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Should the Blazers puruse Carmelo Anthony?

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santeesioux said:
I told you guys you should move the Rose Garden down here to Oregon's city of sunshine, we get like 300 days of it as opposed to your dreary cloudy weather everyday.
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I've said it once, I will say it again. Move the blazers to Vegas.
 
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Players make such horrible decisions...

- CP3 chose to play with Harden and coach Pringles instead of joining the best coach ever and the real MVP of the league.

- Crapelo choosing to play with Kobe -2.0, a guy who dreams about going to the Lakers next year and a team that played broken anti-basketball in the playoffs.

- Irving choosing to leave the best player of this generation to play with Gordon Hayward.


Fuck it, we're probably better off with Von and Aminu playing defense at the 4 anyway. Our starting 5 is good enough offensively, i only wanted it because CJ and Dame wanted it..
 
theprunetang said:
At least I can go back to disliking Melo. With Melo never adding Portland to his list, despite Dame and CJ talking with him about it, he just bare-hand slapped our team in the face. I know he will be getting my boos this season.
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Me too!
 
Blazers Roy said:
Players make such horrible decisions...

- CP3 chose to play with Harden and coach Pringles instead of joining the best coach ever and the real MVP of the league.

- Crapelo choosing to play with Kobe -2.0, a guy who dreams about going to the Lakers next year and a team that played broken anti-basketball in the playoffs.

- Irving choosing to leave the best player of this generation to play with Gordon Hayward.


Fuck it, we're probably better off with Von and Aminu playing defense at the 4 anyway. Our starting 5 is good enough offensively, i only wanted it because CJ and Dame wanted it..
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I can understand both Melo and Irving. Melo gets to play with two of the most talented players he's ever had in his team and will be sure of playoffs basketball for the first time in ages. Westbrook and George are both great players.

Irving probably suspects LeBron will leave soon and doesn't want to stick around in what will become a pretty terrible team with no cap flexibility. Boston is also a good destination and they got young upcoming players in Brown and Tatum plus another future high pick to complete the team. Hayward, Horford and Irving is a good core and all of them will stay there for a considerable future.

Paul going to Houston was odd. They gutted their team to make that trade and banked on getting Melo too and are now left with a pretty average core outside Paul and Harden.
 
Sarni said:
I can understand both Melo and Irving. Melo gets to play with two of the most talented players he's ever had in his team and will be sure of playoffs basketball for the first time in ages. Westbrook and George are both great players.

Irving probably suspects LeBron will leave soon and doesn't want to stick around in what will become a pretty terrible team with no cap flexibility. Boston is also a good destination and they got young upcoming players in Brown and Tatum plus another future high pick to complete the team. Hayward, Horford and Irving is a good core and all of them will stay there for a considerable future.

Paul going to Houston was odd. They gutted their team to make that trade and banked on getting Melo too and are now left with a pretty average core outside Paul and Harden.
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-Melo playing with another star forward in a broken system? i think I've seen that movie before and it wasn't pretty. Melo was at his best in NY when he was surrounded with great shooters and a fast style of play.

-Irving could demand a trade next offseason, he had a theoretical chance of winning a championship again this season. Injuries happen. I can understand why he did it, i just don't understand the timing.
 
*It would have been a fun experiment, but Sports is littered with rejected deals that turned out to be blessings for the rejected parties. Chemistry matters as evident by this most recent Warrior dynasty, and Melo doesn't have a great track record there.
*It may not have worked out for the Blazers, but it does make the NBA product better. OKC can at least compete with the Warriors now, maybe push to 6 games.
*I like it for OKC. They've totally mortgaged their future acquiring one year rentals, and there's going to be nothing in the cupboards this time next year. But they've bettered their odds and are only a Curry or Durant injury from having a real shot at the title. If the stars jettison, they'll likely be lucky to win 20 games next year, and be all the more happy for it as they start the process all over again with a top 4 pick. It's cyclical for small town teams and Presti's got it mastered.
*I like it the Knick too. Honestly, I'd rather have Kanter and McDermott than any combination of Turner, Harkless, Meyers, or whoever else outside our top 3. I'm probably in the minority but I still value skilled big men over specialized wings.
 
Drttimmy said:
*It would have been a fun experiment, but Sports is littered with rejected deals that turned out to be blessings for the rejected parties. Chemistry matters as evident by this most recent Warrior dynasty, and Melo doesn't have a great track record there.
*It may not have worked out for the Blazers, but it does make the NBA product better. OKC can at least compete with the Warriors now, maybe push to 6 games.
*I like it for OKC. They've totally mortgaged their future acquiring one year rentals, and there's going to be nothing in the cupboards this time next year. But they've bettered their odds and are only a Curry or Durant injury from having a real shot at the title. If the stars jettison, they'll likely be lucky to win 20 games next year, and be all the more happy for it as they start the process all over again with a top 4 pick. It's cyclical for small town teams and Presti's got it mastered.
*I like it the Knick too. Honestly, I'd rather have Kanter and McDermott than any combination of Turner, Harkless, Meyers, or whoever else outside our top 3. I'm probably in the minority but I still value skilled big men over specialized wings.
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Don't think it makes OKC much better, if at all.

