Canzano: Portland Trail Blazers strike out, summer free-agent ritual stings

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    It took minutes to develop. It might takes years to come to grips with. The Portland Trail Blazers summer plans disintegrated on Friday as the announcement came that free-agent Chandler Parsons chose Memphis over the Trail Blazers.

    Miami we understand. Dallas, Chicago, New York, too. We'd have easily understood San Antonio -- where players begin the season with a chance to win a title. But Memphis? Where they shoot an airball every summer?

    This one stings.

    https://www.oregonlive.com/sports/o...f/2016/07/canzano_trail_blazers_strike_o.html
     
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    Hibbert didn't snub Portland, the Pacers matched.
     
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    Sly is a canzano shill confirmed
     
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    He is not wrong. I appreciate canzano calling on this one.


    Kind of. Hibbert used us as leverage and never actually signed a deal with us. He still could have signed the offer sheet if he really wanted to show he wanted to come here.
     
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    Signing Even Turner was a panic move! Clanzano's right.
     
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    If it was worth the time, the rebuttal article is easy.

    Johnny probably had three articles teed up in order to keep feeding the hate:
    1) "I can't believe they signed (past-his-prime player X) to that money instead of investing in people in the team's age range!" (Horford, Gasol, Jefferson) -- not understanding that everyone in the team's age range is an RFA and likely matched (Drummond, Barnes) or is named Hassan Whiteside.
    2) "I can't believe, with this team's history, they signed (player Y) with his injury history!" (Howard, Parsons, etc)
    3) "I can't believe that we struck out on #1 or #2, so we're stuck with Role Player Z on a way-too-large contract!" (Turner, Biyombo, Mahinmi, Dellavedova)

    The fourth article (we signed LeBron or Durant) would've caused every Blazers' fan head to explode, so he didn't even have to waste time.
     
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    The man with the golden gut pushed the goddamn panic button yesterday. How do you like that?
     
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    a) As a planner for things with a lot more on the line than who comes to play basketball, I have a hard time believing that a guy with a projected 100M payroll and a mandate from his boss to win decided "I'm going to have one plan, and if it doesn't work I'll flop and twitch afterward."
    b) I have a problem with the guy who was able to go through last year's fiasco and come out with a Western Conference Semi-Finalist all of a sudden not having contingencies for if his #1 priority fell through.
    c) It's not quite IKPIT, but just because you and Canzano can't understand the logic of it doesn't mean I'm trashing the guy.

    [​IMG]
     
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    IKPIT?

    I Know Pigs Is Tasty?
    In Kona Parrots Inhabit Trees?

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    What I remember was when Aldridge walked, I blamed the Blazers. Perhaps I was right or wrong, I don't know.
    But I also remember this board climbing my case about how we are much better off, with Aldridge gone and Batum too! Look at all the cap room we have!!!

    Now we have used it. WTF?
     
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    I agree with Cazano on this one
     
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    Dodged a bullet there.

    Parsons never has and never will play a full season.
     
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    Hibbert flew all the way to Portland to sign the offer sheet and when the Pacers indicated they'd match Olshey told Hilbert he didn't have to sign the offer sheet.
     
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    I can see Canzano laughing histerically with glee right now like an evil clown
     
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    It's difficult for people who chose Portland as a place live to wrap their heads around it, isn't it? You love Portland. I love Portland. We live here. Now Turner lives here, too. Why wouldn't everyone else want to be here?
     
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    Canzano is right.

    Neil isn't aggressive and makes panic moves:

    Turner's $70m
    Barton + #19 pick for a rental player in Afflalo

    Fishing for supremely rare steals in the mid-40s will not work either.
     
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    Please Sir. Stop beating that poor old horse. It had a family!
     
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    It's funny...an interesting exercise would be to see how many 2nd-rounders right now are getting PAID over the last couple of years...and all it takes is a million or so of SPAMming (or less) to get their rights...

    Whiteside
    Marc Gasol
    Parsons
    (Honorable Mention: Jimmy Butler #30)
    Millsap
    Dragic
    Deandre Jordan
    Omer Asik
    Draymond
    Budinger
    Pekovic
    Barton
    Danny Green
    Patty Mills
    Carl Landry
    Josh McRoberts
    Mbah a Moute
    Leuer
    Isaiah Thomas
    Jeremy Lin (undrafted)
    Ish Smith (undrafted)
    Mozgov (undrafted)
    ....

    a quick look at old drafts would probably dig up more, but that gets the point across that maybe, just maybe, digging for gold in the 2nd round could be worth it?
     
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    It was a completely brutal trade though
     
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