And after those years, there's plenty of time to draft more youngsters, who may be way better than Scoot to rebuild with. Special doesn't come around often. And even if it does, it may never be all in like Dame has been, even through the rough stretches.
If the Magic love Scoot. I think a really easy trade to make if the Hornets take Miller is 3 and Nurk for Franz, WCJ and 11. We would still have 11, 23 and both Ant and Nas to match salaries and make one more big bold move. Those are two players that have shown they can play in the league but are young enough to have a lot of upside.
I love Franz and mentioned a trade for him awhile ago but after reading some message boards I didn’t realize how much the fans(and I’m guessing organization) value him. I think they have 2 pieces they won’t part with and he’s one of them.
many here are in a rut with their views, some especially so. Maybe if they post the same thought another 10,000 times we'll all come to see things their way?
You're spamming your perspective pretty hard. We get it. You want to move on from Dame. Cool. Some of us don't and I think most of the posts that I see about how we move forward with Dame have different ideas of how to do that. You just keep saying that we can't do it and expect to contend.
We being you and 3 other posters who don't want to hear anything but Dame Dame Dame like children clinging to visions of Santa, so much that any other discussion makes that poster a hater. It's pathetic. This is a Portland Trailblazers forum not the Damian Lillard fan club, grow up. We all love Dame, who else but total Trailblazer die hards would be chopping it up daily in the offseason after another terrible campaign?
Fun fact, we played at a faster pace than Miami and Denver this season!
I've just learned to accept that I'm all wrong and some wize guys just know it all.
Once we trade the third pick for a bad fitting fringe all star, we can
I don't think you're oversensitive. I think Dame is just reiterating his position that it's time for management to put up or shut up. I do not think that backs anyone into any corners it just means that if we don't improve this team in a meaningful way that he will want out. I don't blame him and it gives Cronin the opportunity to explore trades to make the team better aggressively or once again punt on the team's success by trading Dame and going into a total youth rebuild.
But i do see now after reading some more posts here, that those tweets i saw may have given a somewhat distorted picture, especially if he was asked about specific teams. And his overall tenor seemed to be that he preferred to stay in Portland and knew there were risks in going elsewhere to seek a title.
Custer was bending his arm , and he gave him a answer to make him move on. It was just an if's and But's, were candy and nuts. Dame said what he wanted to do, and he wanted to do it in Portland. Because Bam & Mikal are his buds, and they're on other teams is just what it is. He also said that any deal to send him to a contender would weaken their chances to do so by the compensation that would be sent back. And that team probably wouldn't be any better than where he left.
I'd encourage you to listen to the entire video. I did, and I did not walk away thinking Dame wants out. Very much the opposite.
That’s all true. But he also restated twice that they would be having a conversation if the team didn’t use their assets to improve the team. He pretty much reiterated what he said back in April.
He isn't weakening Cronin's abilities whatsoever, in my opinion. Cronin has an impetus to either improve the team dramatically or move Dame. Those two almost opposite directions that Cronin can go in give him a lot of leverage. The value of the pieces Cronin has to work with give him a lot of leverage. The fact that there are 30 teams and not just 3 teams gives Cronin a lot of avenues and thus gives him a lot of leverage. Dame hasn't publicly demanded a trade, he's said he wants this team to get better... every team needs to get better. Due to the fact that Dame hasn't demanded a trade, the teams he mentioned don't have added leverage, they might think they have a potential deal but that doesn't equal leverage when there are so many other options in any direction that are out there.
