Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard has requested a trade after the franchise failed to improve the roster enough to his liking.
Who is to blame? Where will Lillard land? And where do the Blazers go from here? The Blazer Focused podcast crew of Aaron Fentress of The Oregonian/OregonLive and Craig Birnbach dive into all of that and much more.
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even scoot doesnt start, he can still play 32min.there's 96min between PG and SG position, they will split that between Scoot SImons Sharpe (Keon might get 20min here and there between SG and SF).
but also i expect Sharpe to play 10-15min as a SF as well.. whoever vet get in return i expect him not to play (bought out straight away).
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There is no point in trading for Tyler Herro. We have a better, cheaper version of him. He would just take minutes from Sharpe and Scoot.
There are better teams than Miami to trade Dame to: Utah, San Antonio, OKC, Brooklyn.
Fentress,
Your argument doesn’t hold water when you consider the non-tank years were mediocre at best, the ownership caused this mess with their tight-wad team support, rebuilding teams don’t have a $50+M anchor on the salary space, and rebuilding teams are expected to be in the lottery with a lot of losses, it’s a natural progression. So your doom and gloom fear tactics don’t fly with me!
100% jody shes hired these bumbs that just sit on their asses and colllect pay checks traded cj norm and Covington for fucking peanuts to adopt an jeramis expiring contract in which lead to us overpaying. not willing to spend to give us the team we need she needs to leave and every blazer fan should boo her if she shows her face at the moda
joe should also resign even if hes not traded because the fact hes even requested a trade shows he has failed in his goal of quote "building a winner around dame"
It seems a big question that has to be answered is if Simons is comfortable playing the 2 guard. Clearly Scoot is going to be nothing other than a PG. Sharpe is a 2 now, but he could eventually mature into being able to play the 3. If Simons can be happy playing the 2 then he could have a good, long future with the Blazers. If he is not comfortable playing the 2 then the Blazers should probably look to move him now.
the most cruel thing in the world would be dame gets traded and the team gets so much better because of it. the odds on that happening are like 0.1 % just how cruel it would be to have dame sit and watch the blazers win without him
For Clyde Drexler we got othis Thorpe and a bag of Doritos.. whatever we get for dame will be good, Dame is 33.. herro better rebounder than ant 🐜
They are not trying to win… They are rebuilding regardless of whether Grant is on the team or not. You are trusting exactly what Cronin is saying for some reason.
I'm not sure it's a blame game. Cronin was trying his best to keep both timelines but eventually decided the younger route was best for our chances in the future to win a championship. Blazers never had the resources or assets to build a contender around Dame. It's extremely difficult to trade guys like Scoot, Simons and Sharpe because of how good they are right now. Those three will be unstoppable in 3 years.