if there is it will be in the off season, just my gut feeling

Absolutely! Both players display flashes of brilliance. But is that something the Blazers need? The answers vary on what is asked of each — many BEgers choosing Sergio’s flash over Travis’ side-winding. Here is why they are wrong:

Sergio is brilliant and he is crippling. Sergio gives up on the good pass for the better pass that might come along way past last call too often. He plays point. Nate or not, the point is where you need steadiness, where you initiate movement on offense, where a little brilliance has a hard time making up for getting the team off stride or giving up the easy fastbreak off the questionable entry pass.

Travis is brilliant and he can disappear. Travis is called on to come in and challenge defenses in stretches. He can play better offense than any player set to guard him can play defense. He doesn’t need extended minutes. He doesn’t need to start. He just needs to get Unleashed in important minutes and wreck the other team every few games.

With Travis, when he is brilliant, he is better than them, he goes on runs against championship contenders — he is a difference maker, a keeper. When Sergio is brilliant, Nate is thinking, okay, but if it comes with the same downside, that too must be taught out of the young man. Until Sergio can take over a game himself, his brilliance is just icing.

I like me some icing, but let’s win some rings, shall we?

sergio, bayless, rudy, travis, and przybilla, are all at risk according to the quick chat. unless sergio’s safe cuz of his new found starter status. 11 and 25 are valued by other teams, but so are the others. speaking with certainty is foolish, only the war room will know, I suspect that even quick, as important as he is, duznt really know. at best, he’s a mouthpeice for kevin to the fans to get them chattin, to get a feal of how were thinking, or to stir the fires a bit, the total remake of the team smacks of carring what the fanbase thinks, at worse, quicks a self important idiot. I have a redickulously hard time imagining quick with any REAL inside knowledge, like he might actually know just what team were even talking to. pfft whatever. kevin has not likely locked himself down to a trade or a team yet, he’s likly still fluid, but if he has, he’s even less likly tipped his hand to quick concerning any details that actually matter. of course, i could be wrong, and iv’e spent most of my life wrong, but to me, calling out sergio and travis as the trade bait, while succumbing to the confighns of quicks “insider” speculation, is simply a game of distraction, of mental masterbation, to keep us safly occupied, busy and buzing, while kevin is handling buiseness. the odds of any poster calling his play, espeshelly using the bones that have been “tossed” to us as a base or broth, are astonomicle, like tossing peices of a watch into the air expecting that sooner or later they might fall together a working watch, set to the correct time.

P.S.: Now that would be ironic if the last home game was against Memphis and Miles, and he would still get paid by the Blazers while those two aren’t anymore.

Travis is too inconsistent in year six of his career. I mean when he’s a ten year vet, will you guys still be waiting for him to put it together? He is what he is.

Sergio can’t play defense and will always be a liability because of that. And he’s nowhere near great enough on offense to make up for it.