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chris_in_pdx said:
It's official: the Blazers have no balls. None. They could have put together a much better package for a one year rental of PG13. Now every single team in the NW Division got better and the Blazers stood pat. Fuck this.
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Again. It was never going to happen unless we gave up Lillard or CJ. And we weren't going to do that.
 
The Eastern Conference is literally just a JV league now. The talent disparity now has to be greater than ever before.
 
BlazerBeav said:
The Eastern Conference is literally just a JV league now. The talent disparity now has to be greater than ever before.
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If LeBron is smart, he will stay in the Eastern Conference. He can sit out half the regular season games, sweep his way to the finals every year, averaging 20 MPG in the first three rounds of the playoffs and keep playing into his 40s.

BNM
 
BlazerBeav said:
The Eastern Conference is literally just a JV league now. The talent disparity now has to be greater than ever before.
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The Eastern Conference has been carried, with only a small interruption, by two players over the last 25 years or so. Absent Michael Jordan and LeBron James, the West would probably have won every title since the Bad Boys Pistons' last title! (Obviously, an exaggeration--the 'Sheed Pistons won one too.)
 
When you look at what it took to get Jimmy Butler and Paul George, it's disappointing that Portland couldn't have lured either of them. Sabonis and Oladipo???
 
Sinobas said:
When you look at what it took to get Jimmy Butler and Paul George, it's disappointing that Portland couldn't have lured either of them. Sabonis and Oladipo???
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Supposedly we offered more for PG. Nobody is surprised that KP wouldn't de with us. He Pritch-slapped himself.
 
I love the "Would Portland be the second best team in the NBA?" posts on Reddit. Talk about the corner of Desperation and Wishful Thinking!
 
BLAZINGGIANTS said:
Supposedly we offered more for PG. Nobody is surprised that KP wouldn't de with us. He Pritch-slapped himself.
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I do kind of enjoy how Quick is despised around here--unless he says something that reinforces a narrative that people would like to believe, then he becomes an unimpeachable source.
 
Minstrel said:
I do kind of enjoy how Quick is despised around here--unless he says something that reinforces a narrative that people would like to believe, then he becomes an unimpeachable source.
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I don't like Quick. Dont necessarily believe it. But if you read other tweets from other teams' beat writers, like the one I just posted, you can believe the narrative.

So.... There's that. :dunno:
 
BLAZINGGIANTS said:
I don't like Quick. Dont necessarily believe it. But if you read other tweets from other teams' beat writers, like the one I just posted, you can believe the narrative.

So.... There's that. :dunno:
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Yeah, but that wasn't about KP being unwilling to deal with the Blazers specifically. Beat writers are notoriously homerish--look at how they vote for awards. It wouldn't surprise me at all if they all thought their teams' offers were better because they overvalue their teams' players.

Is it possible Pritchard is just petty? Sure. That wouldn't shock me at all. But I wouldn't take the word of biased parties on it. That's all.
 
Nobody is changing the narrative. Just following what everyone else is saying. Maybe they're all wrong and you're right?
 
BLAZINGGIANTS said:
Nobody is changing the narrative.
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Who said anything about changing the narrative? I said that other writers' tweets aren't about Pritchard being unwilling to deal with Portland, which you implied by saying that it's not just Quick, it's other beat writers too.

The post you quoted has nothing about me saying KP was spiteful against the Blazers, so I'm not sure why you quoted for the response that you're now coming up with about him being spiteful?
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I didn't say anything about spiteful. You were one of the people who posted that "apparently" Pritchard was unwilling to deal with the Blazers (which is based on the Quick tweet) and I picked one such post at random to quote.
 
JoeImmoji said:
Oh yeah. Warriors are great, no doubt. But people are selling them as this unbeatable superteam when in reality, they only look so tough because they went against:

A) Blazer team without Nurkic (before trade, that team was a few losses from a Top 5 lottery pick)

B) Jazz without George Hill and with injured Rudy Gobert. That team wouldn't make 8th seed.

C) LMA-led Spurs without Kawhi and Parker (can you tell me that team is that much better than the LMA-led Blazer team that won 28?)

Give any title contender those teams and they'll win each series 4-0.

Meanwhile, Blazers were at a near 60 win pace with Nurkic (if you go by win percentage). Three players had 20+ PER (elite category). Add Paul George to the mix and you have a legitimate threat to any team, any era.

Of course, I guess it was not meant to be.
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Yes, Warriors are good, but they ran into tremendous injury lucky in both of their titles. It's like the injury gods rolled out the red carpet and paved their way to a title. Though to be fair, they did beat the Cavs who were at full strength. (though I highly doubht they would have beaten them 2 years ago full strength).
 
KP pritch-slapped himself.

Presti is the one in the red hat.

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Sinobas said:
Yes, Warriors are good, but they ran into tremendous injury lucky in both of their titles. It's like the injury gods rolled out the red carpet and paved their way to a title. Though to be fair, they did beat the Cavs who were at full strength. (though I highly doubht they would have beaten them 2 years ago full strength).
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And the injury gods took away a title from them last year. They were up 3-1 even with a less-then-100% Curry, but ran out of steam with Iguodala and Bogut both injured (and Green's suspension). Had Curry been 100% or they hadn't lost Bogut (and had a gimpy Iguodala) or Green hadn't gotten suspended, they complete that series win.

That makes it relatively obvious to me that they would have beaten the full-strength Cavs in 2015.
 
Minstrel said:
And the injury gods took away a title from them last year. They were up 3-1 even with a less-then-100% Curry, but ran out of steam with Iguodala and Bogut both injured (and Green's suspension). Had Curry been 100% or they hadn't lost Bogut (and had a gimpy Iguodala) or Green hadn't gotten suspended, they complete that series win.

That makes it relatively obvious to me that they would have beaten the full-strength Cavs in 2015.
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They barely beat them without Love and Irving.
 
Sinobas said:
They barely beat them without Love and Irving.
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They beat them by an average of 7.2 PPG over the full series (including the losses). A +7.2 point differential is about the difference between the Spurs and Hornets this past season. It's enormous.

And, as I pointed out, the next year the Cavs were full strength and the Warriors had all sorts of injuries, including to their best player and it took every bit of that for the Cavaliers to pull it out at the buzzer of game 7. If both squads had been fully healthy, it would have been a Warriors' walk-over.
 
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