Episode 16 | Still Blazin' (POR Trailblazers) - a podcast by LoudBooth Podcasts

Comparison Is The Thief Of Joy; When The Portland Trailblazers Drafted Damien Lillard Out Of Weber State University With The 6th Pick In 2012, They Already Had A Pretty Good Foundation In LaMarcus Aldridge, While Trading Gerald Wallace To The Nets Landed Them A Top-3 Protected Pick That Ended Up Falling In The 6th Slot Where The Basketball God's Made Up For The Brandon Roy & Raymond Felton Situations With Damien Lillard & CJ McCollum Coming In With The 10th Pick Of The 2013 Draft, Effectively Ensuring A Rebuild That Needn't Necessarily Come With Consecutive Losing Seasons. Coming From Being The JailBlazers, To A Perennial Playoff Team That Features A Player Who Is Top 10 In The League Should Be A Win For Portland; Yet They've Been Unfairly Compared To The Golden State Warrior's, Who Have Maximized Their Transcendent Player Into 3 Rings & A Dynastic Run Which Now Sees Them Join The Upper Echelons Of NBA Royalty; The Trailblazers Can Only Control Their Own Narrative & Pray That Things Open Up For Then Out West, As They Probably Would've Already Been Champions In Any Other Era Not Dominated By A Pair Of Lads Born In The Same Akron Hospital.

Damien Lillard Is The Future Of Portland Still, It May Sound Crazy To Some But 30 Is Very Young For A Modern Guard... The Combination Of Dame & CJ Is Hard Not To Fall In Love With, Yet It Seems Hard To Win A Ring With The Pair Of Them In Portland As We've Continually Seen Over The Past 6/7 Season's. We Explored Trades That Can Either Prepare Portland To Give It One Final Try With Dame & CJ Plus Some Much Needed Defensive Anchor / Interior Scorer Help, Or Even Exploring The Option Of Selling High On CJ While He's Averaging A Career High In Points During An Injury Shortened Season. Whichever Way They Opt To Peal This Onion, The Portland Front Office Will Have To Do Something In Order To Ensure That Damien Lillard's Star Continues To Blaze A Trail Throughout This League... Who Knows, Maybe One Of Gray Trent Jr., Anfrenee Simmons, CJ Elleby & Zach Collins & Harry Giles Will Breakout Over The Next Few Seasons To Become The Long-Term Complimentary Piece That They've Yearned For And Seemed To Have Found In OG Melo.

#T2RPAAFMPodcast #StillBlazin #LoudBoothPodcasts #SuperCreativeFC #Epi16 #NBATrades #NBA #POR #TrailBlazers #RipCity

---

Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/t2rpaafmpodcast/message

Further episodes of Two 2nd-Round Picks & A Fax Machine

Further podcasts by LoudBooth Podcasts

Website of LoudBooth Podcasts