Blazers To Decide On Sitting Lillard, Surgery Soon?

i think this is just their way of saying he's consulting more specialists.

 

Dame should get fixed and rehab.....this season is a wash anyway but I for one will not hold my breath that a lottery pick will be the answer to our troubles...we need proven two way players around Dame next season and snipers....I say play and let it enfold organically....don't believe in intentionally tanking but do believe it's an opportunity to find bench players with a future ...at the rate we're going we'll more than likely get a good pick but losing intentionally is not something a team should ever do in my view.

 

The lottery pick is an asset to use to trade for players that can help. So we can get Dame another star. If we keep Dame i don't want to use it and keep a rookie.

 

I agree with this in general. If it’s a top-3 pick, you might have to consider that pretty carefully.

 

Well, I think they're going to look at their options as far as if they want to do rest, treatment and therapy, just rest and treatment and then after a while therapy, or if surgery is an option. I haven't seen a surgical option for tendinopathy but there may be a tear that wasn't reported, which could definitely be remedied with surgery. There's also the possibility that there is a specialist out there with a new procedure.

It is obvious that there is a big issue and I think the team and Dame are now taking it seriously and looking at all options because they tried a cortisone shot and like 12 days of rest and therapy; that obviously didn't work and only gave them five games of Dame being Dame. So they are evaluating and more importantly getting further consultation in order to figure out how to fix this once and for all, if that's an option or to figure out how to get Dame to heal and prevent future flareups.

 

we should not be trading away lottery picks. general rules of thumb in team building

 

Then trade Dame. If you want a young lotto pick to stay, start the rebuild.

 

we gonna try to act like Phoenix didn't just go to the finals with a 37 yr old chris paul and a 22 yr old deandre ayton? our goal needs to be to find a star the caliber of devin booker (top 2o player on a good day) for some combination of CJ/Nurk/pieces. i love how stuff is so black and white with you. there are plenty of templates for winning teams with one aging superstar and a young player.

 

They acquired CP3 after drafting Booker and Ayton. They already were becoming good players without him.

I doubt Dame wants to stick around for a rookie to progress. Furthermore, if we draft someone that sucks, we are only continuing to kill Dame's trade value the older he gets.

We aren't getting a star for CJ, Nurk and whatever pieces you are talking about.

 

Just as long as they don't draft a project in the lotto, that would be a very blazer thing to do.

 

CJ is maybe the 35th best player. Booker is maybe 25. If we can't find the right deals to acquire a player better than CJ using Nurk/Roco/future picks/rookies, then Cronin is not the guy for the job.

 

And it's hilarious how people think Dame is washed after ONE major injury. This dude is still 31. He dropped 55 in a playoff game 30 games ago.

This ain't David Robinson in 99.

 

Or you are overvaluing the value of Nurk/Roco. We have to lift the protections on our pick with Chicago if you want to include FRPs. Our rookies suck.

 

we have gone over this ad nauseum. you still don't seem to understand this

 

They aren't going to do it out of the kindness of their hearts. It is easy for you to say it will happen before it does.

 

How many times does Dame have to tell you he wants to stick around for his entire career before you stop doubting his words? It's you that's projecting this stuff...not him ..Dame's trade value to Portland is that he doesn't ever want to be traded.....that's value. It's why I love Tim Duncan and what he means to the Spurs....and why I lost all respect for Kawhi, Lebron and AD......I like loyalty and reward it with trust and fandom

 

If he wants to stick around for a rebuild that's fine. I think he wants to actually contend though.

 

Who thinks he is washed?

 

A couple of posters have said that the last few days around here...