Are The Portland TrailBlazers Going Into The Draft on Tuesday With No Head Coach?
Are the Blazers going into the draft on Tuesday with no head coach? When’s the last time a team has done that, and did it work out for them? This is a bit wild, no?
The Blazers don’t have any picks in this draft, not a 1st or 2nd.
OP doesn’t want to know this
That also seems pretty wild given that I don’t really know what they traded those assets for and they could really use them right now
The no first is from a 1st we traded to Chicago years ago and just now conveying due to us making the playoffs.
Larry Nance Jr trade
Why would a first round pick have ever been involved in a Larry Nance Jr trade?
It was a dumb trade at the time by Olshey. Just toss it on the pile of bad GM moves. Chicago is finally getting the pick five years after the trade where it was conveyed.
Don’t know, but a pick 5 years in the future doesn’t have nearly the value as a pick that can be used immediately.
that can change. also teams can basically buy 2nd rounders if there’s a guy they like. not having a head coach for the draft may not ultimately mean anything but it is significant
They can. But this doesn’t seem relevant to this Blazers ownership
There’s no way this cheap ownership will trade the true MVP, cash considerations.
Did you say buy?! With this dude as owner?
Barring a trade, I wouldn’t bet on the Blazers buying into the draft. We already have more guys that deserve minutes (or need development minutes) than we have minutes to give them.
The blazers are no where near close to deep enough to not look at buying into the 2nd round. Thats a wild statement.
Assuming no trades:
Dame / Jrue / Deni / Toumani / Clingan
Scoot / Shaedon / Cissoko / Grant / Timelord
That’s a full 48 minutes before we even get to guys like Yang, Wesley, Thybulle, Vit, Murray
Like, yeah it’s always nice to add talent, but what are the chances that a 2nd rounder is going to be more deserving of minutes than one of those top ten dudes? They are all clearly better players than any 2nd rounder will be.
What are the chances they are better than any of the third string guys already on the team? Honestly, pretty fucking low.
Why would we spend money (which obviously our new owner is averse to doing) or give up other assets in order to bring in a 2nd round guy that in all likelihood won’t even see the court this season? Most second rounders never become rotation players. Half of em never even make the roster.
Why do you expect a 2nd rounder to show up and get minutes right away? Or need minutes. If you find a guy who earns minutes over some fringe player that’s a huge win.
If the blazers stop and go, fuck we got Cidy and thybule, damn no reason to look wrap it up boys, that’s pathetic.
But this is the team that drafted yang, so it would track.
The chances of finding someone better than Sidy and Tisse in the 2nd round are not high enough to sacrifice guys that can contribute right now.
Are you gonna go and spend your paycheck on scratch tickets? Why not? Same reason. The odds are so low that it’s essentially losing money by choice.
Blazers need to improve, for sure, but wasting assets on 2nd rounders is not how we’re gonna do that. We need more star power, not different names on the DNP-CD list.
Tisse is a free agent and has played 45 games the last 2 years.
It’s not odds. Good teams are good at scouting the second round.
I know your team just won a chip and all but I’d be careful calling anyone pathetic after being the laughing stock of the league for 4 decades
Where do you think the term “he got the shot off” comes from.
What’s that got to do with my comment 😭
You got a username from another team cause you were embarrassed to be a Knicks fan until this year
I’ve spent my entire life rooting for the blazers I can call them pathetic all I want.
With tons of dudes like hansen, kris murray, the two way guys from last year like Sidy + Caleb love, Vit, the Blazers do have a bit of roster clog related to young players.
The Blazers do not have a very high ceiling but the team is deep with relevant players. It’s what makes offseason moves this year confusing + what kept them alive when they suffered the most injuries of any non-tanking team last year.
Homer moment.
Get yourself a girl who looks at you like an NBA fan looks at third string level talent on his favorite team.
Competition breeds excellence.
I’m not saying literally any of those players are good lmao. I’m saying we’re not moving them and the end of the bench is crowded already with lottery ticket dudes and guys who fit singular roles (Sidy just a defensive body and Vit just a bench shooter).
Blazers also have a ton of 2nds in coming years. I could easily see this team waiting a year before going back to the 2nd round at all, barring really liking a prospect.
