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illmatic99 said:
Norm apparently interviewed with Brooke after he signed his contract and took pics with Neil on Friday.

Still nothing posted. How much are they doctoring this interview?

https://www.nba.com/blazers/news/2021/8/6/trail-blazers-re-sign-norman-powell

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handsome man, isnt he

im speaking about my man neil
 
BBert said:
Already stalking his wife and he's not even signed yet. SMH
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nah i just checked out his IG and the only post he has recently is a Q&A with his wife where he tagged her. clicked her profile.

not stalking as much as trying to follow all our new guys on social like i always do. The only wives I follow are Dame's fiance and CJ's wife, mostly cuz they're always tagged in everything
 
Natebishop3 said:
This whole offseason is so fucking weird.
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it’s really not, couple people on here are just obsessed with it...to the point of borderline stalking....which can be fun I guess.....but don’t be surprised when impatience hits.
 
illmatic99 said:
nah i just checked out his IG and the only post he has recently is a Q&A with his wife where he tagged her. clicked her profile.

not stalking as much as trying to follow all our new guys on social like i always do. The only wives I follow are Dame's fiance and CJ's wife, mostly cuz they're always tagged in everything
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He-he, 'tagged her', he-he he-he

/Butthead
 
Natebishop3 said:
That's really not the concerning part.... the concerning part is that Hassan fucking Whiteside told us to pound sand :lol:
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no the concerning part is our GM of 9 yrs has still yet to figure out WTF to do with free agency.

It appears our top choices were: Oubre/Batum/Whiteside?

And we ended up with Snell/McLemore/Zeller.
 
Natebishop3 said:
That's really not the concerning part.... the concerning part is that Hassan fucking Whiteside told us to pound sand :lol:
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I guess 2nd string in Utah is better than 3rd string in Portland. Although if he knows his Blazer history he would have known he would still be starting by January.
 
Pinwheel1 said:
I guess 2nd string in Utah is better than 3rd string in Portland. Although if he knows his Blazer history he would have known he would still be starting by January.
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Who knows if we offered him before or after Zeller though.

Interesting. Hassan had posted something weeks ago when a fan said he should resign with Portland that they know his number.

Probably some sour grapes that we traded for Kanter after he put up decent numbers for us and he had to sign for minimum last year with the Kings.

Plus, utah had a better record than us. So, probably feels they are more likely to contend.
 
illmatic99 said:
no the concerning part is our GM of 9 yrs has still yet to figure out WTF to do with free agency.

It appears our top choices were: Oubre/Batum/Whiteside?

And we ended up with Snell/McLemore/Zeller.
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He manages the team like it's a fantasy league. No concern for chemistry or how the pieces fit together.

It's like after every season, someone says "Neil you need defense." So Neil looks at a list of players and says, "defense? Defense? Defense....... ok...... defense! RoCo and DJJ!" Didn't think at all about how DJJ wouldn't fit with Stotts at all.
 
if i would have had to watch whiteside slowly slip screens, and aimlessly chase blocks while leaving his teammates hang out to dry, i woulda been upset. One of the laziest players I've ever seen on the court.

if there's one thing about zeller, he sets great screens and rolls hard.

I better not hear the Hassan was the first choice over Cody. I think we lucked out, but it's really annoying that we even went after him in the first place.
 
illmatic99 said:
I better not hear the Hassan was the first choice over Cody. I think we lucked out, but it's really annoying that we even went after him in the first place.
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I really doubt that Olshey would have signed both Whiteside and Zeller. Neither can play PF. So it's likely, either Whiteside is lying or Zeller was 2nd choice
 
wizenheimer said:
I really doubt that Olshey would have signed both Whiteside and Zeller. Neither can play PF. So it's likely, either Whiteside is lying or Zeller was 2nd choice
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Or the olshey special, he offered them 2 and someone else and said whoever accepts first gets the contract.
 
RR7 said:
Or the olshey special, he offered them 2 and someone else and said whoever accepts first gets the contract.
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could be.

the important thing is that illmatic's head didn't explode....just kind of percolated a bit at the thought of what could have been
 
Neil after Dame comes back from Tokyo

Neil: Hey Dame, I improved our team while you’re gone

Dame: who we got?

Neil: Zeller, Snell and McLemore

Dame: FML
 
Natebishop3 said:
More like...

Dame: Trade me.
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I'm sure Dame already knows what the roster looks like, and also knows that free agency wasn't where the changes that needed to be made were going to be made.
 
handiman said:
Like how Dame was so good for LMA's career?

Crappy attitudes tend to remain just that. Good leadership can occasionally smooth some of the rough edges, but the same old issues will eventually bubble up.
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I get what you are saying, but I think everyone's path is unique and hit or miss rate is up in the air as far as I'm concerned. Some people do just gradually mature and become solid individuals, some regress, some learn how to better wear masks, some die of chronic masturbation. What someone like Dame does is that he adds probability of better outcomes.
 
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