Kanter is an awful defender and is overrated and they don't need him because Porzingas and Hernangomez is their future frontcourt. They would've picked Harkless over what they got, because of other reasons including the fact that they could pencil him in at SF and he would fit well with what they got.
 
Hopefully NYK is open to the idea of Davis and a couple future 2nds for Lee. Lee would be perfect here. Neil needs to try to land him with our TPE.
 
I think if Lebron leaves he should go to BOS next year with Kyrie on the way out.

Back to crazy hypotheticals:

Lebron opt-in-and-traded (CP3 style) to BOS.

BOS Gets: Lebron, A.Davis
Random Team Gets: Kyrie
NOP Gets: Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, LAL/SAC 1st (BOS), other stuff from BOS
CLE Gets: Stuff from the team that gets Kyrie.

Either that, or Lebron should try find his way to another eastern team by opting in to get traded. WAS for Otto Porter would be a good idea. To Milwaukee would be interesting as well.
 
chzbrgr said:
But dont you get the sense that Dame doesnt recruit at all, he justifiably thinks that is not his job, but it sounds like that's how deals get done these days. I think we are to the point where if Dame wants to get better players in here he has to sell it.
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A- I don't care. B- Read my post again. Dame can't make up Melo's mind for him and Melo clearly was pretty close minded about where he wanted to play. Dame could have gotten on his knees like a btich and begged and it wouldn't have mattered.
 
LOL didn't want to live in the NW... "geographical switch"

The son of a bitch moved from Denver to New York and did just fine. Pre kids, sure... but jesus.

You can go to New York in the offseason, it takes 6 fucking hours.
 
Cippy91 said:
Says you. Based off nurks contract year and what? Two unproven rookies? I hope you remember harkless and aminu, Davis all regressed last season. Turner was ehhhh
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Harkless regressed? What? He got better. Aminu and Davis both had before average years for us, so if things regrees to the mean they'll play better than us.

With Nurk, he's always had the talent but he just needed a situation to unleash it. He's a very good rim protector at the very minimum, which is already an upgrade over last year.

The rookies can only help us. If they're not ready, they won't play, which means no difference. If they are ready, they'll play and it'll help us.
 
Cippy91 said:
Well we gave up crabbe for nothing. If he was cheaper we could of got something or we just didn't have to match that offer sheet at all. Could of spared that contract on turner too and used that money more wisely. It kinda bad robbed us of two valuable assets. That's how it but us. As well as Meyers contract which didn't need to be given at all. Completely fine with what harkless got though
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We still wouldn't have the cap space to sign anyone even if we didn't sign Crabbe, Turner, or Leonard, and even if we did, nobody better than Turner wants to come here. So while they were mistakes, I'm having a hard time seeing what improvement they've caused us to miss out on.
 
Strenuus said:
LOL didn't want to live in the NW... "geographical switch"

The son of a bitch moved from Denver to New York and did just fine. Pre kids, sure... but jesus.

You can go to New York in the offseason, it takes 6 fucking hours.
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He was from the east coast, so the move TO NYC was probably a good thing in his eyes.
 
I wonder if Neil is still considering dealing with NY for Kanter.
We know he likes him because he inked him in the past, we desperately need scoring off the bench and we know NY wants some of our pieces.

It's interesting to see the per36 numbers between Kanter and Carmelo:
Kanter:
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Melo:
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Strenuus said:
LOL didn't want to live in the NW... "geographical switch"

The son of a bitch moved from Denver to New York and did just fine. Pre kids, sure... but jesus.

You can go to New York in the offseason, it takes 6 fucking hours.
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He was born in Brooklyn.

Bitch next year when he joins the Laker with Lebron, Paul and Wade
 
Blazers Roy said:
I wonder if Neil is still considering dealing with NY for Kanter.
We know he likes him because he inked him in the past, we desperately need scoring off the bench and we know NY wants some of our pieces.

It's interesting to see the per36 numbers between Kanter and Carmelo:
Kanter:
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Melo:
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They can't trade him for a while after getting him via trade, correct?
 
Blazers Roy said:
I wonder if Neil is still considering dealing with NY for Kanter.
We know he likes him because he inked him in the past, we desperately need scoring off the bench and we know NY wants some of our pieces.

It's interesting to see the per36 numbers between Kanter and Carmelo:
Kanter:
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Melo:
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Kanter is a very good offensive talent. But I think
Blazers Roy said:
I wonder if Neil is still considering dealing with NY for Kanter.
We know he likes him because he inked him in the past, we desperately need scoring off the bench and we know NY wants some of our pieces.

It's interesting to see the per36 numbers between Kanter and Carmelo:
Kanter:
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Melo:
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What would we give up? Kanter makes a lot of money for a backup center. I really doubt you'd want to twin tower Kanter and Nurkic. We'd probably be better off with a more defensive minded backup center.
 
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