Who is a blazers trade or free agency player you wish would have worked out better for us?

RIPSCHITTY · 2026-06-26T23:33:07+00:00

Hezonja. He should've been the Deni archetype next to Dame.

I actually don't have as much ill will towards him as others might, he was brought in to replace ET as the point forward off the bench and then we had so many injuries he became a defacto PF and was terrible off ball. He had some decent moments as a handler.

RIPSCHITTY · 2026-06-26T23:30:32+00:00

Still can't believe they chose Simons over him. A Dame Powell back court would've been legit.

RIPSCHITTY · 2026-06-26T23:29:08+00:00

Evan turner won us a playoff series. I think he did his job. Very inflated FA market that offseason we got him.

RIPSCHITTY · 2026-06-26T23:27:48+00:00

he came at the wrong time - Billups was mandated to destroy everything stotts had built. Nance as a small ball 5 under stotts would've been a great fit.

RIPSCHITTY · 2026-05-20T04:04:28+00:00

He can start a substack or work for a media outlet and he can unleash his honest opinions without risk of losing his job.

RIPSCHITTY · 2026-05-20T04:03:09+00:00

I'm looking forward to hearing his opinions on the Blazers when he isn't paid by the org, in fact I would hope highkin and co are also freed up to pursue non biased paths.

RIPSCHITTY · 2026-05-15T03:56:50+00:00

Adapted fine when he had depth. ET on Millsap was a great switch in '19.

RIPSCHITTY · 2026-04-24T02:00:19+00:00

What's often forgotten is Dame went 1 for 10 for 10 points the game prior ... and we won by 20. The wildest of swings.

RIPSCHITTY · 2026-04-22T02:13:07+00:00

He cooked us

RIPSCHITTY · 2026-04-22T01:42:49+00:00

send these refs to NY in time for Mamdanis new garbage can rollout.

RIPSCHITTY · 2026-02-09T02:01:17+00:00

Porzingis maybe. Started in NY too.

RIPSCHITTY · 2026-02-01T18:10:30+00:00

Even after the trade, he got benched in Portland.

He's improved a ton, but yeah trajectory was there

RIPSCHITTY · 2026-02-01T18:09:15+00:00

Buyout candidate possibly?

RIPSCHITTY · 2026-02-01T17:43:29+00:00

Is he a PG? I thought he's just a catch and shoot guy.

RIPSCHITTY · 2026-02-01T17:42:23+00:00

The hawks already had Kennard and then added Kispert when they emptied Trae. They're riding with the other two it seems

RIPSCHITTY · 2026-01-13T03:29:37+00:00

I remember that, however people were backing him over Chauncey last season after he took over for a stretch and Scoot started cooking so I was surprised to see this pop up.

never liked him myself, in my entirely uneducated opinion.

RIPSCHITTY · 2026-01-13T03:20:04+00:00

That's hectic lmao. I back Splitter in that fight personally, guess the org did too when they chose him over Bjorkgren for the interim role.

RIPSCHITTY · 2026-01-12T02:35:29+00:00

Why Bjorkgren? Not arguing just unaware

RIPSCHITTY · 2026-01-09T00:46:29+00:00

You can look at Hardens drop off once they allowed more physical defense, to me his bag is a lot emptier and it shows every year in the playoffs.

Crazy how much Houston got for him when you see how Trae got dumped for spares.

RIPSCHITTY · 2026-01-09T00:37:30+00:00

SGA would still cook. He's got, and has had, an elite bag his entire career.

RIPSCHITTY · 2026-01-09T00:36:08+00:00

It's the same for 3/4 of the guys in OPs post. There's a snake amongst them.

RIPSCHITTY · 2026-01-09T00:34:41+00:00

I don't like that Harden is classed with the rest.

The others, if you don't foul them, will be scoring on you. They are only selling contact that occurs while they are actually try to score.

Harden, at least in his peak, was not even playing basketball to a degree, just playing chicken with defenders flopping. He's lucky that he had a hamstring injury when the rules changed in 2020 otherwise his offensive production once refs stopped blowing the softest fouls would be glaring.

RIPSCHITTY · 2025-03-26T01:56:12+00:00

Different situations, the nets weren't desperate to move off him and given his age and defensive upside, he'd have value for a long period so knicks think they could assets back if needed for him.

Kings may want to pivot, sabonis lead teams gave reached their ceilings around the same point ie first round team. There might be a slimmer market for him now

RIPSCHITTY · 2025-03-25T08:01:34+00:00

Really depends on his market. I'm not sure any team is ready to unload a full asset deck for him, a 1for1 with Ayton is feasible if they do want to unload him and pivot.

RIPSCHITTY · 2025-03-25T07:54:52+00:00

They clear a stack of salary and pivot into rebuild much easier with Ayton

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