I've also never found you in the least bit condescending. Your moderators however need to cut the shit out. @Strenuus is acting like he's the enlightened and the rest of us are some savage natives he's found. It's lame as fuck and not appropriate.
Don't worry. He was 100% certain that LMA wouldn't leave right up until the final moment. He calmed down a bit after that, but it seems he's due for another reality check
I'm calling people fuckers out of love. I'm calling people dumbasses because they're talking shit. I couldn't care less about the topic. Someone talks shit and I'm gonna talk back.
Can you do anything else but moan and complaining on this board 24/7 regardless of what the Blazers do or don't do? Many posters seem to have grips with you and you seem to think it's everyone else and not you.
It's really getting old now, running theme on this board with a wannabe Canzano 2.0. We don't know what Joe was offered for Hart. He got something out of it, and a first round pick (most likely since Knicks missing playoffs seems unlikely) in a very deep draft. We can also use that first round as a chip in a future trade.
The difference is that turncoat motherf***er told us he would re-sign. THAT's why we didn't trade him. And that's why LaMarshmallow is dead to me.
What Ainge did was the same playbook he followed in Boston. When you rebuild, set fire to everything and grab as many draft picks as you can.
I'm okay with this trade, even though I have no idea what it's going to be yet. My guess is there will be a third team involved and those two Knicks whose names I can't pronounce will be elsewhere. I do like the fact we got a bit longer. Bottom line, we have sealed Dame's fate in several years of mistakes. We overpayed for Turner, Crabbe and Leonard, which hamstrung us for years in terms of salary. Heck, Nicholson is still on our cap. We overpayed in terms of draft picks for Zach Collins. Covington and Powell further depleted our flexibility and we had to burn it all down last season. It would be great to see Dame win a championship here, but I think he's decided he'd rather be Reggie Miller than Kevin Durant. His legacy will be the greatest player in franchise history where that franchise is the biggest thing in town. I'm certain Lillard will finish his career here, and then get a chunk of the team when he retires. Our strategy cannot be like the Suns, who had better in a Championship with that team, because once Paul and Durant are done, they are in for a long decade. We couldn't have made a trade like that as we had already mortgaged our future in terms of draft picks. We have to take some chances.
Agreed about him using the same strategy he used as when he took over Boston, but I'd phrase it differently. When he rebuilds, he commits to it selling off his roster's current assets for tomorrow assets/picks and trusting his ability to evaluate/project draft talent. He's willing for his team to suck in the short term for the chance at dominance down the road. STOMP
