Alex Kennedy: Portland looking to accumulate picks, save money

that's what the guy says, but that doesn't make it rtrue. Olshey himself said it is nice to have the picks in a good draft to use or to trade.

 

I was telling the guys at work the same thing this morning. Olshey is still looking for trades, and almost everyone is on the block.

 

Yeah, I think whether it's now or in the summer, he's about to blow this team up. No one is safe outside of dame, CJ and Nurkic.

The minute he traded Plumlee I figured this team as currently constructed was finished. Can mention the cap all you want, but they could've kept Plumlee if they really wanted to. He was our glue. Doesn't matter so much if they're planning to blow it up though.

 

If they want these guys to have value, start running plays for guys OTHER than Dame/CJ. Get some of these guys more shots and get them into an actual rhythm. It's not like having Dame/CJ take half of the shots is producing good results anyhow. Get Vonleh, Layman, Harkless, Crabbe Leonard 10-15 shots a game and built their stats.

 

At the very least we could trade Aminu for expiring contracts (Morrow, Huestis, Christon) and the right to swap CLEs 1st (Currently 27th) for their 1st (Currently 19th).

Id prefer to trade Aminu to WAS for their 24th pick, then trade Davis to IND for Allen and the right to SWAP CLEs 1st (27th) with theirs (Currently 18th).

That would give us the 10th, 18th, 19th, and 22nd picks.

 

Yeah, just too bad we overpaid so many guys but it is what it is. At least we have 3 picks in a good draft, and if the tank goes well we could have a 4-8 pick. The Nurk trade was a good start

 

He could be in a funk and his career numbers are, indeed, higher. The problem is that he's trending downwards since his supposed breakout season. That's only a two season decline, granted, but it's certainly not the right direction for optimism over his growth curve.

He's currently worthless on the court. That doesn't mean he's completely worthless as a future asset, but he'd have to improve a lot to reach "NBA-caliber." And even more to become a useful NBA player. I'm not sure a lot of teams will spend $10M on the current Leonard in the hopes he makes those jumps.

 

Let's revisit this in two years and see. Deal?

 

You could probably package Harkless, 10, 18, and 22 to trade up to 3 to grab Josh Jackson.

 

Not even worth mentioning. He is among others

 

When will Jason Quick break news?

 

for sure

 

fixed.

 

Let him keep shooting threes, if he makes a couple for a few games we nickname him Stretch Curry (what he and Stotts seem to see him as) and then sucker someone, anyone any way we can.

 

I say good, get these guys out of here since they don't wanna play correctly. Get us some defensive players and a 3rd option on the team and dame and cj will be good

 

LOL!!! He's having a bad career!

 

He's 7 feet tall.

And you can't teach that.

 

Yeah, he's a pretty big guy. You can find 7 footers in nearly any neighborhood in America and they probably won't cost $10M a year! I assume the basketball skills matter, though.