This team is still rather small in comparison. They don't need more guard play. They need more bigs. Established bigs. Borderline all star level BIGS. If only they had a quality asset to bring such a haul. Is that Dame? I hope not, but.......
Getting your *entire* starting lineup to play differently is much different than getting one player to play differently. And I pointed out this exact reason as part of why Stotts should’ve been canned earlier. He allowed so many bad habits to form without repercussion that it was inevitably going to be a rough season.
it's not reasonable to think the best player in franchise history who: 1. has never been un-coachable, 2. repeatedly has pledged his desire to win HERE. 3. admitted LOVES the coach and wants to play for him should be traded before he even gets a chance to play this new style of ball with new teammates. No. this is not worth discussing. Especially when the dude coming up with this topic has posted this bullshit ad nauseum for over a year.
Very. Good. Points. I admit, I am straddling the fence on this one though. By the hour I change my mind. In the end, "In Dame We Trust" takes on a whole new meaning, regardless of what happens.
I'm for legit conversation about ideas. Anyone who says there can't even be a discussion about an idea.....well, that is a whole other topic.
I don't know how anyone can straddle the fence when Dame says this (timestamped): Like how you gonna be disloyal to a guy who's loyal AF.
Reasonable to ponder if Lillard, a top 75 player of all time still in his prime, is no longer a fit for the team after 4 games? Do what you want but no, that's not reasonable. "Everyone" wondered if this team would even win another game after the trade deadline, rooting to tank the rest of the season, and now it took only 4 games to ask this stupid question? Ridiculous
Well, since I just used that term, I'm assuming you're addressing me, so I will respond. Dame is all everyone says he is. A Legend. A Loyal Legend. This franchise has had Bill Walton, Clyde Drexler, and BRoy, who I will always feel was on his way, but none of those guys come close to Damian. I get it. It's like the little angel on one shoulder saying "Just wait until Damian comes back and Anfernee and Nurk and the ball movement and fast pace and great defense will just get better and better and everything will be wonderful!!!!" But, on the other shoulder, is this devilish little guy who in his raspy voice is saying "Trade him! Trade him now! You'll never have a better chance! Just look at those knockers1(animal house)..get some big men, you need big guys..Nurk can't do it all by himself....." That's how.
Not sure it is 'worse'. It's more about the 'fit' where you have the established, all-star, older, lead guard, coming back from an injury to re-take the reins from the younger, now more explosive, slightly bigger lead guard who is showing signs. Since you can't have two lead guards, the observation is more how will they fit together and would what they would get back for the much more expensive one, but a big enough haul to set up the new lead guard with pieces to really compete? That is what Blazer fans want....to be at least a contender. They have not been that in 20 years.
Yes. Dame is a leader, aside from being the greatest Portland Trailblazer of All Time in his prime. Yes, he has a place here and fits in.
It seems like such an obvious concern and yet so many people refuse to even acknowledge it. Kinda like...... LMA leaving the team. There were people who refused to even consider that he would leave the team right up until the very last minute when he said "peace, I'm out."
