Lillard getting that bag... 50 mil a year

GoldenGlove

😐😑😶😑😐
Staff member
Supporter
Joined
May 1, 2012
Messages
61,458
Reputation
6,051
Daps
144,919
Dame has proven he can elevate his teams to an elite level.

I'm not sure how their salary situation is, but they have a lot of non-shooters on that roster that they can upgrade overtime. You get a better shooting 3-D guy to go along with Dame and CJ instead of Aminu, Harkless and Turner and who knows. They played the Warriors tough and had double digit leads in the 2nd half against them in 3 straight games.

The Warriors just outlasted them, and Portland couldn't keep putting points on the board to hold them off. Plus, he's a guy that loves being the Man in Portland and is down to stay there, why wouldn't they cash him out?
 
Joined
May 1, 2012
Messages
18,090
Reputation
-407
Daps
58,709
Reppin
NULL
As opposed to what? Starting over and tanking in hopes of maybe in 5 years, making the WCF like they did this season while missing one of their best players?

Portland isn't a free agent destination and their GM sucks.

Might as well ride their current success out and hope to get washed by the warriors again for the next few years while selling a ton of tickets :yeshrug:

Only a handful of teams have won a title over the past 20 years, it's not the end all be all for the majority of the league.

precisely my point in an above post
 

Goat poster

KANG LIFE
Joined
May 13, 2012
Messages
20,363
Reputation
3,829
Daps
89,264
This is one of the worst thing about the NBA fan base.

This whole “if you don’t reach the finals then blow it up” logic is terrible for the league.
Espesially for a league where so few franchises have won champions.

people act like a player like Dame grows on trees :mjlol:

We just watched him lose to the GOAT team, there are literally no better alternatives for Portland.
 

010101

C L O N E*0690//////
Joined
Jul 18, 2014
Messages
85,987
Reputation
21,310
Daps
229,027
Reppin
uptXwn***///***///
That’s not what I’m saying

Dame is a scoring PG who doesn’t play great defense, the Blazers clearly hit the ceiling for this team they made it to the WCF and got swept by a worst iteration of the 2015 Warriors

You can supermax him at 29 but you can’t supermax him then live with complacency with the rest of your roster, because the past couple years should’ve showed them they need more to contend then an elite scoring backcourt we’ve seen this story before
either way they go they gotta figure it out

they can be a team lead by smaller guards

or they can be like the pels wolves or whatever lottery team lead by biggs.........nikkas gotta get they roster right some way shyte ain't never on no individual player to answer

*
 

rapbeats

Superstar
Joined
Jun 8, 2012
Messages
9,362
Reputation
1,890
Daps
12,850
Reppin
NULL
I mean, are you a treadmill team if you go from losing in the first round to losing in the WCF in a year?
Yes in this regard. How did portland get there? Matchup. Meaning portland cant beat houston in a 7 game series either. meaning, there are a few other teams they wants no parts of. So next year even if they brought back the same team. they could just as easily not make it to the wcf's next season.
 

rapbeats

Superstar
Joined
Jun 8, 2012
Messages
9,362
Reputation
1,890
Daps
12,850
Reppin
NULL
Like Dame said last night, teams in the league would kill to be in the position Portland was in right now
but odds are portland wont be in that position next season. people thought they got better. they didnt. they just matched up very well with denver.
 

Sauce Dab

Veteran
Supporter
Joined
Feb 28, 2015
Messages
48,176
Reputation
16,229
Daps
253,046
This is one of the worst thing about the NBA fan base.

This whole “if you don’t reach the finals then blow it up” logic is terrible for the league.
:mjcry: And :childplease: started that. Blame them.
“If you don’t win a championship then you failed”
 

dora_da_destroyer

Master Baker
Joined
May 1, 2012
Messages
66,261
Reputation
17,074
Daps
273,117
Reppin
Oakland
paying Lillard the super max is not why they won't advance, other teams being constructed better is why they won't. i know we're captive to the moment, but dame is who makes them relevant from a viewership perspective and is why they even found their way to the WCF, sweep or not. they simply need more pieces
 
Top