Exclusive Dear Joe

[SharpeScooterShooter]

But we're all in fairy tale land... we do things like look at the bigger picture and want future success for our team when immediate success has been ruled out. So you and I need to pull our heads out of our asses and root for our team to play every game of the season and pre-season like it's an elimination game in the playoffs... shit, you really need to start asking yourself if there is any integrity in Summer League because if there was we would see the best rosters teams could play in every summer league. You really need to get some perspective.

What are you talking about integrity? We are summer league champs about to repeat!!!

On the serious, I cant wait. I want to see Shae Dominate!

 

[SharpeScooterShooter]

A bough is the main branch of a tree.
I dunno what a baby is doing up in a tree regardless.

Ahhh.
Agreed though. Who puts a cradle up in a tree?
I remember when i learned pocket full of posies was basically mimicking dying from the plague.
Who the heck came up with these children’s …rhymes?

 

[Bingo Bango]

Sorry man, but you are preaching to the choir and it still wont add up to me. Im a season ticket holder and didn't go to alot of games this season. But i still get the big picture is more important than a handful of games missing the star power of the team.
Fair weather fans may only care about the team if the stars are on the court, but true fans understand the need for business savvy, combined with the long term goal setting that has to be in place to have a chance at anything.
Odds are odds. Going from 8th to 5th allowed us better odds at the number one Wemby prize.
But more importantly, if provided zero chance of any of our key guys getting injured.

As a season ticket holder, I do not like tanking at all. You wont see me predict a loss. But I understand what is more important in the long run.
The product on the court is the least of my concerns if i wanted to critique the team as a ticket holder fan.

You are totally entitled to your opinion. Im just curious how long you will keep pushing back in every thread or just accept what is? Its hard pushing against the ocean.
It is what it is and no amount of frustration or vociferous anger will change what has happened the last two years. So why not turn the corner, hope for the best in the lottery and lets all be united that we dont want to do this a third year?

I get your point. I guess my “big picture” is different from yours. In my big picture, you don’t give away games for any reason. I think it’s disgusting to spend the last three weeks of the season handing games to your opponents. That’s the big picture I care about.

 

[crandc]

Off topic but children's rhymes are often gruesome.

 

[Ed O]

I get your point. I guess my “big picture” is different from yours. In my big picture, you don’t give away games for any reason. I think it’s disgusting to spend the last three weeks of the season handing games to your opponents. That’s the big picture I care about.

What's your non-big picture?

One minute of a game? A possession?

You are using a phrase entirely differently than anyone who has any sense of reason.

 

[SharpesTriumph]

I couldn’t care less about the lottery. That’s a fool’s paradise. We’re just as likely to get a good player at #8 as we are at #5.

False; the expected VORP (value over replacement player) is absolutely higher at pick #5 than at pick #8. Of course that's an average over many decades, and some individual picks will be higher or lower. But there is absolutely an advantage to have pick #5 over pick #8.

If you won't accept simple facts such as that; there really is no point in trying to logically discuss an argument with an irrational individual.

 

[HoopsFanAZ]

Dear Joe,

You hit the crap out of it when you drafted Shaedon instead of options that were overpriced.
The GP2 MLE didn’t work, but now the Blazers have 4 2nd rounders and an $8.3 million TPE. Good. That didn’t bring in a Big, but it’s still a good result for moving forward.
The contract to Nurkic is too long by at least a year, but the size of it is needed for trade filler, and Nurkic can play … when healthy. Ant’s contract is a good one. And the Grant deal was GOOD stuff. Paying up this summer for a good player — the cost of doing business.
The NY pick should clear the Chicago debt. Keeping Hart would’ve been good, but getting Thybulle is good, too.

IMHO, if you pull off a BIG trade for Dame Time, you’ll get serious consideration for GM of the year. If not, what you can get for Dame won’t get you off the hook. Not much can for having to trade the Best Blazer Ever.

 

[SharpeScooterShooter]

I get your point. I guess my “big picture” is different from yours. In my big picture, you don’t give away games for any reason. I think it’s disgusting to spend the last three weeks of the season handing games to your opponents. That’s the big picture I care about.

mmm id say its not so much my meaning being different than yours as much as yours being different than everyone else's.
Please don't take this the wrong way, but where abouts are you from? Are you in the Portland area?
To use Portland as an example, big picture would be going to the top of the west hills and staring out at mt hood and beyond.
What you are describing is more like standing on the west side of the river downtown and not looking past the east bank.

 

[Natebishop3]

I couldn’t care less about the lottery. That’s a fool’s paradise. We’re just as likely to get a good player at #8 as we are at #5. Every year players taken later in the first round outshine players taken earlier in the first round. If GMs knew what they were doing, the NBA wouldn’t be littered with one bungled pick after another, and Portland wouldn’t have passed on Jordan and Durant. What I care about are real basketball games, not charades where we pretend to put an NBA team on the floor and the other team pretends not to notice it’s a summer league team.

Lol

 

[STOMP]

So if Lillard, Grant, Simons, Nurkic, Eubanks, Thybulle and Reddish had played, the Blazers still would have lost by 57? You really are clueless. Go back to that fairy tale land where you get all your keen insights.

Talkhard is that really you? Still feeling your oats way way out in right wingnut pretend land hoping this time the people are with you while they're taking turns publically laughing at you. I actually thought you were long dead already, but welcome back I guess.

STOMP

 

[Phatguysrule]

Who are Sally and Joann?

Needle movers

 

[Rastapopoulos]

 

[Natebishop3]

Hey Joe, don't make it bad.
Take a sad roster and make it better.
Remember to let Wemby into your heart,
Then you can start to make it better.
Hey Joe, don't be afraid.
You were made to go out and get Wemby.
The minute you let Wemby under your skin,
Then you begin to make it better.
And anytime you feel the pain, hey Joe, refrain,
Don't carry the world upon your shoulders.
For well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool
By making his world a little colder.
Hey Joe, don't let me down.
You have found him, now go and get him.
Remember to let him into your heart,
Then you can start to make it better.
So let it out and let it in, hey Joe, begin,
You're waiting for someone to perform with.
And don't you know that it's just you, hey Joe, you'll do,
The movement you need is on your shoulder.
Hey Joe, don't make it bad.
Take a sad roster and make it better.
Remember to let him under your skin,
Then you'll begin to make it
Better better better better better better, oh.
Na na na nananana, nannana, hey Joe...