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With Oden, LA, Pryz all having injury concerns i think Frye is our most important bench player. Frye showed in the last bit of the season and of course his rookie year that he is a keeper. If Brook Lopez projects as a top 5 pick, no thanks. I would not trade Frye for Lopez straight up this year.

IF Nate can get Martel to work on his defense and Martel becomes a good defender, there is no way i would trade Martel. He has a pure stroke that you can't teach and for God's sake, he is 21 years old. Martel has star potential and we have seen nowhere near his ceiling. Remember Nash passed on CP3 for Webbs, just sayin.

As much as i love Outlaw's potential i think what we see is what we are going to get in the future. He is not a Jermaine O situation. Remember, JO was getting no playing time so we never knew what he was going to end up at. Travis's biggest asset is his ability to cause match up problems plating the 3 and the 4. Also like a Jerome Kersey he relies on his athletic ability. In 4 to 5 yeras from now Travis might be already on the downside. As opposed to Martel, he has a skill that can keep him in the league for many more years. Walter Davis is someone who comes to mind right off the top of my head. Steve Smith, who else ??

Now, just my crazy opinion but Danny Granger is loved by KP and probably the rest of the league. I think Martel can be in a few years something close to Granger, who knows. I think Granger is a stud, but why trade away multiple peices when we may have someone on our roster now. Patience, patience..........

KP gave us all the Betty Crocker i wanna bake a cake speach and what he wants to do. I hope he sticks with his plan and waits a year so when we have our cap flexability he can go out and get that icing he is talking about. I think he has to see how Rudy, Roy and Martel play together as well as Oden and LA.

If he gets impatient and deals young talent for a experinced PG this summer i will be pissed.

Outlaw, Jack, Raef, # 13, are the only assets i wouldn't be to pissed if he gave away this summer for a Calderon, Conley jr, Andre Miller, Russel Westbrook. As much as everyone talks about the need for a PG, realisticaly BRoy is gonna have the ball in his hands in the 4th Q. Also, Rudy has great handles and his assist totals in ACB tells me he is unselfish and like Barret said last night on courtside, Rudy could also play some PG. One more year of Blake at the point is not going to kill us. You never know but i doubt we challange for Hardware next year anyway.

What do you think Denver feels about not having Blake on that dysfunctional team this year in the playoffs ??? Karl was not happy at the start of the year when he lost Blake and i think after watching the Laker series we all know why now. Blake is not chopped liver and if we get a franchise type PG i hope we keep Blake. The guy gets no credit and that is a shame. He does everything coach asks of him and wants to be in Portland. Wow a FA that wants to be in Portland?? I thought nobody wants to come here through free agency.

PATIENCE