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projected top 6 picks:
  • jabari smith jr
  • paolo banchero
  • chet holmgren
  • jaden ivey
  • keegan murray
  • shaedon sharpe
if the trail blazers get top 6 pick, what should we do with it:

- draft one of these guys & keep dame unless he demands a trade
- draft one of these guys & trade dame and the rest (keep young guys)
- trade pick for an upgrade

personally, im not familiar with these guys, how good they are and how good they can become, but i do know that holmgren and banchero are hyped, so if we can nab top 6 pick, id keep it and roll with dame & rest, but if we cant, trading the pick for an upgrade wouldnt be a bad idea... what say you guys
 
Scalma said:
funny thing is Leonard turned out to have a longer career than pretty much everyone picked immediately after him. He’d probably still be in the league if he wasn’t an idiot.
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I think it speaks to more to mass idiocy and your own complicity than it does to Meyers. Feeble minds need words to be censored.
 
Mr. Robot said:
projected top 6 picks:
  • jabari smith jr
  • paolo banchero
  • chet holmgren
  • jaden ivey
  • keegan murray
  • shaedon sharpe
if the trail blazers get top 6 pick, what should we do with it:

- draft one of these guys & keep dame unless he demands a trade
- draft one of these guys & trade dame and the rest (keep young guys)
- trade pick for an upgrade

personally, im not familiar with these guys, how good they are and how good they can become, but i do know that holmgren and banchero are hyped, so if we can nab top 6 pick, id keep it and roll with dame & rest, but if we cant, trading the pick for an upgrade wouldnt be a bad idea... what say you guys
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One viable way would be to couple the pick with Ant and target a legit star level front court player that would immediately compliment Dame, Hart & Nurk.
 
Having got all excited about getting two picks, I now wonder if it's worth trading down.

Atlanta has 13 and 14 - might get us Sochan with one of them, or at least Eason, and maybe Agbaji, or maybe take a flyer on Ousmane Dieng or Dyson Daniels
San Antonio has 9 and 25 - they'd only trade up if they had their eyes on someone in a very narrow range, but that would be more likely to get us Sochan, and maybe take a center like Kessler or Koloko, or gamble on Jovic at 25
 
Look at the bright side, we shed the cap hold for the Pelicans’ pick. ;(
 
Paine Tablet said:
I think it speaks to more to mass idiocy and your own complicity than it does to Meyers. Feeble minds need words to be censored.
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Looks like Meyers actually had looks from teams but couldn’t play because of complications from an ankle surgery. Should be back in the nba next season. That dumb comment shouldn’t have ended his career anyway. And he showed more genuine remorse than most in similar situations.
 
This is the most likely player to be taken if the Tankathon odds are combined with the 2022 Draft Room Mock.

#7 - Jalen Duren - maybe the youngest player in the Draft. Athletic freak. (Comp - Dwight Howard)
#8 - AJ Griffin - Lights out shooter. More versatile than play at Duke showed. (Jimmy Butler)
#4 Jaden Ivey - Explosive SG with decent handles. (Morant/D-Wade light)
#3 Chet Holmgren - 'unicorn' with unique skills for his height. (no real appropriate comp)
#2 Paolo Banchero - likely the safest pick, can contribute right away. (Chris Webber)
#1 Jabari Smith - elite shooter/stretch '4', needs more handle. (Jaren Jackson/ Rashard Lewis +)
#9 Johnny Davis - solid mid-range scorer without elite athleticism. (Ginoble/McCollum)
#10 Jeremy Sochan - multi-positional defender. Needs offensive work. (???)

After what Cronin and the Pelicans did for the Blazers, it seems so Portland that we end up in the Davis/Sochan slot.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
Atlanta has 13 and 14
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I wonder if we could send one for Grant and grab Agbaji with the other. We would be backcourt heavy if we did, but I think we’d be a dark horse contender. We could probably also sign Bamba with the MLE.

Lillard
Simons/Hart/Agbaji/Johnson
Little/Ingles
Grant/Winslow/Watford
Nurkic/Bamba/Eubanks
 
wizenheimer said:
if Portland is spending a top-3 pick to draft Ivey as a backup SG they have learned nothing from the Olshey era
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Whoever they draft may be a backup for their first season, but that doesn't mean the pick was a bust or wasted. Many all time greats spent their first season coming off the bench.

STOMP
 
If Cronin was planning to use the protected pick in a trade it wouldn’t have been a blazer draft pick anyway. That pick is now a 1st in 25 and will likely still be in play for the same deal if successful.
 
boredinsalem said:
I wonder if we could send one for Grant and grab Agbaji with the other. We would be backcourt heavy if we did, but I think we’d be a dark horse contender. We could probably also sign Bamba with the MLE.

Lillard
Simons/Hart/Agbaji/Johnson
Little/Ingles
Grant/Winslow/Watford
Nurkic/Bamba/Eubanks
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I just don't see it. I think that roster is more likely to lose in the 1st round than be contender.
 
