Joe is probably pissed because they went scorched earth and worked behind his back. They even said it in the article. Joe didn’t trust Goodwin to not work against him and tank a trade. Joe was clearly trying to do his best for the team at that point.
Strangely, what is left out is who's idea was it to request a trade to the Miami Heat? That person is off the hook in this story.
That could have been Portland. Weirdo fans wanted Lillard off the team so bad, they were willing to rent OG for a year and let him walk. (not rational thinking)
Dame thanks Jody Allen and Neil, but not Cronin or Kolde. Yes there's bad blood. Did Dame really think he could "rescind" his trade request and rejoin the Blazers? So delusional to believe you could put that genie back in the bottle.
And conveniently nobody mentioned publicly that he wanted to stay. He just decided to toss it out while he’s leaving for Milwaukee.
there were a couple of 'reports' a few weeks ago saying the only two teams Dame was interested in playing for were Miami and Portland. So, it may have been out there...at least it was hinted at
You can't think of any reasons Haynes could present this in a way that makes Dame look like a victim? None?
This is from the Athletic and Shams, Sorry if already posted. Was Dame having a change of heart and Cronin shut it down? "On a call between Lillard’s agent, Aaron Goodwin, and Blazers general manager Joe Cronin earlier this month, it was communicated that Lillard would be content rejoining Portland for training camp. Lillard let the Blazers know he was willing to be fully present for the start of the 2023-24 season, if only to give the organization more time to work toward a potential trade with the Heat, sources briefed on those conversations say. But according to league sources, Cronin expressed skepticism about that approach. The Blazers were determined to get a deal done before the start of camp.
Just read the Haynes piece. Man, I hate it. I don't care how you feel about Dame. It sucks that he would have rather stayed than go anywhere but Miami. He made his bed, momentary lapse of reason maybe. Whatever. Joe has a job to do and Dame went Scorched earth. They pulled some shit with Riley and Miami trying to handcuff us. I don't blame Joe, i applaud him. I just hate it that Dame went out this way and probably really wanted to stay in the end and was probably regretful. It's a damn shame it ended this way. I now hope like hell he retires in a Blazer jersey. I'll always love ya Dame.
I'm looking at this timetable. They met roughly a month ago. When did it come out that Goodwin told other teams not to try to trade for Lillard? It was quite a bit before earlier, wasn't it? Dame demands a trade. Demands to be traded to only one team. Dame's representation tells everyone else not to even try to work a deal. Presumably, that would also mean they were discouraging other teams from even trying to talk Dame into giving them a look. Pat Riley takes this as the green light to make an obscenely light offer (Herro, 2 1RPs). Dame's PR department (Haynes, Fentress, etc). are all out there bashing Cronin and the Blazers for not doing that, pushing the narrative that Dame gave everything to the Blazers and basically the team did nothing for him so they owed him this even if was detrimental to the organization, fanbase and his current Blazer teammates. All of that went down before late August. All of it. I keep talking about the smell test. Again, this doesn't pass it. Conveniently, two months after demanding a trade (and watching all the posturing backfire on his "loyalty/don't run from the grind" image), he tells the Blazers if a trade can't be worked out, he wants to come back to the Blazers. WTH???? Two months of dragging the Blazers and then he tells them privately he'd be open to returning while still letting all the negative press about the Blazers float unchallenged by he or his team. That seems, to me, extremely unlikely. I agree with Nate. This is a parting shot, just a petty, parting shot. And, to answer my previous question about why would Haynes lie. Haynes wasn't a reporter in this. He and Fentress let themselves become advocates. It's quite plausible that either or both of them saw their coverage of this as a path to a bigger market and a higher-paying job. They had stake in the game. And, if it's easy to believe Cronin was spiteful about how Dame's camp handled this, then it's certainly reasonable to believe Haynes and Fentress are spiteful that Dame didn't get to Miami. Fentress I know had a couple of social-media meltdowns during this that weren't really professional. That doesn't even take into consideration that Haynes is just getting info from Dame's people again. Or that Haynes' bridges with Blazer front-office sources were effectively burned by how he covered this story ... if you worked in Cronin's office, would you give Haynes any inside or off-the-record info? I can't see why they would.
A good reporter would have confirmed all of this before reporting it. He’s getting it from one source.
I LOVE Dame. But imagine asking your wife for a divorce to be with another woman only to realize that the other woman didn’t really want you as bad as you thought and then asking to rescind the divorce…
Again the family/marriage analogy is so hyperbolic. This is more like telling your employer you want a letter of recommendation for a job at a competitor and then asking to keep your old job when you don't get the one with the competition. Of course if you act like a dick during that process it's totally understandable if your old boss tells you to kick rocks but it's nothing like your analogy.
actions have consequences. As much as I loved Dame as a Blazer, *he* asked to be traded and he went nuclear on the team and tried to screw them over with who he went to undermining the teams chances of getting a decent return.
Unless he's repping Oshkosh, he no longer wears the letter "O", he wears "0" (and yes I know it also means Oakland and Ogden).
Godwin DID work behind his back. He knew the list expanded, but he didn't want those teams to give up too much, so he left the Blazers in the dark. ' You can do right by your client and not be a bag of dicks.
