Game Thread 2022-23 Game #82 - BLAZERS VS WARRIORS - APRIL 9, 2023 - SUNDAY - 12:30 PM (PDT) ROOT

If we don't think we're going to be a playoff team it would be dumb to re-sign Grant unless it was a very team friendly deal.

 

Neither actually. I aspire to have your level of self confidence if you think any level of disagreement to what you said makes someone else stupid lol.

I can actually see where you’re coming from with the Grant re-signing comment.

 

It’s my anger coming out early knowing

A. Chauncey will be back

B. We’ll most likely overpay or panic trade Sharpe for one of Dame’s “needle movers”

C. Jody still owns this team and uncle Bert still helps make Decisions

I’m basically just going to listen to Won’t get fooled again and Once in a lifetime on loop until next season

 

If someone hasn’t figured out how to deal with the disappointment of being a Blazer fan they haven’t been a fan very long

 

I think it would be wise for some posters to not keep reminding everybody how truly bad these players are every time somebody else has something positive to say about one player or another.

I've had some of those kinds of negative comments follow me after I said something good about Watford. For instance, look at this:



that was Aminu's first season in Portland when he was an 82 game starter. Now obviously, He was facing better players, mostly, so that's some important context. But some other important context is that was Aminu's 6th season and he was more than 3 years older. Watford is 22 with some encouraging upside

But Watford is better, across the board, statistically. That DOES NOT mean I think Watford should be a starter. But it does mean when I say that Watford has a chance to develop into a pretty solid backup, anybody who is quick to say he never could be that is full of shit

 

I think if our front office feels confident that they've made a big enough move or moves by the time free agency hits that they believe this team will compete for HCA then it's worth signing Jerami. Whether or not their assessment of what they have will be accurate is another story.

I'm really in a wait and see mode. I said in a different thread like a week ago that I don't think that Jerami has out performed his current deal but I also don't think he has under performed. So I think a good deal for us would be him starting next season making a million more than Ant makes with raises over the five years. I don't expect Joe to make a good deal like that. He has continued the Olshey tradition of bidding against ourselves. I'm just not going to be mad when a five year 170M deal is announced because that's what I think is coming... it should be 5 years at 135M and I think he'd be hard pressed to find a four year deal from another team with that much annually. That being said, I like certain things about him, I think the deal has already been struck. So I'm trying to be cool with it.

 

LOL, OK I hear ya and worry on all thouse things

 

My feeling is the Blazers need to re-sign Grant at that figure because otherwise they lose him for nothing. They lose that monetary slot on the roster and can't fill it from outside because of the cap situation.

In a vacuum, and in a perfect world, I'm not sure I'd have traded for Grant, either. I went back and forth on this. I didn't think it was a good investment to start with, then he had a pretty good half-a-season and I changed my mind, and then he fell off a cliff the last couple of months he played and looked to me like one of these guys that just have the Blazers treading water.

However, he's at least an OK player, and re-signing him at least leaves the door open to trade that cap spot for someone that might be part of the answer, eventually.

 

I don't think they'll unload Sharpe. I think Dame recognizes what he's probably going to become and is smart enough to realize that's the player on the roster most likely to help him get the Blazers to the top.

That doesn't mean they won't overpay in a panic trade, just that I don't think there are enough clueless people in the organization to make Sharpe a part of that trade.

 

Just about the same time it came out he was dating the kardashian chick...

 

I really don’t want to sign him.

 

How about a nice sign-and-trade.

 

Coincided with around the same time he became extension eligible