Game Thread 2022-2023 Game #10 BLAZERS @ HEAT - NOVEMBER 7, 2022 - MONDAY - 5:30 PM (PDT) ROOT

Trust the Pass and Dame sharing his clutch genes to his teammates

 

And Brooke O. highlighting this in her postgame.
And getting criticized for it.
This place.

 

I argued that if healthy, Winslow is a good player...

http://www.sportstwo.com/threads/who-got-the-best-2-way-player.373406/#post-5314841

I don't always make good predictions, but I have loved Winslow as a player for a very long time and I am going to gloat in that, for a change.

 

Who is trying to move you off of it? As well as he is playing now i doubt we have the assets to get him anyway.

 

well there ya go. i stand corrected.

 

I guess I wouldn't bother trying to persuade anyone here to trade for Turner because I think most place a unreasonably high value on Simons and the only trades I can think that would work would involve him. I do know that it was rumored that Portland tried to get Turner in the off-season so I think that means Billups and Cronin value him.

 

How well is he actually playing? I see a 27/10 game and a 37/12 game, with a 7/5 and and 5/6 sprinkled in as well. 5 total games played. No more consistent than Nurk, 5 more ppg, 3 less rpg.

But yeah you’re right, Turner’s going bonkers right now, no way we have the assets to trade for this guy lol.

 

Thanks for indulging me in a moment of vanity...

 

The Blazers turned 2 first round picks and Gary Trent into RoCo and Powell into Winslow and Johnson.

I know some fans don't want to look at the whole sequence, but that is what happened. If Winslow stays healthy for an entire season, Cronin gets credit for mitigating the damage, but let's not get carried away.

 

Haliburton, Duarte, and Hield......are just 3 guards on Indiana. (Assuming Mathurin is an SF) They have shooters, what they don't have are bigs after trading Sabonis. I don't see any way they would want to trade Turner for another guard.

 

You're ignoring the cap space as an asset as well as the draft pick that came back and the one that we almost had....salary dump allowed us to bring back Ant and Nurk and sign Payton. that's the whole picture without mentioning the fillers like Hughes or Didi.....Joe turned dysfunctional chemistry into a team that can play Chauncey ball....I give him a lot of credit. Gary Trent by the way, wasn't real happy in Portland either. CJ wanted New Orleans......Nance had knee issues...no brainer. We now have the best 14 man roster I can remember in a long time. I like it. We have rotation players on rookie deals.

 

Don’t want to pat myself on the back but,

 

To be clear, that post wasn't about the CJ/Nance deal. Turning CJ and Nance (1 first rounder) into Hart and Grant (if he stays healthy) could actually be a really good move. I have admitted to be too harsh on Cronin for that trade.

 

The Blazers do not win that game last night if roco&norm are on this team and Justice Winslow isn't.
Period.
Cronin/Blazers won the Clipper trade too.
To argue is just grasping at straws.

 

I think just about everybody was assuming that the Pels pick would be used on Grant and the Milwaukee pick would be future leverage. I suppose, maybe, Cronin could still have leveraged the Milwaukee pick for Grant. But even if it had been the Pels pick that would have been OK. I'm not seeing anybody that was drafted at 13 or later that would have altered Blazer trajectory. I know some people were high on Duren but I never was. Tari Eason might have been nice though

 

Dude if we had Duren with this cast…that’d be crazy squad in two years.

 

Hello everyone

Long time lurker, first time poster here.

I’m from the UK and lived in the States for one year in 2012/13. Watched a ton of basketball then and crucially was mesmerised by Dame’s rookie year and been a Blazer follower ever since.

Anyway, watched a lot of turgid basketball since then, but really excited about this new roster. Feels like a great combo of genuine stars, good squad players on favourable contracts, and exciting young talent!

Last night Blazers were pretty rough I thought, lots of needless turnovers. But still a good win when not playing well. In the UK, playing poorly but getting the win is a worn out ‘winners’ cliche!

My big takeaway is that Jerami Grant is a huge gamechanger for the Blazers despite initial scepticism. Seems like a great 2-way player and the perfect 2 for Dame.

I like the way we are letting our opponents live and die by their 3 point shooting. Much more compact and while we might let the likes of Gabe Vincent go off temporarily, he was garbage after the 1Q and feels like we’re gambling that the hot hand goes cool.

Need some reliable shooting off the bench imo, and do wish Nurk would stop flipping up some of that rubbish sometimes! But overall excited enough about this roster to post on this forum, after nearly 10 years!

 

Welcome aboard, Mate!
As a fellow Englishman, I appreciate your style.