wizenheimer
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Oct 19, 2008
- Messages
- 24,912
- Likes
- 37,891
- Points
- 113
its why i keep harping on the 2017 disaster as his biggest blunder. he had to hit on that as a borderline all star at least
He needed to trade those damn picks for a veteran.
in a different way, 2017 was worse than the insane 2016 spending spree
first, OKC was urgently shopping Paul George and Olshey got into the auction by offering all 3 of those picks and any combo of players, but held CJ untouchable in the trade along with Dame & Nurkic. Then a week later he took Collins and Swanigan.
now, it's possible that Indy was really high on Sabonis and would have gone with OKC's offer anyway. But CJ was coming off his best season while Oladipo was coming off his worst. So maybe the Blazers could have landed PG13 and Dame could have developed a great mesh with him. If not, having SGA and Gallo plus 7 1st round picks and swaps would have the Blazers in a better place than they are now
and of course, the players Portland passed by in favor of Zach and Biggie that draft is kind of mind-boggling