The trade deadline has passed… we’ve got some thoughts.
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These dudes are completely clueless lol
CAM Is A Good player… just needs a chance!!!
I think we improved w/ Longer Stronger Guys on Defense, who can also
help w/ Rebounds & Creating open shots… ;
But the big problem is we NEED a BIG Paint Defending, shot blocking, Center / Backup
and if they dont deal w/ THAT issue,.. then all this is a waste of time!!! :
Hopefully get an Open Market / Buy out center……
What headset are you rocking with? love the audio quality
its a good trade though
thybulle is a long version of gp2
i hope kevin knoxx unleash his potential
from niw we just need a fucking center
just get rid of nurkic
im must say lillard will going to the lakers
SOON
Just rebuild. Wasting Dames time
These move are garbage
None of these trades are worth crap we got worse
It's obvious they're not trying to win. How do you let the lakers get to the guys you should've got. And that lazy center you have. is still here. If hes not injured hes fouling out .he won't run and play defense. Why would you not go after a decent center.. Very disappointing in the general manager.
Bruh y’all talking about this year . We have never had 2 all stars at once . I guess we are a broke franchise
They went young which isn’t bad since there were good players to choose from, they needed to increase their bench production and send Simons to the bench, get a big but that didn’t work in the past so they want to go with spacing the floor which isn’t bad since we attempt a lot of 3’s and need to increase our fastbreak attempts, we also upgraded our defense. Only way this offense works Simons comes off the bench, we got a lot of big wings to start over him
We got a 1st for Westbrook(Hart) and 5 2nds for a guy that didn’t want to play. We didn’t go all in but the summer was the time for that either way. I think we had good trades, wish they did more but understand why they didn’t
Dames gonna be like 35 by the time we have a chance of contending 😂
i honestly would’ve liked thomas bryant
We’re probably gonna sign noel if he gets waived
Were mid
The GP2 move was potentially the best one of the draft for the Blazers! We are so over stocked with 6'3" guards. Especially ones that aren't really scorers. And, have barely been on the court. Plus, look what we got! A 6'7" player in Knox with tons of up side. That was worth trading GP2 for because he's so athletic and so young. Often, a fresh start can be huge for a player that was a recent high draft pick. He might just be the perfect for here in Portland,.. who knows?
Then you add in the F O U R 2nd round draft picks we got and we literally KILLED the Warriors in this deal! Remember, one of the all time best Blazers ever was Cliff Robinson! And, he wasn't a high 2nd round pick either!!! More in your time period, I'm pretty impressed with Jabari Walker, this last drafts 2nd round pick. So, undervaluing 2nd round picks is a big mistake. Especially when using them like the Warriors did, as a package deal to get some player you really want. 😎🤘
I don't think that Durant trade should have impacted them one tiny bit. Like you said like everybody knows we weren't winning a championship they should just be trying to put the best product they can out on the court. With this ownership they may be just trying to save money operate a business below the tax line.
Honestly speaking who in the West do we fear outside of the KD Suns & Nuggets. I'm confident we have a shot to beat any other team in the West. The West is still kinda open.
Not going to miss GP 2 he's a flop. Could have got Wiseman instead of picks. The rest of these trades are garbage. Fire GM!
I agree,I don't think they got that much worse or better and they did get some assets so I definitely agree with that.
We desperately needed a C..and we didn't get one. Did front office actually talk to the coach and ask who they want and what the team needs..
I appreciate you guys for remaining calming and not freaking out over the trades. Great podcast once again. A nice, realistic approach to evaluating the trade deadline. After the Durant trade, there was no way we were completing this year. Cash it in and restock next summer.
Insightful perspective guys, I'm interested to see where it all goes. I think Blazers fans are upset because of years of pent up frustration, but this year was never 'championship or bust', nor could Cronin ever assemble a contender in a single season – we were never that close lol. The Cronin/Bills partnership has not reached the full maturity of its potential, that's evident from the roster and the on court results. I believe we'll get there.
#CAMHIVE, you in here👀👀!?!?!
Have no idea where we're going now?
I'm not understanding this all we needed was to find a good big man and not give away the store in doing so
The protected first if conveyed to the blazers turns into 4 future seconds
Tank time!!!!!
Sorry you can’t convince me that bridges, Johnson and 4 firsts is a better package than Anfernee, Sharpe, Nassir, Hart and 4 firsts (granted we unprotect our pick this year). We absolutely had the assets to get KD. We just didn’t want to. Anfernee is younger and arguable better than bridges with a higher ceiling, and Brooklyn didn’t need 36 different 3 & D wings.
Yea dame will get his shot to win a chip, but why would you do that when he’s 34 instead of 32?
Also, the decision to keep dame is not cronins, it’s Jody’s. Dame is not your average superstar in relation to Portland. He probably has an agreement with ownership that supersedes whatever cronin or a prospective new GM wants. Any Gm that got the job would have to agree to build around dame.
dame doing everything to carry us to playoffs hoping for our millions of potentials to work 🤦♂️
also if you say lakers got average players, what do you call our players ? 🤣
Whoever runs the trailblazers they just watch and sit there let teams get better and pick up all free agents and trades then once everybody gon they try to make something happen lol 😂 😂😂😂
Dame WAISTING ALL HIS YEARS HERE THEY WILL FOREVER BE. TRASH !!!!!!
Time too just worry about next season let’s just be fr
Adding That First round pick as well as the five second round picks is exciting for me because it loads up Mike Schmidt with ammunition and versatility moving forward.
I can easily see us converting some combination of those picks into an under the radar international player who ends up being a gem 💎
This is M.Shmitz’s first season in an NBA front office, but the dude is a stud and I can see him flourishing come draft time.
Casey? :/
Thybulle and cam are both good defenders that can play the 2&3 that helps with defense being simons and lillard are both poor defenders it will help thing with jusuf or who ever plays at C it Chauncey runs a large 2-5 we have plus defense at minimum 2 3 & 4 and lillard and simons will have to get the guys involved as best they can it’s the NBA though people act like these guys can’t shoot
The problem with a lot of the analysis is people saying "what one player could they have got that would make them contenders?"
No one was asking for one player to make them contenders. We were asking them to make moves to get closer to becoming contenders and they obviously got further from being contenders.
We had 8 fluke unlucky losses, games that we either blew huge leads or made dumb errors in the final seconds. If we won those 8 games we'd be 35-20 🤧🙃
I'm looking at the Lakers getting Vanderbilt, Beasley, D'Angelo and Mo Bamba? Was Westbrook worth all that? Man they scored big time and that sucks as a Blazer fan who wanted a few of those guys. Tough business I guess.
Cam red is a bucket
Cant wait to see how Cam and Matisse Do for Portland
We just feel like the most incompetent trading team in the league
You mean fans don't trust the team that drafted Sam Bowie over Michael Jordan and has almost totally wasted Dame's prime? Can't imagine why.
Watch as we surprise everyone, I bet they will fit perfectly
Those pics will be low though cuz warriors will finish ahead of us
The warriors will finish high up
I wonder how everyone feels about these moves after seeing them lol. Bummed we couldn’t trade Nurk and a package for a game changing C. But I always knew Thybulle better than GP2 and Hart and Reddish has always just needed a place to fit and he fits here. For those who don’t really know the game it’s obvious we did get better but we didn’t make the BIG move casuals wanted 😂 The biggest thing too is these are real solid players plus picks that we gained there’s a lot of moves that could be made in the summer. I think what happened that shocked everyone was OG not being available