Zombie Damian Lillard to request trade in coming days (nope, he's not.)

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BLAZINGGIANTS said:
I love all your speculation. I get it. “I think this.” “I don’t think that.” I get it - part of being a fan.

None of you have any real clue what the reality is, and I’m not going to burn time trying to carve through this mess of speculation, social media comments, and media speculation.

I’m going to follow along, watch the bickering and brief meltdowns, and enjoy my popcorn and wait for something real to happen.

In the meantime, I’m enjoying that you guys have learned little from all the rhetoric and misinformation in the political scene and haven’t made the correlation it’s happening across the sports scene, as well.

Giddy up, FAMS!
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I hear that but @Propagandist isn't saying anything about social media or speculation. He's claiming to have a source that says Dame has one foot out the door because of this off season that can be seen as nothing more than treading water when he demanded improvement. That's definitely riled up this specific thread.
 
Mr. Robot said:
you need to go back to understand how we get to that point

i cant bother to explain
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We got to that point by you misinterpreting someone else's post, but that's OK. You read English much better than I read any of the other languages you speak, so we can let it slide.
 
blazerkor said:
I hear that but @Propagandist isn't saying anything about social media or speculation. He's claiming to have a source that says Dame has one foot out the door because of this off season that can be seen as nothing more than treading water when he demanded improvement. That's definitely riled up this specific thread.
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Everybody here has sauces, FAMS.

You ever watch Shawshank Redemption and the guy says that everybody locked up in that prison is innocent? That’s no different than S2. It’s pretty easy to have sauces and not have to serve or deliver in the sports world.
 
I don't think Lillard is imminently going to demand a trade, but I think the countdown on such a denouement has begun.

I think it's probably true that Lillard no longer feels connected at the hip to Portland like he once may have.
 
BLAZINGGIANTS said:
I love all your speculation. I get it. “I think this.” “I don’t think that.” I get it - part of being a fan.

None of you have any real clue what the reality is, and I’m not going to burn time trying to carve through this mess of speculation, social media comments, and media speculation.

I’m going to follow along, watch the bickering and brief meltdowns, and enjoy my popcorn and wait for something real to happen.

In the meantime, I’m enjoying that you guys have learned little from all the rhetoric and misinformation in the political scene and haven’t made the correlation it’s happening across the sports scene, as well.

Giddy up, FAMS!
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This place will be real quiet if only people who had any real clue what reality is could post. Myself included!
 
BLAZINGGIANTS said:
I love all your speculation. I get it. “I think this.” “I don’t think that.” I get it - part of being a fan.

None of you have any real clue what the reality is, and I’m not going to burn time trying to carve through this mess of speculation, social media comments, and media speculation.

I’m going to follow along, watch the bickering and brief meltdowns, and enjoy my popcorn and wait for something real to happen.

In the meantime, I’m enjoying that you guys have learned little from all the rhetoric and misinformation in the political scene and haven’t made the correlation it’s happening across the sports scene, as well.

Giddy up, FAMS!
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Except the Neil olshey blueprint has been known for years and has been followed to the letter.

So pardon the people who have been paying attention and understand patterns.
 
Strenuus said:
Except the Neil olshey blueprint has been known for years and has been followed to the letter.

So pardon the people who have been paying attention and understand patterns.
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“I think” he ain’t tryna be lazy and put a mediocre product on the floor.

FAMS.
 
BLAZINGGIANTS said:
“I think” he ain’t tryna be lazy and put a mediocre product on the floor.

FAMS.
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The problem is he might really think the team we currently have is a potential contender with Billups as coach.

We know Dame does not feel that way. He has said it himself. He also sounded bummed we didn't get much in terms of free agency because guys turned us down.

We don't have to correlate that to politics when we hear things straight from dame.
 
The most obvious scenario is trading CJ at the deadline. If Billups can inject ball movement in this team it will result with more open shots for CJ and his value will grow. All you have to do is stop selfish MeJ and I'm sure he will have great stats. February CJ's value might be bigger that Ben Simmons value and that's the proper time to make this trade, not now.
About trading Dame now... It is nonsense. Main change in the team was made - head coach. Dame was probably main reason Stotts was his coach for so long and Stotts was main reason this team was stagnant. Dame should give new coach a shot.
If Dame wants to go to big market to grow - that's other thing. I don't blame him, but it has nothing to do with Blazers moves as they are not finished yet.
Now, if Olshey really made CJ untouchable, that's another whole different story:)
 
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If CJ’s value is higher than Simmons’ by the trade deadline….why trade for Simmons?
 
Im assuming Jody & Bert have heard from Dame directly, if he's given them an ultimatum, which nobody really knows if he has, or what it involved, if he did. Dame himself has said he see's himself here next season, if he was simply done and pissed I dont think he would have made that statement? who knows where Dames head and heart his and what Jody views for the Blazers going forward? Expect the unexpected I guess.
 
