Hoopsworld Morning Report: No Changes in Portland?

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Hoopsworld is reporting no trades for Ptd. This news has me the closest I've been to thinking a trade is going to happen . .. since they are always wrong. :D
 
Yep I went and looked outside. Doesn't look like anything has changed. They must have somebody on staff who lives here, those sneaky bastards!
 
"We're well aware of where we are as an organization and where we want to go. We won't be doing anything to patch up this team or make a run for this year. Anything that we do is going to be for the future of the franchise. We know we have a young team and there are a lot of teams that are interested in our players. Kevin (Pritchard) and I will work hard to improve the team, but not for the sake of making a run for just this year. It would be something we feel helps us for the future, not just this year."
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love that quote. If someone wants to pull the plug on their season/turn over their roster and a Gasol type trade comes up thats one thing, but you can't count on that. Otherwise the focus is on what they do have and their internal improvement... as it should be.

STOMP
 
"We're well aware of where we are as an organization and where we want to go. We won't be doing anything to patch up this team or make a run for this year. Anything that we do is going to be for the future of the franchise. We know we have a young team and there are a lot of teams that are interested in our players. Kevin (Pritchard) and I will work hard to improve the team, but not for the sake of making a run for just this year. It would be something we feel helps us for the future, not just this year."

I hope this gets rid of the phrase "trade just for the sake of trading" . . . I hate that phrase bwcause what GM really is going to do that.

But the phrase "not trade for the sake of making a run this year" makes much more sense and is one that can get echoed by posters who want to "bake it."

Personally I think this team has too many young players who will alll eventually want more playing time. I would love to see KP trade some of that youth to get a vet for a run this year (it also consolidates the roster to allow for more draft day magic) I think Roy is playing incredible ball and one would expect that for years to come, but you never know, so stike while the iron is hot.

But that is why he is KP and I'm just a fan.
 
Thankfully, and I mean thankfully Nate doesn't make those decisions
 
hoopsworld is like reading one of those magazines in the checkout line at the grocery store. complete crap.

they use to have a great blazer writer named..... jeff roberston who kinda vanished. he was a good inside guy. when he left... they lost credibility.
 
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Man, it's so weird that McMillan wouldn't come out and say that we are pursuing a trade for X player. It's seems obvious that he'd want to show the organization's cards early and often.

I mean, when I play Texas Hold 'Em with my buddies, I almost always show my cards before we start laying down chips. Especially when I have pocket aces.

-Pop
 
MIXUM said:
hoopsworld is like reading one of those magazines in the checkout line at the grocery store. complete crap.

they use to have a great blazer writer named..... jeff roberston who kinda vanished. he was a good inside guy. when he left... they lost credibility.
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Oh so I take it they have an article about Jessica Simpson going on the Shawn Kemp diet? :pimp:
 
This was a message to the rest of the league saying, "Your offers are insufficient."
 
MIXUM said:
hoopsworld is like reading one of those magazines in the checkout line at the grocery store. complete crap.

they use to have a great blazer writer named..... jeff roberston who kinda vanished. he was a good inside guy. when he left... they lost credibility.
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Actually Wendell Maxey has been great since he moved to Portland two years ago to be the primary Blazers guy for their site, his blog is usually a really good read too. http://beyondthebeat.wordpress.com/
 
What Nate said only makes sense. While we want to do as well as we can this season, we don't want to do anything with the sole intent of improving for this season while hurting our future. Sure if we could make a deal that help us this year and in the future we'd do it, but otherwise it just doesn't make sense.
 
free_lafrentz said:
not enough of an upgrade over Blake IMO.
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Don't tell anyone in the Blazers that.

Just keep repeating phrases like "Good floor general, lock down defense, scrappy, blue collar, team player" etc. etc.

No one has to find out about the actual quality of Kirk Hinrich. :devilwink:
 
free_lafrentz said:
does it really matter? It should still be discussed.
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I think it matters in that anything from Hoopsworld should be taken with the slightest grain of salt possible, but sure it is certainly worthy to be discussed in terms of whether Portland should make a move or not.
 
i really doubt that kps phone will be silent for the next couple weeks. owners that intsruct their gms to save money know where to turn to.
 
Денг Гордон said:
Don't tell anyone in the Blazers that.

Just keep repeating phrases like "Good floor general, lock down defense, scrappy, blue collar, team player" etc. etc.

No one has to find out about the actual quality of Kirk Hinrich. :devilwink:
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his 8-10m contract over 3 or 4 years really doesnt help his chances, too.
 
maxiep said:
This was a message to the rest of the league saying, "Your offers are insufficient."
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Hopefully the team starts sending out messages annually in June, that says "all your base are belong to us".
 
My signature is in June mode and have been for quite some time.
 
I was actually daydreaming in a dream like state before falling asleep last night that we trade Bayless, Rudy, Raef, Sergio, Travis for Deron Williams and how awesome Deron would be on our team. Outside of LeBron, there is noone I would want on our team more than Deron Williams. Him and Paul are pretty even in my book as term of how much I want them on the Blazers.

Hopefully Boozer and all of them leave this offseason and Deron gets pissed and demands a trade and we offer up a huge offer this offseason and evne take some more salary back on our cap since we will be under the cap.
 
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