Meeting between Dame and Cronin today

I went back and looked and the last time we promoted from within was KP and he still had to interview.

 

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Great podcast from Lowe.

 

Pretty much summarizes my feelings on the matter perfectly

 

let's say the Blazers can swindle a new Damian buddy (DeRozan) for Ant & Nurk. Do we root for the team to tank after All-Star break again? Can Blazer fans set their expectations higher? Go through another season of waiting for the trade deadline so Cronin can fix the bad defense? Or will the Dame/DD/Grant big 3 be far superior then the 1st round exit Bulls last season?

Either trade Dame and go full tank, or make a whole bunch of moves to fix holes in the lineup. Banking on young players who are undersized at multiple positions, is how Portland landed Scoot Henderson.

Stealth tanking with Lillard can be frustrating, but damn if it doesn't work terrifically.

 

I’d love it, but I haven’t had enough to drink to actually believe it would. Green wants his green.

 

Again, how do you know he did not interview? And even if he did not, as I said, who cares, it's not like they did not know what he is good or not good at. He has worked at the team in basketball operations for over 15 years when they made this decision.
Pritchard was hired to Portland in 2004 as director of player personnel, worked as an interim coach before being promoted to GM. He had no cap management experience with the team, likely was not a big part of the trade deadline or drafts. Of course they had to interview him in 2006.

I would say that ever if they did not interview Cronin (which we do not know for sure) - they had a much better knowledge of him as a potential GM. He started as directory of player personnel in 2014, was promoted to assistant GM, he was hired as an interim GM - and later promoted to permanent GM (so, basically, they know him for over a decade, many years as cap guru and assistant GM and later had him evaluated as an interim GM on the fly.

Frankly, I still do not see the issue. Organizations that are never going to promote from within have a very bad business culture. There is nothing wrong with that, especially given how long he worked for the Blazers.

 

some goober complaining about Dame complaining. I'm off the Lillard whining because we're drafting the best rookies on the planet.

 

And that’s the common problem around here…too many straw man arguments. You’d “imagine” Dame fans would support including Sharpe in a trade package for Green? Why not ask the question, because this Dame fan’s answer would be “hell no”. And since when did being a Dame fan become a divisive thing among Blazers fans? I’d say since some of you created the false narrative that the Blazers can’t build a contender around Dame.

 

Agreed... this seems like a very poor assumption.

And who on here isn't a fan of Dame? Even if you love Sharpe/Scoot, I'd assume most Blazer fans are still a fan of Dame. Maybe that's a bad assumption on my part.

 

An elevated discourse without inflammatory comments or dumbass notions of "sourced" notes? Huh. The locsl guys could learn a thing or two.

 

I think it's safe to say that Quick and Dame are not best friends

 

I don't think Derozan will do a damn thing to help our deficiencies on the floor.

 

For what it's worth, Sharpe has been working out with Dame and Beckner this offseason...I want Dame and Sharpe to be our starting guards next season and put some size at SF. Also really excited for the bench we're going to have.

 

God what an unbearable asshole this guy is. I won't link or paste the article. Urge everyone NOT to read this nonsense. While the message is fine, Quicks tone and writing style make it very clear he has an agenda vs Dame

 

He may not be right, but he's not wrong.

 

I hope Shaes ready because I'm stoked to watch him start alongside Dame while Scoot leads the bench unit.

 

link? Shaedon and Beckner is not a thing. Not sure why you would assume this.

Sharpe has his own longstanding trainer Francis Kiapway.

https://instagram.com/fkiapway

 

In other words no one knows anything but all are convinced the Blazers screwed up.

 

there has been lots of bad blood between Quick and Dame for years. Several times Dame has called out Quick for bad reporting and Quick has tried to Dame dirty ever since

 

That's true. I think getting better would appease Dame. In fact, I think he'd like that more than anything.