Dame all but demanding vet roster

There is literally a quote from Dame that said he wants to keep Sharpe but beyond Shaedon he would prefer to go for vets instead of young guys.

 

Trae Young’s name has been thrown around as needing a possible new home and only 24. I’m not suggesting, Just throwing that out there.

 

Oh god no!

 

The Lakers mortgaged their future when they traded Brandon Ingram for AD to make LeBron happy.

 

Small ball dominant PGs have led us so far already

 

They did win a fake title. But as good as Dame is, he’s not Lebron

 

We don't have a Lebron on our team so the comparison doesn't really fit.

 

And they won a title.

 

I think Dame's hill to die on is that he doesn't want us to keep the first rounder this year, not that we need to trade Sharpe. Sure, other teams could demand Sharpe, but that doesn't mean Ant and our first this year don't have value. I have to think Ant/Nurk/#5 or #6 pick is a pretty compelling package to some team. Miami comes to mind for Bam, that's probably an overpay though.

 

Fake title that none of their fans gave a shit about.

 

If we won the title that year, would you say the same? Would you not have been at the parade going down Broadway because it was a bubble title?

 

I'll be sorry to see Dame go, but if this really is his attitude, I won't mind.

It's been fun watching him play and he's been a great representative for the Blazers, but I'm going to be a Blazers fan after he's gone, where he can go and do whatever for Dame. The goal is to win a championship, not to do it Dame's way. If he's making that an either-or, my allegiance is to the franchise over the player.

 

Yep and he might be right. However, I bet he thought the same thing at this time last year before we got SS, and passing on him would have been a mistake. But as most here agree, if you get #1 you keep it, but are there any other non-guard players who could help in the next 2 years that we could not otherwise duplicate with our MLE? There doesn't seem to be.

 

It’s him in the video, so it’s really his attitude

 

If we land a star, either we got a top 3 pick and traded it or Shaedon is gone. Possibly both.

juice ain’t worth the squeeze.

 

I think you're totally right about almost all of this. I think that if we landed number one we would have to draft Wemby and very quickly Dame would see that he is even more of the "different" type of 19 year old that Dame said Shae is. Very ready to make an impact. That being said there would still be up to four firsts that we could make available for a trade that would net us a win now player along with Ant and Nurk being sent out. I also don't think Ant/Nurk and a top 7 pick for Bam would be an overpay.

I think it became very apparent last season that Ant and Nurk are not good fits. For Ant he's a bad fit next to Dame and for Nurk he's a bad fit if Chauncey continues to demand that his 5 plays away from the hoop.

We are very unlikely to jump up to the first pick, so I think the move is to get the best one or two high impact players we can with all five FRPs that we can make available and the salaries of Ant, Nurk and filler.

To just address the interview, this isn't new. I think Dame and Joe have an agreement that Joe either gets something done that gets this team close to contending or Joe moves Dame. I don't think Dame will ever ask out because his brand is loyalty and he will put the team in a position where he can say that the team chose to move him to go young or in a position where we leverage our current and future picks to make this roster immediately relevant.

 

Ya but you are also on record as thinking that Dame is a superior player to Curry and has been. So of course you don't see the danger of trading away all our future picks.

 

And it should be his attitude. Being loyal to a franchise the way Dame has been to date is extremely rare in today’s NBA. There’d be nothing wrong if the Blazers were to decide that they don’t have a real shot at building a contender around Dame in his remaining window, and decide to trade him for assets needed for the rebuild. The converse is true too. If the Blazers aren’t interested in making a run for a title in the next couple of seasons, there’s nothing wrong in him asking for a trade to a team that is.

 

It isn't that they're not interested, it's that they're not capable.