Perfect! That's exactly what we're looking for to take some of the minutes that will be freed up after Simons is dealt!
I don't know who "we're" is referring to... I'm not looking to get significantly worse (talent wise) than we already are. The current hole we're already in is likely to take a lot of years and luck to get out of! Now if Scoot and Sharpe had shown to be the future of the franchise, I could possibly be talked into the idea. Unfortunately, they have not, up to this point.
And they never would with Simons and Grant here making their teammates worse. If they aren't "it" then we need to find out now. This is absolutely going to take a long time to dig out of. We need to stop kneecapping ourselves with play-in caliber (at best) talent and get on with it.
I love this signing. It’s the only way to try and keep up with the Lakers’ undersized PG Bronny in the West. We have to stay competitive against a stacked team lead by James Jr! This moves the needle!
WTF is an undersized PG??? Definitely not a dude that's 6'2". That's about what you'd expect from a point guard if that's what you consider him.
Remember Joe said that K Murray & R Rupert were lottery type win now players. How does a GM say such a thing, unless he believes it?
new Blazer, woohoo !! Should I look at stats? I'll look at stats... .... I shouldn't have looked at stats.
In one of those pressers,, Joe said "win now very soon" about a Blazer, or the team. I dunno, it's easy to get lost is Cronin's super duper GM speeches. He's burned through about 70 different players in 3 years. I think he has a photographic memory to remember all those names.
Yawn. You guys didn't know that Cronin also stocks the Remix roster? This will happen about 11 more times in the next couple of months.
Devonte might be too good to be a Blazer. When he got main rotation minutes in April, the Spurs went 4-3. Winning late season games would be a nightmare situation for Coach Billups.
I think we've totally eliminated the possibility of being a play-in caliber team for a bit, so no need to worry about kneecapping ourselves. We may be kneecapping ourselves by having so little talent that builing a real contender would take a bunch of lucky things to happen instead of just one or two. In a couple years, people will be making the same case that Scoot and Sharpe will be holding back our 2025 draft picks back.
Ant possibly will be dealt sooner than later.. if so, Dalano is more of a sg anyway. These are all 3/4 string mins anyway.
Oh I think you're misunderstanding me. I don't believe that we are close to making the play-in. I'm specifically saying that Grant and Simons are play in caliber leaders, at best. They both ignore critical parts of the game that you have to have to be a competitive playoff caliber team. They cannot help us improve beyond that. They prevent us from playing Team basketball. They could be useful parts to a team that already has competitive playoff caliber players. We should get that value out of them before that value starts dropping, as it is certain to do with Grant, and may start happening with Simons as well. The sooner Scoot and Sharpe are given the reins the sooner we will know if they are good enough or not. If they have the right mentalities or not. But make no mistake, we have at least two or three more years in the lottery and that is assuming we pick higher than we have the last couple years. We aren't close to climbing out of this. We need to add as much talent as possible to this team. And (without Cronin becoming the next Jerry West and Portland the next destination market) we'll need to trade Simons and Grant for the best draft capital possible in order to do that.
