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Bingo Bango

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Deals are happening all over the NBA. So many players are changing teams it’s hard to keep them straight. And yet the best our GM can do is trade one young guard for another guard that is 10 years older—and draft a player no other team would have taken in the first round. This is why the Blazers are mired in mediocrity: they have a GM who can’t make deals, or gets the wrong end of the stick when he does.
 
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Moving on from two starters and two bench rotation players is hardly doing nothing....Ayton, Ant, Bari and Banton are gone. That's a lot of change already and the offseason is young. What they won't do is muck up the books with the team for sale.
 
riverman said:
Moving on from two starters and two bench rotation players is hardly doing nothing....Ayton, Ant, Bari and Banton are gone. That's a lot of change already and the offseason is young. What they won't do is muck up the books with the team for sale.
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I feel like Ant’s expiring contract for Jrue’s with two more years guaranteed kinda mucks up the books.
 
blazerkor said:
I feel like Ant’s expiring contract for Jrue’s with two more years guaranteed kinda mucks up the books.
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I don't ..you have to pay a handful of vets at some point just to get to minimum salary requirements...better to pay a multiple champion, allstar, all nba vet that money than a middle of the pack project. Jrue is going to be invaluable to Scoot's growth. I also doubt Shaedon gets the bag this time around either. Tou and Deni are insanely cheap contracts for core players...paying Jrue has value
 
I get that some of you think Cronin sucks.... but what the actual fuck do you want him to do right now?

He got rid of Ayton and Simons. Grant clearly has negative value so we can't trade him. WE NEED TO SEE WHAT SHARPE AND SCOOT CAN DO.

What spot do you think this team desperately needs to upgrade right now?

Point guard? Scoot and Jrue
Shooting guard? Shae and Tisse
Small forward? Toumani and Murray
Power forward? Deni and Grant
Center? Clingan and Yang

Short of trading for a superstar, what move are you begging him to make going into this season?
 
riverman said:
I don't ..you have to pay a handful of vets at some point just to get to minimum salary requirements...better to pay a multiple champion, allstar, all nba vet that money than a middle of the pack project. Jrue is going to be invaluable to Scoot's growth.
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I think Ant for Jrue is a huge win for us. I thought we got the better end of that deal when it included 2 second round picks. I just don’t think it’s necessarily cleaning up our books.
 
riverman said:
Moving on from two starters and two bench rotation players is hardly doing nothing....Ayton, Ant, Bari and Banton are gone.
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Anybody can get rid of players. The best GMs figure out how to replace them with better players. Cronin isn’t very good at that.
 
I wouldn’t be surprised if Grant just gets bought out. After Dames and soon Beal why not?
 
Natebishop3 said:
I get that some of you think Cronin sucks.... but what the actual fuck do you want him to do right now?

He got rid of Ayton and Simons. Grant clearly has negative value so we can't trade him. WE NEED TO SEE WHAT SHARPE AND SCOOT CAN DO.

What spot do you think this team desperately needs to upgrade right now?

Point guard? Scoot and Jrue
Shooting guard? Shae and Tisse
Small forward? Toumani and Murray
Power forward? Deni and Grant
Center? Clingan and Yang

Short of trading for a superstar, what move are you begging him to make going into this season?
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Ahhh the mature voice of reason, not surrounded by bias emotions.
Great post!
 
As it stands right now this has to be the worst shooting roster in the NBA, right?

If Cronin does nothing the rest of the summer to address that obvious need then that's another notch on his "I'm a big fat stinky turd of a GM" belt.
 
BigGameDamian said:
I wouldn’t be surprised if Grant just gets bought out. After Dames and soon Beal why not?
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3 years remaining on the contract... .

Dame is injured, and will miss next season. Bucks are in a desperation mode to keep Giannis happy.
Beal is basically a minimum contract type player now. Suns are desperate and are trying to duck the tax this season.

Grant is over-paid, but he's playable. Blazers are not in desperation mode. These are not comparable situations.
 
Natebishop3 said:
You guys are just ridiculous. Who's minutes are you giving up?
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Banton played 17 mpg for us last year and is now gone. Murray was a fringe rotation guy for us as well and frankly doesn't deserve to sniff the floor for us next year if he can't hit the broadside of a barn. There's minutes to go around.

I'm not sure how anyone can disagree that Cronin needs to address our shooting issues at the very least right now if he's serious about competing for the postseason next year, which the Holiday trade seems to signal he is....
 
Bingo Bango said:
Deals are happening all over the NBA. So many players are changing teams it’s hard to keep them straight. And yet the best our GM can do is trade one young guard for another guard that is 10 years older—and draft a player no other team would have taken in the first round. This is why the Blazers are mired in mediocrity: they have a GM who can’t make deals, or gets the wrong end of the stick when he does.
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Say what? They got rid of 2 awful players in ayton and simons. Yes we are gonna be awful but addition by subtraction to at least set us up to make the playin in 4 years is something.

