Would you be interested in Jrue at least starting the season as a Blazer?

I would.

 

I would have liked a player like Lowry who is already past his prime and would mentor the young guards. Jrue is much better but I think he has more value for another team in this time in his career. We need to capitalise on that and get the best deal possible. Just my opinion

 

I'm OK with it; in fact I'd rather have Jrue than Ant. But I'd imagine Jrue would have enough value to justify moving him

 

Zero interest. He is worth real trade assets and deserves to have a big role. Ant will likely get the bulk of the Blazers minutes/shots. I'd rather see what Scoot and Sharpe can do than a 33 year old Jrue.

If the Blazers need a few extra weeks to close a Jrue trade thats totally fine - there is no drama with bringing Jrue to camp. But the Blazers should work to get a deal done sooner than later.

 

Say you want to green light the rebuild or don’t complain about how we should be tanking.

 

It all comes down to who brings us the most value back. Jrue can guard either guard position so I would not hate keeping him.....but I assume he brings back more assets than Ant.

 

No. Risk injury and have his contract run out while his value depreciates? And take away minutes from Scoot?

That would not be smart.

 

He doesn't fit where we are right now, and he's more useful as a trade asset than he is to the team. I was going to say that I don't care either way, so long as they trade him by the deadline, but really, I think the team benefits more if they can find a good trade for him before the season starts.

 

The situation has improved, IMHO, so Cronin has some more work to do either way.
A good day even with Lillard out the door.
Glad it’s Milwaukee!

 

Jrue wouldn't be a problem but let's just get him to the team willing to give us the most for him and get him to a winning situation. With Scoot, Shae and Ant on our team I don't want to worry about getting minutes for the starting PG of the best regular season in the East last season.

 

This place has been whining about undersized guards who can't play defense, so now we not only get a big guard, but a guy who is one of the better defenders around and everyone wants to dump him??? Trade Simons for whatever and keep Holiday around to teach our young guards what defense actually is. On the roster as it currently stands, Holiday is the only "true" vet, along with the only players who has actual, proven leadership skills (Grant has skills, but leadership hasn't been an obvious one so far). Screw a couple of draft picks. Keep the bird in hand. Too bad we couldn't have pried him loose 3-4 years ago. But IMHO, trading him and keeping Simons would be incredibly stupid. As far as I'm concerned, he was a key player in the trade.

 

I agree with a lot of this, but we are talking about a one-year rental for Portland because of how young we are. It makes more sense to get assets for him....could Simons bring us the same assets?

 

Wonder if you’ll get your wish?

 

Two year rental......just sayin'.

 

Scoot isn't an undersized guard and the trade demand for Ant seems low. As much as I like him, given our current roster/circumstance it makes much more sense to trade Holiday while the demand is high.

 

Would like to see him dealt ASAP. Great player. Great mentor to Scoot, but really doesn’t fit with the team. He’s got a big contract to deal though, so it should be interesting