Per Eggers: Blazers looking to move up in draft, take point guard

Trading Bayless was dumb (under Cho's watch) . . . but the ownership is shit for firing Cho?

Cho is dumb, PA (and all of front office) are idiot, Nate sucks, Roy sucks. Is there a Blazer you like?

 

Another angle on the whole Bayless thing.... I know for a fact that he HAD to go. Bad chemistry with everybody!!

 

I have never heard that...hcp with the scoop?

 

I'd guess that he had an ego problem. He thought he was a lot better than he actually is.

 

Too good!

 

Exactly my thoughts. He's a winner that can immediately take a leadership role on this team with the void that Roy leaves. He has a handle that Bayless could only dream about as well.

His performances in the NCAA tourney reminded me of watching CP3 at Wake Forest. His skill will translate really well into the NBA.

 

That was always obvious to me. Dude, thought he was all that and a bag of chips.

 

There was no doubt Bayless thought he was better than a lot of guys on the team. I am surprised by all the comments giving Bayless praise. He was not good here and he just kept driving the ball and getting swatted. It turns out we got Gerald Wallace for him so I am not at all hurt by that.

 

Not always a bad thing. I wish Nic and Oden had that sort of arrogance and confidence in their games. Hell, LA just found it this year, and look at his transformation.

 

True or not, it's a lot funner to speculate than to just write everything off, IMO. Why I always loved the draft. It's like the weeks leading up to Christmas. So much hope, excitement and potential. Always have. of course, last season's draft, it was like someone taking a shit in my stocking.

Top 7.

1. Irving.
2. Minnesota? Looking at their roster, it's so much youth and potential, that adding more youth just adds to a log jam at any position. Best bet, IMO, would be trading back a spot for Kanter. 2 and 20 for 3 and 12 with Utah. Let Utah take Williams. But, Williams is BPA, so slot him
3. Utah-PG? Knight, I would think.
4. Cleveland. Likely want to try to pair Irving and Williams, or Irving and Kanter. I dunno who they go here. But can't see a move with what we have that makes sense for them. Knowing they were happy with paying Baron to take on what they thought would be the 8th pick, and also rumored to take on Rip for the 8th. So shedding salary with Miller....not a priority.
5. Toronto. Just a shit team. Sorry. I dunno what you build around, who you focus on, what you look at. I hope they go Valenucias(sp?) and sit on himf or 3 years. Would be fitting. They can stand to lose salary,w ith Calderon and Bargs, but don't seem like a candidate to move a player and their pick to save cash.
6. Washington. In good salary shape. Bad deal in Rashard Lewis, but moved Arenas for him, asving some coin, and will be under cap anyways.
7. Sacramento. Have a ton of salary space, but no real needs, IMO, here in the draft. Seem to make potentially the most sense, but tough to gauge.
PG?(Udrih)/Evans/Casspi/Cousins/Dalembert(maybe) with Thompson. They also will have a lot of cap space. Only real bad deal would be garcia, IMO. But with so much cap space, doesn't seem like a great idea to shed Garcia to move down 14 spots. And for Portland, there's always the potential that Toronto just grabs Walker at 5, and so no deal.

I like the thought, just for the excitement of the draft, but not sure where it comes from. Washington is rumored to want to move up, so doubt the 6 is in play. If we somehow hopped into the 3 way(4) with Cleveland, Detroit, and Minnesota, maybe our best bet? If Detroit wanted extra pieces to get a deal done, the deal sending Rip to Cleveland, 4 and 8 to Minnesota, and 2 to Cleveland, we could, I suppose, take Villanueva, and send Minnesota Batum and detroit Miller. Seems like the price gets high, Batum and Miller for CV and Walker. And doesn't seem like a move Allen would be excited about. Who knows.

 

I don't think Sac will let a PG fall past them. If we want Kemba, we gotta target WAS.

But reading some Raps forums, apparently, they would like a PG also. So it's hard to pinpoint exactly where Kemba will go. For all of KP's supposed faults, he knew how to predict a draft order and get HIS guy. Let's see if Chad can do the same.

 

I hope Chad can pick the right guy. Hindsight 20/20 majority of KP's pick are enormous duds.

 

Bayless sucks. We got equal worth for him. He is selfish from necessity, because he lacks court vision to locate pass receivers.

I turned against him in his first Summer League, when everyone thought he was so great for hogging the ball and preventing Koponen from showing anything.

 

Bayless always seemed like an arrogant asshole.. Not hard to believe he didn't have chemistry with his teammates.

 

I think that "what the Blazers will do" changes every time Paul Allen gets pissed at one of his lackeys.

Predicting anything about this dysfunctional corporate structure is pure conjecture.

 

The team was worse without Bayless. You can't pull out your inside info for players who left the team, HomerCP. You are probably the least credible person on the board, at least in terms of being able to give your true opinion.

You're a company man, Man!

 

That's the only time I CAN break the info. My boss is on here everyday and always hollers at me if I get too close to the edge!

 

I have always spoke my true feelings on here and have been called out by Wheelz, my boss and other people that know I'm on here and I work with. In fact 2 years ago when Greg went down, I went on here saying there was NO way we make the playoffs. On the team plane in front of Brandon, Wheelz called me out! Put me in a tough spot actually.

 

How reliable do people think Kemba's 3 point shot will be in the nba? Thats a big concern for me because a PG who can shoot the 3, and create there own shot like it seems like Kemba can, are hard to come by. I would rather have a pure point guard then a scoring PG. Unfortunately what we would have to trade to get up and grab knight is probably a pretty penny (Batum/Andre at least) for a player who i'm not sure can come in and contribute as a starter on a playoff team immediately. I really like Knight and think he will be a stud but I also think it will take some time for him to develop. Walker on the other hand seems like a fearless guy who could come in and run a team decently in his first season, but I have questions if he can shoot the NBA 3 reliably and if he could become more of a distributor then the shooter he was at uconn.