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If he truly wants to stay then it does make sense to help the team get someone else to come in and help him.
 
Would be ecstatic if we could, somehow, nab him - to play starting center in the place of Plums.
 
We probably get a defensive center like Steven Adams for less. Not sure if Drummond is really worth the "new max".
 
BLAZINGGIANTS said:
For the record, a Drummond/Lillard draft is what I hoped for. Dame fucked it up by tearing up the pre-draft shit.
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I'm not gonna try to save face, I wanted Drummond over Lillard at the time of the draft, but hoped they could get both.
 
Fonzthecpt1 said:
I'm not gonna try to save face, I wanted Drummond over Lillard at the time of the draft, but hoped they could get both.
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Samesies. When we made the trade for the Nets' pick, I was hoping for Drummond. Lillard was a late-first round pick or early-second rounder. By the time we got to the draft, both were somewhere around 5-13.
 
I wanted Harrison Fucking Barnes at the draft.

I came around on Lillard in summer league though; could tell he was special it reminded me of Roy's summer league.
 
This seems like the new move we'll see with some max players. First Kawhi did it; now Drummond. Supposedly Beal will do a similar deal. I bet Lillard would've accepted this if we wanted. With all the Blazers roster turnover management probably wanted to just get the deal locked up.

With NBA players such as Durant and Harden having $200+ million shoe contracts I wonder if we will see more and more MVP level talents playing one year deals as LeBron is doing with a 2nd year player option. Seems to make sense as the player could effectively have veto power over any of the teams offseason decisions. The max salary artificially greatly underpays these players. The above deals are different though since these guys are on rookie contracts.
 
Fonzthecpt1 said:
I'm not gonna try to save face, I wanted Drummond over Lillard at the time of the draft, but hoped they could get both.
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This is where I was, except I also was high on Rivers... I'm glad we have Lillard now and a pretty deep cast of front court players.
 
I'll cop to wanting Drummond over Lillard. I'm fine with the way it shook out, but I don't think there's any shame in taking Drummond over Lillard. Obviously Lillard has had the better career so far, but I think a lot of that is because of the teams each player was drafted by. I'd still love to pair Drummond and Lillard together.
 
blue9 said:
I'll cop to wanting Drummond over Lillard. I'm fine with the way it shook out, but I don't think there's any shame in taking Drummond over Lillard. Obviously Lillard has had the better career so far, but I think a lot of that is because of the teams each player was drafted by. I'd still love to pair Drummond and Lillard together.
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It'd be awesome.

Also, Drummond would go right in line with our horrible FT shooting, too!
 
Draco said:
This seems like the new move we'll see with some max players. First Kawhi did it; now Drummond. Supposedly Beal will do a similar deal. I bet Lillard would've accepted this if we wanted. With all the Blazers roster turnover management probably wanted to just get the deal locked up.

With NBA players such as Durant and Harden having $200+ million shoe contracts I wonder if we will see more and more MVP level talents playing one year deals as LeBron is doing with a 2nd year player option. Seems to make sense as the player could effectively have veto power over any of the teams offseason decisions. The max salary artificially greatly underpays these players. The above deals are different though since these guys are on rookie contracts.
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After getting lied to and dumped by Allbitch, I can't blame the Blazers for getting Dame signed while he was willing. I also liked Drummond in that draft and had a brief surge of love for Barnes, but Dame just felt like the guy to grab while the grabbing was good. In Neil we trust.....
 
UncleCliffy'sDaddy said:
After getting lied to and dumped by Allbitch, I can't blame the Blazers for getting Dame signed while he was willing. I also liked Drummond in that draft and had a brief surge of love for Barnes, but Dame just felt like the guy to grab while the grabbing was good. In Neil we trust.....
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Yeah I also think the Oden debacle turned the Blazers off from lottery pick centers with bust potential. They'd rather have missed with a different type of player. The team wanted to be competitive sooner with Aldridge having two years on his contract and Drummond was over 3 years younger. Dame was the most NBA ready as a 4 year senior. Hard to believe Drummond is still only 22.
 
dviss1 said:
http://nba.nbcsports.com/2015/10/20...sion-with-pistons/?ocid=Yahoo&partner=ya5nbcs
Andre Drummond is the Pistons’ franchise player. Owner Tom Gores called the center a “max player” as soon as last season ended. President/coach Stan Van Gundy has consistently praised Drummond. If this happened for the reasons they wanted, this is potentially a nice victory for the Pistons.
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Imagine if we did end up drafting Lillard and Drummond? The future would of been brighter than it already is! Would of been sweet.
 
I loved Barnes and Drummond still do.
The reason why I wanted Barnes though is to get rid of Batum, then sign Dragic as the starting point as he was available that summer.
Had nothing to do with pre-draft workouts as I don't follow those.. I mean Rivers killed it in those and he's had like... 4 good games in the NBA for his career thus far.
But Lillard has proved to everyone he's better than people thought. Myself included.
 
honkicracker said:
I loved Barnes and Drummond still do.
The reason why I wanted Barnes though is to get rid of Batum, then sign Dragic as the starting point as he was available that summer.
Had nothing to do with pre-draft workouts as I don't follow those.. I mean Rivers killed it in those and he's had like... 4 good games in the NBA for his career thus far.
But Lillard has proved to everyone he's better than people thought. Myself included.
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What he also proved that players that come from a small college can succeed as much as players from a big college. Just like hopefully CJ McCollum will as well, which is looking pretty good for this year.
 
I predicted Lillard and Leonard at our selections. But, was hoping somehow that Drummond would make it down to Leonards spot.

Olshey needs to be very careful who he decides to give our cap space to. We need one special player to go with Lillard and maybe CJ.
 
Harry's Raincoat said:
I predicted Lillard and Leonard at our selections. But, was hoping somehow that Drummond would make it down to Leonards spot.

Olshey needs to be very careful who he decides to give our cap space to. We need one special player to go with Lillard and maybe CJ.
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We need a Jimmy Butler/Paul George/Klay Thompson type to play at the 2 next to Dame, with CJ playing 30+ min off the bench.
 
BonesJones said:
We need a Jimmy Butler/Paul George/Klay Thompson type to play at the 2 next to Dame, with CJ playing 30+ min off the bench.
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One of those is playing power forward, one plays small forward and the last is a rare physical shooting guard that maybe 3 teams in the league have. Of course we'd love to have an allstar at any postion but I don't see any specific need for such a large shooting guard in today's NBA.
 
BonesJones said:
We need a Jimmy Butler/Paul George/Klay Thompson type to play at the 2 next to Dame, with CJ playing 30+ min off the bench.
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I'd take a look at Tony Wroten, but I don't know his injury details, or what his status is in Philly. They are kind of like us in the sense that they have a lot of young talent which they are sitting and waiting to see if its a fit in the league/their system. Maybe we end up seeing some player swaps with a team like Philly. I wouldn't mind if Farmer Olshey gave them a good milking. His other cows "Charlotte" and "Brooklyn" are milked dry.
 
If my Seahawks vs 49ers game thread gets moved to the OT forum than so should this. This has nothing to do with the Blazers.
 
BigGameDamian said:
If my Seahawks vs 49ers game thread gets moved to the OT forum than so should this. This has nothing to do with the Blazers.
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One is about basketball and potential of a player and trade talk.

One is about a completely different sport.

I think that just about explains it. You know, with logic and stuff.
 
Strenuus said:
One is about basketball and potential of a player and trade talk.

One is about a completely different sport.

I think that just about explains it. You know, with logic and stuff.
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You think Andre Drummond will come to Portland?
 
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