是多么伟大的球迷,拿出实施方案es and moves, no matter how unrealistic, that will surely lead to a championship, fantasize about the upcoming golden age of the Blazers, and never have to pay the piper if we are wrong. That being said, onward! If we can build a championship team (not a better team, but a championship team) around Dame, let’s get it done. That would be dream scenario number one. But reading all the comments and articles, I see no scenario where that is going to happen. Of course, we are not privy to the plans that management has, but while the players being discussed that the Blazers/fans hope to acquire may improve the team, they don’t take the team to elite status. That brings us to dream scenario number two: Unfortunately, the greatest asset we have to build a team around is also the greatest asset we have to trade and acquire the players that are going to take us to a championship level team. This year is unique and for various reasons provides the greatest hope the Blazers have to make some significant moves. Of course, what follows the Blazers have no power to control, it takes willing trade partners, but here is the scheme: Trade Damian Lillard for assets (he’ll probably never be worth more), then use those assets and all assets we have at our disposal (besides current players) to gather the first and second pick in this year’s draft, as well as another top-five draft pick. If we have to, we should overpay for those draft picks, but get those draft picks! What do we get in trading Lillard? 1) The assets he brings. 2) Hopefully, a championship for Lillard (this year, not the following years). 3) An unfettered Simons without his being shackled to playing second fiddle to Dame. It would be a make or break opportunity for Simons. Note, Ant is not required to be as good as Lillard, he just has to be highly competent, which is not a far reach. 4) By trading Lillard, The Blazers are not saddled with a player whose personal goals may be a hindrance to the team. Lillard wants to win a championship with the Blazers, which is good, but he also wants to be the greatest Blazer ever and a league MVP, which is not so good because it requires him to play with an eye toward accomplishing his personal goals. The Blazer team we have at this moment is pretty good, perhaps a playoff caliber team. With the player we acquire at the draft, either by pick or trade, we might win the first, possibly even the second round, of the playoffs. But if the Blazers really go for it and the teams are willing to deal (hopefully Orlando or Oklahoma City would really covet Lillard-no idea how plausible that is), here’s what the Blazers end up with for next season: A starting five of Simons, Hart, Little, Smith, and Nurk. Not a team to strike fear into the hearts of the league’s elite, but a nice, young, solid, cheap team. While they acclimate to NBA caliber play, you have Holmgren and Ivey/Sharpe (hopefully Sharpe) coming off the bench, plus solid role players in Winslow, Johnson, Watford, etc. No pressure on Holmgren and Sharpe/Ivey to produce immediately. Year two or year three, presuming no busts, you just might have a team that is truly among the league’s elite. After the trade of Damian (how it breaks my heart to write that), the Blazers have all the assets that he brings, this year’s seventh draft pick, perhaps some value in next year’s first round draft pick, Milwaukee’s 2025 first round pick, plus any and all second round draft picks, plus anything else we can dig up. Key is the assets that the Lillard trade brings.

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