Another Aldridge angle

[magnifier661]

What if olshey and Grover have this mutual agreement that if Houston gets Howard; we get asik. But if Houston loses out on Howard; then we trade Aldridge for asik and draft picks?

It would send us to rebuild mode and way more cap space; plus I know we will suck next season for the wiggins sweepstakes.

 

[Wheels]

then I will go from enthusiastic for this team to "meh"

 

[magnifier661]

then I will go from enthusiastic for this team to "meh"

Yeah me too; unless we win the lotto

 

[RR7]

who is grover?

 

[magnifier661]

who is grover?

Fuck morey.... I have such a bad time with remembering names. My bad

 

[BigGameDamian]

Yeah me too; unless we win the lotto

Yes winning the lotto is the perfect answer to a championship.

 

[magnifier661]

Yes winning the lotto is the perfect answer to a championship.

It's definitely on the right track. Question... How many championship teams won the #1 pick and that team went to the finals in the last 20 years?

Orlando with shaq

Magic with lakers

Houston with rockets

Howard with Orlando

LBJ with Cleveland

AI with Philly

Duncan with sas

Ewing with New York

David Robinson with sas

Boo yah!

 

[BBert]

Trading Aldridge for value such as Asik doesn't make the Blazers bad enough for it to be worth it.

The Blazers need to either go all-in on building a contender with Aldridge, or else, go all-in on the tank by trading Aldridge for only projects, picks, short-term refuse, and cap space.

There are probably six other teams who are likely to out-lose us next season even if we do try to tank. I think it's going to be difficult to trade Aldridge for only future assets and not take back a player who is going to help win us out of a top 5 pick.

 

[magnifier661]

Trading Aldridge for value such as Asik doesn't make the Blazers bad enough for it to be worth it.

The Blazers need to either go all-in on building a contender with Aldridge, or else, trade Aldridge for only projects, picks, short-term refuse, and cap space.

There are probably six other teams who are likely to out-lose us next season even if we do try to tank. I think it's going to be difficult to trade Aldridge for only future assets and not take back a player who is going to help win us out of a top 5 pick.

I just want better shots at the lotto; and asik is a good pick up. We could go even more in by trading more assets for more pick options I guess.

Btw; I'm not for this since Aldridge is my favorite player. Just adding another angle/

 

[Coast541]

Houston played great for the Rockets

 

[magnifier661]

Houston played great for the Rockets

Oops Hakeem

 

[BBert]

I just want better shots at the lotto; and asik is a good pick up. We could go even more in by trading more assets for more pick options I guess.

Btw; I'm not for this since Aldridge is my favorite player. Just adding another angle/

I don't want to gut the team of its other assets. If we can trade Aldridge for a few more current and future Thomas Robinsons, it won't hurt our loss total too much in the short term.

Otherwise, we're stuck trying to win games. Pity.

 

[Coast541]

Oops Hakeem

sorry, had to!

 

[magnifier661]

sorry, had to!

Lol when you posted that I was like "oh great my ADHD kicked in and I didn't pay attention to what I wrote"

 

[SlyPokerDog]

who is grover?

 

[Pinwheel1]

My understanding from the talk radio Los Angeles, is Houston is meeting with Josh Smith right now in LA. (They met earlier with Dwight)

They want him whether they get Howard or not. Asik seems destined for the ATL.

 

[Rhal]

My understanding from the talk radio Los Angeles, is Houston is meeting with Josh Smith right now in LA. (They met earlier with Dwight)

They want him whether they get Howard or not. Asik seems destined for the ATL.

I'm holding out hope that we can get in on that and divert Asik to us by giving up Leonard and something. It seems like Atlanta is about to rebuild so they may be up to moving Asik if they get him.

 

[Pinwheel1]

I like the way Ben over at Blazer's Edge tweets that "LMA told a reporter he wants out", but when you actually read the article it was from the exit interviews. Social Media at its finest:

http://portlandtribune.com/pt/12-sp...s-aldridge-kyle-wiltjer-travis-green-and-more

 

[jlprk]

I'm not a Golliver fan, but you're kind of right and kind of wrong.

• Whether or not LaMarcus Aldridge has "requested" or "asked for" or "demanded" a trade is semantics. Fact is, the Trail Blazers' all-star forward confided to at least one reporter that during the team's end-of-season exit interviews, he told general manager Neil Olshey that he'd like to be moved.

Great picture at the top of the article, but where is half of the champ team?

 

[ripmycity]

Talks of getting Noah from the Bulls for Aldridge. Not liking that if we dont get another scorer

 

[Pinwheel1]

I'm not a Golliver fan, but you're kind of right and kind of wrong.

Don't really see how I am half wrong. My point was his tweet implied that LMA just made the request. People tweet and re-tweet things as if they were gospel. I get that tweets are limited by characters but he could have worded it better. But instead he went with the the usual 'Hey everyone look over here" approach that the media has come to.