I loved Barnes and Drummond still do. The reason why I wanted Barnes though is to get rid of Batum, then sign Dragic as the starting point as he was available that summer. Had nothing to do with pre-draft workouts as I don't follow those.. I mean Rivers killed it in those and he's had like... 4 good games in the NBA for his career thus far. But Lillard has proved to everyone he's better than people thought. Myself included.
What he also proved that players that come from a small college can succeed as much as players from a big college. Just like hopefully CJ McCollum will as well, which is looking pretty good for this year.
I predicted Lillard and Leonard at our selections. But, was hoping somehow that Drummond would make it down to Leonards spot. Olshey needs to be very careful who he decides to give our cap space to. We need one special player to go with Lillard and maybe CJ.
We need a Jimmy Butler/Paul George/Klay Thompson type to play at the 2 next to Dame, with CJ playing 30+ min off the bench.
One of those is playing power forward, one plays small forward and the last is a rare physical shooting guard that maybe 3 teams in the league have. Of course we'd love to have an allstar at any postion but I don't see any specific need for such a large shooting guard in today's NBA.
I'd take a look at Tony Wroten, but I don't know his injury details, or what his status is in Philly. They are kind of like us in the sense that they have a lot of young talent which they are sitting and waiting to see if its a fit in the league/their system. Maybe we end up seeing some player swaps with a team like Philly. I wouldn't mind if Farmer Olshey gave them a good milking. His other cows "Charlotte" and "Brooklyn" are milked dry.
If my Seahawks vs 49ers game thread gets moved to the OT forum than so should this. This has nothing to do with the Blazers.
One is about basketball and potential of a player and trade talk. One is about a completely different sport. I think that just about explains it. You know, with logic and stuff.
Potential and fact are two completely different things. But, it's that difference that allows S2 to flourish.
Harrison Barnes is likely a RFA next summer. GsW may not be able to match another large contract. He also could be had at the trade deadline. Sent from my SM-T530NU using Tapatalk
Drummond is a beast, the next big Center in the NBA, maybe even better than Boogie. He's amazingly strong and athletic, almost a slimmer Shaq. He isn't as effective and probably never would be but he is a beast.
I agree your football thread should not have been moved to the OT forum. It should have been moved to a football forum. I have nothing against you wanting to talk about that game with guys you talk to every day about sports -- IOW our little S2 community. In fact I feel a little bad your fun was spoiled. The problem is that if every football fan on this forum posted their favorite team's or alma mater's game threads here, there would be 20 football threads a week on the RipCityTwo main page. I think you can see how that could be a problem. Now that I think about it, the OT Forum was a nice compromise. You still got to talk about the game with your best buddies from RipCityTwo. And isn't that what really matters?
I wasnt saying we could go out and get those types, someone said we need one more special player like Lillard and that's the type that would help us more than anything else.
I wasnt saying we could go out and get those types, someone said we need one more special player like Lillard and that's the type that would help us more than anything else.
I hope we don't go after him, don't like his "game;" from what I've seen of him, he doesn't look like a winner/leader (not saying he'd replace Dame but he's got to fit our culture/chemistry & I don't think he does) & don't think he'd make our team better w/ his empty/individual stats accumulation.
This thread is in the OT subsection of the Blazers Forum. It is about a possibility of going after a potential player. We make threads like this all the time. So do you.
I don't know if this post is meant to tell me what Lillard proved or give me hope for CJ... So I guess I'll respond with history. Lillard proved he can come from one sure, but he wasn't the one who "proved" it. Unless you're forgetting about players such as Bird, Robinson, Curry, Parish, or Gervin... To name a few.