Then they can spend time in the brand new G league team. All I’m saying is not scouting the 2nd round and not buying into it if you like somebody because of yang and cidy is probably the dumbest thing I’ve heard this month.
They already are spending time in the g league lol.
What are you on? We’re not saying that the team probably isn’t scouting players we’ve done workouts.
I’m saying that the team is crowded as fuck. Renouncing our FAs and signing Caleb Love puts us at 13 players. And the team is probably re-signing Rob Williams.
The odds of the Blazers going into the 2nd this year of all years is low. They’ve traded out of the 2nd multiple years in a row.
Dying on this hill that blazers fans are all dumb as fuck and the team should be angling to jump into the 2nd round, on a team you know very little about, is just as obtuse man
yeah i don’t know what the guy you’re replying to is on. your point is quite clear: there’s a surplus of fringe / possibly underrated talent in portland already. aka what you would be hoping to find in the 2nd rd bargain bin so there’s a level of redundancy there for that exact profile, despite the absence of clear high end talent (and therefore portland is not an actual good team for now). bizarre stuff
I’m on half the team isn’t worth not continuing to look. Only blazers fans think they are.
being a blazer fan my whole life none of this is surprising to me
Portland fans have been hyping their team as on the cusp of a major breakthrough for like 3 years. Lots of…. Optimism… In the fan base lol.
They traded dame 3 years ago and were in a rebuild all of those years. Took a game off the spurs in the playoffs this year. How are you right exactly?
Three years? Man my username is the call from dames shot over the rockets. They’ve been hyping up random bench players for my entire online existence.
Every team does it.
It’s not a wild statement at all. Which guy do you think will fall to the second round that would play for the Blazers?
Right. They have plenty of ammo to get a pick if they decide they really need Brayden Burries or whoever.
also teams can basically buy 2nd rounders if there’s a guy they like.
with the new CBA i wonder if this is a practice that will quickly go away
it will take some of the lower IQ gm’s a bit to adjust, but the value of a 2nd rounder in terms of their value for 2nd apron teams is much bigger than it used to be
also teams can basically buy 2nd rounders if there’s a guy they like
Are the other 28 teams also owned by Jerry Reinsdorf? He’s the only one miserly enough to sell one to the Blazers new Cheapo-in-chief.
No picks and no head coach. Blazers are changing the game
New cheap Blazers owner:
“So I don’t actually need to pay new draft picks or a new coach, right? Like I can just keep all that money myself, and just have another interim assistant coach take over head coach duties?”
Challenging convention under the new Tom Dundon led ownership.
We definitely need someone in place to wish upon the stars
How tf did the Blazers trade away Dame and not get any draft picks
They control multiple of the Bucks picks, they are just in 2028-2030. They are actually somewhat valuable because Giannis is forcing his way out and the Bucks will probably be bad those years…but with the new lottery system they could also really just end up being all over the place in the lottery.
Not having the 2026 pick is because the Blazers weren’t in the lottery, so the lottery-protected pick that was part of the Larry Nance Jr. trade in 2021 finally conveyed to Chicago.
Portland once fired their GM 90 minutes before the draft started and then STILL HAD HIM DO THE DRAFT FOR THEM. Having no coach is small potatoes in comparison.
that is crazy, I woulda drafted my gramma.
This is why no one trusts you with fiduciary duties, Jeremy.
And with the #5 pick The Portland Trailblazers select “Deez Nuts” from the University of Yo Momma
Vermin Supreme as the first pick
And out of the deep respect and admiration that Kevin Pritchard had for Paul Allen, and in an effort to leave his team and his successor with the best possible situation, he managed to pull off the heist of the century, landing the key pillars of a certain future championship roster in Ryan Gomes, Luke Babbitt, Elliot Williams and Armon Johnson. What a brilliant strategy that firing turned out to be.
Goddamn that 2010 draft turned out to be horrible.
Truly. Blazers managed to end up with two of the best players from that draft a few years later in Evan Turner and Hassan Whiteside, and they were awful haha.
