Re: Portland Trail Blazers 2019/20 Thread
Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2019 9:56 pm
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Boo, he's such a high percentage shooter for us.Tray Dub wrote:
It's a flawed roster.OregonFan4Life wrote:I'll admit I'm not a big Blazers fan, grew up a Spurs fan, but I was at the Oklahoma City game, Portland looked like they mailed it in this season. Maybe they were just dejected after losing Hood, but that team, especially Lillard and Whiteside, seemed to have 0 energy and motivation.
Without Nurkic, Collins, and Hood, the Blazers just don't have enough talent to withstand a lot of teams out West.Boom wrote:It's a flawed roster.OregonFan4Life wrote:I'll admit I'm not a big Blazers fan, grew up a Spurs fan, but I was at the Oklahoma City game, Portland looked like they mailed it in this season. Maybe they were just dejected after losing Hood, but that team, especially Lillard and Whiteside, seemed to have 0 energy and motivation.
They need switchable combo forwards.greenyellow wrote:Without Nurkic, Collins, and Hood, the Blazers just don't have enough talent to withstand a lot of teams out West.Boom wrote:It's a flawed roster.OregonFan4Life wrote:I'll admit I'm not a big Blazers fan, grew up a Spurs fan, but I was at the Oklahoma City game, Portland looked like they mailed it in this season. Maybe they were just dejected after losing Hood, but that team, especially Lillard and Whiteside, seemed to have 0 energy and motivation.
Blazers were good last year and rookie contracts haven't been factor.Phalanx wrote:Any of these players they can trade for picks they should do it. With as much of the cap as they have invested in two guards who don't play defense, the only way the Blazers will be good over the next five years is if they draft really, really well and have a bunch of guys outperforming their rookie deals.
As bad as the Blazers have been they're still just a couple games out of the playoffs.StevensTechU wrote:With a bad as Portland is despite Carmelo coming in and playing well, would it be a wise strategy for the Blazes to trade Melo to a contender for draft picks?
Blazers were good last year because they were able to add Rodney Hood and Enes Kanter for essentially nothing. They were also not luxury tax repeaters yet. They also weren't paying Lillard and McCollum $80 million/ year yet.Boom wrote:Blazers were good last year and rookie contracts haven't been factor.Phalanx wrote:Any of these players they can trade for picks they should do it. With as much of the cap as they have invested in two guards who don't play defense, the only way the Blazers will be good over the next five years is if they draft really, really well and have a bunch of guys outperforming their rookie deals.
Yes, adding those two at the back half of the season gave the Blazers a deep bench. But the teams success was in large part of Dame, CJ, and Nurk having a career year before he was injured.Phalanx wrote:Blazers were good last year because they were able to add Rodney Hood and Enes Kanter for essentially nothing.
They had a similar cap last season. This years team actually has more roster flexibility/potential to make a trade than previous years.Phalanx wrote:They were also not luxury tax repeaters yet. They also weren't paying Lillard and McCollum $80 million/ year yet.
This year is the new normal for the Blazers for the next five years unless they have a series of amazing drafts.