I am one of Cronin's biggest haters and while I still want him fired ASAP once the new owner buys the team I do not fault him for this summer. I fault that loser for us being in the position we are right now cause he knows little to nothing and a monkey with brain damage could do a better job then him. However saying all i just said about Cronin this summer he has done prolly as much as he could do with where he put the team and the fact his hands might be kind of tied to a degree UNTIL the team is sold. I still hope he can pull off a little something more but anyone expecting even a move of tremor quality move before training camp ... prepare to be disappointed .
Oh wow, Joe Cronin is really cooking … if by “cooking” you mean microwaving a frozen dinner and still somehow burning it. Every move he makes is like watching someone play 4D chess… blindfolded… with a checkers board. At this point, I’m convinced his trade strategy is just spinning a wheel labeled “meh” and calling it a rebuild.
Matisse only played 15 games last year and he's a career 34% three point shooter. I think looking to him to provide shooting stability is a big, big gamble. Ant's one virtue was that he was our most reliable three point shooter overall and the only guy who could somewhat consistently knock them down off the dribble. Jrue is definitely a better overall player but we're still looking to replace Ant's shooting at least on some level.
I think he needs to go. Make another move and get him to a contender. Taking on that salary is asinine.
Stupid thread to start. Could have been posted in one of the other threads on this topic. But for some reason certain people think their opinion deserves its own thread. Calm the ego.
Unfornately if the OP would have put this in one of the other off season or draft threads he would have had a bunch of trades and a huge buyout and a huge swing (even if ill advised) in the draft being posted about to completely render this premise nonsensical. You can not like the fact that we traded Ant for Jrue, picked up a future unprotected first in the draft by trading back, drafted Yang and sent DA packing with a huge buyout but acting like we sat this draft and free agency transaction window out is just not true. Goodbye Ant, DA and Jabari... hello Jrue and Yang.
34% is good enough to make the 3 as dangerous as a 2. That's plenty good of a threat to either spread the floor or punish teams for not respecting the 3.
i think joe is saving roster slot for potential unbalanced trade involving grant maybe not this summer but by the deadline (again).
Yeah that would make a lot of sense. We'll see. If this team is playing really well together and Jerami is a big part of it, I could see us holding onto him. If the young guys are really carrying the majority of the weight while Jerami and Jrue play really well and stay healthy, I could definitely see both of them going at the deadline. Pretty much what last season, more than any other, taught me is that we have no idea what Joe is going to do. Sometimes it makes a ton of sense and sometimes it's absolutely senseless. Who knows we might have a new owner by the trade deadline.
League average is 36%, so objectively it is below average. Portland as a team shot 34.2% last year, which is 26th best. And they just lost their most prolific 3 point shooting threat. I have no faith in a checked out Grant to rebound back to his outlierish 2022-24 numbers either. Or rebound at all for that matter.
