On the latest episode of Jacked Ramsays, host Danny Marang sat down with Portland Trail Blazers General Manager Joe Cronin to discuss a host of questions and issues.
What did Cronin learn about players who can and can’t play with Damian Lillard (1:00)
Are you comfortable going forward with the Dame (Lillard) and Ant (Simons) backcourt pairing? (3:00)
How do you get a more veteran laden team when so much of your roster is so young? (5:00)
Is ownership comfortable paying the luxury tax for a team that can compete? (7:20)
Has there been any movement on a potential G-League team for the Trail Blazers? (8:10)
Have the Sacramento Kings set a kind of framework for competitiveness level to follow? (9:20)
Is there one thing that’s front of mind – the one functional thing that you want to improve most with this roster? (12:40)
How confident are you that you can put a top-4/5 seed in the West next year? (13:50)
What are/were the pros and cons you’ve noticed taking the job via promotion within the team vs coming in fresh to the team entirely? (14:40)
Have you decided who you’re sending to the Draft Lottery as the team representative? (16:45)
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26 Comments
I love the mike Schmitz era so far the draft pick of sharpe was fire 🔥 now a possible top 5 pick let’s hope we can have some patience because the draft can solve tons of problems from the past with a trade or two as well.. he said sharpe was a two guard I believe that!! Need better bigs and a backup point guard.. Portland biggest problem always playing players out of position
It all sounds great now let’s get it done now!!!! I wanna wanna see a chip before I die and I want that chip with Dame on the team.
You said you would ask him about the #1 pick. What gives?!!!!!!
joe you want pascal siakam and OG anonuby? that would definetly give dame a shot to win a ring for teh next several years. we raptors fans will expect sharpe, simmons +filler and atleast 2 first rounds pick from this year.
I’m sorry you cannot trade Sharpe he has superstar potential n I don’t agree with trading a top 5 pick either Brandon Miller n Sharpe together could take the Blazers places for ten plus years I just think the Blazers have capped out their ceiling with Lillard I mean I’m not sold on Beal Lavine or r Mikal Bridges vaulting the Blazers into title contention playoffs contenders yes but not title contenders I’m just not giving up Sharpe for guys like Bridges Lavine Beal or KAT. for that matter
You know Terry Porter lives in the Portland area, and was recently given a position in the organization as the Alumni Ambassador. My bet is Terry goes to the Draft for us.
Simons should come off the bench as a Jamal Crawford type
Danny was holding back from laughing when joe said “Jody has been willing to spend” 🤣
Cronin is either lying or stupid
For those of us that lived through Neil, Joe is a fucking angel.
Noteworthy that 'Nurkic' wasn't mentioned in the topic of how to to build a contending roster….. Is there any intel of centers they would pursue? Ayton, or draft, etc.
You were fair but asked the tough questions, thanks for not folding and throwing softballs the entire time like most interviews.
Seems to have left Nurk of that short list of guys we’re building on…
Overall I really appreciate Corbin’s demeanor and what seems like transparency with our process. I just have such little faith in things falling our way inside of Dame’s timeline. I’m hear for it tho – as always heading into the summer and next season with high hopes.
It’s becoming clear that the fan base needs to think of this reboot in terms of a three year play- and we’re just starting the second year.
Jeremy and Sharpe were the big pickups last season. We’ll see who we get this year.
Hopefully we will contend year after next
DO N🚫T TRADE
SHAEDON SHARP!
GI BLAZERS 🖤❤
Great interview, well done Danny!
I know it's based a HUGE "What If…" but how could you NOT ask Joe what they do if they get lucky in the lotto and end up with #1, take Victor? Keep him or trade for a win now vet? Too much speculation too ask at this point?🤔
i really want Dame back in the play offs please joe plzzzzzz
Joe is the kind of guy who’d take Dorothy Mantooth out for a nice seafood dinner AND call her again!
Great work getting this interview, Danny….what a big year for you…..The whole idea of keeping both Dame and Ant is CJ 2.0….no mention of the defensive liability of those two….it is just like it was before….Joe is a nicer/gentler version of NEO, in my view…..his voice is like honey, but he is shucking and jiving….
Joe really gets it. He really seems like a genuinely nice guy. You know Joe isnt going to take this job for granted like Neil Olshey smug ass did.
"starter in this league" Cronin did sound like he was sure he was keeping sharpe. If they trade sharpe to appease Dame, I am out.
KEEP Dame,.. ANT,.. Sharp,.. Grant,.. Matisse,.. Drew (he's earned it)
every1 else can be used to upgrade!!!
you CANT get Ant's level of skill & 'contract' back,
so PLZ Keep Dame Ant Sharp as the CORE & build defense around them!!!
Love the interview but he was very coy around Ant and Sharpe. He has to hype up Ant to not concede trade value. Him saying Sharpe can be a starting 2 is a good tell that Ant may be traded though.
I feel like the handcuffs are talking and not the person throughout this entire interview with regards to Mr. Cronin. Eggshells and loaded handguns.
Cronin has made some of the worst moves in franchise history. He has made the team worse with every single trade 💯