How mad will you be if we trade the #3 pick

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How mad if we trade our pick?

  • So mad I may not watch the Blazers for a while

    Votes: 5 13.2%

  • Fucking seething

    Votes: 5 13.2%

  • You will fight your anger by convincing yourself there aren't very good players available at 3

    Votes: 2 5.3%

  • "I don't follow college basketball, so I don't get invested"

    Votes: 1 2.6%

  • Fine, so long as we get a minimum of _________

    Votes: 21 55.3%

  • I love Dame more than life itself and anything to make him happy!

    Votes: 4 10.5%
  • Total voters
    38
Rastapopoulos

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Yeah, yeah, I know: "it depends what we get". Well, name the minimum that it would have to be for you to be happy with it (and I'll bet that'll be above what we actually get for it.)
 
Minimum for me would be Siakam. I’d be upset if we traded it for OG. That dude can’t stay healthy.

If Miller is there, I’d probably rather roll the dice with him.
 
SheedSoNasty said:
Minimum for me would be Siakam. I’d be upset if we traded it for OG. That dude can’t stay healthy.

If Miller is there, I’d probably rather roll the dice with him.
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Ooh, maybe if we get all the Raptors players we'll be as good as they were with them!
 
SheedSoNasty said:
Minimum for me would be Siakam. I’d be upset if we traded it for OG. That dude can’t stay healthy.

If Miller is there, I’d probably rather roll the dice with him.
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This is my feeling, we need a player of at least Siakam's level in order for it to make sense.
 
Siakam for 3 and Nurk would be a disaster for us IMO.

Siakam and dame are maybe a HCA team that gets bounced in round 2 or 3, and then we have to watch Brandon miller or scoot become an exciting all star on another team.
 
Freshtown said:
Siakam for 3 and Nurk would be a disaster for us IMO.

Siakam and dame are maybe a HCA team that gets bounced in round 2 or 3, and then we have to watch Brandon miller or scoot become an exciting all star on another team.
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Thoughts on this 3 team trade:
Blazers get mikel bridges
Houston gets the 3rd pick, nurk and keon.
Brooklyn gets the 4 pick, and the 2024 pick back from the houston. Would u be mad at this?
 
If we can realistically contend after trading #3 I'm good with it. I don't think thats likely with the assets on this roster or the prior effectiveness of the GM, but thats my measuring stick for a succesful #3 trade.

If its #3 and Ant for Brown or Bridges I'm good with it. They are elite wings and young even if we eventually rebuild. I can see us having a realistic chance to contend with either one and Dame/Sharpe/Grant.

If we trade #3 for OG or do other moves that likely lead us to purgatory for many years I'll be furious.
 
wizenheimer said:
I wonder how many threads the people who'd rather trade Dame than the pick need in order to say they'd rather trade Dame than the pick
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Probably far fewer than all the prediction games and other threads that get little to no posts.
 
I just chose the one you made as a troll answer.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
Yeah, yeah, I know: "it depends what we get". Well, name the minimum that it would have to be for you to be happy with it (and I'll bet that'll be above what we actually get for it.)
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I do question a lof of fans that say the team needs a return of "x" for the pick will still judge it that way after a trade. We often hear fans rationalize poor moves after the fact that they would've been heavily against prior. The Clippers/Pelicans deadline trades are the perfect example. Fans were throwing around all sorts of names for CJ/Powell/etc for months and how the Blazers could add talent to win with Dame. Then after the trade the narrative changed to it being addition by subtraction and that the team would have so much more "flexibility" in the future to later add talent. Except there was never any flexibility used, or talent added.

Now its turned into justification that Cronin needed to strip away Olsheys poor moves, but he somehow now has tons of options to build a legit winner with Dame this offseason.

If the Blazers make some stupid trade locking in mediocrity I expect a huge section of the fans here and elsewhere will justify it as the smartest move to do for a bunch of stupid reasons that they would criticize today.

Ultimately, until this team gets better ownership that can hire great management I'm not sure why we should expect this franchise to ever be well run and contend.
 
Freshtown said:
Siakam for 3 and Nurk would be a disaster for us IMO.

Siakam and dame are maybe a HCA team that gets bounced in round 2 or 3, and then we have to watch Brandon miller or scoot become an exciting all star on another team.
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Siakam wouldn't be exciting enough for ya? 6'9 7'3" ws - career 25ppg, 8 boards, 6.2 assist, and mostly noted for his D.
How long would it take Miller, Scoot, or the twin to be that dominate and experienced for a sure thing?
 
Depends who is available at #3...

Mikal Bridges + Claxton is about the only trade I'd entertain.

3 / Simons / whatever else
 
Predator said:
Depends who is available at #3...

Mikal Bridges + Claxton is about the only trade I'd entertain.

3 / Simons / whatever else
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Yeah thats the type of trade that realistically makes it possible to contend. Also, still most of that core is under 30 with good future upside. I'm all for exploring that type of deal for #3.

Now if its 3 / Simons for Siakam.... no, thats not contending now, or a step away, or a good future. In that case - keep the damn pick.
 
crandc said:
It depends on what the team gets, obviously. I can't say in advance how I will react to an event when I don't know what the event is.
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You can, as I suggested, state a minimum package that you would want for the #3 pick to make it worthwhile.
 
I'd probably be mad with any trade involving #3 because I would only send him out for a legitimate star, but getting a player like that would probably require more (read: Simons/Shae) which I'm not willing to give up.

Like Siakam for #3 + Ant is an overpay.
I wouldn't trade OG straight up for #3 so forget about it.
A dude like Embiid would take #3 + Ant + Shae which is just too much.
Even Giannis, it would take those 3 and multiple future picks which is just too much for me.

Maybe Jaylen Brown for #3/Ant is interesting, but not sure they'd do it. Add Sharpe and it's a hard pass.
Bridges/Claxton for #3/Ant would be nice but I don't think Brooklyn even thinks about it.

I just don't see a realistic trade involving #3 where we don't give up too much.
Well... How about #3 + #23 for #1 ? That seems fair
 
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