Exclusive 2019 Trade Deadline Thread

The answer is no.

 

Must pay well to skip out on this chance!

 

You seemed a little snotty in your original post, I responded in kind. But that's besides the point.......AD/Dame cannot win against GS. Period. It doesn't take a genius to see that.

And if you don't believe me......then let me ask you this: do you think AD/LeBron can win against Golden State if Davis does to the Lakers? Because nobody with half a brain believes that either.

It's going to take more than two elite players to win a championship in the West.

 

I think they have a better chance over the next 5 years than AD+Dame over the next 2.

 

Well with all the if's a lot of "pundits" think this is GS's last year that at least one or two of them will be gone. If that happens next year AD / Dame could win right they'd have just as much a shot as a lot of the other teams out west.

 

I live in Salem....I'd hate the commute

besides, I'm already an asshole online...but it's a hobby. I don't want to jeopardize my amateur standing

 

The one thing that Dame/AD would have over Dame/CJ/Nurk is recruiting.

We would have a MUCH easier time trying to convince another star player to want to come to Portland if we had Dame and Davis.

 

It depends....which group has Layman?

 

It all makes sense now

 

Not exactly, from what I have read.

 

I feel like NOP is using Boston as a bargaining chip. They can't trade Davis to Boston until the summer, and I have a feeling they don't want to risk holding onto him. He's healthy, he should be playing.

 

I think it's important to see the Pelicans take on this...this happened to them, they didn't choose it..I don't blame them for doing what they were forced into doing

 

I can't answer this any more simply for you:

Dame/Davis doesn't get us a championship. I would LOVE to have Davis, but not with the risk involved by getting him. It's too big. Keep what we have as much as possible. Put CJ up with other role players and picks, but not Nurk. We can build around Dame and Nurk better than just Dame (assuming Davis walks, which is likely the case).

Hell, if nothing else, we get a better draft pick.

Personally speaking, I think it's horseshit. I think GS isn't going anywhere. I think they're going to stay at the top of the pile for a while; several more years at least. Even without Durant (assuming he goes elsewhere), they're still a dangerous team.

Everyone was flipping out earlier this season when they dropped to 3rd or 4th in the West, but not me. And surely enough.....best team in the West, and looking at another Championship run.

 

Well cousins is almost definitely gone this summer, Klay or KD or Draymond I dunno even just one of them leaving at least means their sort of beatable again. Also as much as they stomped everyone the last couple years Houston could argue they may have beat them if CP3 stays healthy (which he never does).

 

GS could be without 2 of 3 players next year between Durant, Cousins and Thompson. I think Thompson will stay. At least 1 of the remaining 2 will be gone IMO.

 

Davis has had his fair share of injuries. Lots and lots of them. If i'm NOP I don't play him again because all it would take is one severe injury and suddenly they aren't getting as good of a deal. It sucks for AD and is a very shitty thing to do but if you want to do what is best for your team then its garaunteeing a maximum return for Davis.

 

Mostly because GS/LBJ and because we'd still have assets to add to Dame/CJ/Nurk

 

Boogie will be gone because the most GS could pay him is 6.5M