We got the #3 pick. Discuss the possibilities.

So if that doesn't happen, we better not hear from you?

 

I didn't care about the gif, one way or the other. I was talking about your position on those couple of Dame quotes you've focused on and repeated, almost obsessively, across a dozen threads. We argued about it before and said everything there is to say.

and I know you won't take the word of a "random dude" because that word is the opposite of what you choose to believe is true. And yeah, I mentioned it because it aligned with what I choose to believe. We all ride the 'tell-me-what-I-want-to-hear' bullet train

 

Can't you be a Dame supporter while also not wanting bad trades?

 

And yet.... the topic keeps coming up, and I'm not the one starting it. If people are going to discuss what Dame said, misquote what he said, or deny what he said..... I'm going to be there to set the record straight. I get it. It's annoying to have something concrete repeatedly used to thwart the hopium that people are pumping around here.

I talked to a guy who knows a bus driver who frequently gives rides to the son of a psychic that told him that Dame is going to request a trade if we use the pick.

 

All of this talk of these top players coming in has made me realize how many games so many players miss. OG, George, John Collins, Ingram, Zion…

 

There was an argument made a while back that these guys are putting too many miles on their bodies because of AAU and year round competitive basketball. It seems to support that because injuries seem to be so prevalent these days.

 

This is why Dame says he just wants a team he can compete with. He wants a team that can be in the running for HCA.

Once you have that you have a punchers chance. We can get that for Dame.

 

lol...c'mon man...grandiose much?...there's no "record" to set straight. just a bunch of clowns yammering about the meaning of a couple of isolated quotes from weeks ago from a public figure who has dozens and dozens of quotes

there are two types of concrete, and only two types: cracked and gonna crack. I can play the metaphor game too

I get it...sarcasm about anonymous people on the internet. Thing is he was pretty specific about where he was getting it and I have no reason to conclude he's a liar

 

Dame did all of that. Most NBA guys played AAU and year round basketball. Guys have longer careers and are more productive later in their careers than any time in the history of the NBA.

There have always been injuries.

 

Here is Mike Richman (today) saying "Dame has been very clear himself, you don't need to parse anything, just listen to Dame's words. He wants them to trade the pick for win-now help. If they don't do that because they're unwilling to trade Sharpe and they don't get a deal done, are they choosing Shaedon Sharpe and Brandon Miller over Dame? Yeah that's effectively what it would be. So then when you ask yourself is Shaedon Sharpe is off limits, it's the domino effect of making that proclamation. If the dinosaurs in Toronto hold out and say "Sharpe or nothing" then the nothing has real implications for the Blazers."

 

Mike Richman agrees with me.

Today he said essentially what I just said. I posted the link to that moment above.

 

But I was told that Cronin has all the leverage and no team would do anything like this.

 

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If Sharpe goes I go. This is getting stupid. Pick 3, Trade Dame for young talent and picks and get the entire organization on the same fucking timeline. PDX Front office is messy AF.

 

Which part? The part where he says "I'm just a dude in a basement"

Seriously though I don't believe when he said they are essentially choosing Sharpe and #3 over Dame by not trading them. Even Windhorst mentioned the Blazer can get better while keeping #3. Trading Sharpe is not going to happen and I doubt Dame would want that.

 

"Dame has been very clear himself, you don't need to parse anything, just listen to Dame's words. He wants them to trade the pick for win-now help."

He is credentialed. He's not just a dude in a basement. He (used to?) work for the Oregonian.

 

I'm more convinced than ever that Charlotte put smoke out that they're taking Scoot so they could see what they'd get in a trade for him.

I think they're taking Miller.

Fuck my life.

 

so if the Blazers keep the pick then Dame will be asking for a trade by July and guys like you will be happy

but I don't why you are working so hard to convince us it's going to happen before it actually does.