Aldridge would re-sign

[blazerboy30]

No. I never said we should take anything for LA. I thought Neil should wait for the right deal. The rumored deal with Golden State wouldn't have been so bad. One of his options was to "wait for $50" and that would have been my choice.

No, that wasn't one of his options. All of this is flying right over your head. It should be embarrassing to you, but I don't think you even realize it.

You realize that your posting like a jackass right now, right? You won't let it alone even though I said I was wrong.

False. You keep saying you were wrong BECAUSE you didn't know we would play this well. The fact is that your strategy was wrong, and still is wrong, regardless of how well we play this season or next.

You clearly don't comprehend that and keep trying to add justifications and qualifiers to your original guarantee.

You were posting like a child before, and you're still posting like a child.

Your posts do not reflect those of a grown man. <------ insulting the post and not the poster

Just like PapaG is saying, you start attacking any poster that calls out your terrible strategy and asinine guarantees. It's what you did 6 months ago. It's what you're doing now. It's what a 12-year-old would do.

You shouldn't be a moderator. You can't handle the responsibility, as menial as they are, because you don't have the temperament to do so.

 

[noknobs]

For some teams I think the strategy is sound. Cleveland should have traded LeBron. Denver traded Melo. Utah traded Deron Williams. Sometimes a star player wants out, they make it clear they want out, and you need to trade them while you can still get reasonable value. The Cavs were never going to get fair value for LeBron. How do you get fair value for the best player in the league? If you were Cleveland, and you could go back, would you trade LeBron knowing that he's going to skip town?

In our case, it worked out for us, and I give most of the credit to Neil, but I also give props to LA for stepping up his game. He has been a huge part of our success this year.

In the case of Melo, the summer before his last year under contract he refused to sign an extension with Denver and his comments made it abundantly clear that he was not interested in resigning with them. So they traded him his last year before the deadline. That's a no-brainer, and completely different than trading Lamarcus with still essentially 3 years (at the time, which was the end of 2012) on his contract when he hasn't said unequivocally that he doesn't want to be here.

In the case of Deron, he was traded shortly after the whole forcing Jerry Sloan out of town drama. There were rumblings he wanted out, so to avoid a Melo-like circus they quickly traded him with still a year and a half on his contract and have sucked thusly until present time. This again seems completely different than trading Lamarcus with still essentially 3 full season on his contract when he hasn't said unequivocally that he doesn't want to be here.

This next off-season and next season are really when these types of conversations should take place with Lamarcus, as opposed to over a year ago. To your point, if it comes out that he doesn't want to sign an extension and wants to see what's out there, then history tells us (Lebron) the writing is on the wall and we better trade him or risk getting nothing. But I'm liking the comments I'm hearing from him lately so hopefully that won't happen.

 

[OSUBlazerfan]

“I just decided to say it,” Aldridge told CSNNW.com. “I couldn’t tell you when I wanted to commit here. All I know is that I want to be here. I didn’t have that moment or anything like that, and I don’t know when I started to feel like this. But I want to be here.”

LMA saying he wants to stay

http://www.csnnw.com/blazers/winning-culture-shrewd-gm-convinces-aldridge-portland-place-him