BLAZERS LOSE #1 DRAFT PICK!

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Too bad we didn't trade Gerald Henderson for a draft pick when we had a chance.
 
Tunchi said:
Well you bout to be bounced from the 1st round quick then you'll wish you had something to trade or trade with
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but then youll have a shitty draft pick and wish you made the playoffs.
 
3RA1N1AC said:
but then youll have a shitty draft pick and wish you made the playoffs.
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Below .500 teams make the playoffs some years. Quite honestly if we're not bonofide contenders I like to build through the draft and not lose any assets..
 
Tunchi said:
Below .500 teams make the playoffs some years. Quite honestly if we're not bonofide contenders I like to build through the draft and not lose any assets..
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HOW DO YOU BUILD THROUGH THE DRAFT WITH THE 14TH PICK???
 
If we were 8th seed going up against GSW, then it might be debatable. But, getting to 5 not only gives them a chance to win a series, at a minimum it gives this team solid first round experience at least a year earlier than expected.
 
Tunchi said:
Below .500 teams make the playoffs some years. Quite honestly if we're not bonofide contenders I like to build through the draft and not lose any assets..
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we owed that pick because we already traded it. you are like a stoner who gets fronted a bag of weed and then doesnt want to pay for it after the they smoke it all.
 
How are we going to get Gary Payton Junior now?!?
 
I'm glad we made the play-offs, but all this "draft picks are worthless!" nonsense is just silly.

BTW - we didn't lose the pick because we made the play-offs. We lost the pick (and Barton and T-Rob) because Olshey whiffed on Affalo. Even more than the pick, I would like to have Barton back. So it goes.
 
nobody is saying that draft picks are completely worthless.
 
Orion Bailey said:
Were fucked. Anyone wanna buy my tickets for next year at a discount? The season will be a total loss now.
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You could be right. I honestly believe we are more likely to regress than improve.

All the more reason to celebrate the current success.
 
oldmangrouch said:
You could be right. I honestly believe we are more likely to regress than improve.

All the more reason to celebrate the current success.
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You also honestly believed we'd be lucky to win 20 games this season, so...yes, let's celebrate the present. I fully agree with you there.
 
Tunchi said:
Well you bout to be bounced from the 1st round quick then you'll wish you had something to trade or trade with
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At least you finally correctly said "you" instead of "we", since you're just a fan of another team with nothing better to do.

Btw, it is possible to trade for a draft pick if that's what we want to do... it's not like we're now blacklisted from the NBA draft. However it's not possible to trade for a playoff spot.
 
oldmangrouch said:
I'm glad we made the play-offs, but all this "draft picks are worthless!" nonsense is just silly.

BTW - we didn't lose the pick because we made the play-offs. We lost the pick (and Barton and T-Rob) because Olshey whiffed on Affalo. Even more than the pick, I would like to have Barton back. So it goes.
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Listen I wanted the pick bad just like everybody on this forum knows but there's no way I'm knocking Olshey on that one.

We had to make a trade to bolster our bench last year and make LMA happy to stay. So again there's no way to knock Neil on that
 
Once it was clear we wouldn't be bad enough for a top 10 set of lotto numbers, it was playoffs or bust.

When some folks lamented the playoffs would be a tragedy, I think they meant getting creamed by GS or SA to the tune of 30 points a game.

Getting the fifth seed is the best case scenario, and something no rational person would have expected before the season.

I love this team!

:cheers:
 
Some people are still stuck on this "should of kept the pick shit". Yeah? 14th pick? making moves huh? "WELL LOOK AT KAWHI LEONARD AND ALL THESE OTHER PLAYERS". Excuse me sir, do you know the odds of that? Would rather this team compete and grow, playoff experience. 2nd round or not, this team has way overachieved so I am good with whatever.
 
Tunchi said:
Like Neil once said "asset accumulation"
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I prefer asset appreciation. If we sucked all year, the players we have wouldn't be worth what they're worth now. As I and others have been saying from day 1, adding a #8 pick to a pile of crap is not as good as adding a 2017 pick to a playoff team.

Oh yeah, that's the other thing everyone forgets. If we missed the playoffs this year, we probably would have made them next year and lost our 2017 pick. As of this moment, we now unconditionally own that pick. So not only do we have a good team, we also have absolute certainty over our future pick status, something we didn't have until we clinched. We also have the latitude to trade our 2018 pick before the draft (something we wouldn't have been able to do if we missed the playoffs), or could even trade our 2017 pick after the draft (again, something we couldn't have done if we missed the playoffs). So, you can focus on what we've lost out on, but I prefer to focus on the multiple things we've gained.
 
Yeah we lost the number 1 draft pick because the Lakers or Sixers were definatley going to trade us our 15th pick for it
 
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