Oh dang announcers said Scoot will not return because of an ankle sprain. :/
It’s a small sample size, but from what I saw in pre-season, the Henderson/Ayton connection excites me. Looking forward to seeing how that develops in the regular season.
Alright LETS GO! The Blazer’s youth movement starts here!
YES! I found this community because I was looking for where discussions about it on Lemmy might be. (Other Lemmy community suggestions are very welcome). The time zone difference does complicate things, so I probably won’t catch many of the games in the time slot that is latest for me. There’s still plenty of great matches to watch beside those though.
Yeah Herro is a good player, but as a major core asset in the return for Lillard, he doesn’t strike me as a great value for the Blazers when they already have a guard rotation of Ant, Sharpe, and Scoot in a post-Lillard roster. Obviously getting a third team involved is an option, but the theoretical trade options I’ve seen floated around this scenario still seem light compared to other potential trade packages from other teams. I hope there is a solution where the Blazers are able to do right by Dame AND get a good return. Seems like a pipe dream at the moment.
Lifelong Blazers fan- obviously bummed about Dame requesting a trade, but his position at this point is understandable. It does surprise me how he’s handling it though. Sure there’s going to be lots of chatter and smokescreens (and maybe this news is part of it), but is he really so shocked that there’s teams other than Miami putting in trade offers to aquire a player of his caliber? Not saying the Blazers should totally ignore his wishes but this type of ultimatum of “Miami or bust” puts Portland between a rock and a hard spot.
Glad to hear this! Who knows how the roster might look in a post-Dame-trade situation, but even if we go full youth movement having a smart defender like Matisse is great. Maybe help cultivate some defensive identity as a team.
In terms of sheer hours of use, buying the ad-free version of the app 10 or 11 years ago now was probably the best value purchase I’ve ever made. RIP BaconReader, it’s been a wonderful journey. :(
As it stands now, Beehaw has defederated from LemmyWorld, so interacting with their news community through this instance means we don’t actually see the majority of the comments and posts. LemmyWorld users can still post and comment, but that content doesn’t get federated to other, non-blocked instances because its only a copy of the “real” community. Fully admit though that I’m still learning Lemmy, so if my understanding of this is incorrect please correct me!
Personally, I would like like to see this news community grow. News is a general and broad enough topic that I think as Lemmy continues to grow, it can support multiple news focused communities. Even if the Beehaw news community continues to be considered “the” news community, there’s room for additional options.
I know he could be a great fit, but uhhhggg Draymond’s clown antics make it hard for me to be excited for that possiblity.
Hey I don’t want this to come across as nit-picky, but the community icon looks super squished in certain contexts for me. Is anyone else having that issue? Example.
I wonder if just using just the pinwheel itself would work better? Here’s cropped a version of the pinwheel if y’all are up for trying it.
I was totally unfamiliar with him before the trade, but after watching some highlights I am excited about what he can bring to the team! I liked Brogdon as a veteran mentor for our guards, but Avdija looks like great addition to the young core.