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Would be better than Mo right now. You could pencil in Dre for 6 assists a night with Aldridge Robinson or Leonard even.
 
Yeah, I often want to go back and erase the Trade Night Massacre. Rudy probably wouldn't have stuck around after last year anyway, but we'd have been more fun with the Professor, Faried and Rudy.
 
I really liked him but he is cursed when it comes to the playoffs. No matter how well he plays his teams lose the series.
 
I wonder if we could pick him up. I can't imagine Denver would want much.
 
I am a huge Dre fan. Love his game but if we had kept him last season would have been a cluster fuck. He would have wanted to start. It would have been a battle and a distraction all season long.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
I am a huge Dre fan. Love his game but if we had kept him last season would have been a cluster fuck. He would have wanted to start. It would have been a battle and a distraction all season long.
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Hasn't he accepted his role on the bench now?
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Last season he was still saying he should be starting in Denver. He would have said the same in Portland with a rookie pg.
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Well, he shouldn't be starting over Lawson and he wouldn't be starting over Lillard. I think Dre is still a damn fine point guard, but he's not a guy you can play 30+ minutes anymore. I'd love to see him come off our bench though. I wonder what Denver would want. We don't have much to give them.
 
Natebishop3 said:
I wonder if we could pick him up. I can't imagine Denver would want much.
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Not a lot of PT between him, lawson and Nate. Would be a nice fit offensively with Lillard but pretty horrific defensively. As far as him running the bench unit, Prof Miller would be a nice change of pace.
 
We all do. There's a bunch of ex-Blazers I'd like back: him, Jarrett Jack and Channing Frye to name three. But NOT JJ Hickson.

(Even Travis is getting some minutes these days.)
 
Loved it when Dre was here. Such an even-keeled player.
He was one of the guys to call McMillan on his crap early on, with that argumaent at practice.
McMillan rewarded him by ending his 'Ironman' streak.
So glad McMillan is history.
 
WillG said:
Loved it when Dre was here. Such an even-keeled player.
He was one of the guys to call McMillan on his crap early on, with that argumaent at practice.
McMillan rewarded him by ending his 'Ironman' streak.
So glad McMillan is history.
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All true except the iron man streak part. I'm pretty sure that ended when Ginger Griffin got away with two hard pushes in Andre's back, no call of course, so Andre drilled him out of bounds to make his point, resulting in a league suspension. You're probably thinking about Nate starting Blankey over Andre in this early AM.

:cheers:
 
Just think about this... With dre, we have no Felton. With no Felton, our team wouldn't probably have the mutiny of Nate. Since Wallace was part of that mutiny, the trade between New Jersey wouldn't have happen and we lose dame.

So no I do not wish we still had miller


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BBert said:
All true except the iron man streak part. I'm pretty sure that ended when Ginger Griffin got away with two hard pushes in Andre's back, no call of course, so Andre drilled him out of bounds to make his point, resulting in a league suspension. You're probably thinking about Nate starting Blankey over Andre in this early AM.

:cheers:
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Oh man, I loved the 'Dre the human cannonball' play!
Dre don't suffer no fools.

 
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magnifier661 said:
Just think about this... With dre, we have no Felton. With no Felton, our team wouldn't probably have the mutiny of Nate. Since Wallace was part of that mutiny, the trade between New Jersey wouldn't have happen and we lose dame.

So no I do not wish we still had miller
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For years people kept saying if we hadn't picked Martell Webster over Chris Paul we'd have never got Oden. Back when Oden was a good thing.

If Walton was healthy would we have got Drexler? At some point it needs to stop and we can judge each move in isolation. Getting rid of Miller for Felton was a terrible move.

Dre is quite a bit older now, if Denver keeps losing, which I definitely expect, they might look at trading him away to save a couple bucks. Part of his contract is guaranteed next season. If we could flip say Mo Williams to Miami or Houston or another contender and have Denver get salary relief they might give us Dre for almost nothing.
 
Draco said:
For years people kept saying if we hadn't picked Martell Webster over Chris Paul we'd have never got Oden. Back when Oden was a good thing.

If Walton was healthy would we have got Drexler? At some point it needs to stop and we can judge each move in isolation. Getting rid of Miller for Felton was a terrible move.

Dre is quite a bit older now, if Denver keeps losing, which I definitely expect, they might look at trading him away to save a couple bucks. Part of his contract is guaranteed next season. If we could flip say Mo Williams to Miami or Houston or another contender and have Denver get salary relief they might give us Dre for almost nothing.
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Nah I wouldn't want that still. I think mo will prove to be more valuable to us. The one thing miller doesn't have is a three point shot; which will create mismatch problems. Is rather have all our wings able to drain the three, so we can keep the defense honest
 
When Dre was here the main problem was his outside shooting. In the Dallas series we had Dre, Gerald, Camby all on the floor together and spacing was a nightmare. There was still thoughts of Roy returning and our PG needing to play off the ball. Those are distant times now. I've never seen shooting as good as we have on this years roster, Mo skillset is pretty redundent with Dam, Wes, Nic, Wright, LA, and a healthy CJ. You don't need 5 guys on the court at the 3 point line! That shooting could greatly complement Dre's skillset. I'd love to see him brought back. With a new GM and new coach I don't think he'd have any ill feelings about returning to our team. Aldridge praised Dre for his time here while he's been a Nugget.
 
