How The Portland Trail Blazers Wasted Damian Lillard’s Prime 

Damian Lillard and Bradley Beal are 2 dudes id want in my army if i was at war, their loyalty is something VERY rare in life itself, not just the NBA. Edit; it only took them 10+ years of losing each, to switch teams.

And Still the blazers hasn't done anything this offseason. As a bay area kid I forever root for dame so I hope he finds success some day.

As a Blazers fan, this is super frustrating! I would totally understand if he left. The front office needs to get it together!

This is a team abusing of a star player's loyalty. Even the blazers fans would get it if Dame simply decided to leave on his next oportunity.

This video has aged even better now.

Throwback to when a player said in the bubble “pick up dame at half court I don’t care if Michael Jordan is open you pick dame up at half court”

We need this redone immediately!

Lillard and cj ‘s poor D gave up back to back 30 points to Monte Morris, who averaged 10 pts in regular season.

As a Blazer fan, last season was the biggest disappointment of my life. It was such an easy opportunity to advance in the playoffs, yet we lost to an injured Nuggets team. This season I still have hope for a good playoff run but I think we all know the championship is out of the question.

Awesome content. Glad i discovered this channel early. Dame is definitely gone if the 1st half of the season goes badly. He got married, had twins and won a gold medal in the olympics. Having a taste of success is more infectious than not having any at all.

My Bulls did EXACTLY what the Blazers have failed to do for Dame his entire career in Portland. And the Bulls only did it in 18 months. That's how you show your star that you are serious about winning and want him to stay

When he came out of college there were questions about him getting others involved and him being a ball hog. He was the 2nd leading scorer in the nation. It’s still hard to conceive that he fell out of the top 5.

I think dame is unique among players that winning a ring isn't his priority. He's made is home year round in Portland, had his wedding there with multiple teammates, and now his kids are starting school there. To him going from a poor kid in Oakland to a multimillionaire who can raise a family in a city that loves him is more valuable than a championship

Sad thing is I think Lillard possibly has realized that he won't win in Portland and yet doesn't care

Damian Lillard serves as an example of the dangers of loyalty and how one should always make sure that the courtesy you show is reciprocated.

2018 wasn’t on Dame, if you’re averaging 18ppg in a playoff series but still the highest scorer on your team then you definitely need a new team.

I like your in depth remembrance,& analysis. You are right that Portland's inaction was criminal for Lillard. As Nugget fan,I like how you mentioned the key moments in those 2 series needed for context...Nurkic injured,the 4 OT game,& Jamal Murray being hurt-well done.

In 2014 they had a squad but the spurs were on fire. Their best chance at a chip was when KD was hurt in 2019. They sold 4 15point leads against them and got swept.

Here after he FINALLY made a trade request

This is the first video of yours I’ve ever seen, it popped up on my timeline and dame is my favorite player so I clicked on it. After just 10 seconds I had to stop the video and subscribe and turn on post notifications. I knew immediately that this was a channel I wanted to keep updated on

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I definitely agree, that the Blazers Organisation has wasted several opportunities to really get the full potential out of the generational talent that is Damian Lillard. However, looking at the teams they fell to, I‘m seriously asking myself if the Blazers had made it to a single Finals if they had made better trades and managed the team better? After all, they ran into the 2014 Spurs, the 2015 to 2019 Warriors (3 times), and the LeBron-AD Lakers, some all time great teams, all of which would go on to become NBA champions. The loss to the AD-led Pels is really a missed opportunity. However, the other series weren’t even close. It‘s not like they were one or two smart trades away from beating a 73-9 Warriors team; that very team with KD added to them, the all time great Spurs, or even LeBron and AD. I still would love to see Dame on another team, that really gets the best out of him, and have him finally contend for a chip!

For real, Lilliard is one of the top ten players in the NBA today. Sad that he’s in a small market. They couldntt get him the talent to produce a championship. The best teams always had 3. The Spurs with Duncan, Parker and Ginobilli. The Lakers with Ac green, Kareem and Magic. The bulls with Jordan, Pippen and Rodman. You have to have talented players around you to win a ring. If the Blazers get on board with this ASAP, they’ll be good. If not, Lillard needs to find another fit if he wants to get a ring. I respect how loyal he’s been, but man, at some point maybe you need to jump ship.

Blazer fan here after his trade to the bucks... wish the blazers didn't have such a garbage front office!!!

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“18 ppg at 35% shooting is disgusting” the man was getting double teamed every play lay off 😂😂

This was an amazing video, Good Job!

Doubled them subscribers since last time I saw , you deserve it with these videos

This is why no matter what you have to sign with a team that is willing to say “we will do whatever possible to get you a championship” and not “he’s getting us tickets, that’s good enough”

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Bro, as a Trailblazer die hard fan, you summed that up perfectly. Either you’re a fan too, or your research is spot on. Very well done 👍 Of course, hope Dame stays 🙏

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Great video! Dame is one of my. We favorite players!

he requested a trade

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Porland just give 2 more year for 122m . That just crazy someone getting over 60m for 1 season

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I'm here after they traded norman powell for nobodies... As a warriors/blazers fan I'm extremely frustrated, I was hopping the organization would make some big changes to get another all star to pair with Lillard yet they trade norman powell, who is really solid for nothing basically, unless they trying to clear some cap spacee who knows, only time will tell.

