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illmatic99

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Still unsigned and talk of Bulls, Clips, Cavs, even Miami being interested in bringing him back. I think he'd be the final piece to our bench if he were to come here. Any way we can entice him? Do we even have a shot? We'd also need to waive someone (sorry, Vic) to clear room.
 
I don't think we have enough playing time for him. I would love him too
 
As a backup wing, I think we can squeeze him in for 20mpg. Take all of Will/Allen mins and cut a bit out of Blake/CJ. We all have highlighted the need for another scorer at the wing spot off the bench to add to Kaman's contribution, Ray could definitely be it. I hope Neil is at least showing some interest.
 
yuyuza1 said:
As a backup wing, I think we can squeeze him in for 20mpg. Take all of Will/Allen mins and cut a bit out of Blake/CJ. We all have highlighted the need for another scorer at the wing spot off the bench to add to Kaman's contribution, Ray could definitely be it. I hope Neil is at least showing some interest.
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Well Allen has played in Seattle for a long part of his career. It's not like I hate the idea.

Allen is a champion and won with two different teams. I think he's proven he knows how to go in cold and make huge contributions.

But I'm still a believer with the players we have right now. CJ will eventually get it. He's already starting to improve. The last thing I want is for an aging player to steal his minutes.
 
Again this is the type of player that should be able to see that we are a perfect fit but they want the bright lights and big city. It would be nice to at least to a team of interest once. But it will make it that much sweeter to do it with the team that we have.
 
magnifier661 said:
Well Allen has played in Seattle for a long part of his career. It's not like I hate the idea.

Allen is a champion and won with two different teams. I think he's proven he knows how to go in cold and make huge contributions.

But I'm still a believer with the players we have right now. CJ will eventually get it. He's already starting to improve. The last thing I want is for an aging player to steal his minutes.
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I think that's right. If we were 1 piece from contending for title I'd go for it. But we need more than RA to get there. We have to develop our young guys, or at least give them minutes to showcase as trade bait. As long as our young guys are unknown assets to us, they're unknown to the rest of the league also (and as such have little to no trade value) It is tempting though.
 
Ray Allen is almost 40 years old, does he really want to come back? He'd basically be a spot up shooter at this point, not sure if he'd be much better than CJ or Crabbe.
 
Boise Blazer said:
Again this is the type of player that should be able to see that we are a perfect fit but they want the bright lights and big city. It would be nice to at least to a team of interest once. But it will make it that much sweeter to do it with the team that we have.
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Simmons thinks he's going to join Doc in LA. I think that's more likely than him coming back to the NW.
 
Sinobas said:
Ray Allen is almost 40 years old, does he really want to come back? He'd basically be a spot up shooter at this point, not sure if he'd be much better than CJ or Crabbe.
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or dorrell wright. *shudders*
 
If we are talking about championships then why wouldn't you? We may not have time for him...You make time for him. I would much rather have Ray Allen than CJ McCollum. Ray has been in the bright lights before where players like Wes Mathews, Lillard and Alridrige have not
 
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BigGameDamian said:
If we are talking about championships then why wouldn't you? We may not have time for him...You make time for him. I would much rather have Ray Allen than CJ McCollum. Ray has been in the bright lights before where players like Wes Mathews, Lillard and Alridrige have not
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Ray Allen would be an excellent addition to our team. In the end, it's his decision.
 
I thought this was going to be a rumor that we were interested in him.
 
AK-47 for Trob/filler is something I'd also consider and AK may be available
 
Kaydow said:
I think that's right. If we were 1 piece from contending for title I'd go for it...
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I think we're there. OKC/CHI look iffy with injuries, Cavs look like they'll take a while, Clips have some glaring holes on defense and wing production. I'm not buying HOU, TOR or GSW as championship contenders for some reason or the other.

MEM and SAS, I'm a bit scared of because they have everything in place to win it all. But that's it.

I think the door is just wide open right now for the right team before CLE figures it out, and OKC comes back healthy. With Ray, I think we would jump to the top of the west. We have everything else.
 
yuyuza1 said:
I think we're there. OKC/CHI look iffy with injuries, Cavs look like they'll take a while, Clips have some glaring holes on defense and wing production. I'm not buying HOU, TOR or GSW as championship contenders for some reason or the other.

MEM and SAS, I'm a bit scared of because they have everything in place to win it all. But that's it.

I think the door is just wide open right now for the right team before CLE figures it out, and OKC comes back healthy. With Ray, I think we would jump to the top of the west. We have everything else.
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So teams like GSW and HOU are not considered as championship contenders but the Blazers are?
 
Ray Allen would certainly make us a contender if we aren't one already.
 
I would love to have Ray Allen, but I highly doubt he would come here.
 
It feels like the conversation has with himself goes a little something like this:

(rubbing his hands together and sighing) "Ok Ray it time pick a team and get back in the league for the stretch run, let's see who is doing well this season and who is a contender. Alright ... Cleveland .... Chicago ... the Clippers ... Port-land? Hmmph ... never heard of them."
 
Boise Blazer said:
It feels like the conversation has with himself goes a little something like this:

(rubbing his hands together and sighing) "Ok Ray it time pick a team and get back in the league for the stretch run, let's see who is doing well this season and who is a contender. Alright ... Cleveland .... Chicago ... the Clippers ... Port-land? Hmmph ... never heard of them."
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I just don't want to support his "cherry picking" teams that have a chance to win - basically F him is my opinion
 
Blazinaway said:
I just don't want to support his "cherry picking" teams that have a chance to win - basically F him is my opinion
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I get what you are saying but most contenders do it. Even SAS has done it in the past. I just want this team to be good enough to be considered even if we never do it or need to do it.
 
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