If you want a shot at a guy like Rose, you need several tries at it. You can't do that outside the lottery. While it's great to make the playoffs, I don't see the point in getting older as the team never makes it beyond the 1st or occasional 2nd round, while adding mid to late 1st round picks to bolster the lineup. [video=youtube;FfoQsZa8F1c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfoQsZa8F1c[/video]
First point: Please point me to the roster in the league that isn't 2/3 comprised of journeyman players. This notion that you need, or can even have, a star-quality player at every position on your starting lineup and a stud backup behind them on the bench is a myth. Contending teams usually have 2-3 star players and a bunch of role players. Second point: Unless you're willing to cut Aldridge and Wallace, the Blazers won't stink bad enough to get a shot at a reasonable chance at a top 3 pick in the draft. Do you really want to go that route again? The Blazers have 2 stud players in Aldridge and Wallace. If Oden comes back strong, and I admit that's a huge "if", the Blazers are instantly contenders even if Cho just tweaks a couple of position. I'm not ready to spend another 10 years rebuilding again until that option has been tried one more time.
Trading away our 2013 pick defeats the point of blowing things up now and rebuilding. We might as well wait 2 years, see what happens to Oden, see how the new CBA works, see if we can get a lucky draft pick/trade/free agent. Be very cautious in handing out long term contracts to borderline starters like Batum. At that time if we have a team getting out of the first round you keep fighting to contend for a title; if we can't sniff the second round then we should look at starting a youth movement.
I was being kind of sarcastic, people were talking about blowing things up but keeping LaMarcus, Gerald, Wes, and Oden..... Blowing it up is when you change your top players. "Blowing it up" to me means we get rid of LaMarcus or Oden plus another starter at the least.
I don't know if you're agreeing with me or not... but keeping our two best players isn't blowing anything up. Getting rid of old veterans and/or bench players is not blowing anything up, IMO. Ed O.
Sounds like we're on the same page then. Unless people are willing to chuck our top players, they're not really looking to blow things up. I've no problem with moving some of the complementary players for better ones.
Which is what almost every team i the league is constantly trying to do. So if we replace "blow it up" in this thread with "do what most teams always do", then yes, I agree.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ba...lan-does-not-like-what-he-sees?urn=nba-wp3414 A really good article by Kelly Dwyer detailing the Blazers' looming roster decisions.
We're in agreement. I had posted something similar earlier in the thread where I pondered if the term "blow it up" meant something different these days.
