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I'm excited to watch this roster personally. Got a good balance of veterans and young guys. Will be fun to watch Sharpe learn the game and (hopefully) get better with each game he gets playing time in.
 
Pinwheel1 said:
I hate to rely on him, but between him and Winslow, one of them needs to. Watford can guard slower bigger PFs and Winslow can guard the stretch 4s who like to hang out on the perimeter. I do like that both can push the ball with the 2nd unit.
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The experience they gained last year should be huge boost to their confidence
 
For any CBA/extension experts, how long does Dame have to accept that extension? Beginning of the regular season?
 
B-Roy said:
For any CBA/extension experts, how long does Dame have to accept that extension? Beginning of the regular season?
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You're assuming there is an offer sitting there for him to accept...

The earliest his contract can be extended is the 3rd anniversary of his last extension (which he signed 7/6/2019). There isn't one available to him for another 5-days.

Since Dame still has 3-years on his contract, he can extend anytime during the season.
 
CJ_is_Gone said:
You're assuming there is an offer sitting there for him to accept...

The earliest his contract can be extended is the 3rd anniversary of his last extension (which he signed 7/6/2019). There isn't one available to him for another 5-days.

Since Dame still has 3-years on his contract, he can extend anytime during the season.
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So one reason it may not be signed yet is cause it's literally not available yet. Thanks.
 
Not many people are seeing our taller Walker as being able to contribute this season although he seemed excited that here there was a need for his position and hey..we should definitely say goodbye to those two fan faves, Blevins and Elleby! We still have a two way contract to use as well for a 3rd string big...
 
Blazers Salary by Position

Guards $97.2 million (seven players)
Forwards $34.2 million (six players)
Center $15.6 million (one player)

5/7 top salaries are guards
 
Forwards (big wings) seem to be the most important position in the modern NBA game. We have one in Grant, one on a rookie contract in Little, one who is a limited vet in Winslow paid $4 million, and a couple on minimum salaries.

Just seems to be a total failing in the Olshey years and now continued in the Cronin regime.

I thought we were fine at Guard with Hart complementing DameSimons. Now by default he likely will have to slide over to SF for all of his minutes. People actually talk about 6'3" GP2 playing at PF.

All this talk of the problems with the 3 guard lineup. Now we are going to use a 4 guard lineup?
 
WesleyMatthews said:
Forwards (big wings) seem to be the most important position in the modern NBA game. We have one in Grant, one on a rookie contract in Little, one who is a limited vet in Winslow paid $4 million, and a couple on minimum salaries.

Just seems to be a total failing in the Olshey years and now continued in the Cronin regime.

I thought we were fine at Guard with Hart complementing DameSimons. Now by default he likely will have to slide over to SF for all of his minutes. People actually talk about 6'3" GP2 playing at PF.

All this talk of the problems with the 3 guard lineup. Now we are going to use a 4 guard lineup?
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Billups views SGs and SFs the same. The main problem has never been size imo. The problem is we had players that just couldn't defend, and being undersized just magnified the problem. With the way the game is played now, the most valued defenders are guys that can switch onto wings, guards, and even bigs. It's why Smart won DPOY imo. The more switchable players you have, the better you'll defend imo. We didn't have that with McCollum, Powell, etc. We have much more of those types now, as well as a coach who actually values defense.
 
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I'm pretty bullish on Trendon Watford. I think he slots in as our backup center at the moment, and he'll play some 4. Basically he can be plug and play at all our forward spots. He's got the dribble, pass and defend part down. Just needs to learn how to shoot. And he's signed for 3 more years on a cheap deal. It actually does so much for the future of this team from a team building perspective if he proves he's a rotation quality player.
 
THE HCP said:
Bro…… I’m seeing 5 G-League players on this roster. 5th -8th seed?
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Billups is supposed to be able to coach this team. This year i agree. Gonna be hard to even make the playoffs but i would expect 2023-24 they should be much improved.
 
B-Roy said:
I'm pretty bullish on Trendon Watford. I think he slots in as our backup center at the moment, and he'll play some 4. Basically he can be plug and play at all our forward spots. He's got the dribble, pass and defend part down. Just needs to learn how to shoot. And he's signed for 3 more years on a cheap deal. It actually does so much for the future of this team from a team building perspective if he proves he's a rotation quality player.
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He's only 6-8? Listed as 6-9 on some sites. he's a PF at best.
Blazers need to bring on a buyout Center and play Drew Eubanks as well.
 
Fairly-Hard said:
He's only 6-8? Listed as 6-9 on some sites. he's a PF at best.
Blazers need to bring on a buyout Center and play Drew Eubanks as well.
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We probably want to keep the option open to duck the luxury tax, so I doubt we bring in a center. We probably play undersized with Watford, Grant, or Winslow at center if Nurk misses time or has foul trouble. I'd think Eubanks is more of a 3rd string player than a backup/emergency starter.
 