I was looking and found a few names better than what they picked, Hassan Whiteside, Trevor Booker, and then I saw the funniest unrelated name:
TINY GALLON
There was also Magnum Rolle
“Gallon received his nickname, “Tiny”, from his AAU coach who wanted to deceive opponents checking their roster into thinking that Gallon was undersized.”
Yea man, that’s what people do. They just go oh his name is Tiny, must be small. /s
They were all monsters in NBA 2k11 draft combine though.
I love that 2k just straight up gives draftees “potential” ratings like they’re able to predict how various players will develop.
They’re never going to just be like “you’re ass now and you’ll always be ass”
Bro evan turner would cook in that combine
I really wanted Armon Johnsom to work out. Luke Babbit was automatic from 3 in nba 2k.
Not gonna lie, they had us in the first half.
The way I’d recommend the next Anthony Bennett
It’s how NBA legends Victor Claver and Nolan Smith made it to the league
That was the year we got Luke Babbitt, Elliot Williams, and Armon Johnson. Job well done, Pritchard.
Payton?!
What’s crazy is that story is from 2010.
That’s some Ted Stepien shit
The season doesn’t even start until October. Do they really expect Dundon to pay a coach for 3 months of vacation before he starts working?
wait for real they actually let him pick
Yep. He led the draft room, same as if he wasn’t fired.
They once traded an all star for a week of marketing advice, and I’m not joking
Especially considering we have no picks at the moment
All I know is.
Maybe.
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Who knows.
Maybe not.
Yes no, maybe so?
We’re hiring Peter Griffin
The Mavericks also don’t have a coach as of yet, and they actually have a pick. We’ll see what happens
Doesn’t really matter much in the NBA I feel like, I think only really long-tenured and influential coaches within the org get a significant say in draft choices. Mostly owners/GMs/team presidents make those decisions.
Agreed. Plus you have Masai and mike Schmitt. Both previous scouts. And with someone like Masai who has a proven track record with drafting he’ll make the final decision anyway. If anything i want to know Masai’s opinion first and then Cooper Flaggs opinion second before i care about what my coach thinks.
With Masai and Mike Schmitt, having a coaach would only get in the way lol
The Mavs as well.
Ya, but Masi. Man can do wrong.
He didn’t exactly kill the last few Toronto drafts.
Hush. They’re shall be no disrespect to the prophet.
Hahaha. You got it. I’m very curious to see what Masi does Tuesday night.
It’s Masai btw. Hate to be that guy but I have seen it misspelled by two people in this thread.
I spelled it that way because the post I commented on did. I didn’t double-check.
Wait we got picks??
That’s news to me. Lfg
We do not.
This sequence was funny as hell lmaoo
It really doesn’t matter, it’s not like the head coaches are making the picks
GMs make the pick but you’re ill informed if you think coaches don’t have input
Most don’t, very few have input and it’s an entire staff of GM, assistant GM so many scouts and shit that have way more power in drafting and roster building
Maybe 10+ years ago but nowadays coaches are basically just coaches
No one’s saying they have a major say but ideally you’re drafting people who’ll fit into your coach’s playstyle and that have personalities that gel well with the coach. It’s the reason you have coaches running the draft prospects’ workouts and not the scouts because they’re typically looking at different things.
This is not true at all. Lying on reddit for no damn reason.
It’s stupid to think that coaches have zero input on the draft.
We don’t even have a pick this year lol
No picks no coach fuck it
Just set it to auto draft
“We drafted a kicker”
Portland has no picks anyway
You’re very silly if you think the front office and HC don’t work together to make the best pick possible for their vision of the team
We don’t have any picks though?? How do you not realize this lol
Because this post was nothing but karma farming
Portland has no pick
Yes, no, maybe I don’t know
Can you repeat the question?
You’re not the boss of me now!
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Both teams played hard.
Hey man, we just won the Stanley cup finals, first NBA team to ever do so. Can you give us a break?
We don’t have a pick anyway but Cronin will do what’s best for the team regardless of any HC input.
How will Cronin operate as GM without a HC? He wouldn’t have been able to get Deni, Toumani, Dame on this roster without a HC
Is this sarcasm??
