Trade Deadline: February 6, 2025

Nah. Should have traded Grant and Ant over the summer. We'd have lost more games to start the season.

Then we could pull guys from the line up with nagging injuries on our way to a top 5 pick.

The disgust is that that wasn't the plan, so some were expecting the blatant shit show we saw the last few years. This being the best draft of the whole time we've been tanking.

It's disappointing to be missing out on that massive infusion of talent.

 

I agree although I do think there’s about 60-70% chance one of them will become a star. Sharpe has all the tools just missing the fire which he’s shown when he gets mad so it’s there just have to get it out of him or hope he matures into it. I still think once Ant and Grant are gone he’ll see a different Sharpe. As far as Scoot I love what I’m seeing I said from the beginning, game just needs to slow down for him which it seems like has happened. His effort and desire is there so I’m feeling more and more confident that he will be a star just not sure how big a star. Adding another top level draft pick just increases our odds that we have an alpha star on roster. Plus trading Ant or Grant hopefully adds to our 1st round assets

 

You would think that after the Gary Payton situation, the Blazers wouldn’t be too inclined to help the Warriors do anything.

 

If helping the Warriors helps us though….

 

Keeping Timelord out over a sprained pinky finger, I have to think he’s gone this week.

 

Wouldn't we end up completely out of the draft if we somehow made the playoffs? Our pick owed to Chicago is only lottery protected.

 

LOL.

Odds we aren't in the lottery, even the way we're playing, is negligible.

If we do make the playoffs, it means, with the second-youngest roster in the league, we must have something and are doing really well.

If we get into the playoffs, we lose our first round pick, but we also have ways of getting into the first round.

And instead of taking an iota of energy to enjoy the progress and success, people are worried about what we MIGHT miss out on.

Like I wrote earlier, a lot of people on this board must be great at parties, overly focused on what might be wrong rather than enjoying even a bit what's going right. Winning a few games doesn't mean we aren't going to get Cooper Flagg or some other really good asset from this draft, nor does losing guarantee us Cooper Flagg or even that Flagg will be a stud player.

YOY!

 

I feel like I joined a board of hypochondriacs.

 

Well with Martin going to Dal there goes my Thybulle prediction.

 

I love the winning but last night really concerns me. Winning with Ant and Grant getting all the playing time while Scoot and Sharpe sit seems to go against developing the future. Was it a one off of sitting those guys maybe but Billups has said all along guys earn their minutes and last night that wasn’t the case.

 

I still think that trading Ant and Dalano to Orlando for Anthony Black and Cole Anthony is a good idea. If we can squeeze draft assets out of them as well great but in the long run I think someone like Anthony Black is much more valuable in Chauncey's system than Ant and Ant is what the Magic are missing right now. The trade just makes sense for both teams.

 

Said it several times, there are multiple ways of "developing" someone.

Playing someone 42 minutes isn't always the proper way to "develop" a prospect.

IMO, we have too many people right now that think or want this to be the only way.

If Shaedon needs to be punished minutes to get better or to observe a pro showing him the right way to win to make him reach his potential, that's development, too.

I think a number of people on the board just might be a little better off keeping an open mind and letting things play out. The sky hasn't fallen yet. The stock market hasn't crashed. You're robbing yourselves of your own joy by being so pessimistic and you're making this less fun for some of your fellow fans by continuing wet-blanketing anything the team does.

 

joe is like that kid that it was impossible to trade cards with cause he refused to use a Beckett

 

Smart play is to make sure you have a golden ticket to this lottery. Might be last one we are in for a long time. Do I want to lose on purpose absolutely not. I’d be happy to win as long as all our young guys are playing those crucial minutes in big games.

 

What’s the status with Thybulle? Is he injured? Are we gonna ask him to sit in sweats all year?

 

Let me be clear on this, too ... I'm not saying it's wrong for you to state your concerns. I'm definitely not the board police. I get the concerns.

However, when the concerns are consistently, overly negative and unreasonably so, then, I think, for some of our own sakes, maybe we should just try to enjoy the ride a little bit every now and then. Enjoy the win now. Complain about it later.

 

Buha reports for the Lakers. So it's obvious the Blazers are asking for the Lakers 2031 unprotected.

 

Joe cant seriously expect an unprotected FRP. Hopefully that is posturing or just keep time lord.