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Boise Blazer said:
IF this is true, what a mess. Take a moment and try and find a reasonable trade that addresses needs. There really arent any star caliber SG besides Harden and he aint going anywhere. And there really arent any realistic C's that are equivalent to the production and caliber that we would be giving up in LMA. Which may mean that we have to trade for young and potential and start again.

About the best I can come up with is this and I have no idea if either team would be interested. The point is Im beginning to wonder if we can get the value now LMA or is there more value in waiting or just using the cap space when the time comes.

http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=ofyqgug

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I hope this all just BS and we can make enough changes that allow us to take the steps that allow us to keep LMA. It would be nice to actually win with the core we have built and been rooting for for the last few years. I guess the question is no matter how much some of us like (or dont like) LMA can we win with this core upgraded?
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Trading for #1, #19 and Thompson would be nice

Trading for Asik, Motiejunas and Robinson would be nice

Trading for Ibaka, Lamb, Jones III and #12 would be nice

Trading for Gortat, Markief Morris and #5 would be nice

As for needs, they are simple. Portland needs an influx of talent in a major way. Trading Aldridge, who is an extremely good complimentary player, for 1-2 complimentary players and 1-2 shots at landing a stud makes sense. It' sa gamble, but winning takes gambling. The Heat gambled and won with Lebron.
 
Mediocre Man said:
Trading for #1, #19 and Thompson would be nice

Trading for Asik, Motiejunas and Robinson would be nice

Trading for Ibaka, Lamb, Jones III and #12 would be nice

Trading for Gortat, Markief Morris and #5 would be nice

As for needs, they are simple. Portland needs an influx of talent in a major way. Trading Aldridge, who is an extremely good complimentary player, for 1-2 complimentary players and 1-2 shots at landing a stud makes sense. It' sa gamble, but winning takes gambling. The Heat gambled and won with Lebron.
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It doesnt seem like any of those leave us with enough scoring and we sure as hell dont play defense.
 
Boise Blazer said:
It doesnt seem like any of those leave us with enough scoring and we sure as hell dont play defense.
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We were 15th in the league in scoring with one of the youngest teams in the NBA, so that's not an issue.

Asik, Ibaka are both extremely good defenders

At #1, Oladipo, Noel, Len, Porter are all good defenders

Gortat is a decent defender

I am not sure why you would say "and we sure as hell dont play defense."
 
With our center history, if we get Noel, we will be the laughing stock of the league. Deservedy so.
 
jlprk said:
With our center history, if we get Noel, we will be the laughing stock of the league. Deservedy so.
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I agree, and I don't think he would be the pick. Maybe the new trainer dude sees no issues?
 
Three pages of LMA angst over some tweet from a site I've never heard of before? Some threads just leave you feeling stupider for having read them. This is one of those.
 
if he gets traded, i want it to be a no brainer 100% win for the blazers

or else why bother
 
So you guys clicked on the link right? You saw the source? And there still is a 3 page thread already?
Wow.
 
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BoBoBREWSKI said:
:cheers:
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You keep cheering these kinds or posts. What exactly is it we should all be talking about? Should we only talk about things after the fact? Only things from the Blazers? Should we close the fucking forum down and ban people for wanting to talk about the potential players on this team next year until they are actually here?
 
I understand that there is a possiblity that LMA wants out and/or that Olshey thinks whats best for the team going forward is to trade LMA. But just because he's in trade talks, just because Cleveland wants him, doesnt mean that its the case that he wants to leave. Rumors, things like this happen every year, and could be thrown out there for a number of reasons. No point to freak out about it, until it happens
 
Mediocre Man said:
You keep cheering these kinds or posts. What exactly is it we should all be talking about? Should we only talk about things after the fact? Only things from the Blazers? Should we close the fucking forum down and ban people for wanting to talk about the potential players on this team next year until they are actually here?
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Calm Down Captain Crabby Pants!
 
BoBoBREWSKI said:
Calm Down Captain Crabby Pants!
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I am not the one who is crabby.

