Trade Idea Dame Trade Ideas

How many years did it take Memphis after getting Ja? They are pretty relevant, and their defense will be suffocating. OKC is pretty relevant too. Now SGA is a bit older than the rest of the team but the average age is pretty young.

 

Port, OKC, Philly all did it quickly

 

He may not have control over the music but he does have control over what goes live over his instagram feed.

 

Durant got to the playoffs in year 3 which was Harden and Ibaka's rookie year. They made the conference finals the following season winning a game. That's more than Dame has ever done in Portland.

Scoot Sharpe and other assets you mention is a great foundation if the Blazers can add two other good young starters in the next few years.

I'm not saying dump Dame for nothing, or that the team even has to trade him. But I am saying the Blazers should now build the team around the future of Scoot and Sharpe.

 

It's a roll of the dice for sure.

 

Yeah exactly. Building the team around Dame and Grant with spare parts just isn't going to work. If we had got an All NBA player to pair with them okay maybe. But that ship has sailed - time to build for the future around Scoot and Sharpe.

If Dame wants to be a CP3 in PHX or a Kidd in Dallas role player that's great. But the key to the Blazers future is no longer revolving around Dame.

 

The feed was already live my god, then that song played after...

Stop grasping at straws, it looks pathetic.

Should he have shut the live stream off because of that? or yell to the DJ to turn it off? He was laughing about it, as should everyone else.

Such silliness man, bunch of sensitive fellas

 

In a rebuild…

I’d look at Utah with a package of picks and Kessler+

 

Isn’t utah rebuiling?

 

If we can’t get Barnes, Wagner or Allen back in part of a Dame trade then I think I’m now leaning towards all expirings and massive picks.

 

Send Dame to Miami for their 1 and 2 pick next season, Herro, D. Robinson and/or Caleb Martin.

 

I am not sure OKC is not a good example for one reason, SGA is a special young talent that they got in a trade. I have been asking everyone which team that wants Dame, has such a player they are willing to part with. Still waiting

 

I don't think that Dame is a real fit on Orlando or especially Cleveland. He would fit on Toronto but they actually don't have the expirings to send back with Barnes and lets say Precious to make the deal work I mean if they also wanted to give up GTjr and we wanted him back after he shit talked us just a few years ago then I guess we could make it work but they only have three tradeable firsts.

I still think that Brooklyn with their two rookies they just drafted, expiring contracts including Claxton who would be nice to extend and up to 7 future firsts that are tradeable makes the most sense for us and what we need.

 

WTF?!? Are you a heat fan? We don't need a guard, Duncan is trash and Martin plus one FRP which would likely be 30th and a SRP which would likely be 60th for the third leading scorer in the league who also averaged over 7 assists?

There are better packages out there than that. I am sure Brooklyn would give us a helluva lot more that makes so much more sense with what we are trying to do and that's with me having tunnel vision on Brooklyn there are probably teams that I'm missing.

 

Maybe we end up with Bam after all....

 

Lighten up Francis, I am trying to come up with scenarios here. Who would you want from Miami?

 

I'm not sure which iteration of the the Blazers you're referring to. Clyde? He came into a pretty stocked team in 1983 that subsequently added Kersey and Porter in 1985 and went to the Conference Semi-finals. But that was a much different situation than building from nothin.

OKC drafted Durant in 2007, Westbrook in 2008 and Harden in 2009 and went to the Conference Semifinals in 2011 and WCF in 2012. That's a pretty tough accomplishment to match with Durant, Westbrook and Harden being All-NBA and MVP level talent.

Not sure which Philly version you're talking about.

 

I think he's referring to the shift from Porter/Drexler/Buck/Kersey to Sheed/Rider/Sabas/Anderson and then Sheed/Smith/Pippen/Damon etc.

 

I have a strong hunch that if Dame get’s traded, it will be around the deadline and not before the year starts. Maybe Herro will play himself into a position where a third team will want him as the season progresses, but he can’t be the centerpiece of a deal for Dame. I can’t imagine Dame being very upset if we send him to the Nets. We can at least get several 1sts from them.

We would actually have a better start to a rebuild than the Rockets or Thunder had. OKC had SGA to start their rebuild, HOU had no one. We have Sharpe who complements Scoot as a player, and can continue to find shooters to put around Scoot.

Schmitz’s picks so far: Sharpe, Walker, Scoot, Murray, Rupert. Murray is my least favorite out of the bunch, that’s saying a lot seeing how effective Keegan was year 1. It will be interesting to see how much this team can grow internally if Schmitz was given, say, five more 1sts in the next 3 years.

My hope is that if Dame requests a trade to try and win it all, that he’ll come back to play 1-2 years before he retires. Let’s put together a team good enough to give Dame a young team that he can still compete with in his later 30s like CP3 did will the Suns.