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Great video, keep them up. This is exactly why I don't want dame to Boston. His story sound familiar? It is the same story as Kemba, even features Batum as well. Only difference is Dame has made it to the playoffs continually. At this point Dame's body is what's going to fail him and that's just sad for everything he's given to the Blazers. Them and Hornets are both in the second tier of my worst franchises list, this is why.

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Collins was actually good when he was healthy, showed tons of potential, since then always injured

Blazers needa hire a whole new front office

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We can all agree to respect Damian loyalty

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CJ just got traded to the Pelicans.The end of an Era between Lillard and CJ Mccollum

Dame love & loyalty to Portland is what Kobe and Dirk were for their cities when they played. Portland is all he's known since joining the league but maybe the love runs deeper than that court. Having a relationship and building with a team for almost 10 years is tough to walk away from. I'm a Mavs fan through and through but Dame definitely need the right guys on that court with him.

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It's pretty simple in the end they tried to make the Dame and CJ experiment work for far too long when it's clear it couldn't win when it mattered. That back court gives up too many points on defense as neither of them are that defensively minded and Stots didn't seem to care too much about that end of the court. So sadly it rarely mattered much if Dame went off for 50 on any night because they would give up half that on the other end just as easily. Sadly I think the time has passed for CJ to be the sort of attractive trade asset for a move that could really change things up for them. I'm not convinced that Chauncey is going to change much as head coach. He can preach about defense all they like but as long as Dame continues to show that he cares less about that end (somewhat understandably given the load he carries on offense) then it's going to be hard to get the rest of the team to buy in. Not that they have a bunch of elite defenders around him anyway. Nurkic doesn't help either a lack of defense at a position where you really need it and then he doesn't overwhelm on the other end to try make up for it. Worst of all Dame couldn't even just speak his mind this off season when given the opportunity. Preaching loyalty then getting caught out not living up to that and doing what everyone with a brain expected and half asking out. Then he just quietly backtracks on that too. So here we are, he gets what he deserves

whos here after he got traded to milwaukee

your videos are pretty good

Anyone here after the bucks trade?

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Nurkic getting injured really hurt Portland also Rodney hood plus a couple others. I think they didn't changed their roster much because they had faith in themselves if healthy

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this dude has been carrying us for a decade, we really don't deserve him.

As a Blazer fan it's really hard to stay objective about them. It's really easy to make excuses when it's your team. But when you just watch this video it's hard to deny that we totally wasted an MVP-candidate's prime. These players don't come around very often.

Bookmarking this one for review after this season

The blazers really just put out McCollum and Lillard every year and expect it to get better

Feel like this man gonna get 1 million subs one day if this level of content keeps coming

as a fan of j aubrey this video reminded me of his style of content creation, especially the intro and I really love it

Well done bro

If dame left I don’t think anyone would be mad

In retrospect, Damian might just end up being remembered as an nba legend, who unfortunately ran into Steph Curry and the Warriors.

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Love this video. New Subscriber here

Title of your video puts all the blame on Blazers front office, but things are never that black and white. Humble opinion: 1. Front office blame: Blazers are a small market team, they can't get big names (like Lakers or Heat) so if they want to stay competitive they need to overpay guys if they show any sign of productivity (like Crabbe, Turner, Lenard,...), and then they get in to the problems with salary cap (we see same things happen in Nuggets now, or Thunder couple of years ago,...). Almost all players (if they can) leave as soon as possible, for beaches and flashes of paparazzi and contracts with big name sponsors. They would probably change Stotts years ago (and McCollum too) but can't because Dame is good with them. 2. Coach blame. Stotts was always limited as a coach. His offensive schemes are out of date, and his defensive schemes are non existent. Blazers defense was waaaaay below average for most of the seasons, and barely average on a few seasons. And he didn't do anything to make his team a better team, they survived mostly of of talent of couple of guys. Not nearly good enough for some true results. And he was untouchable because Dame like him and wanted him there. 3. Players blame: The main duo (Lillard and McCollum) never did anything to put their team on another level and be competitive with other top teams in the West. They play their game as they want and the storyline is "my way or the highway", and others need to get with the program. They are pretty lazy (and undersized) on defense and have to many "solo act" minutes in every game. You can go through season with that kind of play (Rockets are the example) but when defense gets tight in the playoffs they fall easily. You can add bad luck to it all with injuries in last couple of years (or even go that far to remember Oden and Roy), but even if they were all healthy, the results probably wouldn't be any better. Just my humble opinion, of course. Good video as always, thanks for making it.

14/15 Trailblazers were awesome. Too bad they lost 4 starters that summer, but it gave McCullom space to shine.

I HATE the ongoing false premise of loyalty in PRO sports. There is NO SUCH THING. Lillard is a superstar player, and the Blazers pay him for it -- that's the whole relationship right there. E.g., if Lillard were to suffer a career-ending injury, the Blazers would move on, and if Lillard ever wanted to move to another team in free agency, he'd be more than welcomed to do so.

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