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  1. Sarni

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    Sending picks to get rid of contracts makes sense if you want to use the obtained cap space to sign free agents that will help you. We won't sign any free agents that will help us, the time to do it was last year and we got either turned down or did not even inquire about the best players available (Howard, Whiteside). It makes sense for Cleveland to send people to open up cap space and add picks because they are trying to get players now who will help them compete now.

    In a hindsight it might have been better not to give out crazy contracts to Crabbe and Leonard and not sign Turner, which would have left us with significant cap space this year and we'd be able to actually use that on some players as a lot of teams have done the same mistake we did last year and paid over the top for their players which left them with no room to work in 2017.

    The position we are in currently is we can either trade for good players or build through the draft. We are not getting any free agents in so creating cap space to accommodate them is not needed. If this draft is anywhere near as deep as they say then it's a good idea to bring 3 new young players in, in which case we should perhaps trade some of our current younger players for more experienced assets.
     
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    Lillard and Crabbe to Chicago for Wade and Butler.
     
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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    Sweet. We can have three shooting guards in the starting lineup!
     
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  4. Boob-No-More

    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    Vonleh picked up 6 fouls in 14 minutes. It wasn't Stotts that limited his playing time, it was those pesky rules.

    BNM
     
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  5. Sarni

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    Wade is gone after season.
     
  6. speeds

    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    Ibaka to Toronto for Ross/1st

    1st is 2017, worst of Toronto/LA Clippers

    Ibaka has expressed interest in signing with Toronto (will be a FA) but how the cap will work with Lowry I have no idea
     
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    Vonleh got into foul trouble and 6th one was plan stupid foul. But this first game I seen him play in the 4th but with Von it seems like get lost in the offense at times. But I like his hustle and his rebounding.
     
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    BBert Weasels Ripped My Flesh

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    And on defense. I noticed several times last night in the first quarter when Meyers was forced to leave his man to pick up a driving guard, no one (coughVonlehcough) rotated to help on defense.
     
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    Myers did what he was suppose to do on defense. But it was a bad rotation by the other guys to cover his man. It wasnt Myers fault. Matter fact he wasnt doing a bad job on the defense until Hardway blew by him on a break. What piss me off was he didn't even realize that Hardway had the basketball. Then it started go down hill for him. Plus all the bricks he was shooting.
     
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    Toronto makes a big move to help their playoff push. Now am curious to see if Boston, Cleveland, and Washington, the other top 3 teams in the east, will match? And how can we help? Because he is cheap, I doubt we do anything with him, but Aminu would be a good addition off the bench for Cleveland and Washington, I would think.
     
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    Washington need bench players badly. Unfortunately their cap situation will not allow them to absorb Meyers contract so easily. Maybe Harkless for a pick and an expiring?
     
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    Meyers makes essentially the same as Harkless.
     
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    Aminu would have more value to a legit playoff team than to Portland at this point. He's got a valuable contract as well, so Olshey should definitely explore his market. Harkless isn't as good, but I'd rather ride with him going forward because he's younger.
     
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    If you watch Noah closely for about 10 mins of court time, you know the guy has 0 bball instincts. He kills us on the floor. It's 4 on 5 on both ends.

    It's not a coincidence that our uptick last year happened at the same time that he went to the bench.
     
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    Yeah but I mean take both of them and send back something valuable. Meyers is more like a liability here, their favor towards us would be the pick plus taking Meyers, for which we would give them Harkless.
     
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    this is a boring trade deadline so far. not just for the Blazers, but for the entire NBA.
     
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    Not really. Usually trades don't happen until deadline day. This year we've had two pretty significant ones a week early.
     
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    Aminu would look great on the Spurs. Give us SloMo back and I'm happy.
     
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    Now Charlotte has totally imploded, I wonder if they'd consider swapping Crabbe for MKG (plus Sessions, to make the salaries match).
    That would hurt us shooting-wise but improve our defense considerably.
     
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    with 9 days left I think its off to a good start, most stuff happens in last few days
     

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