Unless……Keon becomes a fixture here for the next 10-12 years. I think Chauncey singled him out as someone he wanted and that excites me. Or that’s what I’m telling myself anyway.
I still don't know that we could have done better... And if not, this is definitely better.
You're all over the place. At one moment, we're losing 13 in a row. Now we're winning 11 in a row. One moment, Ja isn't an All Star, the next moment we're only good if we can beat Grizz with Ja who drops 44 points on us.
He's saying that we want to get experience in the playoffs, which includes the play-in which we would win with Dame, and that our team with Chauncey might be a contender. He's saying we have a star in Dame and another in the making in Ant and 10 years of tanking might not get us two stars at once.
One moment I didn't think that Ja would be voted in by the coaches over Dame if that's what it came down to because Dame is a perennial all star and was still putting up all star numbers and I never got to find out because Ja was voted in by the fans and Dame wasn't in the running this year. I didn't know the Grizzlies were going to do as well as they've been doing this year and that Ja would sustain the level that he has. So my opinion of him has changed but last year if we beat the Grizz without Ja it still wouldn't have told us as much about our team as if we beat them with him because I definitely was of the opinion for a few years now that Ja was their best player.
The result is Ant learns to not be loyal to Portland since we turn our back on that the first moment our loyal star is down. Terrible precedent.
About the time scouting catches up with us we'll have a schedule of Pacers, Pistons, Spurs, Rockets, Rockets, Thunder, Pelicans, Spurs, Spurs, Thunder and Pelicans. I'm not saying we'll win all of those games but even with scouting reports those teams are inferior to us. The tank is over. I actually think we have a good chance of getting into the 7/8 game, winning it and getting this young team some playoff experience and also figuring out just how well the pieces fit together against top flight teams. Again while we do lose one lottery pick we gain the ability to use all of our future picks in a trade.
Potential franchise altering player in the draft like Dame >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> first round playoff loss……..again
The fact is that there aren't any sure fire prospects in this draft as far as sure fire all stars and there definitely aren't any sure fire all nba or mvps. Obviously Dame wasn't one of those either and one of the guys in this draft is probably going to be a big time superstar but due to there being no consensus there is a great possibility that if our front office identifies who they think that player is, they will be able to trade the Pelicans pick and a future first to move up and get that player.
3 of the people you mentioned were franchise altering players.
Yeah, and what player is that? Only one looks like a slam dunk to be a starter with star potential. Everyone else is a roll of the dice.
Not quite yet.
When?
The whole point was to dump players for cap space.
The dude tried to make the team worse this year and they're accidently good because Chaunceys gotten them functioning like a team. What Cronin crow?
