Damian Lillard meets with owner Paul Allen over team direction

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  1. ripcityboy

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    Kevin Love is so far out the door in Cleveland right now that his agent has called to ask what's a good time to pick up his locker room sneakers. If Neil can't find a way to flip into a positive, a local star on a team that needs savvy veterans, then he's hopeless.
     
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    I think Neil is done here
     
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    ayyyyye Klove wanna come back to Lake O for a bit? we heard your squad wants ed davis and uhhh you know maybe we could package that with some other players or picks...
     
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    Idk how we land Love without losing CJ. Unless the Cavs want a package of Davis, Moe, Vonleh, and a lottery protected 1st.
     
    BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94, Jan 22, 2018
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    Exactly you wont get much for the three I mentioned but for CJ you could get some actual value
     
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    Ohio States own Evan Turner
     
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    Imma laugh so hard if we have another deadline with no activity. In a sick way, I’m kinda hoping for it.
     
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    1. A Name Player, which this team desperately needs.

    2. Great ability when properly motivated but has really been used well in Cleveland

    3. Local connection which would help win some bored fans back
     
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    By the way the fucking local sports media is so trash, it takes a guy like haynes to get the scoop on this meeting? what is jason quick even for? jesus christ
     
    Cippy91, Jan 22, 2018
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    Wow, Clippy. Rang the bell that time. But yeah, they are that trash.
     
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    I agree, I like Klove over DJ for sure but I don't know who is on this organizations radar and given how Cleveland is playing, they will want a lot for K love and that's not who I would give CJ up for but then again I think CJ if traded at all ever wont happen till the off season.
     
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    The only success Jason quick ever had with a "Scoop" if you can call it that was when festus was signing here and he ran off at the airport meeting festus there, he acted like he got the scoop of the century.
     
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    I don’t see it happening. Love has been Cleveland’s second best player. We’re not going to trade CJ for him and I don’t see a first and someone like Vonleh as being enough. Now if we offered up Collins...but I don’t want to do that either.
     
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    I just think we have to shorten our reach and start thinking about what's straight ahead of us. Not is what's around the next corner. We have to build a contender on Dame's current contract.
     
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    I hate how national basketball writers are spinning this. "Dame wants out", "he is gonna be traded".

    Dame basically said in this meeting what he said to Haynes when he interviewed him. He just wants to win a title here while in his prime years. He wants to be the best blazer ever and unlike Lamarcus I believe Dame but at the same time I still believe if you don't make a serious change within the next two years, he will ask for one and I wouldn't blame him.
     
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    Yes, if you remember the thread announcing the Nurkic trade, while everyone adored Olshey, I tore into him for sleeping 20 months like Rip van Winkle did for 20 years. Everyone on the board was delighted over trading a starting center for a substitute one and getting a pick with it (so easy). Olshey trades only when forced by economics. He is even lazier than Pritchard.

    Here's one of my later posts about the do-nothing Olshey.
    http://www.sportstwo.com/posts/4101795/
     
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    He also managed to take three first round picks and turn it into only one piece that looks bright in Collins
     
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    My stance has been that Olshey plays it relatively safe. I don’t even know which trade I would label as his riskiest to date. Even trading up in the draft saved the team money. We’re bound to be stuck in the middle without taking any actual risks. I would start with CJ, but for Olshey, even trading someone like Aminu would be a start. I bet Plumlee would still be here if his contract situation was different.
     
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    If we'd had kept those draft picks and drafted Brooks and Bell, we'd have solved our wing problem for years to come and gotten someone else contributing down low.
     
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    If I could reverse time and know what I know now, you take Mitchell and Kuzma for sure, and Jordan Bell. There is your 3 picks. Trade CJ, Mitchell is your new SG.
     
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