Think its actually been a good off-season trade wise. Glad to have those two off the team, even if they were the best of the worst on this team.
 
Bingo Bango said:
Deals are happening all over the NBA. So many players are changing teams it’s hard to keep them straight. And yet the best our GM can do is trade one young guard for another guard that is 10 years older—and draft a player no other team would have taken in the first round. This is why the Blazers are mired in mediocrity: they have a GM who can’t make deals, or gets the wrong end of the stick when he does.
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Jrue is better than Simons. Yang will be a superstar.
 
Five Second Violation said:
As it stands right now this has to be the worst shooting roster in the NBA, right?

If Cronin does nothing the rest of the summer to address that obvious need then that's another notch on his "I'm a big fat stinky turd of a GM" belt.
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Grant is one of the best three point shooters in the league. Scoot, Tou, and Deni can shoot too. Adding shooters that can’t play D and are stuck on the bench doesn’t help when it comes to winning games.
 
I am happy with their top 9

Scoot, Jrue,
Shae, Thybulle
Grant, Toumani,
Deni,
Clingan, Williams

We probably need 1-2 guys to step up from this group
Yang, Rupert, Sidy, Love, Murray and Reath

A lot of movement so far, but how many of them are better than what we have?
Not saying this is a top team, just that there have not been many free agents or trade options that I wished we had gone after.
 
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Natebishop3 said:
I get that some of you think Cronin sucks.... but what the actual fuck do you want him to do right now?

He got rid of Ayton and Simons. Grant clearly has negative value so we can't trade him. WE NEED TO SEE WHAT SHARPE AND SCOOT CAN DO.

What spot do you think this team desperately needs to upgrade right now?

Point guard? Scoot and Jrue
Shooting guard? Shae and Tisse
Small forward? Toumani and Murray
Power forward? Deni and Grant
Center? Clingan and Yang

Short of trading for a superstar, what move are you begging him to make going into this season?
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"Center? Clingan and Yang"

To be known as Cling and Yang.
 
KingSpeed said:
Grant is one of the best three point shooters in the league. Scoot, Tou, and Deni can shoot too. Adding shooters that can’t play D and are stuck on the bench doesn’t help when it comes to winning games.
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Last night I watched his 49-8-6 performance from 2024. He can shoot for sure. He just needs to adjust to his new role.
 
KingSpeed said:
Jrue is better than Simons. Yang will be a superstar.
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Theres not a chance in hell Yang becomes a superstar. He will be a star in China, but not here as defined by the NBAs version of what a superstar is (jokic, sga, etc) hes never going to get close to that.
 
Strenuus said:
Theres not a chance in hell Yang becomes a superstar. He will be a star in China, but not here as defined by the NBAs version of what a superstar is (jokic, sga, etc) hes never going to get close to that.
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What a load of buzzkill for the sole purpose of buzzkill. Dude! And I voted for you not to be banned? Why would you want to water down any rookies future just because you hate basketball so much? The kid hasn’t even broken a sweat in the nba yet and you’ve defined his failure already. Good thing nobody thought Jokic was only a second round project picked in the 40s eh?
 
riverman said:
What a load of buzzkill for the sole purpose of buzzkill. Dude! And I voted for you not to be banned? Why would you want to water down any rookies future just because you hate basketball so much? The kid hasn’t even broken a sweat in the nba yet and you’ve defined his failure already. Good thing nobody thought Jokic was only a second round project picked in the 40s eh?
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Oh you got the vote all wrong. No one was voting to ban Stren, they just wanted him not to be a mod anymore so they could block his hyper negative posts. I don't think the vote mattered though.
 
Five Second Violation said:
As it stands right now this has to be the worst shooting roster in the NBA, right?

If Cronin does nothing the rest of the summer to address that obvious need then that's another notch on his "I'm a big fat stinky turd of a GM" belt.
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I don't know we kept the guy who had the best three point shooting percentage on the team last season (Matisse), we let he guy with he second best walk (Jabari), Toumani was number three on the team, Deni was number four, Jerami was number five but the two seasons prior to last he was our best three point shooter percentage-wise.

Ant was next on the list. Last year Jrue shot 1% worse than Ant from three. I think we all expect Shaedon and Scoot to shoot a lot better from three this season but we'll have to see about that.

No, I don't think we'll be the worst three point shooting team in the league this upcoming season. I actually think we'll be a better three point shooting team than we were last year when we were 6th worst for three point percentage and middle of the pack (18th) in three pointers made. More importantly I'm hoping we lead the league in fast break points, that we lead the league in opponent turnovers and that we lead the league in opponent field goal percentage.
 
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