Well, Chauncey has at least one fan in DA https://www.nba.com/blazers/videos/...on-interview-2024-2025-portland-trail-blazers
I love Thybulle and think we should absolutely keep this guy on the team in whatever capacity he's capable of.
I would say most of the players were very supportive of Chauncey. Deni & Tisse were both big fans. Grant was harder to read. It felt very much like a PR non-answer when discussing Billups.
I love Thybulle's game and presence on the team..the dude is special. Hope he wins a chip here. I love what Chauncey said about using Toumani and Matisse together against teams with two allstars...pick your poison defense...being an elite defensive squad is not too far off for this team. I also love having two double double centers on the roster.
If that was a motivated Ayton that we saw this season then... yikes. Don't even want to imagine what an unmotivated version of him would look like here.
Jerami is gone! Need to talk to my agent and Joe and do whatever makes sense. Ant sounded in the in game interview like he was on his way out. Deandre sounds like he's here to stay but if he has negative trade value right now that would make sense for Joe and Chauncey to be selling on him being bought into whatever role they have for him. Tissee is always pure class. I think he'd be great on the team next season but I also have a feeling that him showing what he can do at the end of this season might have some teams calling about him so we'll see. Would love to have him back and would be upset if we sold low on him. Other than those guys I can just say I'm really excited to see Tou, Shae, Deni, Scoot and Clingan keep playing for our team. I love the way they talk about Chauncey and Chauncey talks about them. It better be a fucking haul if any of those guys are moved because I don't know if they're our contending starting lineup of the future but they could be and they definitely make sense as big minute getters in a contending roster in our team's future.
Yeah if I am Thybulle I am not opting in. He is better off signing a new contract even if it is for the same amount...but 4 years. I think someone will offer him the full MLE Grant's agent better have something up his sleeve if he wants to find another team. Maybe he does
Thanks for posting the link to those interviews. Something important to consider in regards to Matisse is if he opts in he's automatically got Bird rights even if we traded him and if he doesn't opt in he doesn't have that. It is much easier to give a guy his fair market value or higher when they have Bird rights. If I was Tisse and I was confident about what I could do, I'd bet on myself and opt in. I'm hoping between Joe and Jerami's agent we can get him out of here for neutral value, anything of positive value coming back in a trade sending Jerami out would be a huge win for Joe.
wut? are you sure about that? Blazers traded Hart for Thybulle; and it was an exchange of full Bird rights for each player. After the trade, the Blazers owned full bird rights for Thybulle. I don't think the offer sheet from Dallas changes that. Now, as I understand it, Dallas would not have full bird rights this off-season, only early bird rights. But I don't believe that's true for Portland. I might be wrong though
You bring up a good point, there are some articles that say he would be giving up his bird rights if he opts out but they aren't from good enough sources to be sure they're right. If he opts in he would have bird rights even if traded to a new team. I guess it depends on what Joe would re-sign him for or the offers he has around the league but I do think he would be betting on himself if he opted in because I don't think he's going to get that much money next season if he opts out.
