The Christmas Wishlist: Which players are on your wishlist.

Just list them.

Tony Allen
Serge Ibaka
Nicholas Vucevic
DeMarcus Cousins
Nerens Noel
Kenneth Farid
Paul Milsap

 

Technical foul. The thread is missing a poll. It's damn near 2017. Step your game up.

I'll take Cousins and Noel please.

 

For the right price I would take any of yours except the last two Prez. Milsap we would either have to pay max to or let walk and neither of those are appealing. Faried just doesn't do it for me. I not even sure he would start for us. So the price would have to be a giveaway.

 

Your supposed to list your own. Can't poll that yo!

 

Ditto.
DMC and Noel while holding onto Dame/Harkless/Plumlee/Tuner/Crabbe would make us a contender

 

Farid would start for us

 

He would never start over Nolan Smith.

 

Nerlens Noel - a proven elite defender at the age of 22, available and we won't have to give up half the roster to get him.

Andrew Bogut - for the right price, I'd take him even if it's only for a half season rental just so he can teach our other bigs that falling backwards moving screen move he perfected in GSW.

Serge Ibaka - hadn't really thought about him, but he'd be great next to Noel. He has the 3-point range to spread the floor and would also help our interior defense, and he's surprisingly only 27.

I have no idea what it would take to get Ibaka, but Noel and Bogut are available for cheap. If we could add these three big men while keeping Dame, C.J. and Mo, it would address all our interior defense and rebounding woes. As mentioned, Bogut would be setting great screens to free up Dame and C.J.,but I think people here don't realize what a good passer he is. He's not quite Mason Plumlee, but he averaged 5.5 AST/100 possessions the last two season in GSW. So, our passing from the center spot wouldn't suffer much, while our defense, rebounding and interior scoring would all improve significantly.

I also like the age spread on these guys. Noel, at 22, would be our center of the future. Ibaka, at 27, is our mid-career starting PF and Bogut, at 32, would be our wiley vet. The roles would be clear. Bogut also brings toughness and championship experience. Ibaka also has exptensive playoff experience, including playing in the finals.

BNM

 

1. Nurkic
2. Noel
3. Everyone else

 

FTFY (besides listed...)

 

Is Ibaka on the block? Him and Noel Please. If only...

 

ORL Gets: Allen Crabbe, 2018 CLE 1st
PHI Gets: Vonleh, Napier, 2018 POR 1st
POR Gets: Serge Ibaka, Nerlens Noel, Gerald Henderson

Lillard / Turner
McCollum / Turner
Harkless / Henderson
Ibaka / Aminu / Davis / Leonard
Noel / Plumlee / Davis / Ezeli

Would prefer to consolidate some of those bigs for a good wing.

 

That sounds great, but you know we'd have to give up more than that for that big of a haul. Aminu or Harkless will likely be wanted by somebody instead of Napier.

 

If Ibaka is available (it wouldn't surprise me, I just hadn't heard it) then this list looks good to me, too. Realistic and hit areas of need. If I could choose only one, I'd probably pick Ibaka. Someone who can help the team's defense and rebounding while still providing offensive spacing would be pure gold for this team.

I quite like Noel as a buy-low/high-ish-upside acquisition.

 

Utah would like CJ, how bout a 3-way with Philly? CJ, Davis, Vonleh to Utah, Favors and Nerlens to POR, Hill and Exum to Philly

 

Orlando made some really weird offseason moves. It's like they couldn't decide if they are rebuilding or trying to win now. The result is a roster that isn't well suited to either.

And, they still can't decide. Do they start Vucevic (16 starts) or Biyombo (14 starts)? Do they start Payton (16 starts) or Augustin (14 starts)? Do they start Gordon (22 starts) or Jeff Green (8 starts)? Keep in mind, none of this is due to injury. All these guys are healthy and playing. They benched Vucevic to start the younger Biyombo and benched Jeff Green to start the younger Aaron Gordon, but then they benched Elfrid Payton to start the 31-year old D.J. Augustin. Which makes it look like they are both trying to develop some of their younger guys, while still trying to win.

In all of this, the only constants have been Serge Ibaka and Evan Fournier. They are the only two Magic players that have started every game they've played in.

Right now, they are 12th in the East, but only a game and a half out of the 8th seed. I think the only way they move Ibaka before the deadline is if they completely fall out of the playoff picture and decide to blow it up and go into compete rebuild mode (again - although how can you rebuild what was never built?).

So, of we want Serge Ibaka, start rooting for ORL to lose.

BNM

 

Unless they think C.J. can play PG full time, no way does UTA trade both their PG of the Present (Hill) and their PG of the Future (Exum).

BNM

 

I'm going out on a limb since recently they've had an implosion on their team and are fighting in the locker room but I think my first wish would have to be Andre Drummond and I don't have a clue how that would ever happen but it's a Christmas wish so .....

 

keep in mind Hill is a UFA this summer