I love threads like these. "KP NEEDS TO PULL HIS HEAD FROM HIS ASS! HE NEEDS TO GET A GOOD SKILLED BIG MAN ASAP!!!!!!!!!!" OK, what GM is willing to hand out players like those? And who do you assume we are going to trade? Blake, Bayless, Webster, Outlaw or Andre Miller? What GM would get rid of the most coveted position in basketball for some scrubs on our bench? It's not going to happen. KP isn't exactly in a position of strength right now either. Teams know we are desperate, and probably aren't going to give us fair value at the moment. In basketball you can't get quality for quantity like football.
Sure, you aren't going to get Chris Bosh for any of those guys. But I guarantee you some team would make a deal for TO & Blake's expiring contracts to clear cap space. If they are willing to include a player like Rudy, Batum or Bayless the quality of player coming back to the Blazers gets much better as well. We have the assets to make a deal where we get good value in return. I think KP does make a deal since we saw him go after Turk and Milsap in the summer. He struck out in free agency and had to settle for Andre. I think he targets a SF and backup big again before the deadline.
RR, whenever someone says Pritchard should make a trade for once in his life, you win by asking the poster to have GM-like inside knowledge of the players available right now. You do this year-round, but ask for the "right now." Mind if I ask you for details, instead of you asking for them? Can I ask you--what specific trades would you have made during Pritchard's tenure? League-wide, was anyone traded in that time for whom you would have bidded? Would you have ever offered anything more than for what the player was finally traded? If not, then you never would have made a trade in the last 3 years. If so, what would you have offered for him? Do you believe that trades should ever be made? Is there ever a better time to seek a trade than when we desperately need one position, yet have a surplus at another position? If not, couldn't we pay our GM half as much, or replace him with the Chief Scout to run draft day (and maybe make a trade, since its the Scout's advice that heavily influences it anyway)? Why do we need a GM if we never make a trade?
