Game Thread GAME# 42: MAGIC @ BLAZERS - JANUARY 13, 2017 - FRIDAY, 7:00 PM (PDT), KGW

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Worst looking jumpshot on the Blazers:

Poll closed Jan 19, 2017.

  1. Aminu

    22 vote(s)
    57.9%

  2. Leonard

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    5.3%

  3. Plumlee

    8 vote(s)
    21.1%

  4. Davis

    5 vote(s)
    13.2%

  5. Turner

    1 vote(s)
    2.6%

  6. Other

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
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  1. BigGameDamian

    BigGameDamian Well-Known Member

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    Was that a hint?
     
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    gatorpops Allen Crabb hits winning shot on Nov24 vs Blazers

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    If you have this game recorded go back to the first and see as Harkless walks to the bench just before the game begins.
    Watch the rection of coaches and players come up to him and congratulate/offer condolances and shake hands.
    Looks like he is maybe going to be traded. He may very well have been told just before the game.
    Maybe why the team played so badly at first and for that mater maybe all season long.
    With the tweet that Festis is not going on trip it would make a good package for a trade along with a draft pick for.........
     
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    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    I guess we'll find out, but yeah the way Terry explained Harkless' late scratch in the postgame press conference and if that is indeed what happened at the beginning of the game (I missed most of the first half) it along with the cryptic stuff about Ezili makes it plausible that something is in the works.
     
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    BBert Weasels Ripped My Flesh

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    Deal. Coming. Soon.

    If it's Harkless this better be good.
     
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    Scalma Well-Known Member

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    I remember reading last night that Harkless was last one on the court for warm ups. Thinking back, the team looked disoriented the whole game, even when they took the lead. They all seemed out of it.
     
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    Chris Craig (Blazersland) I'm Your Huckleberry Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    So Ezeli, Harkless, and a 1st round pick to Phoenix for Chandler and a side piece?
     
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    Chris Craig (Blazersland) I'm Your Huckleberry Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    The really did. Weren't themselves.
     
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    Chris Craig (Blazersland) I'm Your Huckleberry Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    Better be good indeed, the intangibles Harkless provides us, are valuable...its gonna hurt to see him leave. I don't want a bench where Connaughton and Meyers both play to become a regualr thing.
     
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    Rudy gay & Stein for Harkless and Ezili we get a 3 scorer and young big.
     
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    Trading Harkless....hes the Blazer' s heart, that's tearing out the Blazers heart
     
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    I'm just not that attached this season...Dame is the heart of this team for me.....he's the only guy I'm super attached to as a career Blazer
     
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    If we're trading Harkless as part of a deal for Chandler - that's fucked up. I love harkless, but I'd trade him if it got us something better.... for a LONGER time than Chandler can give us. That would be incredibly stupid.

    Harkless' intangables are worth way more than Chandler. I would take 5 years ago Chandler - not now.
     
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    I'm really going to be pissed if we keep Aminu over him...
     
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    Not me....Aminu is on a contract we won't see ever again in the league....if Harkless brings us a better player, you do it
     
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    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    That's terrible.
     
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    dviss1 Emcee Referee

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    If this happens I will vomit. I will find Neil Olshey and I will vomit on him. I will drink an entire 5th of 4 roses bourbon and vomit on NO's porch.
     
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    dviss1 Emcee Referee

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    IDGAF about Chief's contract. He's not as good as Hark and that's all that matters to me.
     
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    nah dviss....he's the best defender we have had in a long time...Harkless is neither a stellar scorer or defender....he's athletic, young and needs to be told where to be on possessions. when Chief was down, check his numbers and how many games we lost....Harkless to me is much easier to replace than Chief
     
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    That would be awful.
     
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    Chief is so superior defensively that it's not even close. Harkless has the potential to be a lock down defender eventually, but he isn't right now. As for offense Harkless is better but it's not so much better that it makes up for the difference on the other side of the ball.

    For the long term, I'd still rather have Harkless though, just because I love the idea of what he could become.
     
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