r/ripcity

I knew we would never do it, but I would have loved if we had been aggressive in acquiring Peyton Watson. His skillset is such a good fit. The Nuggets only got a first and a second for him. I would've been willing to trade Shaedon + something else. Seems like a competitive bid would not have been super difficult.

In my opinion the 2014-15 Blazers was actually the best chance we had of winning a championship post 2000 prior to Wesley going down .

A major weakness in the Lillard/Aldridge years though was our bench was extremely weak . I don’t think though that was necessarily true in 2014-15 given we had CJ .

Given how good CJ would turn out to be the following year , I think it was a major mistake not playing him 20-25 minutes a night that year . He easily could have been an excellent 6th man and given Wesley more time to rest which could have prevented his injury .

Would ya’ll trade Shaedon, Rob, and 2 picks (one of which includes a Bucks pick) for Trey Murphy?

I actually feel like having this many guards is a good place to be in considering injury history. Dame Ja Shaedon and Scoot have all missed significant time with injury throughout the season and some of these injuries can be attributed to a high workload due to the lack of guards last year, remember when Chauncey was playing shaedon 46 mins at the pg position.

I feel that Jrue and shaedon would be able to split 24 mins so 12 mins each at the 3 and 12 mins each at the 2. You’ve then got 48 mins at the point guard and 24 mins at the shooting guard positions for Dame Ja and scoot. Depending on who’s hot instead of everybody playing 24 mins have the one who are on play 30 and the ones who are playing poor play 18 mins. Not being a doomer but more than likely one of the guards does get injured and we have a 4 guard rotation that is ok.

Hard to entice free agents with subprime loans…

I’m thinking about getting pre season tickets for blazers vs. warriors and something in my brain is telling me he won’t play during pre season and give the young bulls a chance but I think I’m just overthinking my purchase.

I live in Aus so I don't see much of him outside of filling in for KC and the odd baseball game, but could we get Jason Benetti on a permanent basis? Really enjoy his calls and he seems like a top guy.

Seeing as Cleveland looks to shed salary and there’s talks around him - what kind of offer can the Blazers make to get him?

He’ll be an awesome fit both with his mentality and his actual ability/shooting.

1. Jalen suggs has played PG all his career and is it a buy low opportunity for playing out of position.

2. He is an elite POA defender and has proven this throughout his time in the NBA so far.

3. He has a contract that is decsending in value every single season. Very valuable in the new CBA era. Also the contract is 4 years so you've got him locked up for a long time.

Finally this is most important and something that I'm not even putting into a point but rather writting it in a paragraph. People often go on ESPN and look at a guys 3pt% and decide if this guy is a good or bad shooter from beyond the arc. That's a terrible way of looking at a player. Instead look at the player breaking down his off the dribble 3's vs his catch and shoot 3's. We find some interesting facts:

Off the dribble 3pt%: 22-25%

Catch and shoot 3pt%: 37-39% consistently his whole NBA career.

Now knowing all of this if a team were to trade for him and put him in the role of a off the ball shooter, POA defender plus a secondary playmaker because he still is a good playmaker (5.5 APG), you'd get yourself quite the player. Tell him to stop shooting off the dribble/pull up 3's completly unless it's a last second shot and I think your team improves drastically.

Putting him in an Austin Reaves role honestly might be the best thing for his career and here at Portland we could honestly do that.

We could probably trade Jrue Holiday and some picks and I think it would be a worthwhile investment for the team.