Natebishop3 said:
Do you think we've had a good offseason?
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No of course not. But I doubt Dame is sitting around a message board all day and working himself into a frenzy over our 2nd round picks, our summer league team, our lack of 1st round picks (unless he dislikes RoCo), our lack of cap space (Unless he thinks he and his teammates should be paid less) and that CJ is still on the team. I think he is a little more informed than FANaticals of a sports team who tend to be more emotional as they repeat things over and over and over.

I'm sure Dame is not thrilled about the offseason but is he as furious as some of our fans? Is he breaking down Neils 9 year history with the Blazers on a daily basis? My guess is...... no.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
Simmons/Powell/Siakam/Roco/Nurk is an 8 seed?
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I guess I should have said "at least an 8 seed".

Just saying that's a competitive team. Not much less competent than we are now, but probably much further from being a contender than we are now.
 
Chris Craig said:
Harris will be expiring in a year or two. They will be better able to get players to come for cheap than Portland.
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So basically your argument is that in *2* years, Damian might get ring chasers?

When he's 33? And that's a selling point to leave Portland?
 
julius said:
Dame with Embiid is not better than Dame, Powell, Roco, Simmons and Nurk.
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Dame with Curry, Harris, and Embiid is arguably better

Of course one scenario sees Dame traded for Simmons, whereas the other sees Simmons traded for CJ. The latter option seems less likely than the former, as of late.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
Dame with Curry, Harris, and Embiid is arguably better

Of course one scenario sees Dame traded for Simmons, whereas the other sees Simmons traded for CJ. The latter option seems less likely than the former, as of late.
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I think if we're going to go with the "sources" one way, we need to go with them the other way.
 
Pinwheel1 said:
No of course not. But I doubt Dame is sitting around a message board all day and working himself into a frenzy over our 2nd round picks, our summer league team, our lack of 1st round picks (unless he dislikes RoCo), our lack of cap space (Unless he thinks he and his teammates should be paid less) and that CJ is still on the team. I think he is a little more informed than FANaticals of a sports team who tend to be more emotional as they repeat things over and over and over.

I'm sure Dame is not thrilled about the offseason but is he as furious as some of our fans? Is he breaking down Neils 9 year history with the Blazers on a daily basis? My guess is...... no.
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I don't know man.... Dame is about loyalty. In a big way. If he sees the team as basically shitting on his loyalty, after he played the one card that he has, I could see him being furious.
 
Natebishop3 said:
I don't know man.... Dame is about loyalty. In a big way. If he sees the team as basically shitting on his loyalty, after he played the one card that he has, I could see him being furious.
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That is assuming they aren't doing stuff with his approval
 
royo said:
Seriously...
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This would mean that Simmons has gone wayyyy down hill if CJ’s value gets to a point that he’s more valuable than Simmons.

it would tell me that things have gone very well for CJ and thus the team - and I would not then trade CJ for Simmons. It’s quite logical
 
BoomChakaLaka said:
This would mean that Simmons has gone wayyyy down hill if CJ’s value gets to a point that he’s more valuable than Simmons.

it would tell me that things have gone very well for CJ and thus the team - and I would not then trade CJ for Simmons. It’s quite logical
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Not really. We got 3 almost same guards and Morey needs one of them. We need size and defense. Let's say, at this point Simmons is worth CJ++. We can let shoot CJ to keep him shiny and Simmons can do Griffin to Philly. When that happen trade will be better for us - CJ for Simmons++. This is logical imo. There is no point to rush this trade just because fans are going crazy.
 
royo said:
Not really. We got 3 almost same guards and Morey needs one of them. We need size and defense. Let's say, at this point Simmons is worth CJ++. We can let shoot CJ to keep him shiny and Simmons can do Griffin to Philly. When that happen trade will be better for us - CJ for Simmons++. This is logical imo. There is no point to rush this trade just because fans are going crazy.
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We just as well could have picked up Patrick Beverly but opted for MacLemore….Snell….? Not sure management is serious about building around Dame!
 
BoomChakaLaka said:
We just as well could have picked up Patrick Beverly but opted for MacLemore….Snell….? Not sure management is serious about building around Dame!
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Beverly sucks. He’s not even good at defense any more. Took a huge step back last year.
 
BoomChakaLaka said:
We just as well could have picked up Patrick Beverly but opted for MacLemore….Snell….? Not sure management is serious about building around Dame!
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MickZagger said:
Beverly sucks. He’s not even good at defense any more. Took a huge step back last year.
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On top of that, he's making 14 million dollars next year. How are we "picking him up" exactly?
 
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