I know Chauncey can't help but push for every win possible, but I wish he would reduce Dame's minutes a tad to allow more development time for the rest of the roster.
They better hope they make the playoffs so we can open up future picks. Otherwise I have no idea what the plan is. Losing 4-0 in the playoffs is also fine, they just need the ability to trade their future.
I dont see them making the play in. Second Bottom tier for sure. A lot of teams improved their rosters as of today. Portland's roster got worse.
We should aim to drop below Orlando. They won 17 of their last 30 games. Sit Dame. Let them pass us. One of the teams at the bottom will zoom past us when they get Wemby just like Dallas and Memphis passed us by hitting gold. If we tank, we have a chance to do what they did. And why are you feeling sorry for OKC? They basically have the same record as us and they’re adding Chet and lotto pick next year.
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer is what I’ve gathered from this deadline. Teams in the west truly trying to win a championship while they are in the window. The scrubby teams trying their best at the Wemby sweepstakes. We stood pat. Before anyone says well we didn’t have the assets. Well the Blazers have no one to blame but themselves. It’s been one of the most mismanaged sports franchises in all of sports. Despite already checking off one of the biggest hurdles of bad teams; they have a superstar, top player that is 100% all in on trying to win it all in Portland. Honestly the rearranging of the chairs is exhausting for me as a diehard fan.
I don't think that addressing obvious needs like our lack of post players that really work in Chauncey's system is unrealistic. Maybe some were expecting a superstar or some shit like that but I would have just liked to see us make the roster make sense. The thing I guess I'm unrealistic about is that Joe seems to be a guy who thinks if we aren't going to be contending then who the fuck cares, lets save some money and reload. Cool for him but a little hard for us that like watching every game.
Thybulle, Reddish and Knox plus the picks we got for the two players we traded is a plus for talent and flexibility. Im a Hart fan forever but he wasn't going to stay unless we gave him a significant raise. I just think we got better talent wise with some depth.
You think we're in position to win more games than we were in before the trades, less games, or the same? This isn't some kind of trap question that I'm going to argue about with you after your answer, I'm just curious because I respect your position.
Just to be prepared, expect Hart and GPII to be HUGE pieces that improve both NYK and GSW. These were both fit trades for those teams. It's okay by me, because Hart as an undersized SF and GPII as a backup G who never fit weren't making us demonstrably better.
Blazers weren't very good before the trade deadline. Blazers win a few more games after this deadline? - see, Cronin is amazing Blazers lose more games after all this horse crap? - our draft pick improved, Cronin is amazing I have yet to see Cronin do anything amazing, other then getting lucky finding Jerami Grant, who wanted to move back home to Portland and be a Blazer.
What now? Well, this season is basically over. I'll still watch and probably attend a couple more games, but nothing else good/major is going to happen until the offseason. Hopefully we make some moves that will make the 23-24 season something to be optimistic about. In the meantime, pitchers and catchers report to spring training on Monday. At least my Mariner's are on the upswing
I certainly hope we go shopping for another FA big. The Blazers now have about $6M of room under the threshold.
Just looking at the standings in the Western Conference and I'm pretty sure we'll end the season in 11th. The Lakers obviously got a lot better so they will pass us. The Pelicans didn't do anything and they were already ahead of us. The Wolves got better in my opinion because they didn't have a floor general and now they have one and not only is Conley a floor general he's one that has won a lot of regular season games with Gobert, so I see their record getting a little better. The Warriors got better and should finish with a better record than us. None of the teams 1-6 in the standings got worse. We're not going to lose more games than the Jazz, I guess OKC could pass us, the Spurs and Rockets are in full tank mode. The larger picture is that the Raptors are the only team in the east with a worse record than we have right now that I could see passing us. So our lottery position should be somewhere in the range of 10-12.
Best thing that happens now is Phil Knight and son buy the blazers. Jody I believe has to sell the blazers due to trust obligations in a fiduciary manner.
