David Aldridge Trade Deadline ReCrap

[e_blazer]

Okay, so David Aldridge is one of the best NBA writers around and he usually seems pretty in touch with the Blazers, but man he pulls some Blazer bloopers in his latest piece on nba.com:

http://www.nba.com/2011/news/featur...ade-deadline-recap/index.html?ls=iref:nbahpt1

So, Charlotte is a loser for making the trade with the Blazers, but the Blazers apparently don't exist because they aren't listed at all in the piece. Well, except later where he comments:

Blazers blow big lead over Lakers Friday, look hungover in bad loss to the Hawks Sunday.

Hunh. I could have sworn the Blazers played the Lakers on Wednesday, then had an inspiring win over the Nuggets on Friday before yesterday's debacle with the Hawks. I know we're barely a blip on the NBA radar out here in our little Northwest outpost, but you'd think they'd at least get the facts right.

Okay, so at the bottom of the article he does say this about the trade:

Gerald Wallace wasn't the most noteworthy pickup before the trade deadline, but he might be one of the most important. That was a really good deal for the Blazers.

So I guess we're winners...kind of.

 

[Nikolokolus]

So he got a couple of minor details wrong but got the jist of it right. What's the big issue? And besides, this wasn't the splashiest trade of the deadline, we just saw Carmelo and Deron move. While Wallace is a former all-star he's not a "super-star."

No offense but it seems like you're griping about nothing.

 

[e_blazer]

So he got a couple of minor details wrong but got the jist of it right. What's the big issue? And besides, this wasn't the splashiest trade of the deadline, we just saw Carmelo and Deron move. While Wallace is a former all-star he's not a "super-star."

No offense but it seems like you're griping about nothing.

I'm not really griping, I just thought it was a little bit funny.

Slow night.

 

[RR7]

So he got a couple of minor details wrong but got the jist of it right. What's the big issue? And besides, this wasn't the splashiest trade of the deadline, we just saw Carmelo and Deron move. While Wallace is a former all-star he's not a "super-star."

No offense but it seems like you're griping about nothing.

While I agree for the most part with what you're saying, Aldridge does list Orlando as a winner for doing nothing, and Cleveland for taking on Davis, but getting the first for it. I would say adding a player who as recently as last year was an all star and first team all defense is a bit more flashy than that.