No, because he's a better all around player than Ant. Ant's a shooter, that's it. DeMar also gets to the line a lot. That's important. And DeRozan only makes 4 mil. more per. I doubt he'd be getting that much more on a future deal per season.
Joe succeeded in repelling bad offers from other GMs.
As I posted, he makes 3.5 free throws a game more than Ant.
We agree to disagree. DeMar is a quality starter, and IMO the best player on Chicago. LaVine has flashes, but i feel like DeMar is more consistent. Ant is just a shooter. A very good 3 pt. shooter.
I will give him the benefit of the doubt on the #3 pick for a star vet. But he better add some quality veterans in the next few weeks via FA and trades to strengthen the starting lineup.
How can you not be happy with a decade long future of Scoot/Sharpe? You want to mortgage the future to build around a 33 year old so we can compete for 6-8 seed for 3 years, then start from scratch with nothing? Dame has made almost half a billion dollars, and won us nothing, and people keep saying we owe him. Sorry man, I care more about the team than one single player. You need to take emotion out of it and think logically. We now have probably the most talented, explosive, exciting back court for the next 10 years. No trade would get this team a title in the next 3 years.
There you go again with that stupid ass "Mortgage the future" thing. WTF? And Sharpe and Scoot aren't a guaranty to be All Stars, or still be in Portland in 10 years.
And what Dame has made shouldn't matter. He earned every damn dolla of it.
You keep dealing in your absolutes again.
This take is as punchable as that dufus in your avatar.
Because we just had almost a decade of Dame/CJ & Dame/Ant, never had a legitimate chance, and it's unlikely Scoot or Sharpe ever become as good as Dame became.
He turned down deals. Tough call on his part
We had Dame this year, right?
Joe has added more talent around Dame in 2 years than Olshey did in 10
We turned down Sharpe in several deals. My guess is Ant will be moved for a vet front court player
6’9” wingspan. Same as Simons
If teams know you are trying to trade the pick, what leverage do you have?
We’ve already seen Sharpe put up near 25 ppg for an extended period of time against teams fighting for playoff spots, and Scoot is a consensus generational talent by the account of most scouts that spend way more time watching film and following players than we do. You making a statement that they will never be as good as Dame when they are only 19 is ridiculous. In what way will they never be is good… scoring? I could care less about how many ppg a single player puts up. I want team players that wins… and the reality is, Dame has never won anything… and to act like he had no part in wasting his prime by trying to make him and CJ work for so long is naïve. CJ was the biggest asset we had to build a balanced roster and we waited til it was too late to trade him. That was Dames best friend and he was adamant year after year they could make it work. Now the reality is Dame is 33, making over 50 mil per year on average over the next 4 years. The reality is, there is no roster you can put together when you factor in salary and the fact that players need time to gel, and the fact that it will be harder for Dame to stay healthy from 33-36 years old, and the fact that the west is loaded right now. No way to build a team with chance at title. And just because you somehow already know Sharpe or Scoot won’t be as good as Dame individually doesn’t mean they won’t be better as a team. I’d rather spend the next 10 years with odds they can be better as a team, and will eventually give us a true contender. Even if we disagree, there is no way you should be so negative with the pieces we have acquired the last 2 drafts.
In what, individual stats? Because I don’t remember winning anything during this time.
