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Will the Blazers tank next year?

  • Yes

    Votes: 23 62.2%

  • No

    Votes: 14 37.8%
  • Total voters
    37
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I'm curious what the consensus is. This is before any moves this summer, before the draft, before anything. Just curious if people think that the plan is to tank once more for a shot at Flagg?

And will they go all-in on tanking? Trade away vets?
 
My hope is they can somehow trade players and our picks to make the team better now. So a tentative, hopeful, no tank.
 
Cugel said:
It depends I think. Season ending injuries, god forbid, and they might. Otherwise no. Let them play
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To be clear, I'm asking people what they think the team WILL do. Not what they should do.
 
BBert said:
My hope is they can somehow trade players and our picks to make the team better now. So a tentative, hopeful, no tank.
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I mean they could - I just hope they don't do this type of short sided move.

I want the team to continue to go young and trade Grant/Brogdon/etc for more youth/picks.

However I do hope they try harder to win and don't have soo many scrubs that are borderline NBA players playing huge minutes for a 4th straight year. At this point since Cronin has done it EVERY single year he's been GM I think you need to expect him to do the same until we see him do something differently.

Still think it's likely we get a top5 pick even trying to win, even without those scrubs playing huge roles - we have such little talent. If our young guys exceed that and end up closer to .500 that will be great, that would mean we have better young talent than expected! But if it's a bunch of overpaid aging vets like Brogdon/Grant/etc and we give up future youth/picks for more of them, then no that's not a good process to improve! That would just be driving down towards years of purgatory.
 
They "will lose" and won't need to "try" to tank if they fully commit to a rebuild by trading 3 of 4 of (Ant/Grant/Thybulle/Brog), that for me is the correct course to take. Play the youngsters again, those from this year and the new draftees. Probably results in one more very bad season and if we draft solidly and Scoot/Sharpe and others show good development, then maybe we can start a slow rise from the bottom.
 
I hope the team comes out and plays well, with Shae Scoot Walker Camani Ayton gelling. If they take another step w/o injuries the synergy woukd help the youngsters pop. Don’t purposely tank.
 
Conditional tank. If they prove utterly uncompetitive or hopeless, due lack of skill, injuries or whatever else, they go in full-tank mode.

However, I don’t believe they start that way, I think they are hoping that either through draft, increased experience, trades or some combination thereof, they are hoping for playoffs or playin.
 
We better tank. It takes two Allstars on a team to win the championship and one should play a position other than guard.

Bottom line, we need more talent.
 
The Blazers will try to win games to start, but the tank will be inevitable.
 
Tanktastic. One more year.

Grant has 4 years of contract (final is p-opt)
Brogdon has 1.

Ayton, Matisse, Ant, Time Lord -- all have 2 more years (Matisse with p-opt with the final year).
Cronin has decisions about the big dollar players to make, soon ... February ... but this summer is good, too.
 
I've repeated my suspicion and it's that Cronin will try to win with Ant-Grant-Ayton. It would only work 'well' enough to put the Blazers in the 10-11 range of the lottery. And yeah, that would be dumb...but it's the Blazers and it's the next fence to straddle
 
I'm not sure if they will try to be bad. They just won't be in a position to be good as things stand with the current composition of the roster, and they aren't trading the young guys and picks for someone that substantially improves them.

I don't really count that as tanking. More a matter than at least half the roster next year is going to have three years or less in NBA experience and the West still will be loaded. Unless Sharpe and Scoot have huge upticks next season, the Blazers are going to remain in the lottery without having to hold guys out with phantom injuries.
 
I think this completely depends on who's on the roster when the season tips off. If they shed salary and trade the vets for picks then, yup....we're tanking. This off season should give a good hint as to what they plan on doing next season. Chauncey will be the coach so let's see if he can take a dive seasons in a row. I think he'll try to make the playoffs. Whether he does or not is yet to be seen.
 
I have no fucking clue what Joe is doing and I just hope it makes a lot more sense next season. If he moves forward with the rest of the rebuild it won't be such a blatant tank as much as we'll be the youngest team in the league and won't win a lot of games before the trade deadline and then we might see some tanking by sitting Deandre and whoever else is risking wins but young fun to watch players will still be playing.

Maybe Joe tries to get more win now vets and we struggle around .500 this season with a bullshit two timeline catastrophe. We don't realize we won't make the play-in until it's too late to tank so we finish off the season at around .450 and 12th or 13th place in the West.
 
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I hope the plan is to trade the vets for draft capital and then the tank will come naturally. Then replace Chauncey in the Summer of '25, leaving him with the worst winning percentage of any non-interim NBA coach ever.
 
blazerkor said:
I have no fucking clue what Joe is doing and I just hope it makes a lot more sense next season.
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I think most of what Joe is doing is posturing: ‘we like our vets’ = ‘you have to pay up if you want to trade for them.’ I don’t believe for a second he wants to win next season.
 
I voted no because I have no faith that Cronin will accept that the only road to success for Portland is to build through the draft, which entails tanking. Now, if he is smart and trades Ant, Grant, Brogdon, Thybulle and even Time Lord then they will not be tanking. They will be a young rebuilding team developing assets around Ayton, who is a keeper at this point for me. I actually believe that ownership along with Cronin's insistence will knowingly go into purgatory. Portland tried "retooling" with Dame a couple times. Never worked. They need to trade the players mentioned for draft assets and expiring journeyman vets that can play a supporting role and help teach the young players. Portland should not win more games next season than they did this one.
 
inconceivable said:
Idk if we will but we should

Scoot
Shaedon
Cooper Flag
Alex Sarr

Is a potentially good young core
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One more tank year and we'll have one of Flagg, Bailey, Gonzalez or even Edgecombe as wing options. Far better talent than this year's stock.
 
Cronin did not trade Grant and Ant when they were healthy and doing fairly well. So I doubt if he will trade either this summer. He may have traded Brogdon but I think I think he was injured right before the deadline and would not have passed a physical. With their injury histories, I doubt he can now get value for either Brogdon or Williams. So will probably keep both. So I don't think they will plan on tanking at the beginning of the season. But if there are more injuries and/or disappointing play, I think they will go into tank mode.
 
Of course we’re going to continue to tank. We can’t possibly push on the accelerator.
 
The Kings replaced the Blazers as 1st round fodder. Good for them, the beam keeps getting lit, while the Blazers light up the draft room.

It's not tanking, it's rebuilding. They rebuilt the players cafeteria, rebuilt the floor scheme, and added Moses Brown to the roster.

The team doesn't need direction, it's Blazer fans who need direction.

Moses = this team tapped out, good luck winning 30 games. Even if Moses is playing in close games, the opponent can play hack-a-Brown to widdle away a Blazers lead.

Is a 29% FT shooting Center the worst in Franchise history?
 
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