We got the #3 pick. Discuss the possibilities.

[riverman]

Thoughts on this 3 team trade:
Blazers get mikel bridges
Houston gets the 3rd pick, nurk and keon.
Brooklyn gets the 4 pick, and the 2024 pick back from the houston.

I just heard Mike Richman propose this exact trade

 

[SharpesTriumph]

Thoughts on this 3 team trade:
Blazers get mikel bridges
Houston gets the 3rd pick, nurk and keon.
Brooklyn gets the 4 pick, and the 2024 pick back from the houston.

Doesn't make sense from Houston end unless they view the #3 player as a star much much higher than #4. They take on Nurks negative value contract using cap space to do it, and give up the 2024 pick which could be a great lottery pick too.

 

[Strenuus]

It was good for Utah.

Okay, but that would also mean it's even worse for us. Worse player coming back, and what picks are we getting from Minny if 5 of them from this decade are going to Utah? Minny just gonna have 0 draft picks for a decade +?

 

[Jayblaze]

Doesn't make sense from Houston end unless they view the #3 player as a star much much higher than #4. They take on Nurks negative value contract using cap space to do it, and give up the 2024 pick which could be a great lottery pick too.

scoot henderson thats why, they need a generational point guard

 

[Strenuus]

Well maybe, or maybe not. Maybe he gets injured and never succeds. Amen Thompson has crazy high upside. Giannis was a multiple time MVP and drafted at pick #15, while Jokic was 41st.

Wemba might be a better prospect than any of these, above LeBron, possibly even the best prospect in the history of team sports. #3 is more often than not an allstar, has had many hall of famers, and yes including the best player of all time though.

Lebron will probably be the greatest prospect ever. The buzz and expectation around him pre social media is wild. Wemby is hyped to the gills, sure. But his expectation isn't "savior" like Lebron's was (and I still contend that the cavs getting the #1 pick was already set. I don't sit on too many conspiracy theories, but that's one damnit)

 

[inconceivable]

I’m concerned about his shooting. Isn’t that kind of a big deal in today’s game?

Yeah, shooting and height are legit concerns

 

[Fairly-Hard]

So you think December was really bad; I'd contend it was July that was really bad when the roster was put together that @TBpup mentioned?

If the Blazers had some more wins in December they would've just came back to reality in January. That roster was a joke for trying to legit win with Dame. A few losses in December didn't rob the team of some winning contending chance, that roster just never had it.

The team put themselves in a position of having to full on tank midway through the year from either incompetence or an elaborate entire year stealth losing campaign. I'd love if it was the latter, but I'm afraid it was the former and we're now getting set to repeat that process the following year.

Nah. They were looking to get a decent move at the deadline. 4-5 bad losses combined with a swing and a miss at the deadline and the tank was on. They planned that last summer. How else do you explain Lillard playing exactly the amount of games it took to be considered for All NBA?

 

[Fairly-Hard]

I thought we gave it one last shot vs Philly late in the year in Nurk’s first game with Thybulle. We played great but lost on an Embiid shot late. That broke us.

That probably had it's impact as well.

 

[SharpesTriumph]

Nah. They were looking to get a decent move at the deadline. 4-5 bad losses combined with a swing and a miss at the deadline and the tank was on. They planned that last summer. How else do you explain Lillard playing exactly the amount of games it took to be considered for All NBA?

Well then the team is more delusional and poorly run than I thought. A decent move at the deadline doesn't get last years roster close to contending, nor add any assets to be in a position to do it this summer.

 

[blazerfan11]

Dunker, who can't shoot, ok distributor, so called defender against G Leaguers. Sure!

He's much better than an "OK distributor."
Especially compared to what the Blazers are used to.

 

[tykendo]

Westbrook is the poor man's Scoot.

I get the Westbrook hate. I don't like him either. But fact is, he's had a H of F career, and deserves at least that respect. Scooters game is speculation right now. Ain't done squat yet. Wemby is different. Skillset , at that size is rare.

 

[tykendo]

He's much better than an "OK distributor."
Especially compared to what the Blazers are used to.

He isn't close to Dame . Dame is an underrated facilitator at the highest level. Scoot's is a facilitator in the G League.

 

[blazerfan11]

He's a great prospect but I don't see him as a can't miss superstar. Russ was an MVP, I dunno if Scoot has that ceiling.

Thinking of this in another way, if Shaedon were in this draft, and we know what we know about him, I think he would go 2 .

That makes no sense.

 

[blazerfan11]

He isn't close to Dame . Dame is an underrated facilitator at the highest level. Scoot's is a facilitator in the G League.

He's the best underrated because he's not doing it. How many times has Dame thrown a lob to Sharpe?

 

[BigGameDamian]

The Trade Dame clowns make me sick

So you would trade the pick for a proven star?

