The Sharpe stuff is out of pocket and the "pipe dream" of swaps was idiotic but the rest of it is pretty spot on.
Surprises me that some of you see this drivel as an accurate description of what’s going on with the Blazers. The first paragraph about Ayton and the ice storm is uninformed BS. The Blazers did send staffers to Ayton’s neighborhood and they couldn’t get to him safely either. Any of you who live in hilly areas that aren’t plowed ought to know better. The crap about “not winning trades” shows a total disregard or lack of understanding about what the Blazers have been trying to accomplish with the moves they’ve made. Acquiring draft picks and players who are tradeable for them has been Cronin’s aim at this stage of the rebuild. This guy is a total dummy.
I'm a little confused myself about what the Blazers are trying to "accomplish" last night the veteran combo of Ant-Grant-Brogdon averaged 35 minutes between the three. They were the only 3 players that played 30 minutes or more. They took 58 of Portland's 86 shots (67%). That secured a meaningless win that might actually hurt their lottery chances I know the argument could be the Blazers were trying to enhance the value of those three players, especially Grant & Brogdon, but I don't buy that for a second. All 30 teams know who those 3 players are and what they can and can not do. At this point, I have no desire to watch a game where those 3 players dominate the offense and take more than 2/3rds of the shots
I think Cronin is just smarter than the person that wrote this thread. I saw on the Internet that there is this eighth grade class in Ohio that are elite players. Whether or not they continue to develop as hard to determine, but those eighth grade players will be eligible when the 2028, 2029, 2030 draft happens. I grew up watching the Lakers and saw two older players that they traded for future draft choices, turned out to be the first picks in their respective years, 1980 and 1982, Magic Johnson and James Worthy. They won five rings in the 1980s. Obtaining potential lottery picks is the way to build your team not trading for somebody else’s max player that they’re trying to get rid of. I’m glad they traded Dame and got something for him. As much as I hate Boston, Danny traded two old players to New Jersey, and drafted Tatum and Brown. Also, those of you who want to fire Chauncey Billups are idiots. I think he’s doing a great job with this young group. Some people like the Phoenix method, trade every draft pick for the next six years. Let’s see how that works out for them in a few years. I like the Oklahoma City method, they have so much ammunition now to load up in the draft. Let’s see five years from now who’s better off?
I remember when Jerry West traded in old Vladi Divac for some high school kid drafted like number 13 named Kobe Bryant (12 teams past and Kobe, including New Jersey twice.). Then I remember Jerry West went to the clippers, they had the 12th and 13th pick in the first round. He swapped the 12th pick +2 second round picks to move up one spot to number 11 and drafted SGA. It wasn’t his fault that the clippers stupidly traded him to Oklahoma. When Jerry West was advising the Golden State Warriors, they wanted to trade a first year Klay Thompson for somebody else’s established star and he threatend to quit if they did that trade. Good thing they didn’t, he was and important part of their dynasty. Great GM’s are always looking way into the future. Crappy GM’s are always trying to catch up now. I think the trailblazers are very blessed to have Cronin and Schmitz running the draft
So you want them to break Detroit's new record? That will be so much fun. A win once in a while is good for morale. Certainly, you can agree to that Who did you want to have shoot more last night? Walker played 20 minutes. 1-4 in 20 minutes (Probably not) Reath played 25 minutes and was 7-9. ( Perfect IMO) Camara 3-4 in 20 minutes: ( Perfect IMO) Scoot 1-6 in 23 minutes. (Did not have a good night) Thybulle 1-4 (left the game) Ibagi 1-1 in 13 minutes (Perfect) I guess you could make an argument for Rupert and Murray, but they will get their minutes in March/April
Seems to me that it’s Cronin’s job to acquire talent that fits the rebuild timeline. It’s Chauncey’s job to develop the talent in the midst of trying to win just enough to keep some semblance of interest in the games by folks who buy tickets. Every one of the available young guys who are keepers got playing time. Not sure I could have watched many more minutes by Scoot. He was in danger of being the high assist guy for the Nets.
