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re: HC Terry Stotts out at Portland...
Posted on 6/5/21 at 4:33 am to Macintosh504
Posted on 6/5/21 at 4:33 am to Macintosh504
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I mean the rockets did the same thing for harden and he still left. I get Dame is much more loyal but can’t help but think he’s done there. Stotts was gone regardless
It’s not so much loyalty as the Blazers have the leverage here.
Lillard is there 5 years. The only way a trade was ever happening is if:
1.) Dame was utterly fed up to the point he decided to go scorched Earth
2.) The Blazers saw this sort of exercise as pointless and believed a hard reboot was the wisest path forward(it probably is).
Without both of those components you aren’t getting Dame this season. People can downvote away and live in their magical thinking, but it’s the truth. And frankly, as we come up on Zion’s next contract. We should probably not be so quick at wishing players that are highly leveraged to once again drastically shift the norms in that sort of way.
This post was edited on 6/5/21 at 4:36 am
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Posted on 6/5/21 at 7:20 am to Bronc
I really don’t understand why everyone says a hard reboot is the best way forward. The Pelicans have been obscenely lucky by winning the lottery and getting Zion. Can you imagine how crappy it would be if we wouldn’t have won the lottery? Can you imagine how crappy it must be to be a Rockets fan right now, assuming they don’t win the lottery?
Obtaining players at Dame’s level is the absolute hardest thing to do, especially in a market like Portland. Dame is also very special in his mindset compared to other star level guys. He hasn’t bought into the Lebron/KD aau way of thinking. If he doesn’t go scorched earth, and I sincerely hope he doesn’t because that’s what makes him special, the worst case is Portland makes the playoffs for the next 4-5 years and they have a guy they build a statue of in front of the arena. Best case is they luck into a rebuild around dame where they hit every move and they compete for championships for 4-5 years. Either way, it is much better than staring into the abyss with no guy like dame to captain the ship.
Obtaining players at Dame’s level is the absolute hardest thing to do, especially in a market like Portland. Dame is also very special in his mindset compared to other star level guys. He hasn’t bought into the Lebron/KD aau way of thinking. If he doesn’t go scorched earth, and I sincerely hope he doesn’t because that’s what makes him special, the worst case is Portland makes the playoffs for the next 4-5 years and they have a guy they build a statue of in front of the arena. Best case is they luck into a rebuild around dame where they hit every move and they compete for championships for 4-5 years. Either way, it is much better than staring into the abyss with no guy like dame to captain the ship.
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