Yes it was, you’re right. Chauncey Billups is the one who traded for all of those guys
you know who hires coaches? cowards.
Well, we’re going into the draft without a pick, so I’d say it doesn’t matter all that much.
The roster will change a decent amount over the next couple of months. Will matter more then based on the coach’s style.
The Mavs don’t have a coach either. It’s not as big a deal as you think it is
Don’t think they have draft picks. Dallas would have been better example
They don’t really have picks so it probably doesn’t matter too much. The weirder one is Dallas not having a coach yet.
The Blazers once went into the draft without a gm. But instead let the gm they had just fired run the draft for old time’s sake.
And no 1st round pick (nor 2nd).
Do they have draft picks?
No
We don’t even have a first round pick and coaches don’t do the drafting. Also Dallas has no coach currently too.
Even if they had picks, the coach doesn’t do anything on draft night. The gm does.
If you look on Blazers.com our head coach is Chauncey Billups.
So some of you legit not pay attention to anything but you’re own team? Portland doent have a pick to use I believe why does them not having a coach matter?
Owner’s too focused on the canes and rod wining a cup for him
They’re not paying overtime for a HC to work through the night
The Knicks just did it last year
Coach generally has little input on draft picks
Dundon’s gonna ask Rod Brind’amour to coach both the Blazers and Canes.
my Bulls stole Portland’s head coach and first round pick
Untrue. That pick was traded, fair and square.
I was kidding. Mostly saying we were fortunate to finally get that pick based on the protections
Hire me I’ll make a Twitter poll to see who we trade for Caleb Wilson
Rod Brind’Amour is negotiating to be the next head coach.
Doesn’t the GM draft?
Don’t need a coach if you don’t have any picks, right? What a life hack.
Kyrie Irving’s dream
Blazers and Mavs
Mavs as well, and they actually have a major pick of consequence.
Why would the coach matter? They don’t make picks
Sounds normal to me.
Pistons hired JB after the draft two years ago. Not uncommon
Makes no difference.
Can’t waste money on a coach if you never hire one
How many picks do they got? Count them..
Dallas would have been a significantly better team to use. They don’t have a coach and have picks 9, 30, & 48.
Portland has no picks whatsoever.
They tried to hire me on Fiverr to do scouting but I was not going to work for minimum wage.
Do we even have a pick?
Maybe just try google before you post. We don’t got no picks.
i saw an article days ago that showed splitter was signed. my dumb ass didn’t even read it and assumed it was with portland.
I know we’re dunking on them at the moment but…is it really that crazy to not have a coach hired one week after the season ends? Seems fine to me, idk. They’re not the only team with an opening right now either
I believe the Lakers did this as well.
Knicks didn’t hire Mike Brown until two weeks after last year’s draft. Worked out pretty good.
New owner so cheap he gonna draft their coach on Tuesday.
Dude, I’ll head coach them for federal minimum. Please let the owner know.
Are they even allowed to draft players without a coach or do they forfeit their picks??
Why would you forfeit the picks? GM makes the draft decisions.
Why would you even think that would be the case? The coach isn’t even the one primarily making the pick, usually just giving the GM their input…and the Blazers once drafted with a GM they had already fired.
What picks? The Blazers currently have no 2026 picks.
OOTL on this one. I thought Tiago was doing well for them.
He was the interim head coach after Chauncey Billups got arrested. Tiago was just hired as the Chicago Bulls head coach tho!
Personally I think they fucked up lowballing Tiago but if the reports are right and they’re trying to spend less than half the average head coach salary idk the quality they’re gonna get.
That would be par for the course for this franchise. It’s been a shitshow for the past two decades, the amazing play of Dame LIllard notwithstanding.
El cheapo owner is too busy partying the Stanley cup to give shit about a coach he’s going to cheap out on.
That’s still a better excuse than what ever the Mavs are waiting for lol they actually have a lottery pick
I wouldn’t be surprised if in a few years we’re talking about the Blazers like we talk about the Kings now.
More than any other major sport, the draft just barely matters in the NBA. Some of the most “all time generational” drafts in NBA history have like 3-4 players in them that turned out to be good lol. Who cares about the draft
All time terrible take