For those that may have missed it. Will keep the link up for a little while https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/47199603/LMAonRome12-3-13_01.mp3
Never doubted the trade talk was out of frustration from losing, knowing how little help he had. Olshey went out and did what he said he would do, and winning cures all. LA is a Blazer for Life. Get use to it.
This can't be true. This summer, BrianFromWA and Natebishop were GUARANTEEING and 100% certain he is going to leave. Anybody who said we should wait because we didn't actually know the real story was living in denial, and acting childish.
Those were some of the best assertions of the summer by many Blazer fans, for comedy of course. I can't speak to who said what on this forum, but it was definitely on many forums around the inter-webs. They said, most emphatically, that LA would be gone by the trade dead-line at the latest. Silly rabbits.
You're right. I was 100% certain that he had said what he said. Now that we know that he said it out of frustration, and that he's willing to sign an extension, no problem.
Nice backpedaling. You were absolutely certain LMA is leaving Portland and we should trade him since his value could only decrease from that point in the summer. It was ridiculous.
I was absolutely certain because I'd heard what he said. And if I'd heard it, it was only a matter of time until guys like Quick heard it (which happened later, and was denied categorically by Olshey), in which case the trade value could only decrease Melo-style. Now that it's come out that LMA did say what he said, and is now saying it was out of frustration. But at the time I think you were one of the ones who said there was no way that LMA had asked for a trade. Do you still think that it's as ridiculous as you did then, now that LMA confirmed that he said it?
You're having trouble distinguishing between what somebody said and what is certain to happen. It's funny to me that you would assume those are the same, and then start making guarantees and claiming he needed to be traded immediately because his value could only go down. As for what I wrote... I continually claimed to not know what was going to happen or have any knowledge as to what LMA would do. I did say that making a trade immediately out of fear of something that MIGHT happen was ridiculous.
LMA saying that he wasn't re-signing here and wanted a trade immediately is what was said (and denied) then. So if you have knowledge that your star has told you that he wasn't resigning and wanted a trade, would you advocate to not do anything because he might change his mind after demanding the trade? I said at the time that if you didn't think LMA wanted to leave, that I'd offer him a max extension and see what he did with it. At the time, he wouldn't have signed it (and I think the quotes bear that out as being the correct line of thinking, in hindsight). I fully admit that I didn't think Olshey would be able to get Lopez and Robinson for basically free, and that he could get two more pieces like Mo and Wright for what was left over from our cap space. If you look at the posts, I wrote that once we got Robinson for free (right after the draft) it was not worth trading LMA and trying to fill out a roster that would appease him and get him to stay. But you ridiculed those who did know what LMA said he would do, because you hadn't heard it from the media. And then when the media stated it, you pointed to Olshey's and LMA's denials as some kind of proof that everyone was making stuff up. And now, you're saying that I'm backpedaling.
