It does undermine our rebuild a bit, if we wanted to move on from Dame and Nurk and had some young FA's we were interested in. But, the Blazers have nothing but time now after resetting the clock.
Would love to see ownership come out with a strong stmt supporting Joe and getting the best value and enough of this one destination BS
We have him over a barrel and I bet he is pissed that Cronin won't play ball. "What the fuck...I don't get it, he gave the Clippers and Pelicans what they wanted?"
You will see Dame & agent submit a list of 3-4 locations that he will be good with. Otherwise there is a good chance he goes somewhere else. Dames agent is playing the Miami or busty card because Riley told him too for posturing. Riley thinks Joe is too nice a guy to not help Dame get to SB.
I consider myself a big Dame fan. I’ve always liked how he handled his game, his ego and his loyalty. What concerns me is we are seeing a completely different Dame. Demanding where he plays telling teams he’s going to sit out if traded there and basically screwing Blazers in any kind of trade leverage. Lost some respect and to be honest worried he was bullshitting us all along. I hope this ain’t the case easily one of my top 3 Blazers. And please don’t say he hasn’t said anything…. Dame has approved everything his agent is saying
My shitty attempt at an analogy Dame tells the bank he wants to sell his house for $10 million. Bank says ok but you can only sell it to Elon Musk for $6 million. Think he’d be pissed
I wonder at what point might we be able to use Dame's ego against him? Probably would be a behind-the-scenes conversation, but something like "Dame, how badly does Miami really want you if they're only offering us crappy contracts and draft picks 5 years from now?"
That is a shitty analogy. For consistency, wouldn't the house tell Dame it wants to be traded, then Dame says OK, but then the house says the buyer has to be Elon Must for $6M because it loves weiner jokes and wants to see him plan out his extremely witty stunts like carrying a sink into an office like a jackass? Meanwhile, Dame is dealing with his chronic IBS in the bathroom? I think that would be a better analogy.
Yeah, I get that, but remember it's a two-way street between Dame and the Blazers. Throw in the Heat and their set of desires and you end up with the gridlock the deal is in today. I think it's pretty much human nature for fans and commentators to look for villains when you get to the place where a player wants out. I have no doubt that Dame was sincere in his statements earlier this year about wanting to make it work in Portland. I think the same is true of Cronin. The problem is that I'm also pretty sure that both sides realized that there were limitations to their commitment to those positions. Dame was committed as long as he could see the team moving towards building a contender within a year or two. Cronin was committed to Dame to the extent of trying to build around him, but not at the expense of the team's future backcourt stars. Once the Blazers got that 3rd pick, the handwriting was on the wall that there was going to be a conflict. Nobody's the villain here, in my opinion. Cronin's supposed to look out for the team's future. Dame's entitle to try to get what he wants as a future for the remainder of his career. The fact that he'd like to go to the Heat and they don't have the pieces in hand to give the Blazers fair value simply means that this is going to take awhile, and the involvement of some other teams, to work out.
Seriously, outside of Bum and Jimmy, what is the absolute best Miami can offer? Not asking about what Riley wants to offer. What is the absolute best we can get out of them? In other words, if Miami were to play the part of Minny and we as Utah. This question lets me know what Miami's version of throwing the farm looks like. I'm interested to know because I'm curious if: A. They simply don't have it, in which case, why we wasting our time on them? B. They have it but they just don't wanna give it for Dame, in which case we should emphasize that to Dame. Dame, do you really wanna go to a team that values you this little?
Best case... Jovic Jaquez Martin 2024, 2028, 2030 picks from Miami Herro traded to another team for a pick. So three players and 4 picks.
ok attempt number 2 Dame invest $450 million in Bitcoin but when he goes to cash out they tell him they are giving him $300 million in Dogecoin
