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a sweep for a 3 seed can really cause major changes. especially in todays sports world. people expect things now.

getting swept to the Pels might be enough to see them blow it up. lets hope Dame comes home.
 
Some Jazz fans swear they hate Melo more than anything, but Dame is a similar player at the end of the day.
 
Cap-wise, Portland is a total mess not only next year, but 2019/2020. Dame and CJ are fetching $30 mil each another three years. The contracts for Turner, Harkless and Leonard are untradeable which is another $40 mil per year. To make matters worse, Nurkic is probably their third best player and only on a cheap contract one more year and will bolt for more money as POR can't afford to keep him.

Let them sink under their contracts; that's what they get for making us pay up the wazoo for Millsap and stealing Matthews away from us.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Some Jazz fans swear they hate Melo more than anything, but Dame is a similar player at the end of the day.
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they definitely have some similarities but Damian squashes him in career ORtg, BPM, win share rate, assists and shooting in general. They are both negative defensively, but Lillard is a better team player and better offensively. Actually, looking over the stats and advanced crap, Damian is better in nearly every category except rebounding. Plus hes not a complete *** like melo.
 
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It's disillusioned to compare a non-shotblocker, non-man-to-man defender forward's defense to a PG like their on an equal plane, thats like comparing playing Shortstop defensively to a corner outfield spot in baseball....

Defending starting NBA PG's with any sort of consistency is a near impossible task, there are no lock-down PG's any more and for good reason.

If you havent heard - good offense beats good defense in basketball, thats the nature of the beast..

Damian Lillard is one of the greatest 3pt shooters in NBA history, he trades 3's for 2's, Carmelo is a black hole from start to finish, Lillard is a true PG who gets teammates involved for most of the game and then steps up in winning time..
 
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Catchall said:
Portland is saddled with bad contracts that limit them, but they shouldn't overreact to one bad playoff series. The West is tough, and matchups determine which team advances. Portland had a good regular season. It's not like they're Charlotte or Detroit.
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I was going to comment on this, but someone basically beat me to my point.

Avery said:
Cap-wise, Portland is a total mess not only next year, but 2019/2020. Dame and CJ are fetching $30 mil each another three years. The contracts for Turner, Harkless and Leonard are untradeable which is another $40 mil per year. To make matters worse, Nurkic is probably their third best player and only on a cheap contract one more year and will bolt for more money as POR can't afford to keep him.

Let them sink under their contracts; that's what they get for making us pay up the wazoo for Millsap and stealing Matthews away from us.
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To add to this, they also lose Ed Davis (who was pretty good for them) and Shabazz Napier this year.

Their best bet is to trade CJ.
 
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