I'm so fucking tired of people bashing on other people in this forum for wanting to talk about the Blazers. It is something the mods need to look at very closely or they will start to lose people
 
Mediocre Man said:
You keep cheering these kinds or posts. What exactly is it we should all be talking about? Should we only talk about things after the fact? Only things from the Blazers? Should we close the fucking forum down and ban people for wanting to talk about the potential players on this team next year until they are actually here?
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I just find it funny that people can get so worked up over nonsense (and that two posters can fill up an entire thread arguing about it). Next thing someone will tweet that LA wants out of Portland so badly that he's forcing Allen to move the team to Seattle.
 
why would someone care what other people want to talk about?

maybe half the forum wants to talk about dan dickau, or theo ratliff, or paul allens yacht... is there a problem with that?
 
3RA1N1AC said:
why would someone care what other people want to talk about?

maybe half the forum wants to talk about dan dickau, or theo ratliff, or paul allens yacht... is there a problem with that?
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Dickau sucks ass

Ratliff quit on the team

Allen's yachts are overrated
 
dickau slays ass

ratliff was a legend

the worlds biggest yachts are difficult to overrate
 
Let's see, there's a nine page thread on "LA gone before or draft day", one on "blazers reject LMA for Cle two first round picks", and this one on "LMA wants out?" I don't see that anybody is being restricted on their ability to float ideas about Aldridge being moved. The only reason I posted what I did on this one is that the source being quoted is so fricking flimsy it's comical.

I totally get that many of you think that the best way to improve the team is to move Aldridge this summer. It's a reasonable position and I think it's only natural that we talk about it here. That said, building threads out of the thinnest of rumors is pretty silly, IMO. NateBishop said in one post that where there's smoke there's fire. Well, the pioneers used to burn dried buffalo dung for campfires when there wasn't any other fuel, which just goes to prove that you can get plenty of smoke out of pure bullshit.
 
Boise Blazer said:
Casey Holdahl ‏@CHold 2m
Over at Hoopsworld, @stevekylerNBA notes interest in Aldridge is from teams asking, not Portland offering http://www.hoopsworld.com/nba-am-let-the-trade-rumors-begin …
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Truth.

e_blazer said:
Let's see, there's a nine page thread on "LA gone before or draft day", one on "blazers reject LMA for Cle two first round picks", and this one on "LMA wants out?" I don't see that anybody is being restricted on their ability to float ideas about Aldridge being moved. The only reason I posted what I did on this one is that the source being quoted is so fricking flimsy it's comical.

I totally get that many of you think that the best way to improve the team is to move Aldridge this summer. It's a reasonable position and I think it's only natural that we talk about it here. That said, building threads out of the thinnest of rumors is pretty silly, IMO. NateBishop said in one post that where there's smoke there's fire. Well, the pioneers used to burn dried buffalo dung for campfires when there wasn't any other fuel, which just goes to prove that you can get plenty of smoke out of pure bullshit.
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Lol, preach it brotha.
 
e_blazer said:
NateBishop said in one post that where there's smoke there's fire. Well, the pioneers used to burn dried buffalo dung for campfires when there wasn't any other fuel, which just goes to prove that you can get plenty of smoke out of pure bullshit.
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Ha ha! Great post! :cheers:
Is it OK to :cheers: this post MM? Or will you bully me? :devilwink:
 
e_blazer said:
Let's see, there's a nine page thread on "LA gone before or draft day", one on "blazers reject LMA for Cle two first round picks", and this one on "LMA wants out?" I don't see that anybody is being restricted on their ability to float ideas about Aldridge being moved. The only reason I posted what I did on this one is that the source being quoted is so fricking flimsy it's comical.

I totally get that many of you think that the best way to improve the team is to move Aldridge this summer. It's a reasonable position and I think it's only natural that we talk about it here. That said, building threads out of the thinnest of rumors is pretty silly, IMO. NateBishop said in one post that where there's smoke there's fire. Well, the pioneers used to burn dried buffalo dung for campfires when there wasn't any other fuel, which just goes to prove that you can get plenty of smoke out of pure bullshit.
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That was excellent!!!! Lmao!
 
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