Game Thread 2024-25 GAME #13 - BLAZERS VS TWOLVES - NOVEMBER 13, 2024 - WEDNESDAY - 7PM - KATU 2.2, BLAZERVISION

I like that several times in interviews DA said he's learning from Clingan and Williams still. I like having center depth that we have...Ayton is the last vet I'd trade...Simons or Thybulle would be my top two vets to trade as we stand. Bigs are rarely iron men who play 82 games not including playoffs. I love that we are stacked at every position, just want to see Ant replaced with Banton for the future.

 

Still puzzled:

South Sudan:
Christians make up 60.5% of the population, while followers of indigenous (animist) religions make up 32.9% and Muslims, 6.2%.

 

yes in hindsight it was a great trade because Camara turned out to be a starter level player. But let’s not pretend they didn’t target Ayton in that deal. The suns had to include someone and props to Joe for making them throw in Camara instead of another minimum deal.

it feels like people giving credit for Olshey picking up Nurk, when we know he was targeting the 1st and Nurk was a throw in.

 

Bingo.

The Muslim influence is a lot stronger than that, from what I've been told, and there's significant resentment of Israel-Gaza and the West for supporting them. That's getting into off-topic talk, though. Just raising the possibility that two guys struggling tremendously with their shots could be having trouble finding common ground.

 

Think they will put a wing on the mobile big and stick Clingan on a non-shooter or someone that sits in the corner so he can just patrol the paint. It's what the Jazz did with Gobert. I think the Blazers did that with Nurk as well and put Grant on AD.

But yeah, against some teams like the Celtics, Warriors or Thunder (when they go small) you won't be able to do that. But this team is far away from competing for a title so one step at a time. Portland is shaping up to be quite the wing factory as well so we may be well equipped to go small at that point as well.

 

Deni actually mentioned in his postgame that he was dealing with some personal issues this off-season. Probably related to Israel.

I doubt it has anything to do with Duop though.

 

that's not accurate

Dame --> Milwaukee
Jrue --> Boston
Brogdon + Timelord + Allen --> Portland would have been a legal trade

the trade didn't need Ayton's big salary to be legal

 

Ayton is still better than anyone we gave them, and I still maintain, what else could we have gotten for that steaming pile of shit? Nurk was gone either way.

 

sure, Camara was the prize out of this. I just dislike Ayton's C game

but it is revision to say the Blazers needed to take back Ayton's salary to make the Dame trade legal

 

It was a Little trade that we can Klingonto. A(in)yton the bandwagon of dissing the moves. Toomani people are rewriting history.

 

This was an incredible game. The team just had a different(improved) look.

This is the style that is exiting to watch, win or lose.

Are we finally seeing Chauncey ball?

 

Hello,

May i ask why it seems pretty clear Chauncey will not be back next year?

If it is a gut feeling, would that feeling change if we start to see the team play more consistently like last night?

 

WHen the talent level on your team is 23 wins level and you don’t mind losing to set up your franchise for the future, yes! MOST DEFINITELY!

 

maybe "pretty clear" was overstating the situation. Billups was a HC eligible for an extension and this is the last year of his deal; but the GM didn't give him. Those aren't usually the circumstances leading to a new contract

 

Of course it would because Milwaukee would not have done that trade knowing that Jrue would go to their conference rival.

 

Ahh, that makes sense. Do you think they would give him one if the Cronin/ownership see improvements in the young players on the team?

 

”HUGE STARTING LEVEL ROLE”

You are gonna’ Have to tell me what this even means on THIS team, THIS season.