WesleyMatthews said:
We probably want to keep the option open to duck the luxury tax, so I doubt we bring in a center. We probably play undersized with Watford, Grant, or Winslow at center if Nurk misses time or has foul trouble. I'd think Eubanks is more of a 3rd string player than a backup/emergency starter.
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Yeah it's a downer but the Tax now seems to be more important than trying to win because they ain't gonna win this year. So stay under the tax.
bring on the tank and while at it might as well send dame packing. Billups time here is limited as well is my guess.
 
Fairly-Hard said:
Yeah it's a downer but the Tax now seems to be more important than trying to win because they ain't gonna win this year. So stay under the tax.
bring on the tank and while at it might as well send dame packing. Billups time here is limited as well is my guess.
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I'm good with keeping Billups, he seems good developing guys. Heck if we want to keep Dame for a rebuild as Kobe stayed on the Lakers thats fine too. Sharpe and Simons are interesting to start a rebuild with. But the team needs a lot more young assets if they hope to ever have a chance to build a contender. The Blazers are likely many years away.

What I'm not ok with is giving up young talent/draft picks for mediocre veterans, sending out starting talent for nothing in return, or bidding against ourselves to overpay our players. All of these actions keep the team in mediocrity with no way to contend today, nor build towards contention in the future.
 
WesleyMatthews said:
I'm good with keeping Billups, he seems good developing guys
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You have not seen him develop anything so i don't know how you could know this?

WesleyMatthews said:
Heck if we want to keep Dame for a rebuild as Kobe stayed on the Lakers thats fine too.
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That pretty much put the Lakers in Purgatory. The Blazers cannot afford that. You know this as well as anyone. I've read your posts. Your smarter than this.

WesleyMatthews said:
The Blazers are likely many years away.
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On this we agree.

WesleyMatthews said:
What I'm not ok with is giving up young talent/draft picks for mediocre veterans, sending out starting talent for nothing in return, or bidding against ourselves to overpay our players. All of these actions keep the team in mediocrity with no way to contend today, nor build towards contention in the future.
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I honestly don't think anyone is okay with that and i highly doubt that has ever been the plan however trading for veterans and adding good quality pieces that have role player value seems to be what every championship team i have ever watched has done to get where they are.
 
Hi. Couldn't log in with my old login, but I really wanted to ask this. What was the plan last year?

I mean, all I read was Cronin makes clearance with those (kind of ugly) trades, so Blazers have A LOT of salary space to make big signings and all of sudden there is a hard cap and they are done. Like, WTF?

This offseason feels exactly like the season when RoCo supposed to be missing piece of championship run. Or Toliver, really.
I mean, I like Grant and love Payton signings, but they are not Ayton or Butler and I was expecting even more:)

And another thing. Correct me, because I might see it wrong. For years Blazers played with Dame/CJ duo and now it looks like we'll go with Dame/Ant duo and I really see not much of a difference, to be honest. It feels like they don't want to trade Lillard (obvious reasons) and at the same time see their future in Ant. So, we have same situation as Dame/CJ situation was.
It seems like we are one leg in good direction with addressing defensive issues with signing Hart, Grant, Payton and Nurk, but one leg is in the past and is addressing loyalty issues.

And when I look on this roster I have to ask this: Do we trade Ant or do we trade Lillard? When can Blazers do it? Looks like this needs to be done, because for now it looks like a classic coconut monkey trap.
 
new22 said:
Hi. Couldn't log in with my old login, but I really wanted to ask this. What was the plan last year?

I mean, all I read was Cronin makes clearance with those (kind of ugly) trades, so Blazers have A LOT of salary space to make big signings and all of sudden there is a hard cap and they are done. Like, WTF?

This offseason feels exactly like the season when RoCo supposed to be missing piece of championship run. Or Toliver, really.
I mean, I like Grant and love Payton signings, but they are not Ayton or Butler and I was expecting even more:)

And another thing. Correct me, because I might see it wrong. For years Blazers played with Dame/CJ duo and now it looks like we'll go with Dame/Ant duo and I really see not much of a difference, to be honest. It feels like they don't want to trade Lillard (obvious reasons) and at the same time see their future in Ant. So, we have same situation as Dame/CJ situation was.
It seems like we are one leg in good direction with addressing defensive issues with signing Hart, Grant, Payton and Nurk, but one leg is in the past and is addressing loyalty issues.

And when I look on this roster I have to ask this: Do we trade Ant or do we trade Lillard? When can Blazers do it? Looks like this needs to be done, because for now it looks like a classic coconut monkey trap.
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For what it’s worth this is my opinion.
Ant should be a 6th man scoring machine off the bench.
 
Fairly-Hard said:
You have not seen him develop anything so i don't know how you could know this?
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I have seen this, and other things...
The Man is a Natural Born Leader, and his Young Guys Love Him.
He will develop them as players AND men,.

 
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