Hacksaw Jim Thuggin
Superstar
exactly
cats forget that the nba has always been like this
2-3 teams with legit championship chances
and everybody else playing to be playing
Lillard getting that bag... 50 mil a year
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exactly
cats forget that the nba has always been like this
2-3 teams with legit championship chances
and everybody else playing to be playing
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?
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?
Hacksaw Jim Thuggin
Superstar
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
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
Espesially for a league where so few franchises have won champions.
people act like a player like Dame grows on trees
We just watched him lose to the GOAT team, there are literally no better alternatives for Portland.
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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
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You know nikkas around here have binary thinking. If you don't win a championship your team ain't shyt.
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.
And 
started that. Blame them. 
cartierhoe
Veteran
However you wanna put it you can but it was still a successful season
They got 3 more years to decideSo what they finna do with CJ @Serious ?
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
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
I ain’t mad he deserve it
Not like he can go back home and play
