PrimeX wrote:Portland has had a GGGGREAT draft.
No. Not by any means.
See, the Fans wanted Morrison. "Draft The Stache" T-shirts and whatnot all over town.
And while management should never let the fans run the draft, they also need to keep in minmd who pays the bills...this team moreso than others, since forgetting that basic principle has got them into their present pickle.
Rip City was starting to feel like Rip City again. Excitement abounded.
And Allen/Patterbadhair/Pritchard
just couldn't have that.
How fucking stupid does this trio(used to be 4 morons, they scaled it back to 3) look right about now? These guys had to really put some effort into appering dumber than they were, but they pulled it off.
I'm happy with Aldridge, but he would have been around at #4. No need to trade a 1st rounder from 2 years ago who was coming along nicely to move up
two whole spots. And I'm not sure if Pritchard remembers this, but their $84,000,000 franchise player also just happens to play the same position(and only that position) as the guy they just spent A BUNCH on drafting.
And sure, there was a logjam at point gaurd, and Jarret Jack and Steve Blake were both very good last year, but Telfair was a 1st rounder two years ago. But, got a U&L guy back in Dickeau, and U&Lers are always a favorite.....
Except maybe in the case of Huskies. While it would be foolish to bitch at all about Roy's game, fact remains...he's still a Husky...in Duck Country. That's always going to be a little iffy. Just from my memory, I don't recall the Zers ever drafting a Husky...because we HATE "those people." Buddha Edwards played here for like a year when he was about 1,000,000 years old, but that's about it for Huskies I remember. Fine player, though.
Freelander, or whatever English Dude's name is...good pick. They'll leave him in Europe at no cost, and if his talent developes, then bingo. If not, no big deal.
That Spanish dude...ditto.
Blazers did come away with 2
excellent prospects, and two very good long-range ones.
They just spent massive cash and past prospects to get at such a good draft.
The U&L roster should read -- Webster, Roy, and Morrison. It doesn't.
I thought I heard something about Roy and Martell Webster being friends from before, so we'll see how that works out. Good "character guys," which this team is in desperate need of.
So...anyone need an overweight, max-salaried power forward with bad knees who never plays defense?
How about "The Most Talented Player In History?" Anyone interested in helping a certain young man contnue in his quest to play for every team in the league(and half of Europe) by age 30? If you negotiate a hard bargain, we might even package Randolph and Miles, and as a bonus, we'll throw in their runaway drug problems(rumors are leaking that there's some
serious drug problems at work there(crack/meth adiiction) That would explain a lot about their behavior and work ethic.)
But overall, we got some really solid players. And if the roster gets overhauled to accomodate them...so freaking what? What, are we only going to win 25 games next year? That would be an
improvement.
Blazerfan isn't used to dealing with this cellar-dwelling bullshit. Hell, it was only but a couple of years or so ago we
didn't even know what a lottery ball looked like. Now, we write the lottery headlines...WTF?