How about showing up to summer league every year? How about everything every teammate has said about him especially the ones that were young? How about the way he played and took care of himself? The fact that you can't tell the difference between how Dame repped this team and how a guy like LaMarcus did when he was the face of the franchise is dumbfounding. The fact that I assume you've seen the same media that I have that have been begging Dame to leave since the season after LaMarcus did and you don't get how he was loyal to this organization is ridiculous. If you saw that presser before the Olympics and don't understand what loyalty means to Dame and how he showed a ton of it and the organization didn't show any, then I don't know what to tell you.
Maxey is better, but why is it that every player who pops up as an option for the Blazers is either under 6'3 or can't defend a chair...or both?
Ha what a bunch of bullshit. This coming from Haynes and Heat Nation. They are trying like hell to get this deal done without the assets needed to do so. Chris Haynes helping their cause is pathetic. What players care about is whether or not the Blazers take care of them where it counts.......their paycheck. And with the insane contracts we give out.....I think we will be ok.
Dame was very loyal, and paid handsomely for it. I do not see how being loyal for 500 mil means we gotta trade you for pennies to the one team you want. Makes no sense at all.
In terms of trying to win, do you like the way the team has been managed over the last eight seasons? Do you think that Olshey and Cronin did everything they could during that time to try and win it all? I'm asking you as a fan outside the context of this Dame conversation.
I'm sorry, I refuse to believe that this is a serious post. If he changes the culture (again, he's never been known as that kind of guy) THEN YOU CUT HIM. His worst case scenario is doing absolutely nothing for his contract. This is that. If we're getting paid for that, great. Again, anything above that is gravy. That's zero risk -- or, if you really want to get pedantic about it -- next-to-zero risk. The only REAL risk is whether or not his salary might affect us in next year's free agency, which, again, has never really been a problem for this franchise...
Cronin did exactly what he should have done. It helps him and us that the Blazers were spectacularly lucky in the draft, but that is how the NBA works.
I think Cronin sucks but I also think he inherited a mess and to his credit new the only way to build a true contender was from scratch, Scoot was better than anything we could get for the pick and honestly none of the players that were mentioned were gonna catapult us to contender status. I’m glad he’s finally ripping the bandaid off. If you think the return we get for Dame is bad now just imagine in his age 34/35 seasons. Trading him off a second team all nba season is better than trading him a year later with an even bigger salary. We were not gonna win a championship in the next 2 seasons.
We discussed it a little earlier in this thread. Loyalty is a binary value. You are either 0 or 1. Dame's loyalty after asking out matches his jersey number. Not saying he is not a great player, good dude, all that stuff. But loyalty is like virginity. You are one, until you are not.
