Take a good look at this team...

[A$AP Meyers]

And then realize that these are the guys we're stuck with for the near future.

I was hopeful we may be able to ship a guy like Leonard or Harkless + picks for something valuable in return, but there's no way after seeing how they've played the last couple of months.

Nobody wants those contracts for that kind of product, and a coin flip late 1st round pick. Not even the teams with cap space.

 

[ripcityboy]

I've said it for a long time but I don't think I wanted to believe it myself. The league has really grown past Portland. I think it's grown past a lot of small cities. It's just impossible to have a core, grow a team around them and keep them together in this city. Too many things have to go right. If we had 40 friggin draft picks a year like baseball and good six full years before free agency.... not so much a problem. BUT by the time we've developed a player they are already forcing us to match a restricted matching sheet. It is what it is. This is our team and we've got to make due with what is. This isn't the 70's where the ABA is dropping us talent left and right and you have more player personnnel opportunities. Pretty soon half the league is going to start tanking.

 

[A$AP Meyers]

I've said it for a long time but I don't think I wanted to believe it myself. The league has really grown past Portland. I think it's grown past a lot of small cities. It's just impossible to have a core, grow a team around them and keep them together in this city. Too many things have to go right. If we had 40 friggin draft picks a year like baseball and good six full years before free agency.... not so much a problem. BUT by the time we've developed a player they are already forcing us to match a restricted matching sheet. It is what it is. This is our team and we've got to make due with what is. This isn't the 70's where the ABA is dropping us talent left and right and you have more player personnnel opportunities. Pretty soon half the league is going to start tanking.

Milwaukee has a great core. They drafted Brogdon in the 2nd round, he'd probably be our 4th best player. They got Khris Middleton by giving up B. Jennings. Giannis was taken 5 spots after CJ. It's possible.

 

[ripcityboy]

Milwaukee has a great core. They drafted Brogdon in the 2nd round, he'd probably be our 4th best player. They got Khris Middleton by giving up B. Jennings. Giannis was taken 5 spots after CJ. It's possible.

Yeah. And so is losing one or two possible franchise players to career ending injuries. Now Portland joins the MLS and within five years they win a title. Different league.... Different odds. Guess which one I like better?

 

[Rhal]

hmm a trolling thread by asap meyers when we get blown out by a team that EVERYONE said would blow us out. a 4-0 sweep that isn't close was the general consensus, and the warriors team is a historically great team even better then their 73 win team statistically. How about we see how we do with our entire team out there before we start talking about how horrid everything is, also you have no idea the trade market for players but WoJ does and said that even meyers was a tradeable contract at the deadline.

 

[KingSpeed]

hmm a trolling thread by asap meyers when we get blown out by a team that EVERYONE said would blow us out. a 4-0 sweep that isn't close was the general consensus, and the warriors team is a historically great team even better then their 73 win team statistically. How about we see how we do with our entire team out there before we start talking about how horrid everything is, also you have no idea the trade market for players but WoJ does and said that even meyers was a tradeable contract at the deadline.

This

 

[Minstrel]

I've said it for a long time but I don't think I wanted to believe it myself. The league has really grown past Portland. I think it's grown past a lot of small cities. It's just impossible to have a core, grow a team around them and keep them together in this city. Too many things have to go right. If we had 40 friggin draft picks a year like baseball and good six full years before free agency.... not so much a problem. BUT by the time we've developed a player they are already forcing us to match a restricted matching sheet. It is what it is. This is our team and we've got to make due with what is. This isn't the 70's where the ABA is dropping us talent left and right and you have more player personnnel opportunities. Pretty soon half the league is going to start tanking.

I don't know, San Antonio is a small NBA market and they've had sustained success as one of the great dynasties in NBA history. And it's survived Tim Duncan's retirement. The key is Popovich and Buford. Get in place a really smart decision-making team and get long-term stability from that decision-making team and I think any franchise can have championship success.

I mean, we should see how much success the Lakers have without Jerry West. Shaq, Kobe and Phil Jackson were all put in place by West and their last title came without West but with key pieces from his efforts. Since he left, the "empire" has been crumbling slowly for lack of great leadership.

 

[Mediocre Man]

I've said it for a long time but I don't think I wanted to believe it myself. The league has really grown past Portland. I think it's grown past a lot of small cities. It's just impossible to have a core, grow a team around them and keep them together in this city. Too many things have to go right. If we had 40 friggin draft picks a year like baseball and good six full years before free agency.... not so much a problem. BUT by the time we've developed a player they are already forcing us to match a restricted matching sheet. It is what it is. This is our team and we've got to make due with what is. This isn't the 70's where the ABA is dropping us talent left and right and you have more player personnnel opportunities. Pretty soon half the league is going to start tanking.

Portland has an incredible core. Best scoring back court in the league....IN A GUARD DOMINANT LEAGUE, BTW. A 22 year old center that averages a double double. There aren't a lot of other teams that have that. What we lack isn't core, it's the right pieces around them.

 

[santeesioux]

Portland has an incredible core. Best scoring back court in the keague....IN A GUARD DOMINANT LEAGUE, BTW. A 22 year old center that averages a double double. There aren't a lot of other teams that have that. What we lack isn't cire, it's the right pieces around them.

I go back and forth on whether we need a new GM and coach to go along with them too.

 

[Mediocre Man]

I go back and forth on whether we need a new GM and coach to go along with them too.

We need to stress defense.

 

[BlazerWookee]