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from the Mavs sub, man this already feels like Rebuild

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Cugel said:
Lots of mixed messages:

paraphrasing: "Dame is the best Blazer ever...but no one would jump at his contract."

WTF: you would move any and all to snag Lebron, Steph, Giannis, AD, KD, JH etc. Your argument is that he is essentially overpaid. If he is a top 5 player, any team would do whatever it took to get him. No?

So Dame for 20-30M/y is tradable, but not 40M. Why?

When is it ok to start thinking how to build a new team? The day Dame retires?
Oh and Dame has no problem trashing the Raiders. Is he disloyal?
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Damian is not on the level of LeBron, Giannis, KD or Harden though. And that extra 2 years at 100 million is really a big difference.
 
I'd go after Karl Anthony Towns. Good chance he'll be available. I don't think he's a franchise player but we have Dame. After Stotts is canned obviously.
 
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Hey, if we're going to go all-in on this All-O, No-D approach, what's Mike D'Antoni up to? If he can make Jeremy Lin look all-NBA, imagine what he could do with Dame!
 
BigGameDamian said:
I'd go after Karl Anthony Towns. Good chance he'll be available. I don't think he's a franchise player but we have Dame. After Stotts is canned obviously.
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He is the one that I would want. I’ve been hoping for a possibility of a CJ, Nurk, and maybe Nassir and a 1st for KAT and Culver trade since the beginning of the season. But it seems like with Nurk’s disappointing season, that might not be enough for KAT. But I struggle with wanting to add more to that besides maybe another 1st because I don’t want to just trade more depth away. I haven’t been following NBA as much this season so I wouldn’t know but I’m sure NY or another team could put together an offer that is as competitive as that offer.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
Hey, if we're going to go all-in on this All-O, No-D approach, what's Mike D'Antoni up to? If he can make Jeremy Lin look all-NBA, imagine what he could do with Dame!
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Common misconception, D'Antoni's Rockets were actually one of the best on defense in the post season the year before he left. He'd be fantastic.
 
Man i remember whne Dame signed his supermax. I voiced and posted thst it would cap our team. And if Dame anted to win he would take less.
Now i see numbers being shown that he isnt really worth what he is making.
I took alot of heat on this board for asserting that Dame should take less if he wants to win.
Now it seems my opinion is coming to fruition. Cant put other all stars around someone making almost 50 mill a year... insane percentage of the cap and a player who wants to win has to see that.

Not trying to bash Dame then and not now.
im as big a fan as anyone of his.

But other players have taken less.

Id love to see Dame be the Tom Brady of basketball and restructure his contract to allow the team to bring in more help.

I wont knock him if he doesn't but it seems it will be a requirement if he wants a ring here.
 
Orion Bailey said:
Man i remember whne Dame signed his supermax. I voiced and posted thst it would cap our team. And if Dame anted to win he would take less.
Now i see numbers being shown that he isnt really worth what he is making.
I took alot of heat on this board for asserting that Dame should take less if he wants to win.
Now it seems my opinion is coming to fruition. Cant put other all stars around someone making almost 50 mill a year... insane percentage of the cap and a player who wants to win has to see that.

Not trying to bash Dame then and not now.
im as big a fan as anyone of his.

But other players have taken less.

Id love to see Dame be the Tom Brady of basketball and restructure his contract to allow the team to bring in more help.

I wont knock him if he doesn't but it seems it will be a requirement if he wants a ring here.
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I don't think that Dame is all about winning a ring. To me it looks like he's cool with making the Conference Finals and being cool with teammates and coaches.
 
kjironman1 said:
The sad realty is that you @TBpup are actually buying into this.
I absolutely cannot wait for this team to get it together. If it doesn't happen I can accept a number of changes but if it does I'm going to enjoy watching them take down a number of teams.
This team can play better. You know it and so does everyone else. It's only the weak that give up.
Go Blazers!

Kjironman is a fan!!!
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Buying into what? That we have been relegated to basically the same type of season over and over and over again while watching Dame's prime sadly go by?

That in 9 years, Stotts hasn't figured out how to even remotely deal with a trap?

That we are sadly so near the bottom in defense, assists and fast break points?

I'm not giving up on the team....but there are some things that are reality based that have to be accepted or this nonsense will continue even longer.
 
At some point, Dame's body won't bounce back from the injuries and he will just be not as good. THink Blake Griffin.
 
Labinot41 said:
I don't think that Dame is all about winning a ring. To me it looks like he's cool with making the Conference Finals and being cool with teammates and coaches.
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I'm sure Dame is about winning a ring but like with most people there are competing interests and with Dame it's his loyalty. He would rather not win one than win one in what he would consider to be the wrong way. The fact is that Dame will never sell his teammates, coaches or organization out/throw them under the bus. What we have seen him do is express his disappointment when teammates are moved and his enthusiasm for his new teammates.

So Dame is about getting rings, he's just not about debasing others to do it. He thinks he can win championships doing things that way and I agree with him. He just has to have management above him that realizes that they will have to be the shrewd ones, not their superstar player.
 
TBpup said:
Buying into what? That we have been relegated to basically the same type of season over and over and over again while watching Dame's prime sadly go by?

That in 9 years, Stotts hasn't figured out how to even remotely deal with a trap?

That we are sadly so near the bottom in defense, assists and fast break points?

I'm not giving up on the team....but there are some things that are reality based that have to be accepted or this nonsense will continue even longer.
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Yah its groundhog day with this Mediocre GM/coach/team, blow it sky high
 
Natebishop3 said:
At some point, Dame's body won't bounce back from the injuries and he will just be not as good. THink Blake Griffin.
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What injuries though? Lillard has pretty much been an iron man. Nothing very serious. Griffin was injury prone from the beginning of his career.

Lillards deal isn’t injuries. It’s fatigue from trying to carry the team.

That’s why I thought he should have skipped the All Star stuff
 
Natebishop3 said:
At some point, Dame's body won't bounce back from the injuries and he will just be not as good. THink Blake Griffin.
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I'm not sure I see a strong correlation between the two. Height? Body type? Style of play? Injury history prior to age 30?
 
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