Blaze the Nugz wrote:
I'm with you that Simons will stand in the way of Scoot and Sharpe's development. But I'm hopeful that we see improvement from Simons this season and I'm just crossing my fingers that he can be moved for a big or a wing to rebalance this roster.
my main concern is this: the biggest issue during the Olshey era, other than his bad choices, was that he was always straddling fences. he never picked a street other than the street called '
I Love CJ'fence-straddling fails almost every time, especially when there is only flawed role-playing talent on either side of the fence
Portland should simply commit to a full rebuild. Tear off the band aid of the devils you know. But I can already see they are primed to straddle yet another idiot fence. They are re-signing Grant; they may keep Nurkic; and they will likely keep Ant, and if they do, he'll start. meaning that either one of Scoot/Sharpe will sit, or Portland will go
full-tilt-stupid and start all three; creating the worst perimeter defensive trio in the league, and the shortest, while playing two of the three out of position.
And what will be the result? Portland won't make the play-in but they will win enough games to insure their draft pick isn't even top-10. They will be in the purgatory of at best, 1st-round exits, most likely play-in failure, and bad draft picks. For what reason? So Ant fans can watch Ant channel MeJ?
I want the fence-straddling to stop. Trading Dame is the perfect opportunity. Keeping Ant and Grant is simply crapping on that opportunity, and expecting their trade value to get better is
pie-in-the-sky nonsense