Yup, Brian and I were out picking on the little guy I don't remember it that way, but it must be my revisionist history kicking in again. And if you presented me with an option where I could flip a coin for either $100, $0, or not flip and get $50, I would take the $50 every fucking time. I'm not a gambler.
It's the way I remember it. Perhaps you don't understand the meaning of "guarantee". You didn't say LMA might leave if the team didn't get a lot better, or if other trades weren't made. You guaranteed LMA would not re-sign with Portland. Period. NOW you're trying to claim you had attached qualifiers and "if" statements to the scenario, which you never did. I'm pretty sure I remember you even saying PapaG and I looked childish for saying that trading LMA would be a fear-driven move. That wasn't the option or the analogy presented. You wanted to take $30 instead of flipping.
No shit, most everyone does that. Nice job totally changing my analogy. I guess when you're wrong you change previous statements to save face.
You two are both moderators, and yes, anyone who challenged your obviously stupid strategy of a panic trade were, indeed, belittled.
No. I never said we should take anything for LA. I thought Neil should wait for the right deal. The rumored deal with Golden State wouldn't have been so bad. One of his options was to "wait for $50" and that would have been my choice. You realize that your posting like a jackass right now, right? You won't let it alone even though I said I was wrong. You were posting like a child before, and you're still posting like a child. Your posts do not reflect those of a grown man. <------ insulting the post and not the poster
Of course you wouldn't remember that you, and BB30, were viciously attacking us for our opinions on the matter, but that's cool bro.
The Tristan Thompson/#1 pick trades were even more ridiculous, though. Is there a rookie this year who is even close to being a productive NBA player? Maybe Michael Carter Williams, but he plays the same position as Lillard, and a lot of his production is based on being on a bad team, and given free reign by his coach (the Damon Stoudamire Principle). A lot of us said it was a weak draft, and it was a weak draft.
Link to where I personally attacked you on your unwillingness to listen to reason? Attacking a stupid and panic-driven strategy and attacking you are two separate things, Nate.
FAIL. That wasn't an option.. Are your feelings getting hurt? Posters will continue to bring it up when you and or Brian claim the strategy was only wrong because of these "unlikely" events. Some of us believed the strategy was flawed before that. I know you have 36,000 posts, so maybe this is difficult to you, but I'll give you some advice. Its often told to young children complaining about a sibling. IT TAKE TWO TO ARGUE. If you shut up the conversation will end.
No, that wasn't one of his options. All of this is flying right over your head. It should be embarrassing to you, but I don't think you even realize it. False. You keep saying you were wrong BECAUSE you didn't know we would play this well. The fact is that your strategy was wrong, and still is wrong, regardless of how well we play this season or next. You clearly don't comprehend that and keep trying to add justifications and qualifiers to your original guarantee. Just like PapaG is saying, you start attacking any poster that calls out your terrible strategy and asinine guarantees. It's what you did 6 months ago. It's what you're doing now. It's what a 12-year-old would do. You shouldn't be a moderator. You can't handle the responsibility, as menial as they are, because you don't have the temperament to do so.
In the case of Melo, the summer before his last year under contract he refused to sign an extension with Denver and his comments made it abundantly clear that he was not interested in resigning with them. So they traded him his last year before the deadline. That's a no-brainer, and completely different than trading Lamarcus with still essentially 3 years (at the time, which was the end of 2012) on his contract when he hasn't said unequivocally that he doesn't want to be here. In the case of Deron, he was traded shortly after the whole forcing Jerry Sloan out of town drama. There were rumblings he wanted out, so to avoid a Melo-like circus they quickly traded him with still a year and a half on his contract and have sucked thusly until present time. This again seems completely different than trading Lamarcus with still essentially 3 full season on his contract when he hasn't said unequivocally that he doesn't want to be here. This next off-season and next season are really when these types of conversations should take place with Lamarcus, as opposed to over a year ago. To your point, if it comes out that he doesn't want to sign an extension and wants to see what's out there, then history tells us (Lebron) the writing is on the wall and we better trade him or risk getting nothing. But I'm liking the comments I'm hearing from him lately so hopefully that won't happen.
LMA saying he wants to stay http://www.csnnw.com/blazers/winning-culture-shrewd-gm-convinces-aldridge-portland-place-him
