top free agents to save our lives, it doesn't matter who the GM is. So our only hope of ever winning a chip is through the draft. I'd rather tank and get some good picks than sit in the middle of the pack for years on end. Unfortunately for Dame he was too good and willed us to so many wins that the team was never shitty enough to draft him a couple capable sidekicks. As much as I want the team to be good this year, I kinda hope we are shit so we can draft a good big man. I think Cronin has drafted well so I'm optimistic.
