I think the plan is to trade the pick

Grant signed after - although he verbally agreed to a contract right before Dame demanded a trade.

 

We first need another borderline allstar for it to make sense. That roster isn't contending for shit and you gave up two picks, young prospect for a player thats going to get worse every year on a huge contract.

We do have the assets to bring in a Sabonis level player. But we need more than that to be a contender and I don't see how we could bring in both.

 

Thing is you add Sabonis he can play some 4 too. Plus who's to say that one of the youngster won't really pop next year?

 

Sabonis isn't a PF. I heard a lot of "Ayton can play PF" last summer...and he never did. He just doesn't have the mobility. Neither does Sabonis in my view

I know the chatter is Sabonis played PF in Indiana, but I remember those teams and it was Myles Turner who almost always defended opposing PF's while Sabonis guarded the C's

 

if Dame asked out earlier, JG wouldn't get the contact he did

 

Should we just start calling Bert the GM? He doesn't get nearly enough heat for his bullshit.

He gets to operate in the shadows and let Joe catch all the criticism?

 

The question I have is whether he is really making any "GM" decisions? Does he just want these weekly meetings to feel important?
Does he want them so that there is direct communication on a weekly basis? Was Neil Olshey a secrative ass that rarely communicated with them and they had no idea what was going on? Do Chauncey and Joe hate or like the meeting? I have bosses that I hated meeting with, and some where I enjoyed it. I doubt we will know until one is fired and talks to the media.

 

That's the problem. We don't know. He doesn't seem to have an official role. He's not the President of the team. He's not the GM. He's not the owner..... but he seems to be acting like the owner. Dude needs to come out of the shadows and own any part he plays in the team.

 

Jody is the Chairman of the Board, and Bert is the Vice Chairman of the Board. That seems pretty official, even if we don't think he is worthy of it.

 

I'm pretty sure Bert in maneuvering to become the next owner. He has the network to put a deal together. We'll see.. for some reason a lot of fans don't like the guy. I don't have a problem with him at all or Jody as far as that goes. They are just not public personalities like Cuban or Ballmer.

 

Dame lobbied for Grant's extension and it was part of Joe trying to get Dame to stick around that got Grant the deal he got.

 

I don't think the goal is necessarily to get younger. We need vets on the team for stability, but they need to be willing to back up a young core. Simons is a high quality starter with some weak points, and shouldn't have to sit on the bench behind Scoot. Same with Ayton and Clingan, Grant and Camara. But we should have experienced guys behind both players. Look for them to take a couple of expensive vets willing to play from the bench.

Simons and the 10 for Dame lol lmao

 

Bert has input on all decisions. Joe brings deals to the table. Mike brings scouting reports. Bert really is final decision.

 

I've never heard anything good about Bert. Lots of bad.

Drexler says publicly that Bert gotta go.

Be gone Bert.

And Jody, if you don't want to get rid of Bert (and give us a pro to run the team) then you can be gone too.

 

I like the idea of Sabas on the roster but when your roster building he does not fit with this team -- it's easy to want this guy and another but sometimes they do not mesh as a unit in terms of defense and such.

 

He might be the one to sign off on everything, but is he saying no to anything they want? I would be surprised if he vetoed their draft picks. They have overpaid almost every Blazer, so I doubt that has been a problem unless he demanded they be overpaid.

Maybe he just wants to know what's going on, which does not seem too out of the ordinary for an ownership group. Paul made the final decisions too, and at least at first he didn't know shit about basketball either. I would be more concern if he was making stupid ass trades like the Sun's owner demanded.

 

time to swap out our vets for the next otis thorpe.

 

i'm sure it's a lot of insufferable 'remember when' storytelling.

'you know, we had this charles barkley deal on the 1 yard line, and when we started talking to his agent [leans back in chair and smiles] it turns out chuck wouldn't...' etc. etc. etc.

 

Nice outside of the box thinking. You might be onto something there. Does he have the financial assets/partners? does he must buy a majority share off Jodi and she becomes silent?
Would Kolde move on from Vulcan?

 

They already have Edey