Time to blow it up and rebuild?

[Hoopguru]

Dame for sabonis and brogdan

Throw in Duarte and Ill do it.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Dame for sabonis and brogdan

I wouldn't do that if I was Indy. Unless there's somewhere they've got lined up to flip Dame for, and in that case we should just cut out the middle man.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

There's always somewhere. If John Wall and Westbrook can get traded, so can CJ and Covington.

Ah, a "summer of Aldridge leaving" bloodbath. Trading Batum for loose change. Looking forward to THAT.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

The stench of Neil permeates throughout this entire roster. At its absolute ceiling this roster is a fringe playoff team.

Trade everyone and anything that Neil touched

 

[Rastapopoulos]

 

[mook]

And even if they are just as bad in all ways, they are not the player who's a long-term member of the team so it's emotionally and politically easier to just bench them if necessary.

Exactly. That's what I meant by a change of scenery. It's better for both players and organization to just work with new people.

It may wind up just being the case that you are re-shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic. But what people always miss in that metaphor is that the Titanic is sinking anyway. What else can you really do once all the life boats are gone?

Or perhaps we could construct some sort of rudimentary lathe.

 

[GDiama]

Can someone let me know why we don't have a GLeague team yet? Don't you think it's to blame that our picks always take a bit more time to develop? I go and check all picks of this season and they have played few games in GLeague while Brown I suppose is just doing private workouts with our coaches?

 

[mook]

Ah, a "summer of Aldridge leaving" bloodbath. Trading Batum for loose change. Looking forward to THAT.

Well, in hindsight we were better off dumping him for practically nothing than re-signing him to that massive contract, don't you think?

I do wonder if we'll experience some buyer's remorse on Nassir and Simons as well. Feels like Nas is always injured, and Simons is basically CJ 2.0. I'm not saying we have to dump them, but I'm not averse to including them to sweeten deals.

I guess my prescription of moving practically everyone but Dame, Norm, Nance and maybe Nurk (if he commits to re-signing at a reasonable deal) is a blood bath.

I'm not entirely sold that the bloodbath shouldn't include Billups as well. D'Antoni is still available, and you'd be hard pressed to convince me he'd be a worse coach than what we've seen so far from Chauncy. Just because we're the Blazers doesn't mean we have to wait years and years to correct a coaching mistake. We could write him off as the last mistake of the Olshey era.

 

[Blazinaway]

Looks like Dame may be lobbying for a Simmons trade, our new GM 2.0?

Damian Lillard Would Like Portland To Trade For Ben Simmons - RealGM Wiretap