Not drinking at all. You posted this, right? I don't find it absurd to think that other teams will find Gasol more attractive, and therefore offer him more money, than they will Lopez. I don't see how the two players are connected at all.
If the team isn't successful next year, where is the guarantee that Gasol wants to stay in Portland? People are pant-shitting about cap space, and suddenly if the Blazers get Gasol, all that goes out the window, I guess.
It does if you're saying that you'd be less likely to trade Lopez(/Batum) for Gasol because of the fact that Gasol's contract ends next summer. The likelihood of PA paying to keep either is pretty similar, so they are analogous situations.
Gasol will be 30 and has had injury problems in the past. Should that at all be considered before throwing a 5 year near-max deal at him?
So as I read it, many are wondering if LMA is worth a max or near max, but if Gasol becomes a Blazer, then both Gasol and LMA are worth overpaying on long contracts. Just want to be sure I'm reading things correctly.
Sure should, now that you bring it up. Seems like it would also be considered before trading for him in the first place. Odd that you wait until now to mention it...
There's no guarantees in anything. If we aren't good how do we know LMA, Wesley and rolo all won't leave? We don't. I'd take my chances being able to keep Marc around. If he leaves, then hell you can re-sign rolo. I think we'd have a great shot at retaining himhowever.
Yes anything outside of LaMarcus and Damian. I'm a huge Marc fan, I think he'd be our best player; but we'd have to keep a hold of those two. If Memphis was looking at rebuilding we could give them Nic, CJ, TRob, Meyers, Crabbe, and draft picks in 2015 and 2017. I don't know if thats the most Memphis could get but its a fair offer. I highly doubt Memphis has any interest in trading him though. Marc and Conley are the two studs on that team just as we have LA and Dame. If anything they scrap the rest of the team to rebuild. Tony Allen is really the only other player I'd have interest in but not sure how a Stotts offense would work with him and don't think we'd have the pieces to make a swap both parties are happy with.
If you trade for Gasol, it means you're going all-in. It opens a window that's probably only open for a few years realistically. So yes, you pay whatever you have to pay to keep the group together.
If they trade Gasol. I'd bet they want rookie contracts and cap space. I don't think we have the right pieces for a team looking to rebuild.
We've got a lot of that. Rolo (last year of deal) CJ Leonard Matthews We have a lot of young guys on rookie contracts and a few guys on the last year of their deal.
It's hard. I'm such a huge Marc Gasol fan. He has such a high basketball IQ to go with his talent... Such a hard question to answer... because it brings up so many other questions. Does Gasol fit in Stotts system? Does having two bigs like Aldridge/Gasol fit in Stotts' system? What are the Blazers giving up? Batum/T-rob? Can we get Kufas? or Lee in the deal? If so do we give up Wesley also? Does the team fit together? Lillard Lee or Wesley or ??? Batum or ??? Aldridge // Kufas?? // T-rob?? Gasol // Kufas?? // Lopez??? Personally I'd do it if they're willing to throw a wing not named Tony Allen in the deal. or let us keep Wesley or Batum.
This part I couldn't possibly care less about. If Stotts' system can't work with two versatile, talented players like Aldridge and Gasol, then it's time for a new system.
Nic, TRob, CJ and multiple future first round picks would get their attention. They might not accept but its in the ball park of what OKC took for Harden, Orlando took for Dwight, or Pelicans took for CP3.
