Why the fuck does upper management trust Neil to run the team at all at this point? If they're still rolling with Neil, then he's got them convinced that he's good at his job and if he's got them sold on that, why wouldn't they trust him with a total rebuild?
We have to finagle the #3 pick in any deal with Cleveland and draft the Chauncey Billups clone — SUGGS
I would also do this deal but I don't think they're taking CJ if they've got Sexton and Garland but who knows. I also don't know if that deal gets us closer to contending and therefore makes Dame happy.
The third pick this year could be - and probably is - a franchise player. Why on earth would Cleveland do that?
Trading for Sexton IS blowing it up.
Must have been after my time because I don’t know him.
There has to be a middle ground between "I love Portland. I'm here for life" and "The enormous backlash from the Portland Trail Blazers' process to hire a new coach and his concerns on whether a championship contender can be built have become factors that may push the franchise player — Damian Lillard — out the door, league sources told Yahoo Sports."
I'm not critical of Dame. If Dame went to Neil and said something like, if we aren't a contender next season I want to be sent to somewhere I can contend. I would think that is a totally legit thing to say and should light a fire under Neil's ass. My problem is if there are rumors flying around that we're looking into players to trade for if we move on from Dame then that might be Neil saying that he's not going to give Dame a contender so he'll trade him now while his value is high.
See, I trust Dame to be reasonable but it's reasonable for him to be at the end of his rope with Neil, especially after Neil took zero accountability after the season. So if Dame made reasonable demands about where he wants the team to be if he's going to stay... the problem is I don't trust Neil to be motivated by those demands. I think the guy might take the easy way out and auction Dame off to the highest bidding contender and blow up the whole team.
I think he probably said what you wanted him to, to Neil and with the bullshit he's been getting for anything he has said to reporters/publicly, I don't blame him for not talking straight to us about it.
I'll tell you, he has always also said that he wants to bring a championship here. If he hears that presser Neil did after the season, that might have caused a very extreme change. It was all Dame's coach's fault? The problems weren't with the roster? That shit triggered me, so I can't imagine how much it would trigger someone who has as much invested in it as Dame does and knows both Terry and Neil like he does... and I guarantee you he has a closer relationship with Stotts.
