someone on a different forum just told me, "Lillard has had some of the best rosters in the West to play with." it's mind blowing how dumb people can sound. can we at least make ragging on Dame have intelligible wording to back it up? Short, ballhog, sucks at D, gets paid too much, this all can be debated. Lying about the bad rosters Portland put around Dame is a disqualifying low blow.
Yes, there were rumors that he asked out that summer. But of course he didn't say anything publicly because... well... you're not supposed to. Dame and his agent just don't give a fuck.
Aldridge was not eligible for a max extension. Virtually none of the All-stars signed extensions back then. After Aldridge left the NBA changed the rules, now all the stars sign extensions.
Your posts on this are full of shit. Find one post here where Blazers fans wanted to trade Aldridge in the summer of 2014 after Dame won the first Blazers playoff series in 14 years on the 0.9 shot. Aldridge had two monster games in the series setting it all up. Aldridge said he wanted to retire a Blazer that summer and all Blazer fans were good running that team back. An extension couldn't be completed due to cap rules. What some fans thought 12 months prior when the Blazers finished the year losing 13 straight or 12 months later when Aldridge walked for nothing after Wes Achilles snapped were totally different periods of time. I'm all for criticizing the shit moves Neil did but running the Blazers team back with Aldridge in 2014 was absolutely the right move. That was the best roster Portland had since 2000 or since. Sucks it didn't work out. Sucks Aldridge plans changed on a whim. Sucks we lost Aldridge for zero assets. But this revisionist misleading "I told you so" statements are totally untrue back then as well as now.
It's not revisionist misleading at all. There were many, a few? Who had heard he wanted out and wanted us to be proactive. Nate was definitely one who heard something or I dunno. But it's not revisionism. I wasn't one. But there were plenty here. And... they were right.
That's irrelevant to my read at the time. I would have offered him the highest dollar extension possible and if he didn't sign it I'd have traded him. I probably would have traded him anyway as soon as possible after he signed it if I could get a comparable player in return. That's not hindsight, that's what I wanted to do at the time.
I’m talking about the year before that. And if you’re seriously gonna make me go back and dig up my posts just to rub it in your face, I will gladly do it. Just let me know.
Ugh.. that last one was sadly prophetic. Also here's a thread that got locked, so I can't quote it. http://www.sportstwo.com/threads/aldridge-did-request-a-trade.239915/#post-3045924
"it worked out for us, and I give most of the credit to Neil" Nate... buddy... you're backing yourself into a corner.
Orlando does not have nice weather. Neither does any inland city in Florida, honestly. The sea breeze is the only thing that makes Florida livable. Orlando is a sprawling, suburban, sweaty nightmare. I live in Tallahassee, so you might just have to trust me.
I travel to Florida several times a year for work. Not a fan of Orlando either. But comparably speaking weatherwise, it is pretty nice during the basketball season. Certainly nicer than 75% of the other NBA cities. There is a reason why so many professional golfers live there.
Um, I posted that we should trade Aldridge when he had one year left. I think it was on Blazers Edge though. I wanted to trade Aldridge for, no joke, the then injured Joel Embiid. So I just want to say, that's not accurate if that was indeed the summer when he had 1 year left and hadn't resigned. I said we should trade him when he was on his last year whatever summer that was, which might not have been that summer.
I didn't know that. I assumed the home of Disney World would have good weather similar to Miami and therefore tons of hot women and nightlife. If I'm wrong, well then OK. I do like sending Dame to a bad team for a huge haul now.
Weather, and whether it is perceived as good or bad, is always subjective. Orlando basically has all of the heat of Miami, but without the ocean climate to cool you down. It is currently 97 degrees there with 50% humidity. I consider that absolutely horrific, with no real breeze to cool you off, but there are some people who enjoy that, I suppose.
