The only "mold" I want the Blazers to follow is to obtain and develop the best players they can, who work together with good chemistry as a cohesive unit, at every position possible. Fuck "molds". Players win championships, not the style of the week.
I didn't mention molds to suggest that we want to have conventional lineups. Rather, it had to do with matchups vs competition that will be present in our window. Consider GS is going to dominate for the next 5 years. Spurs will prolly still be there. OKC a will as well. NO and Minny will once their teams figure out their shit. We might want to build the roster to matchup against guys like Draymond, Steph, Kawhi, KD, AD, KAT, Harden etc. Outside of Dame and CJ, Neil has a blank slate and a ton of chalk.
Oh, I know. I was just responding to the word, and the propensity for some people to think the team should chase whatever roster composition and style is successful at the moment, or that a team had success with in the past. I'd rather make a new mold. I think your question/point is a good one: How do we match up. Still, it's so hard to acquire players to fit a certain blueprint, and have those players to also be the best at their position. I just want the best players we can get who have good chemistry, and go from there (which might include a subsequent trade if we are facing a matchup nightmare). I'm more in the "take the other team out of what they want to do and make them match up with us" mind set. I think we have a year or two to worry about taking that next step though.
When I lived in Portland, we had plenty of "molds" all over.... on the roof, in the shower, on the sidewalk. I'm not a big fan of molds. I'm glad to now live in a dryer climate where we don't have so many molds.
Me too. I agree with your whole post, but wanted to zero in on this. I really hope we don't try to build a team based off who we think our opponent is or will be. Chasing the current fad means you're always trying to play catch-up. And by the time you've caught up the league has morphed into something new. By the time we're ready to compete for a championship I doubt that the GSW will be what's standing in our way - at least not this iteration of GSW. New players come into the league and the dominant players determine what wins (if they don't get drafted by a team with crap management). For as much as everybody thinks the C is a dead or dying position, all it takes is one dominant C to send everyone scrambling for Cs again. Just build a fundamentally sound, well-rounded roster and tweak it as necessary once we're in position to compete. And get the most dominant players you can get - that's why a high draft pick is worth more to us than the POs this season...much higher likelihood of obtaining a dominant player at the top of the draft than through Free Agency.
I guess it's a question of how close you think we are to competing. I think if we really wanted to maximize all our our current assets, we can get back to the top half of the conference in a year or two with some luck. The pieces are there to make big moves. Also, I'm still startled to see that we're almost at the midway mark of this audition season. CJ, Plums and Crabbe have shown to be keepers among the youngins. Meyers and Noah have been the disappointments.
