Against those two teams after what we just saw... I don't even know what to think. Of course if we're hitting our shots, not making lazy shots and keeping our defensive intensity up without fouling too much... we can beat anyone even though our roster equals less than the sum of its parts.
CJ was nowhere close to as good as Ant at 23 and Ant has the advantage of the upside that athleticism gives him.
0–3 in blowouts
I don't think Dame has that much trade value now, given he's owed like a quarter of a billion bucks. That doesn't mean he can't be traded (we all know corpses like John Wall can be traded while making almost as much!
) but that I don't know how Portland gets better by trading Dame.
Our squad is 9th youngest
I think Ant has real trade value. He has upside and his contract isn't even bad given his current production. Don't get me wrong if it was a few million less a year it would be a great contract but it's not too bad that we can't get productive pieces in return for him in a trade.I don't think Dame has that much trade value now, given he's owed like a quarter of a billion bucks. That doesn't mean he can't be traded (we all know corpses like John Wall can be traded while making almost as much!
I agree that Dame and Simons aren't a good fit in the back court. Unfortunately Cronin gave them both big money in the offseason and I don't know how we get out of it with so many years and salary left on their deals (without dumping them, which makes our team worse without getting much future value other than a slightly better draft pick).
As for Payton... I don't think he has any trade value at all. Portland overpaid for him in the offseason, for some reason, and Payton is demonstrating the reasons he was almost out of the NBA recently.
That is absolutely true. His job might be to keep fans engaged and to put people in the seats. Dame is a fantastic player and (rightly!) beloved by Portland fans. So he might be doing his job.
It’s actually the opposite: Portland is the 7th youngest team while Boston is the 7th oldest team.
I thought he could be traded six months after his extension which was just passed on the 5th of this month.
I don't think Dame has that much trade value now, given he's owed like a quarter of a billion bucks. That doesn't mean he can't be traded (we all know corpses like John Wall can be traded while making almost as much!
I agree that Dame and Simons aren't a good fit in the back court. Unfortunately Cronin gave them both big money in the offseason and I don't know how we get out of it with so many years and salary left on their deals (without dumping them, which makes our team worse without getting much future value other than a slightly better draft pick).
As for Payton... I don't think he has any trade value at all. Portland overpaid for him in the offseason, for some reason, and Payton is demonstrating the reasons he was almost out of the NBA recently.
He might. I don't claim to have any inside information.
) teams lining up to give him $25m/year this past offseason, and I don't know what's happened since then that would encourage a team to give up value to get him at that salary.
That's a fucking cop out. Teams are going to know we're desperate now.
I'm not saying he'll make good trades. I have no fucking clue what he'll do but he's got to see that what he has right now isn't working. So I think he'll do something and it won't be small.
He might. I don't claim to have any inside information.
But I didn't see (or, rather, read about
We are prolific at it. Which is impressive and bad and badly impressive and impressively bad. Hahaha
