Dame asks for trade (And there it is)

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This fear monger shit better not work on Cronin. Players don’t come to Portland anyways and as far as our own players we can pay them more than anyone else. Money talks bullshit walks. I’m getting to the point where I’d take a lesser deal that doesn’t send him to Miami.
 
blazerfan11 said:
Because it won't be a consideration.
Besides, this situation isn't resolved, so how can Russillo comment on it now? He can't, but he did anyway.
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That's..... what he was saying. He was saying that no star is going to think back on how the Blazers handle this situation and have it sway their opinion towards the Blazers.
 
And Dame showed conditional love to Blazer fans. That tweet asking what he did wrong was so cringe, it was something out of a high school romance. No one that cares does that. It's either someone who is insecure to the extreme or someone that gaslights.

Dame got worshipped by fans and that's looking very well like why he treated them well. He's dragging Blazer fans now to get what's good for Dame. The irony is, wherever he goes, he's not going to be that big fish. The Heat aren't even the top pro team in Miami. And, if he doesn't win, well, I don't even want to think what kind of tweets he's going to put out there.
 
twobullz said:
Yeah things he believes in, not because of loyalty to the Blazers. The person I was responding to was trying to show that all the things he did was because of his loyalty, it had nothing to do with loyalty to the Blazers. Saying he was loyal because he was active in the community is crazy since most players are active in the community. Sheed did it because it was something he believed in, not to promote himself.
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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.
 
PCmor7 said:
I was thinking about this yesterday, because I think the Sixers could be a darkhorse here. Maxey has a place in Portland if you trade Ant.

I think that'd be an upgrade. Same player in a lot of ways but I think Maxey is a bit better.

Keep the better of the two, send the other guy out to get something you need.
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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?
 
Labinot41 said:
It's getting ugly (if true)

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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.
 
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PCmor7 said:
Oh, seriously. The Blazers made trades and got guys he wanted. They made him the face of the franchise even when Aldridge was here. He got paid as much as anyone in the league and even is a national brand.

They put his freaking no-game cousin on the roster FOR TWO YEARS!

It's nonsense to say the team was disloyal to Dame Lillard because they thought making a trade imbalanced against them to bring in another of his buddies with no assurance that he wouldn't do the same thing or hint at leaving at the trade deadline or the next offseason or the offseason after that. THAT, friend, is Dame being disloyal: He's trying to sink the team if he stays and he's trying to sink the team if he goes. If you can't see that, you've totally lost any objectivity.
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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.
 
BassPlaya said:
There is no such thing as zero risk in my world. One player can come to a team and change the culture, either positively or negatively....regardless of their skill level or salary.
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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...
 
blazerkor said:
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.
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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.
 
Chris Haynes counting his money from carrying Dame's water for the last month.....

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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.
 
theprunetang said:
Is loyalty with an expiration date truly loyal?
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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.
 
LayneStaley said:
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.
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#wisdom
 
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