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Book it.
 
According to Ken Berger of CBSSports.com, Kevin Pritchard again has the Blazers in the middle of several discussions ahead of Thursday's draft. The Blazers are "extremely active" in seeking a trade that will land them a pick between 8 and 14. They currently own the 24th selection.
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I LOVE IT!!! KP is working his magic again!
 
Wizard Mentor said:
BLAIR, Please! :clap::clap:
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I would not mind him - but I do not think Psycho-T will be bad either - he is a much better shooter and with much less injury concerns... - so either would be great, in my mind.

Lawson would be a great 3rd PG with the hope that either him or JB will be able to be, eventually, a starter instead of Blake.
 
If all we do is obtain a late lottery pick in a weak ass draft I am going to be disapointed in KP.
 
Mediocre Man said:
If all we do is obtain a late lottery pick in a weak ass draft I am going to be disapointed in KP.
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I think you're going to be disappointed regardless. You want Hedo/Hinrich/Blair all in one off-season. I don't know how realistic that is. Could happen, but counting on it is probably going to lead you to disappointment.
 
They might be looking at a situation where they are comfortable getting a pick within that range for a certain player if they fall that far down the board. There are several players in that range that could be useful, and there is always the possibility of the dreaded "slide". It seems KP's big thing last year was to pick up whoever slid. He did, and now he is back for more. The great things about guys that slide, is that besides the wonderful example of Qyntel Woods, most of them have an axe to grind for sliding and work reallyhard. So it can work out.
 
If we're targeting a "slider" that can only mean one thing:




Brandon Jennings!
 
LameR said:
I think you're going to be disappointed regardless. You want Hedo/Hinrich/Blair all in one off-season. I don't know how realistic that is. Could happen, but counting on it is probably going to lead you to disappointment.
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No, regardless of names, I will be happy if the Blazers get a starter. Not getting one is a failure I think. Blake and Batum both need to be upgraded as starters.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
No Ty Lawson please. As Ben Golliver of Blazers' Edge mentioned:



I have also heard that Lawson only works in an uptempo game.
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Well you have to look at it as taking advantage of his speed though. Lawson is usually the fastest guy on the court for the most part. He tested extremely fast in the combines. What is better to do with your speed then cover free throw line to free throw line quickly to put the presure on the defense? I don't buy that he was all fast break. But he got them a hell of a lot of transition buckets too. To me his thing was just not letting the defense set. Tyler Hansborough said with the ball in his hand a lot of the time they didn't have to run a play because the defense would be on it's heels from his speed. They would get a transition bucket and get back on D.
 
Mediocre Man said:
No, regardless of names, I will be happy if the Blazers get a starter. Not getting one is a failure I think. Blake and Batum both need to be upgraded as starters.
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Alright, I can agree with that. I think Batum/Webster is enough, but if we want to contend, Blake can't be the starter. I think if we don't upgrade there, we better be assuming Bayless/new PG is going to take over Blake's spot during the season.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
No Ty Lawson please. As Ben Golliver of Blazers' Edge mentioned:

I have also heard that Lawson only works in an uptempo game.
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Why no uptempo 2nd unit? - with a fast PG that can actually defend - so the bigs do not get into so much foul trouble and are not out of position to rebound to start the break?

The idea of a fast and slow unit is a good one - we did not have the personal to implement it with Sergio running the PG in the 2nd unit - because a fast-break team needs to be able to get rebounds and this is hard to do when the bigs are out of position switching to cover for the PG playing OLE defense.

At the late lottery, unless you luck into a John Stockton - you are not going to get a starting PG - so Ty Lawson as a backup PG on a fast unit anchored by Joel with Rudy, Travis or Batum or Webster on the wing and whoever plays PF - would not be a bad thing...
 
Lawson sounds pretty good to me- some decent defense and ability- but it does create a logjam at the point- unless we are ready to give up on both sergio and bayless.
 
anonymous gambler said:
Lawson sounds pretty good to me- some decent defense and ability- but it does create a logjam at the point- unless we are ready to give up on both sergio and bayless.
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Why? Sergio is done and Blake is an expiring contract. This makes Lawson our #3 Pg at the start of the year and by trade-deadline or next year - one of Lawson/JB/Blake can be shipped out for another asset.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
If we're targeting a "slider" that can only mean one thing:




Brandon Jennings!
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That would be pretty awesome.

I gotta admit that a late lottery pick doesn't shout "exciting!" to me, but any move will probably be fun and interesting, and I'd rather have a late lottery pick than #24 and no move. :)

Ed O.
 
I can see Brandon sliding if NY passes on him at #8.
 
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Fez said:
I can see Brandon sliding if NY passes on him at #8.
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Brandon Jennings is my pick for slider in the draft. You don't hear anybody talking about being high on him.
 
Ed O said:
That would be pretty awesome.

I gotta admit that a late lottery pick doesn't shout "exciting!" to me, but any move will probably be fun and interesting, and I'd rather have a late lottery pick than #24 and no move. :)

Ed O.
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I'm not sure KP thinks big tats and a big mouth fit our "culture."
 
I'd rather get Craig Smith from Minny than waste a lottery pick on Blair.
 
I don't see it. I think the Blazers will most likely trade out of the 1st round.
 
tlongII said:
I don't see it. I think the Blazers will most likely trade out of the 1st round.
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I'm getting the same feeling. If they don't trade for a vet on draft day then the strategy will be about shedding salary for free agency.

I'd guess that would mean trading the pick and seeing if they could ship off Sergio an/or TO for future 1st rounders.
 
tlongII said:
I don't see it. I think the Blazers will most likely trade out of the 1st round.
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As much as I hope KP makes some big move, the closer it gets to the draft, the more I feel he's going to stay pat and trade out of the first round like you said.
And I'll be disappointed because I think a lot of fans have been expecting something since the trade deadline and especially come draft time.
 
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