 

[tykendo]

Scoot's stats. 17.6 pts per. 6.4 ast. per. 5.1 reb. per. in 30 min. per vs. G Leaguers. I don't see ooh and ahh. Even when i watch his highlights. He's a dunker, so-so shooter. 6.4 ast. is good at NBA level , so - so at G League. Not earth moving.

 

[tykendo]

He's the best underrated because he's not doing it. How many times has Dame thrown a lob to Sharpe?

That's what you come back with, lobs to Sharpe.

 

[BigGameDamian]

 

[Fairly-Hard]

Well then the team is more delusional and poorly run than I thought. A decent move at the deadline doesn't get last years roster close to contending, nor add any assets to be in a position to do it this summer.

You don't know that. It has already been pointed out that two play in teams are in the conference finals.
Seems like you are talking Championship or bust. That simply isn't how this season has panned out.
You can't tell sell me at any level they didn't know the possibility of tanking this year was an option if they didn't play well enough and pick up a decent player at the deadline. That decision was made last year. People on here were even talking about it.

 

[HailBlazers]

Scoot's stats. 17.6 pts per. 6.4 ast. per. 5.1 reb. per. in 30 min. per vs. G Leaguers. I don't see ooh and ahh. Even when i watch his highlights. He's a dunker, so-so shooter. 6.4 ast. is good at NBA level , so - so at G League. Not earth moving.

But was his defense highlighted?

 

[tykendo]

He's the best underrated because he's not doing it. How many times has Dame thrown a lob to Sharpe?

Yes, more career ast. avg. than Steph Curry, without the same skill level of shooters around him. Yes he sucks.

 

[tykendo]

But was his defense highlighted?

Even if it was, it's G League.

 

[AngryFan]

Even if it was, it's G League.

Which is a step above college ball. Stop using it as an insult, it's absurd.

 

[Predator]

Thoughts on this 3 team trade:
Blazers get mikel bridges
Houston gets the 3rd pick, nurk and keon.
Brooklyn gets the 4 pick, and the 2024 pick back from the houston.

Hard pass.,

We need a center (actually multiple centers).

 

[Predator]

Doesn't make sense from Houston end unless they view the #3 player as a star much much higher than #4. They take on Nurks negative value contract using cap space to do it, and give up the 2024 pick which could be a great lottery pick too.

If Scoot was available at 3, I think they'd go for it.

Miller, probably not.

 

[tykendo]

Wemby's been playing as a pro in Europe since he was 15. Hey Skylar Mays played in the G League, and is a very good facilitator. Had some nice G League stats too.

 

[Predator]

Lol, I love the idea that since two play-in teams made the conference finals the Blazers are suddenly on par with those teams.

Both teams have played in the finals recently.

They both also have all star wings and fowards.

Blazers have.. neither.

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

I think we haven't seen any indication that Cronin will stray from the path of trying to find veteran help for Lillard. Not sure if we can get anyone better than Siakam. I liked the trade somebody suggested of Simons and the 3rd for Siakam and the 13th. Also try to add a shotblocking, rebounding banger, somebody like Williams of the Celtics or Mitchell Robinson.

 

[PCmor7]

I get the Westbrook hate. I don't like him either. But fact is, he's had a H of F career, and deserves at least that respect. Scooters game is speculation right now. Ain't done squat yet. Wemby is different. Skillset , at that size is rare.

You thinking this is Westbrook hate is misplaced. It is respect for what I feel very confident Scoot will be.

First, every player is speculation to some degree. Paul George and Kawhi were no-brainers for the Clippers, but what have they done for the Clippers ... and please don't say "Well, the injuries ...." Injuries happen. Fit happens. It's part of the game and part of the player.

Second, you did kind of make my point. I replied to a post comparing Scoot to Westbrook because of the outside shot. It's speculation that he won't get more proficient out there, too. He might actually be BETTER than we think. But I look at Westbrook and Ja Morant and I see PGs who don't shoot particularly well who have more than overcome it.

Would you like a Ja Morant without the gun posts? Would you like a Westbrook that doesn't talk too much trash and disappear in crunch time?

I look at Scoot and I see a guy that at the beginning of the season was considered a potential challenger for Wemby for the No. 1 overall pick. Like you said, Wemby is a unicorn and pegasus and kraken all rolled into one. Yet a 6-3 guard was considered so good that some basketball experts thought he might be on THAT level? And he didn't do anything to change those opinions. Miller had a great year to rise to that level, and Wemby just played like everyone thought he would.

If I didn't know anything else, that'd be all I need to know. There's every reason to believe this kid is special, too, and it'd be smart for everyone to start focusing on what he brings to the table over a detail or two that he might not.

 

[AngryFan]

Wemby's been playing as a pro in Europe since he was 15. Hey Skylar Mays played in the G League, and is a very good facilitator. Had some nice G League stats too.

Wemby is the most hyped prospect since Lebron and Skylar Mays is 25. Use some common sense.