LayneStaley said:
What are the protections on the 2025 Bucks pick?
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According to the linked article below, the 2025 Bucks pick is top 4 protected. If it falls within the top 4, no soup for Portland.

https://www.blazersedge.com/2022/4/...ans-pelicans-portland-trail-blazers-nba-draft

I've stated this before a couple times, but losing out on the Pels 2022 pick was what I hoped for as I think the Bucks are very likely to be headed down by 2025. Jrue and Middleton will be 34 & 33 respectively which is past prime time in a player's career. With this reality, I think it's likely Giannis will have forced his way out to greener pastures. Of course here's hoping it doesn't fall in the top 4

STOMP
 
Ok, think of it this way. We lose the Pels pick, but we discovered a guy, that could be a first round pick this year, that wasnt drafted at all and just signed him. Trendon Watford.
Plus Ant has emerged as a valuable asset where just a couple years ago many questioned just how good he is or could be.
We have assets to re-tool for Dame. May take a couple years but hey, Dame's been born again and easily has 6-8 years left.
 
STOMP said:
According to the linked article below, the 2025 Bucks pick is top 4 protected. If it falls within the top 4, no soup for Portland.

https://www.blazersedge.com/2022/4/...ans-pelicans-portland-trail-blazers-nba-draft

I've stated this before a couple times, but losing out on the Pels 2022 pick was what I hoped for as I think the Bucks are very likely to be headed down by 2025. Jrue and Middleton will be 34 & 33 respectively which is past prime time in a player's career. With this reality, I think it's likely Giannis will have forced his way out to greener pastures. Of course here's hoping it doesn't fall in the top 4

STOMP
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that pick may well turn out higher than expected, but the issue is the Blazers window is even tighter than Milwaukees. We need that to be a good asset now and not in 3 years…
 
STOMP said:
According to the linked article below, the 2025 Bucks pick is top 4 protected. If it falls within the top 4, no soup for Portland.

https://www.blazersedge.com/2022/4/...ans-pelicans-portland-trail-blazers-nba-draft

I've stated this before a couple times, but losing out on the Pels 2022 pick was what I hoped for as I think the Bucks are very likely to be headed down by 2025. Jrue and Middleton will be 34 & 33 respectively which is past prime time in a player's career. With this reality, I think it's likely Giannis will have forced his way out to greener pastures. Of course here's hoping it doesn't fall in the top 4

STOMP
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By then we will be a year into the DeSantis presidency and he will have bombed Portland for being "too woke"
 
Honestly not one of these prospects will make an impact next season or three.
 
I wonder is Chicago would take the Milwaukee pick in exchange for the pick Portland owes them. Probably not

I wonder if they would lift the protections for the 36th pick + cash?
 
B-Roy said:
that pick may well turn out higher than expected, but the issue is the Blazers window is even tighter than Milwaukees. We need that to be a good asset now and not in 3 years…
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Portland won't need more talent in 3 years? Lol! News to me.

Given how little I think of most of the talent on the team today, the urgent narrative you're pushing of having to win in the short term seems a ridiculous/foolish expectation. Free agents with options have never chosen Portland & I don't see whats changed in the dynamics to believe they will this off season especially since ownership seems to be into shedding salary not adding and they've no cap space. Again, I don't think Portland has much to offer in trades other then picks. I'd much much rather see them utilize those picks themselves & draft wisely building for the future and then draft wisely again in 2025. It's the Portland Trailblazers not the Lillard Trailblazers

STOMP
 
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wizenheimer said:
if Portland is spending a top-3 pick to draft Ivey as a backup SG they have learned nothing from the Olshey era
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Bud, why don’t you also quote the part where I said it’s almost impossible we draft him with one of the three bigs still on the board LMAO.
 
boredinsalem said:
I wonder if we could send one for Grant and grab Agbaji with the other. We would be backcourt heavy if we did, but I think we’d be a dark horse contender. We could probably also sign Bamba with the MLE.

Lillard
Simons/Hart/Agbaji/Johnson
Little/Ingles
Grant/Winslow/Watford
Nurkic/Bamba/Eubanks
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AngryFan said:
I just don't see it. I think that roster is more likely to lose in the 1st round than be contender.
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@AngryFan I totally agree with your thought that roster is likely to lose in the first round but what the fuck is Cronin going to do besides that. @boredinsalem this is probably exactly what Cronin will try to pull off, we will only be able to use the tax payer MLE if we use the TPE on Grant so we'll either have to draft our backup C instead or Agbaji, draft him in the second round or sign him with the TPMLE. I would only take Agbaji if I thought he could beat out Nas for starting SF because I think if Eason, Sochan, Sharpe or even Jovic are there, they might beat out Nas and all have more upside in my opinion than Agbaji. If you think Agbaji is our starter at SF next season then for sure you could take him instead of whichever of those guys I just mentioned.

That being said, again I have to think that if we end up 6-8 and Atlanta really likes someone in that range a lot that they might be willing to trade their picks at 13 and 14 to move up and that might salvage Cronin's plan to get an impact rookie and Grant.
 
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