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Should the Blazers puruse Carmelo Anthony?

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KingSpeed said:
We are a lock for playoffs. We spent the last month of the season at 3 seed. It's not like we were bouncing around the standings. We will be very good this year. Great? Who knows? But very good, yes.
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A lock??? I think that’s kind of crazy, but they have a very good shot at making it. The West is tough, for a lot of last season the Blazers were barely hanging on to the 8 seed. Not dogging Portland it’s just tough and the margin for error is not very high.
 
TorturedBlazerFan said:
A lock??? I think that’s kind of crazy, but they have a very good shot at making it. The West is tough, for a lot of last season the Blazers were barely hanging on to the 8 seed. Not dogging Portland it’s just tough and the margin for error is not very high.
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Not really. And in March, which was supposed to be a tough month for us, we dominated and ran away with the three seed. And it's because we have a very talented roster and a very good coach. If Harkless didn't get hurt, I think we would've won 52-53 games and made it to second round pushing Warriors to about 6 games. But Harkless' injury killed our momentum. Our defense was so good with him and he was hitting threes at an unbelievable clip. When he came back at less than 100%, we never got our groove back.
 
Orion Bailey said:
Id say he is a top 10 2 way, not top 5, but two ways are hard to find. He would propelle us big time.
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I don’t know what I make of PG13, I wouldn’t say he’s over rated, heck I’d love it if he were a Blazer!
I thought the pacers would be worse without him and I thought OKC would be better with him, now Melo being in OKC too didn’t help...
I think PG13 is like one of those top 15-20ish players, and very good on both sides of the ball.
 
Orion Bailey said:
Id say he is a top 10 2 way, not top 5, but two ways are hard to find. He would propelle us big time.
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I've never been, a huge proponent of trading C.J., but Paul George and Jimmy Butler are two of the few players who have been realistically available I'd trade C.J. (and a young player and picks) for in a heartbeat. Either one of those guys, paired with Dame and Nurk, would give us a legit Big 3. Our defense would be so much better (easily one of the top in the league) and we wouldn't sacrifice anything offensively.

BNM
 
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KingSpeed said:
Not really. And in March, which was supposed to be a tough month for us, we dominated and ran away with the three seed. And it's because we have a very talented roster and a very good coach. If Harkless didn't get hurt, I think we would've won 52-53 games and made it to second round pushing Warriors to about 6 games. But Harkless' injury killed our momentum. Our defense was so good with him and he was hitting threes at an unbelievable clip. When he came back at less than 100%, we never got our groove back.
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Yes really up through mid-January the Blazers basically a .500 ball club.
 
TorturedBlazerFan said:
I don’t know what I make of PG13, I wouldn’t say he’s over rated, heck I’d love it if he were a Blazer!
I thought the pacers would be worse without him and I thought OKC would be better with him, now Melo being in OKC too didn’t help...
I think PG13 is like one of those top 15-20ish players, and very good on both sides of the ball.
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He is the kind of 3 and D guys GMs have wet dreams about. He's always among the league leaders in steals, has made all defense multiple times and can shoot > .400 3FG%.

He's also one of the few players in the league you can stick on LeBron or Durant and not worry about getting totally abused.

BNM
 
BonesJones said:
When trying to use status to sway, if one has to reference the source of their status, then their status isn't strong enough to sway (or slay).
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Lol. No offense to Eric but 5% of Bones' watchers are black.

:dunno:

He probably has never heard of the show or....

He could be like Dame and be the only black person that watches Monk.

:dunno:
 
Boob-No-More said:
He is the kind of 3 and D guys GMs have wet dreams about. He's always among the league leaders in steals, has made all defense multiple times and can shoot > .400 3FG%.

He's also one of the few players in the league you can stick on LeBron or Durant and not worry about getting totally abused.

BNM
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Oh definitely, He’s really good! Not trying to poo poo him in the slightest.
 
Boob-No-More said:
That's why I didn't quote you, but there are others in that thread bitching POR being a lottery team.

BNM
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I don’t think they will be a lottery team, but I wouldn’t be shocked if they had a good year and finished 9th or something. My guess is 4th or 5th. It’s a tight race... i don’t think the OKC / ATL deal does much to alter that balance for anyone...
 
Boob-No-More said:
So, doesn't this trade create the same kind of logjam at guard for OKC that people are bitching about POR having? They resigned Felton, already have Westbrook sucking up over 36 MPG and 21 FGA/G at the point guard spot and have now added Schroeder..

