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Lillard is addressing the the Truehoop report this afternoon, so we will see what he has to say.
After watching all 3 iterations of Lillard's Blazers fail year after year, it did feel like that game 5 loss to Denver was a pivot point. All time performance, talking about how they had to win, and then the team shatting their pants around him just felt like it was going to an important moment.
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inthepaint wrote: View Post
Yeah all these players I mentioned are "locked up" but that doesn't mean anything to these guys anymore, all they have to do is ask for a trade. The contract just means the money is guaranteed to them by some NBA team but the their current team doesn't really have any guarantee. Dame is "locked up" too, his extension will kick-in next season and the deal is till 2025, but doesn't look like he'll be in Portland that long.
Knicks is not a champioship team, but that's not his criteria here; he probably feels like he can be the first there, and other stars will follow, like Durant did with the Nets. These guys can now just pick a husk of a team on the destination they want (like Lebron to the Lakers and Durant to the Nets), then build it from there. And the receiving teams will gladly do it, as their draft/development typically suck so they do through free agents and/or shipping pick boats to teams forcibly losing their star.
Jury still out if the concocted superteams really work though - so far is 1-1. Lakers got one chip, Nets this year felt short. The other recent championships had at least one "homegrown" star, and that will be the case this year too, which is nice to see. That's what Dame is angling to though, superteam formation with the husk of the Knicks.Mamba Mentality
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The Athletic NBA on Twitter: "Miami is my favorite landing spot for Kyle Lowry, @johnhollinger writes. “A sign-and-trade of Iguodala, Okpala and Achiuwa for Lowry would extend the Heat’s cap room, and the Raptors would walk away with two young frontcourt players.â€
I don't want Lowry gone, but I think it's time 2 move on, I believe this is a really good deal, I like it..I love Achiuwa, so talented, me like a lot.."Never apologize for coming to me. Office hours are for patients.
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The Great One wrote: View PostIf the NYK trade for Dame they probably would have to give up RJ and Obi and Quickley and multiple 1st. That would leave them with Randle and Robinson and Dame as their core guys. Is that a championship team? the players that you mentioned other than Beal are all locked up long term.
Like, remember Paul George to the Clippers: Shai, Danilo Galinari (who made the money work), and five first-rounders (two of which were Miami's picks they had previously gotten in trade) plus two pick swaps.
Dame to the Knicks: five first-rounders (two of which are Dallas' picks from the Porzingis trade), and probably RJ Barrett. They don't need to give up anything else to make the money work but say they send out Luca Vildoza and Kevin Knox just to clear some more cap room, that's two more assets for Portland that the Knicks really weren't using this year but still have value. At that point the Knicks have Randle, Dame, Obi, Quickley and Robinson under contract and nobody else and they've got about forty million dollars in cap space to go get a big star or two medium-tier stars (say, for the sake of argument, Otto Porter and Norm Powell), then they fill out the roster with vet minimums, maybe bring back Alec Burks, Derrick Rose and Taj Gibson on value deals.
That's absolutely a contending team.
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The Great One wrote: View Post
But if the Knicks trade for Dame they're not going to have any more assets to trade for a Zion or a KAT.
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golden wrote: View Post
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slaw wrote: View Post
Basically what he's been saying since the playoffs: we aren't good enough and we need to get better. I think they are going to have to try and move CJ and Nurkic and see what they can get for those guys. This is really him giving an ultimatum to the front office and ownership.
Honestly, this is rarely a winnable situation for the team. You can't really make progress with public ultimatums like that. Every potential trade partner knows exactly what's going on and they'll put all the pressure on the Blazers. If I'm Portland, I take a serious look at gutting the whole team right now, starting with Dame.
They're the Raptors if MLSE had kept Colangelo. Would have been making win-now moves around Casey/DD/Lowry forever."We're playing in a building." -- Kawhi Leonard
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c-troop wrote: View Post
Understandably the league is changing and the Center position is changing, but I'll be damned. We won the NBA Championship with Ibaka and Gasol, TWO towering obelisks at the C position, and for whatever reason, it seems like people are dead set on playing small ball.
I think it's funny that Memphis essentially consisted of all rookies + ValanÄiÅ«nas and they made the playoffs.
We had more developed players and Lowry and ended up near the bottom of the league.
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Primer wrote: View Post
Serge is a PF who can play some C. He's 6'10 235lbs. He's smaller than a LOT of PF in the NBA. Now Gasol is the prototypical big boy C. John Collins is 1 inch shorter than Ibaka and the same weight.
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