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The Blazers should absolutely fire Cronin because a bunch of online fans had highly unrealistic expectations about moves he coulda-shoulda made. Never mind if he has plans for bigger moves this summer and what he did before the deadline set him up for them.
 
I am now on this bandwagon -- I was trying to make excuses and reasons kind of both why he was making some of the moves he made but plain and simple he sucks BUT I will say Jody needs to go too. It's a package deal when it comes to sucking and they have both done this to this team so there fates are tied together.
 
e_blazer said:
The Blazers should absolutely fire Cronin because a bunch of online fans had highly unrealistic expectations about moves he coulda-shoulda made. Never mind if he has plans for bigger moves this summer and what he did before the deadline set him up for them.
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And because ownership has shown the ability to be able to identify and obtain a better replacement.
 
Probably after the physicals and the trades are official
 
I don’t understand the anger. Cronin has been transparent since the offseason. He said this team is not complete and it would be a multi-year process. This team wasn’t a contender yesterday and definitely not a contender today with the moves made by other teams to improve. Outside of getting KD, there were no stars to be had that would have made this team anywhere close to a contender this year or next.

I’m glad Cronin held strong to his plan and didn’t make a move out of panic just to make a move. OG Anunoby was probably too expensive and wouldn’t make this team a contender anyway. The landscape of the league changed dramatically with the KD trade. It looks like they punted on this season and I don’t mind it for now.
 
what makes you think Grant will even stay? So over the next 18 months two all star caliber players are going to be had using Ant and Nurk and picks? And no other teams will go after them??
 
Natebishop3 said:
Wondering about the possibility of injuries and such.
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??? What does that have to do with the hard cap? Blazers don't have any more exceptions they can use to bring them over the hard cap, and even if there is a season ending injury why would the first thing you think about is whether we would even use that exception?
 
Natebishop3 said:
Wondering about the possibility of injuries and such.
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Still hard capped, but it doesn't matter. There is no way Portland can get anywhere remotely close to the hard cap (currently sitting ~$10M below).

There is enough room that if Portland wanted to, they could cycle through a bunch of minimum contract guys and still be below the lux tax line.
 
B-Roy said:
??? What does that have to do with the hard cap? Blazers don't have any more exceptions they can use to bring them over the hard cap, and even if there is a season ending injury why would the first thing you think about is whether we would even use that exception?
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The rule states you can't go over the cap for any reason. I was just curious.
 
CJ_is_Gone said:
Still hard capped, but it doesn't matter. There is no way Portland can get anywhere remotely close to the hard cap (currently sitting ~$10M below).

There is enough room that if Portland wanted to, they could cycle through a bunch of minimum contract guys and still be below the lux tax line.
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Thanks for answering the question.
 
Sure seemed very Olshey-like in the last couple of days....
 
TBpup said:
Sure seemed very Olshey-like in the last couple of days....
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Really? Olshey would have doubled down on Hart / GP2, I think.

It was a mediocre trade haul for mediocre talent going out. I will give you that, but it was a faster turn-around than what we have seen with NeO, I think.
 
andalusian said:
Really? Olshey would have doubled down on Hart / GP2, I think.

It was a mediocre trade haul for mediocre talent going out. I will give you that, but it was a faster turn-around than what we have seen with NeO, I think.
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Seemed very dumpster divey. Busts that were former high Draft picks. Very Neil like.
 
TBpup said:
Seemed very dumpster divey. Busts that were former high Draft picks. Very Neil like.
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OK, that's fair. I suspect that the guys they got were mostly for salary purposes (other than MT which they got for a specific role). They mostly got rid of under-performing assets (GP2, unfortunately) or ones that were going to walk away (Hart) for draft capital and whatever reclamation projects they could get.

I suspect Reddish, Knox and the other guy they got from NYK are just for salary purposes.
 
I'd say "fire the owner" to begin with, we need new ownership willing to make changes and pay if necessary, otherwise IMO any GM we hire hands are tied
 
I think he got us two FRP's besides all those second rounders as he made moves that will only help us in the future and will (hopefully) keep us as a lottery team this year and thereby retain our pick. He did not waste picks on moves that would only help marginally.
 
People thought we'd trade Sharpe and Ant for Durant....we don't have the luxury of expensive rentals. It's simple...Joe couldn't seal the deal on plan A or B so settled for C before it was too late...hence Cam Reddish and a first for Hart.....Utah strung Joe along it looks like and went for the bigger deal. Shit happens....that's not Joe's fault, from what I read he was engaged in trying to acquire a lot of players fans here want but couldn't get them in the end...so he made fringe moves while he could. Jody isn't paying the luxury tax for a team below 500 that's been streaky all season
 
CJ_is_Gone said:
Still hard capped, but it doesn't matter. There is no way Portland can get anywhere remotely close to the hard cap (currently sitting ~$10M below).

There is enough room that if Portland wanted to, they could cycle through a bunch of minimum contract guys and still be below the lux tax line.
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So, waive Arcidiacono and sign someone off of waivers...someone tall.
 
riverman said:
Dame alone is worth watching. Jody has to pay Jerami Grant off season ....I don't see any of her contracts as "cheap" or standing pat....Chauncey won't survive the summer if he misses the playoffs I'd say but this team is being built this year...no chemistry or championship expectations in my view...I'll always be a Blazer fan. Melting down over what didn't happen is a waste of time to me. Dame is beasting
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Man really, stop telling me how to feel.

All of the things I said need to happen. Jody needs to sell this team. Plain and simple. She was the one who didn't want to go into the tax. Cronin (who never had any competition for his job) is the one who WASTED money on GP2 only to trade him back to the team he left FOR NOTHING. I could go on and on about the ineptitude of Joe Cronin BECAUSE of Jody.

Frankly, I don't need to be told how to feel or how to react to this.
 
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