Draco said:
When Dre was here the main problem was his outside shooting. In the Dallas series we had Dre, Gerald, Camby all on the floor together and spacing was a nightmare. There was still thoughts of Roy returning and our PG needing to play off the ball. Those are distant times now. I've never seen shooting as good as we have on this years roster, Mo skillset is pretty redundent with Dam, Wes, Nic, Wright, LA, and a healthy CJ. You don't need 5 guys on the court at the 3 point line! That shooting could greatly complement Dre's skillset. I'd love to see him brought back. With a new GM and new coach I don't think he'd have any ill feelings about returning to our team. Aldridge praised Dre for his time here while he's been a Nugget.
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I love dre and I don't doubt he would help this club. I'm just hoping that CJ will be our guard of the future. I also think dre would have a problem coming off the bench. Whatever the case, I doubt we have a shot at getting him.
 
magnifier661 said:
Nah I wouldn't want that still. I think mo will prove to be more valuable to us. The one thing miller doesn't have is a three point shot; which will create mismatch problems. Is rather have all our wings able to drain the three, so we can keep the defense honest
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Do you remember those alley oops we had with Dre? Back at the start of the Phoenix series we were killing it. Those are better shots than an open 3. Yet with the rest of our roster we'd still have 3 or 4 guys on the court with Dre who can sit at the three point line. There isn't room out there for more!

I've been very unimpressed with Mo to this point. He is playing like a less efficient Crawford. We can't do any trades with Mo to the middle of December and I think Denver will want to wait until some more losses pile up. So we will have some time to make judgments, but its a trade I could definitely see making sense for both teams.
 
magnifier661 said:
I love dre and I don't doubt he would help this club. I'm just hoping that CJ will be our guard of the future. I also think dre would have a problem coming off the bench. Whatever the case, I doubt we have a shot at getting him.
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He has been fine coming off the bench in Denver. From day one he said Lawson was a better player and deserved to play in front of him. He just wants to be on the court and thought he was good enough to start for many teams. Its more of a veteran confidence that you want to see in all players than any sort of poor attitude.
 
Draco said:
He has been fine coming off the bench in Denver. From day one he said Lawson was a better player and deserved to play in front of him. He just wants to be on the court and thought he was good enough to start for many teams. Its more of a veteran confidence that you want to see in all players than any sort of poor attitude.
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I could have sworn there was an issue in Denver with miller. At least that's what I thought I read. I could be wrong though. Hasn't been the first time! ;)
 
I would love to get Dre back on the team, but we just don't have any big, nasty, bloated contracts on the team right now. It's a really good thing, but it also makes it impossible to make a trade

Our biggest contracts right now are Aldridge, Batum, Wes, an Lopez. This is one of the first times this team hasn't had a huge bloated contract on the books. It's kinda refreshing.
 
Draco said:
Getting rid of Miller for Felton was a terrible move.
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Because we didn't know Brandon was done. Had he retired at the beginning of the off-season rather than at the end, we never would have traded Miller. Up until the moment he retired the first time, we were focused on building around Brandon instead of trying to replace him.
 
BlazerWookee said:
Because we didn't know Brandon was done. Had he retired at the beginning of the off-season rather than at the end, we never would have traded Miller. Up until the moment he retired the first time, we were focused on building around Brandon instead of trying to replace him.
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The last year it was obvious Roy was never going to be the player he once was. He visited multiple specialists who said there was no way to fix his knees. His knees were in far worse shape than Odens. In the Dallas series he couldnt guard a chair and outside of game 4 had a horrific series. If the Blazers were still building the team around him after all of that they are more incompetent than I thought.
 
Draco said:
The last year it was obvious Roy was never going to be the player he once was. He visited multiple specialists who said there was no way to fix his knees. His knees were in far worse shape than Odens. In the Dallas series he couldnt guard a chair and outside of game 4 had a horrific series. If the Blazers were still building the team around him after all of that they are more incompetent than I thought.
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They took him at his word when he said, "My knees feel great!"
 
Natebishop3 said:
I would love to get Dre back on the team, but we just don't have any big, nasty, bloated contracts on the team right now. It's a really good thing, but it also makes it impossible to make a trade

Our biggest contracts right now are Aldridge, Batum, Wes, an Lopez. This is one of the first times this team hasn't had a huge bloated contract on the books. It's kinda refreshing.
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Dre only makes $5 million so it would be very easy to construct a trade. Mo Williams and Will Bartons salaries match up.
 
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