good if Dame asks for a trade the Blazers should just gut the team and start from scratch. Keep Simons and Little, trade anybody over 24 for as many picks as they can yield...then hope to land somebody as good as Dame in the future for one of the high lottery picks they'd have for sucking
Nance has been a bit disappointing to me especially on the offensive side, he's very reluctant to shoot, drive or back in to the hoop.
If the barrier to starting again is "we're not likely to get anyone as good as Dame" then you'll never start again. Dame is in the All-Time Blazer starting lineup for the foreseeable future. But his best years are already behind him and his salary is about to balloon, and if you don't trade him now, you set the rebuild back about 3 or 4 years. Truth be told, the market for Dame has probably shrunk considerably since the start of the season. Small guards (other than S. Curry) are suffering with the new rules, and him most of anyone, and now we know he has a nagging injury. I wonder if we can even get Simmons for him at this point, especially given how well Maxey's played. Morey might want a forward now.
not sure where I said it was a barrier but the goal of any rebuild is to be able to land a couple of players that will be at Dame's level, or at least at the level he was last season.
That's like saying the goal of every draft is to achieve that. Actually, the goal of every rebuild is to land a couple of players that are MJ and LeBron James. But nobody's going to trade you those players. There is literally no player in the league who can replace Dame. There are better players, but none has the history and character. He's irreplaceable. But that doesn't mean he shouldn't be traded.
Short memories. There was a time people would have said Brandon Roy was irreplaceable. We lost him without getting anything in return, and still replaced him with this kid named Dame. It is amazing the good things that happen when a front office actually does its frickin' job! Obviously, if our next GM is the type of smooth-bore numbskull who thinks Webster is better than Chris Paul - we're boned.
I did. It needed a simple "no" as an option. Don't like it? Go make another poll that everyone else loves.
So, you people who don't want to trade Dame: you know we're never going to contend with him at this point, right? You're just happy to keep him on a mediocre team until he breaks down?
Why is it that it's a foregone conclusion that we're never going to contend with Dame at this point. We have tradable assets and there is a potential superstar player on the block right now (Simmons) whose team reportedly offered to take CJ along with all of our future draft assets for him. The point is that Dame and Norm are a really solid starting back court and there are going to be players that we can acquire and there is the possibility of young players developing into what we need to win a championship. There were obvious times around this point in Dirks career where people were saying the same shit.
more often than not if the construction isnt pleasing, its usually the constructors fault. Not the materials used during construction.