How does adding a shitty defender with a > 30% USG% and a < .300 3FG% make them better? Seriously, explain that one to me.

At least our so-called logjam at guard consists of people who can actually shoot the ball. We have a surplus of guys who can shoot. OKC has a surplus of guys who can't.

BNM
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Exactly this. Their frontcourt is still pretty weak in my opinion.
 
TorturedBlazerFan said:
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Yes really up through mid-January the Blazers basically a .500 ball club.
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Not sure what that signifies. Would it have been better to be 10 games over .500 and then end up at 49-33? The end is the end no matter how you get there.
 
CupWizier said:
Not sure what that signifies. Would it have been better to be 10 games over .500 and then end up at 49-33? The end is the end no matter how you get there.
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Good point, I was just saying that only talking about how good they were in March doesn’t encapsulate the whole season, not saying to ignore march either...
 
TorturedBlazerFan said:
Good point, I was just saying that only talking about how good they were in March doesn’t encapsulate the whole season, not saying to ignore march either...
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You need to bifurcate the win streak from the rest of the season... you can’t ignore the fact that they were a .500 team outside of those 13 games... below .500 if you include playoffs
 
KingSpeed said:
We are a lock for playoffs. We spent the last month of the season at 3 seed. It's not like we were bouncing around the standings. We will be very good this year. Great? Who knows? But very good, yes.
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They spent the last month as the #3 seed....3 games from not making the Playoffs. The margin was very thin. Teams around them had MAJOR injuries to very key players. Portland took advantage...but it's not like SA, OKC, UTA, MIN were even close to full strength.
 
I talked with a lot of people on the German nba Page about the Blazers and everybody, really everybody said Blazers overachieved last Season because of the injuries to Key Players outside of the Blazers. For example:

Minnesota: was ahead of us until butler got hurt and they fall from 3rd seed to 8th, and btw both Games we won were when Butler was out, so think about it

San Antonio: the whole Season without their best Player, Imagine Dame was out for the entire Season, and still spurs only 2 Games behind Portland.

Okc: started to play very well until Roberson got hurt, they had a crazy good net rating with him.

New Orleans: Boogie got hurt, you can say they still played good and Maybe even better without him but Boogie is probably the best Center in the League healthy, so they Maybe would have been also ahead of us.

Utah: Gobert missed almost 2 months or so and when he came back they made an insane run, without Goberts injury, they 100% would have been ahead of us.

We took Advantage, but the 3rd seed wasn't for real, that's the reality
 
Labinot41 said:
We took Advantage, but the 3rd seed wasn't for real, that's the reality
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Exactly! Hang another championship banner from the rafters. We were 50 -10 in 1978 before Walton got hurt..... yes the other teams took advantage when he went down, but we all know it wasn't real......that's the reality. And don't get me started on Oden and BRoy....
 
Gronk Brady said:
You need to bifurcate the win streak from the rest of the season... you can’t ignore the fact that they were a .500 team outside of those 13 games... below .500 if you include playoffs
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That is so stupid. So if we went 10-4 and 10-3 that would be different?
 
Labinot41 said:
I talked with a lot of people on the German nba Page about the Blazers and everybody, really everybody said Blazers overachieved last Season because of the injuries to Key Players outside of the Blazers. For example:

Minnesota: was ahead of us until butler got hurt and they fall from 3rd seed to 8th, and btw both Games we won were when Butler was out, so think about it

San Antonio: the whole Season without their best Player, Imagine Dame was out for the entire Season, and still spurs only 2 Games behind Portland.

Okc: started to play very well until Roberson got hurt, they had a crazy good net rating with him.

New Orleans: Boogie got hurt, you can say they still played good and Maybe even better without him but Boogie is probably the best Center in the League healthy, so they Maybe would have been also ahead of us.

Utah: Gobert missed almost 2 months or so and when he came back they made an insane run, without Goberts injury, they 100% would have been ahead of us.

We took Advantage, but the 3rd seed wasn't for real, that's the reality
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Life is a bitch. FACT, we were the 3rd seed. Go cry in a fucking Jazz, Thunder, Spurs etc forum, but get this fucking shit out of here.

It's rather sickening to see so called Blazer fans work so hard to discredit a team they CLAIM to root for.
 
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