Keeping our pick? This might be a Lottery year

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Make the pick for the Future.....or trade it for 'now'?

  1. One last attempt

  2. Build for the future....one player won't make enough of a difference

  3. Get bad enough to where the pick makes an immediate impact

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  1. handiman

    handiman Well-Known Member

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    Why not just ask your friend, who is apparently never wrong, but his picks are only known after the fact?
     
    handiman, Dec 9, 2021
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    I wonder what part of Dame's history of picking the team up the second half of the season and willing the Blazers into the playoffs some of you have missed that you're thinking the Blazers' pick is going to be in the lottery?
     
    e_blazer, Dec 9, 2021
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    okay. Not bad. But i still tbink a 6’10 pf is more of a need. Especially once we trade cj for simmons. ;)

    Dame/smithjr( really liking him as a backup)
    Powell/ant
    Simmons/nas
    Paulo/nance jr
    Nurk/ zeller

    trade our current pick and whatever other picks it takes to move up to number 2-3 and snag paulo


    My dream scenario.
    Cj/roco future first for Simmons

    this years pick plus whatever else it takes( two more future firsts?) to move up to number 2-3 in the draft and land Paulo.
    Is this even slightly realistic?

    or am i just completely out of my mind?

    i think that lineup would be a contender providing Paulo works out.
     
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    Banchero is either going to be the #1 or #2 pick in the draft. So there's very close to a zero chance that Portland gets him.
     
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    tank the shit out of the season. Get a top five and trade up to number two?

    pull a gsw from last year
    Or san antonio when they got duncan?
     
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    Minstrel Top Of The Pops Global Moderator

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    If it happens, it happens. But the players aren't going to purposely play worse or agree to sit out with phantom injuries and Billups isn't going to purposely tank his first year as a coach. Unless there are legitimate major injuries (which is not a thing to hope for, obviously), I think this team is too good to finish in the bottom five (and even if they did, there's a not-insignificant chance that they still end up with a pick outside the top five in the lottery).
     
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    maaan… i had a dream!
    Thanks alot!
     
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    why you have to be so spot on???
     
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    Chet sucks
    PAOLO!
     
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    That couldn't be more wrong. #FakeNews

    Any who ever said he was never wrong? I've chronicled his picks....and misses. He has just been very good most of the time.
     
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    Basically tied for the #6/7 spot in the Lottery.

    Think it might be time to get more familiar with some of these candidates.
     
    TBpup, Dec 15, 2021
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    Chet or bust.

    Game changing defender
     
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    Chet will Bust
     
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    There are some interesting players in the Top 7.
     
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    Jabari Smith Jr looks like he’ll be a superstar.
     
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    Blazers doing a good job of getting a high pick without even trying.
     
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    TBpup, Dec 16, 2021
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    Paulo fits our needs perfectly!!!!
     
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    So if the Blazers stay in the lottery, get the pick, and draft a player with high potential, that prospect will hit their prime around age 25; when Dame will be about 37.

    I don't see the point in keeping both Dame and keeping the pick; I think the team in the summer needs to go one direction or the other.

    People might point to GSW keeping their rookies, but I don't see putting a few nice vet minimum guys around the core of this roster making the Blazers a top 4 seed as the GSW have done. The Warriors are better able to attract those key vet minimum free agents, their ownership group pays bonko luxury tax, and with this being the third iteration of a GSW contending roster - I have to admit Curry is just at a level above Dame in elevating his team to be a contender.

    We either need to use the value of the pick to get better starters in Portland around Dame, or get the most value we can from Dame and go full rebuild.
     
    SharpesTriumph, Dec 16, 2021
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    How dare they call her Shaquille O'Neal! She can hit jump shots!
     
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