Mavs will forever thank Portland for matching so they could get Grant Williams instead.
maddogfarm
worst GM in the league and its not close
GlueGuy00
would’ve left that team if they didn’t give him the bag lol Wiz and Blazers gunning for the worst record next year
HoopsMcCann750
Hot take: the Grant contract isn’t so bad that they won’t be able to trade him for assets within a year or two. It’s not the end of the world to give your young guards reps with actually competent frontcourt players.
bb1432
Couldn’t win with him
I_Set_3_Alarms
Portland making the play-in with Dame on the bench all year would be hilarious.
Then Dame comes back, whole team accepts it, and at the least they upset the 1/2 seed in the first round after making it through the play-in
MrBuckBuck
Imagine Grant leads Portland to the WCF without Lillard.
Background_Action_92
They gonna lock in that 11 seed
usmarine7041
Go get matisse, I’ll be rooting for the blazers to have a better season that wherever team dame ends up on unless it’s the Celtics
86096331
They will win 68 games. Lillard is the reasons why they losing
Millionaire007
Lol
FRiver
Without Dame, this is an ideal roster to develop Scoot. You couldn’t really ask for a better situation as a ‘generational’ PG. Strong vet defenders in Grant and Tisse. Nurk if he stays. Grant will take the scoring load too.
Add in Shaedon developing as a scorer, future looks good.
smalls_1804
The Grant contract is fine, people really need to adjust how they judge contracts to the new cap, which is projected to be ~$190m at the end of his deal. I just don’t see the utility in trying to compete immediately. I get that there isn’t as much of a race to the bottom anymore, but I thought the book was out that teams that get too good too fast tend to get stuck in the middle like the NBA’s own equivalent of the [middle income trap](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_income_trap). Take a year, take a beat, get another quality draft pick, then ramp up.
Then again, sounds like they committed to Grant already and it’s unclear what kind of trade market there is for him so unless they want to explicitly try and be bad they may as well project that they’re trying to win even if they ultimately end up as a bottom-7 team by default
T3mp3stuous
It’s not
Oopthealley
“We feel like our talent base is high- after all this is the same team that tanked to the 3rd pick, 5th worst record, after dame sat out! All we had to do was dump Hart and GP2 and make no veteran additions.”
Gtfoh lol. Who would actually buy this PR propaganda?
TippyTripod1040
There are bad teams that are miserable to watch and ones that are fun, this seems like the latter. All you can really ask for after trading away a guy like Dame
HItide69
20 games
HinduHamma
No it’s you that is high, not your talent base.
Prestigious-State-15
We’ll win at least one game
holyrooster_
We sucked with Dame, but without him we are contenders.
SubstanceMC877
the Grant contract isn’t so bad that they won’t be able to trade him for assets within a year or two.
ImRBJ
32-50 incoming
Mygaffer
They won’t be winning anything without Dame. They don’t plan to win, that’s cap.
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Aight
Whos gonna tell him…
They certainly gonna win.
At least one time.
Plans to win 17 games
Mavs will forever thank Portland for matching so they could get Grant Williams instead.
worst GM in the league and its not close
would’ve left that team if they didn’t give him the bag lol Wiz and Blazers gunning for the worst record next year
Hot take: the Grant contract isn’t so bad that they won’t be able to trade him for assets within a year or two. It’s not the end of the world to give your young guards reps with actually competent frontcourt players.
Couldn’t win with him
Portland making the play-in with Dame on the bench all year would be hilarious.
Then Dame comes back, whole team accepts it, and at the least they upset the 1/2 seed in the first round after making it through the play-in
Imagine Grant leads Portland to the WCF without Lillard.
They gonna lock in that 11 seed
Go get matisse, I’ll be rooting for the blazers to have a better season that wherever team dame ends up on unless it’s the Celtics
They will win 68 games. Lillard is the reasons why they losing
Lol
Without Dame, this is an ideal roster to develop Scoot. You couldn’t really ask for a better situation as a ‘generational’ PG. Strong vet defenders in Grant and Tisse. Nurk if he stays. Grant will take the scoring load too.
Add in Shaedon developing as a scorer, future looks good.
The Grant contract is fine, people really need to adjust how they judge contracts to the new cap, which is projected to be ~$190m at the end of his deal. I just don’t see the utility in trying to compete immediately. I get that there isn’t as much of a race to the bottom anymore, but I thought the book was out that teams that get too good too fast tend to get stuck in the middle like the NBA’s own equivalent of the [middle income trap](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_income_trap). Take a year, take a beat, get another quality draft pick, then ramp up.
Then again, sounds like they committed to Grant already and it’s unclear what kind of trade market there is for him so unless they want to explicitly try and be bad they may as well project that they’re trying to win even if they ultimately end up as a bottom-7 team by default
It’s not
“We feel like our talent base is high- after all this is the same team that tanked to the 3rd pick, 5th worst record, after dame sat out! All we had to do was dump Hart and GP2 and make no veteran additions.”
Gtfoh lol. Who would actually buy this PR propaganda?
There are bad teams that are miserable to watch and ones that are fun, this seems like the latter. All you can really ask for after trading away a guy like Dame
20 games
No it’s you that is high, not your talent base.
We’ll win at least one game
We sucked with Dame, but without him we are contenders.
the Grant contract isn’t so bad that they won’t be able to trade him for assets within a year or two.
32-50 incoming
They won’t be winning anything without Dame. They don’t plan to win, that’s cap.