KP couldn’t do much if PA didn’t want to dish out some cash.

our window might be this season and this season only.

You lost me here.

The deals he turned down from New Jersey and Charlotte are hilariously good for us.

There were definitely deals to be had for RLEC. If KP feels they wouldn’t have helped the team in the long run, I’m with him. I’d like to see what all was out there (aside from Carter, which we have enough reporting on to know the basic parameters – I’m thinking mostly along Hinrich/Deng/Wallace lines) before I give a full opinion, but this roster is exactly what it was yesterday and what it will be tomorrow – the best collection of young talent in the NBA. KP put it together, so I’m willing to defer to his judgment.

but at least I didnt have to logg into that 800 comment monster to find that out. what mastabatory maham

I like to see more players that rhyme with muffin.

Seriously, no one knows until this summer.

Best GM in the world. He has a team that is 10 games over .500, has a great shot at making the playoffs with one of the youngest teams in the NBA, he set himself up nicely for the off-season, and he didn’t make a stupid trade for an aging vet just to appease all the trade happy fans.

Kyle (pdx, Or): Why didn’t the blazers do anything?

SportsNation John Hollinger: (3:19 PM ET ) Because Paul Allen likes saving money too. I had somebody out there tell me over a month ago that they were being tighter than outsiders thought and that they might very well hang on to the Raef deal. I think Pritchard was looking for a homerun and if he couldn’t get somebody like Sessions or Carter for free then he would just take his expiring contract and go home.

I trust this gm…far more than any before him……if he say’s it’s the right way to move on….

I believe him yo.

From the start of the season, it seemed written in stone that RLEC and a few of our younger players would be packaged around this time. I, like most of you, have been excited about the unknown player that could take this team to another level. Then to read JQ, and other local columnists say trades are in the work that could make us contenders this year, almost sent me over the edge!

I know this team is good, and will only get better. I was just hoping for more. Good luck the rest of the way Blazers, we will still be here for ya!

I’m sure KP’s biggest fear was ruining the team chemistry, impacting their play negatively enough to miss the playoffs, which would be a disaster at this point.

we had a chance to get a championship caliber small forward for our team, and didn’t. unless the teams were making ridiculous demands, or KP has something better this offseason, I think we missed out on a chance to make a big move

For an over-the-hill role player. Sounds like there just wasn’t much out there.

Travis, Martell, Nic, Blake, Sergio and Jerryd.

I love our chemistry. Someone commented on the lack of tatooed me-first allstar attitudes we have. I love deferring til summer.

he wanted to get fair market value for RLEC and that was not the correct way to approach it. He should have done whatever makes us a better team, even if he did not think the deal gave correct value to the RLEC. Its not like these types of deals come along very often, we had the opportunity to get several excellent players, without messing up the core chemistry of this team at all, and we passed on it.

This is a horrible mistake. There is no question about it.

One of five things happened here.
1)Kevin Prtichard has a reputation of getting great deals, and passed on deals that would have tarnished that reputation but still would have made us better.

2)Kevin Pritchard decided that because the other teams were not willing to part with what he thought was fair, he wasn’t going to play, and this made us worse.

3)Paul Allen told him to keep the RLEC unless the deal is so mouth-wateringly beautiful that we couldn’t pass it up. (Paul Allen was being stupid and needs to sell the Seahawks so he can invest more money in the Blazers).

4)Kevin Pritchard is afraid of making high risk moves, and instead is more comfortable taking low risk draft picks instead, and so got scared to make a trade. (Thank you Roygoes)

5)Kevin Pritchard is falling for the Paxon trap, and has fallen to in love with our young players, which will stagnate us in the end (The classic case of you always have to be running just to stay in one place)

Word on the street(espn) was that the Blazers really wanted G. Wallace, but the Bobcats wouldn’t bite. This makes a lot of sense if you think about it. They couldn’t get the guy they wanted so they would rather wait for summer to make another decision.

The Blazers aren’t winning the title this year. Teams are reluctant to part with important pieces when they are on the verge of making the playoffs. The Bobcats would save money moving Wallace, but they would lose loads of money if they don’t make the playoffs because of it. I think this summer will be really interesting.

Think of it this way;

In the long run wouldn’t you rather have Josh Childress than Vince Carter? Well… that can happen now.