We got the #3 pick. Discuss the possibilities.

This reminds me of last year, when everyone insisted the “intel” was that Jabari Smith was going #1.

 

What the fuck is this report...

I wouldn't trade the #3 pick, let alone the #3 pick + Sharpe....

Are we crazy or what!?!?!?

Man I really I can't believe/accept we are in this situation

We are talking about our future here, #3pick+Sharpe MUST be our cornerstone
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Please basketball gods give us a good offer for Lillard and let him leave

 

Weren't you on the Amen bandwagon?

 

for any Blazer fan with a functioning brain mostly free of paranoia this is not news...at all

after the first 15-20 games of the season, the Blazers had seen enough of Sharpe to make him completely off-limits in trade discussions.

 

Actually, this is exactly why they should trade Bridges at a chance at a super-star like Scoot, unless they really believe Bridges can be that, and if so, good luck to them.

 

I still like him but you simply can’t draft a guy at #3 who has a shot that looks like that.

Whitmore may be higher on my board than Miller now honestly but he makes some really stupid decisions so it’s a tough call.

 

Bridges for Simons + 3 is an overpay [IMHO but not ridiculously]. BRK should not trade Claxton at 24 and Cam Johnson needs to stay healthy and build value at age 27 as a RFA this summer.

Claxton is UFA in one year.
Johnson can’t go out the door this summer for nothing.
The picks they got from the exodus of the Big3 will help as will Simmons gone in 2 years. Free agency next summer and the following are big for them ($90+ million combined).

Their leverage with Bridges in trade is high, now.

 

I agree with the Whitmore sentiment, which is why I'm not all that interested in him. Drafting Whitmore while you have Dame doesn't sound like success to me, but I could be wrong. I'd rather trade for Brown than Whitmore, and I would really hate to trade this pick. Even if Whitmore became marginally better than Brown, it's probably better to get Brown and compete with Dame than draft Whitmore and wait till he gets to that point.

I don't like Miller's upside but I could stomach drafting him, if Schmitz believes in him.

 

Practically speaking, Sharpe is off-limits. (The exceptions are out there, and let’s just leave them there.)
I’d seen enough after 20+ games to at least think Cronin had made the right move instead of trading the pick and Ant for OG. [And getting Grant made it a good to strong off-season EVEN with not building the bench, paying for GP2, and not trading Nurkic. And even what he did and didn’t do at the trade deadline I could deal with just fine. Not love just accept.]

Sharpe changed the Blazers’ timeline to THIS summer on build around Dame or trade him. Time warp! He’s made Ant tradable NOW since he is now replaceable (with Thybulle perhaps a bridge player until Sharpe grabs that position for the foreseeable future). Ant did a great service by helping CJ out the door — finally.

It may not be the summer of awesomeness (in my opinion) when it’s done. Just Keep Sharpe.

 

I'm discussing Jake Fischer report

This is the dumbest report I have ever read

#3 pick + Sharpe loooool

 

how are you getting to that?

this is directly from Fisher's report:

 

I know
How is this even a question!?!

It seems to me so obvious that we can't trade #3 pick+ Sharpe

Unless the return is Wembanyama, Jokic or players like that...

It's like saying "the Nuggets won't trade Jokic+ Murray this off season"

 

got ya....themwho do you think the GM's think between Shae & Scoot is the better player now and down the road?

 

That's a no dog on trading Dame .

 

Has Whitmore come in for a workout. He has the look of Calvin Natt in his game.

 

I never saw anything about trade me. He did say he didn't want to be babysitter to a bunch of teeny boppers. Can you blame him.

 

Some lineup ideas:

Dame/ Bridges/ OG/ Grant/ Claxton

Dame/ Sharpe/ Bridges/ Collins/ Claxton

 

How would you get OG if Simons/3 are gone?