the only way to really determine whether not making a trade was a mistake or not is if we knew all of the available trade options. and we'll never know that so we'll just have to guess. i assume that since a deal wasn't made, there wasn't a good enough deal out there that didn't require giving up one of the rookies.
Well I still think KP has yet to show the capability to make a in season trade for a vet, so I'm not giving him the god status that no trades to make the Blazers better were available. But it is good to know Blazers have options this summer.
Is it just me, or is Kevin Pritchard full of shit? If he was so committed to sticking with this young team, why was he on the phone constantly with other GMs, and emailing Paul Allen a thousand times a day? The fact is, he was very willing to trade some of our young players for the right deal--he just couldn't quite make it happen. All this stuff about sticking with the young guys is BS, in my humble opinion.
I'm not giving him god status either. That said, the team is likely to be in a very similar situation this summer in terms of leverage, but with even more panicked sellers.
that doesn't make him full of shit. he wouldn't be doing his job if he wasn't on the phone looking for ways to make the team better. that doesn't mean he isn't committed to the team as it stands, just that if he thinks he can improve it he will. and every player in the history of the nba was available to be traded no matter how much their teams say they were committed to that player or how they were untouchable.
Great example of double-speak. You must be studying at the Kevin Pritchard school of public relations.
It does seem like we might have gained something for future negotiations. That is, other GMs learned that KP is willing to walk away rather than compromise - and that experience may encourage them to meet KPs demands in the future (if/when he has something they want). Of course, whether we gained that leverage depends on just how the deals failed to go down, and we'll never know that. barfo
Agreed on both points. Just as an aside, there is one fact we do know - NO was ready to move Chandler in a salary dump. If you have an asset that is about to lose value (IE the contracts of Frye and Raef) why not flip them for an asset that has at least *some* value going forward? It wouldn't have been a "home-run", or a "slam dunk", or a "Pritchslap".....but it would have given us a valuable trade chip to use this summer.
Do you like your car? Would you sell it to me at half its value? Would you sell it to me at twice its value?
KP is holding 4 aces and a king, and posters here are screaming because he chose not to draw 4 new cards.
That is the one positive thing about this situation. We may never know if he whiffed on a good deal, but you can't say he got suckered into a bad deal.
I might. But if you didn't offer me what I thought it was worth, I wouldn't run around telling people I decided to hang on to the car because I was so "committed" to it. I would tell them that you didn't offer me enough money.
Seriously, though, what did you expect KP to say? We're talking about humans here. Everyone in the world knew he was working the phones to make deals. I'm still struggling with what about him not pulling the trigger do you not jive with?
Is it really so difficult to understand my point?? After weeks of trying to make deals involving our young players, KP comes out and says, "We decided we just love this young team too much to part with any of our players." That's clearly a lie. What actually happened is that they didn't get the deal they wanted, so they stopped trying to trade our young players. I don't mind that KP didn't pull the trigger; I mind that he had to make such a phony statement about his "love" for the team as it stands.
He folded Ace-King suited, at least he didn't suffer a bad beat? Ridiculous. He totally pussed out. He has NEVER brought in a high caliber veteran to play with this group. Everyone should scroll until they find humongous tits and reread Shooter's posts - he's right on.
Clearly you don't understand GM-speak, then. I've heard virtually those same types of comments come out of GM's and coaches' mouths countless times. As I mentioned about the "human" element, though, the players seem to continue to buy into it, don't they? Heh, as LMA, himself, said today, "It's a great day to be a Blazer." Appears he doesn't share your same sentiment. Either that, or he's lying through his teeth, as well.
