should the blazers embrace full rebuild or rebuild through trades & free agency (3 Viewers)

[SlyPokerCat]

Bam Adebayo or John Collins instead of Zach Collins.

 

[calvin natt]

There are trades to be made and any of them could pan out to be much better than any of us can foresee at the moment. Then there are free agents that can sign here, obviously it's unlikely to be an established star but it might be a player like Wes once was that is a difference maker that we get from out of nowhere. We will also draft players between now and the time Dame is no longer relevant, we could hit big on one of those picks. Nas also has a lot of potential, I don't think he's going to be an all star but I can't rule that out.

Let's see what happens between now and February 10th. That will be the first thing to look at for signs of life. Like I've said a lot lately if Cronin wants this job and the guy obviously does, he has to knock it out of the park between now and the deadline. If he doesn't do something that significantly upgrades this roster, he will not have the interim removed and will have to move on to another team or back to being an assistant GM for this one. That makes me think he will take a big shot and that big shot might make a huge difference in our team's ability to compete.

So to answer your "Huh?" There are an innumerable amount of ways that this roster with Dame on it can get better than we were when we got swept out of the Western Conference Finals. I realize that putting odds on what this team might be and might not be at any one point in the next five or so seasons if Dame stays is nearly impossible but if you lack the imagination to understand that there are just as many things that can go incredibly right, as there are that can go incredibly wrong or that can be incredibly blah, then I don't know what to tell you. Possibilities.

I disagree is all. There’s no way this roster is full of enough assets that will return such a drastically different team of talent and cohesion that they all of a sudden are a WCF team. Not with GS, Phoenix, Utah, and eventually Denver, the Clips, all clearly better than then. Then there’s the Lakers who will eventually give up on AD and LJ and go get Lamelo Ball and Zion who miraculously gets healthy for LA. This team is nowhere near a WCF let alone Finals. The only way that happens is to reload via draft and pray you get something back for these guys with some young guys who blossom. So as far as “innumerable” ways, I don’t see it. Like at all. But you are free to feel any way you want of course and hopefully you’re right and I’m wrong.

 

[Hoopguru]

Dame has been loyal to us so we should try under new management and coaching to bring in players via trades, draft that could at least keep us in contention in the west for a few years.