Trade Ben Simmons poll

Mr. ANALytics is too smart for his own good. Which obviously clashes with common sense. This situation lingering over the Sixers will only continue to fester, and this could become a lost season for them. Get the best offer now and move on. Embiid and his injury history are likely on a time table.

 

If this is right, it's another reason why he won't take CJ even if he's the best offer they get.

 

i think the national media still hasn't realized yet that dame isn't asking out this year.

 

Hoping to create noise and pressure with the eye of Dame being moved to a Big Market. Can you imagine how the Media would treat Dame (Mr. "It") in a Big Market? They'd go absolutely apeshit for Dame in a big market, APE SHIT. That's what they are all drooling over, the soft reporting and worshipping. Also, fuck them and double fuck Morey that piece of shit. I'm about ready to move on from Simmons, not because I don't want him, but because I want Morey to have his team absolutely implode over this and I don't want to give him a way out.

 

The Harden trade was a steal. But other than that he has been average.

He had some very bad moves too, such as trading away 26 year old Kyle Lowry for Gary Forbes.

 

Yes, I believe Morey will never trade Simmons for CJ.... the thing I'm not sure of, if Neil would ever be interested.

 

yes

 

The way Nurk looked tonight, able to hit the three and not able to really facilitate the offense... now more than ever I think he could play a BroLo type of role next to Simmons being asked to play like Giannis. I would just love to see a rotation of Dame, Norm, RoCo, Simmons, Nurk, Nance, Ant, Snell and Zeller. Trade CJ, Nas and a pick tomorrow and bring in Ben.

 

I wish I had a dollar for every Blazer fan who swore LMA wasn't leaving as a FA.

 

Dame can't leave as a free agent til what, 2025?

 

That doesn't concern me too much. If we are actually after him, I think this is how we would do it. What if, Simmons and his agent, looking at those teams, would prefer the Blazers? Let's say Portland has already made an offer of McCollum straight up for Simmons. Now they have a deal with Simmon's agent, that if some other team makes a better offer, he will tell them and they will up the ante. Simmon's agent cooperates here because this is the team they want to go to, and they also want his new team to give up the minimum of assets for him. It's 100% speculation, but it makes some sense to me, and I think it's how Olshey might play it. (Of course this assumes that Philly will let the agent know what offers they are getting or that he has other sources that will let him know....)

 

Morey won’t take cj, too proud to admit defeat. Portland would be better off taking the gamble on him imho. Cj is a pure shooter plain and simple and Portland needs elite defense and that something extra that Ben provides, elite ball handling playmaking and going to the rim

 

and how engaged was dame last night with the youngins? dude was coaching and cheering the entire second half from the bench. And read his comments after the game, where he was super optimistic. Ridiculous notion that his mindset supposedly changed after one preseason game.

is this going to be a nightly occurrence now whenever we lose? I get it from outside media, but from people here? disappointing.

 

Dame will be professional and say the right things in public. That doesn't mean he is happy with how the off-season went. There is a lot more involved here than one preseason game.

 

the premise of the post you responded to was about one preseason game.

 

And I was mostly agreeing with you - one preseason game isn't what his decision will be based on.

 

Agree, pathetic.