What utter bullshit.
I refuse to click on the link, but based on the "quality" of the "article", I will assume that fadeawayworld is either part of the fansided empire or some similar content farm/clickbait site of user generated "content".
This "article" is beyond hideous.
First he starts out with an absolute lie:
Damian Lillard: "I want to be traded"
He put it in quotes, but its not a quote. Dame has never said any such thing. Ollie Charlwood is a fucking liar. You can quote me on that. I actually said it.
He follows that up with a false premise:
"Lillard must be felling really frustrated."
Why? Because you said so? Because Dame never has. I repeat: Ollie Charlwood is a fucking liar.
Why does Ollie the liar think "Lillard must be feeling really frustrated"? Because (apparently):
"Only a few years ago the Blazers had a very talented core consisting of himself, Wes Matthews, Nicholas Batum and LeMarcus (sic) Aldridge."
That squad peaked in Lillard's second season and was already on the decline when they blew it up. Aldridge will turn 32 in a month. He just posted his lowest scoring average since 2009-10 and his lowest rebounding average since his rookie year in 2006-07. The guy has been such a huge disappointment in SAS that they are looking to trade him. Of course, post injury Wes is a shadow of his former self and Batum is still the same talented, but passive and inconsistent player he has always been. That core would have continued to decline as Lillard enters his prime. They weren't serious contenders when those guys were at their peaks. They sure as hell wouldn't be with them all on the decline.
Lillard's new core consists of players that are younger than him that will continue to improve as he enters his prime.
And good old Ollie the liar tops it off by stating an ill-informed opinion as if it's a fact:
"they aren’t going to get any better with the team they have"
Right, because NONE of their current players can possibly get any better. 25-year old C.J. McCullum won MIP and then followed it up by improving ALL of his shooting percentages for the 4th year in a row. Jusuf Nurkic is 22 and has barely scratched the surface of his potential. In the 20 games (14-6) with Nurk in the line up, the team vastly improved at both ends of the court. And, they just landed a top 10 pick in a very deep draft. Those guys are Lillard's new core and they all have several years of growth and improvement before they, and this team reach their peak. The future of this team is so much brighter right now that it would be of they had kept that old, declining core together.
So, fuck off Ollie Charlwood. You're a fucking liar and a piss poor hack of a wannabe "writer". Don't quit your day job.
BNM
