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Man so many injuries. This team hasn't played fully healthy in hardly any games this season. Is Chauncey's run and gun too much for this team? Is it perhaps part of what is causing so many injuries?
 
Better trade him now, his value will never be higher
 
This injury seems to happen a lot
 
julius said:
This injury seems to happen a lot
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It does. I wonder if over weight training contributes to that area. It did for me, years ago with double hernia.
 
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Coach might have to put Forwards in the SF slot now. Good thing they're all rookies, Cronin doesn't have to worry about sliding up in the win column.
 
it’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
 
The tank is starting earlier than ever. Portland has mastered the art of giving away games to build for a future that never seems to arrive.
 
Bingo Bango said:
to build for a future that never seems to arrive.
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what are your timing expectations for retooling/rebuilding a franchise trying to retool/rebuild its talent/asset base?
 
kjironman1 said:
They been tanking for three years now. What are your "Timing Expectations"?
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got it, so they should be ready to challenge for the play-in/playoffs this year, in your opinion?

the team seems to be in asset acquisition and development mode.

they're frequently starting or giving heavy rotation minutes to rookies and 2nd year players. (last year they seemed to be splitting timelines still—sharpe and watford were the only 1st-2nd year players in the rotation.)

there's nothing timeline splitting about this year's roster: sharpe, scoot, camara, walker and reath are all getting heavy rotation minutes.

the coach sucks. the team has dispensed with its stealth retool approach in favor of a much more overt one.
 
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BigGameDamian said:
Who are you targeting? You want to speed up the rebuilding process?
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It was mostly tongue and cheek. Though he's not untradable to me; nobody on the roster is.

If a team wanted to get off a young player wit a bigger deal I would consider it. For example, if Sacramento wanted to get off Fox, you do that in my opinion. Of course, I don't think those deals will be on the table for Portland.
 
Samuel said:
got it, so they should be ready to challenge for the play-in/playoffs this year, in your opinion?

the team seems to be in asset acquisition and development mode.

they're frequently starting or giving heavy rotation minutes to rookies and 2nd year players. (last year they seemed to be splitting timelines still—sharpe and watford were the only 1st-2nd year players in the rotation.)

there's nothing timeline splitting about this year's roster: sharpe, scoot, camara, walker and reath are all getting heavy rotation minutes.

the coach sucks. the team has dispensed with its stealth retool approach in favor of a much more overt one.
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The question was in response to your response to a statement that the team was building for the future.
You asked the question but I simply responded with they have been in tank mode for three years already.
Again I’ll ask. How many more years should they be in asset acquisition mode? 2? 3?. That begins to sound like 5-6 years of tanking is fine?
For some that might be. For some that is entirely too long knowing we just jettisoned one of the best players this team has ever had.
 
kjironman1 said:
The question was in response to your response to a statement that the team was building for the future.
How many more years should they be in asset acquisition mode?
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They could probably be ready to put together a competent roster for next season if they landed two decent players in the draft, but that wouldn't guarantee any sort of playoff success long-term—it's more of a question for the estateship and whether they're done with this rebuild thing.

If you go with that approach you could very well end up like the Pistons or the Rockets where you are trying to win but your future core is questionmarks.<shrug>

If you're asking me (and it seems you really want to know), I think you stay in asset acquisition/development mode 'as long as it takes' until you have a couple of bankable future stars on your roster. Right now they have some serious work to do at the 3/4 if they want to exit this phase. Sharpe and Scoot are nice but I don't think they're enough to build a roster around. Ant will probably stick around in the medium term but probably won't be part of the ultimate contention path.

It sounds like you're getting impatient—I don't blame you.
 
Samuel said:
They could probably be ready to put together a competent roster for next season if they landed two decent players in the draft, but that wouldn't guarantee any sort of playoff success long-term—it's more of a question for the estateship and whether they're done with this rebuild thing.

If you go with that approach you could very well end up like the Pistons or the Rockets where you are trying to win but your future core is questionmarks.<shrug>

If you're asking me (and it seems you really want to know), I think you stay in asset acquisition/development mode 'as long as it takes' until you have a couple of bankable future stars on your roster. Right now they have some serious work to do at the 3/4 if they want to exit this phase. Sharpe and Scoot are nice but I don't think they're enough to build a roster around. Ant will probably stick around in the medium term but probably won't be part of the ultimate contention path.

It sounds like you're getting impatient—I don't blame you.
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Yeah. I agree. At this point as long as it takes.
Best answer out there for sure.
 
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