Several of Joe Cronin’s biggest moves are all looking great right now. The Deni Avdija trade? An enormous victory. He’s an All-Star on one of the best contracts in the NBA. The Damian Lillard trade? Superb, in hindsight. Those Milwaukee picks are some of the best owed draft picks in basketball. Even moves that looked a bit shaky over the summer, like the Jrue Holiday trade, have mostly gone as planned. Holiday’s age and contract are still a concern, and he missed a lot of time earlier in the season, but he’s been spectacular when he’s been available. It says quite a bit about the state of the Blazers that, even if reports indicated that he was not interested, Portland was treated in some corners of the internet as a reasonable suitor for Giannis Antetokounmpo.