Notice Trail Blazers and guard Anthony Morrow agreed to a one-year, non-guaranteed deal

If it were Allen, then I'd just change it to stupid Paul Allen. Whoever was responsible for last year's signings is stupid.

 

more competition for meyers.

 

Finally, some basketball news. Not a bad pickup for an end of the bench guy that can come in and hit a shot occasionally. Not the 'Anthony' we thought we were going to get this offseason, eh? Is Pat on his way out?

 

I like the signing. He should get a lot of open looks on this team.

 

Morrow will easily make this team (although Napier is better). That means that 2 of these 3 won't: Connaughton, Goodwin, and Briscoe. Goodwin's better than Connaughton at everything except shooting, so with a shooter like Morrow, Connaughton may be out, to balance the skills of the 2 substitute SGs.

(For team balance, each position should have 3 players, so Briscoe would stay. But that quiet Reno wedding between Olshey and Leonard means that Leonard will be here until the year 2030, so only 5 guards will make this team.)

C
Jusuf Nurkic
Ed Davis
Caleb Swanigan

PF
Al-Farouq Aminu
Noah Vonleh
Meyers Leonard
Zach Collins

SF
Moe Harkless
Evan Turner
Jake Layman

SG
C.J. McCollum
Anthony Morrow
Pat Connaughton
Archie Goodwin

PG
Damian Lillard
Shabazz Napier
Isiah Briscoe

TWO-WAY CONTRACTS
SG C.J. Wilcox

 

Olshey finally did something right. He signed one of the many experienced, low-paid, free-for-the-taking players who are always available, yet better than half of the Blazers. It's an automatic "duh" to every GM except Olshey.

He can draft, but he can't trade. After losing Aldridge and not getting blamed, he did a quickie patch job for a week, then became self-satisfied and stopped patching for 3 years, except when he was forced to trade a starting center for a substitute injury-prone one.

Blazer fans love youth, losing, and breathless dreams of a Golden Future. Every other team knows that if you overbake a cake, it's inedible. So I switched allegiance to the Utah Jazz.

 

It'll take a season to learn my team. (No, Denny, I don't want to moderate that board.)

C
Rudy Gobert (France)
Ekpe Udoh (Oklahoma, despite the name)
Tony Bradley

PF
Derrick Favors
Jonas Jerebko (Sweden)
Joel Bolomboy (born in Ukraine, high school in Texas)

SF
Joe Ingles (Australia)
Joe Johnson
Thabo Sefolosha (Switzerland)
Royce O'Neal

SG
Rodney Hood
Alec Burks
Donovan Mitchell
Nazareth Mitrou-Long (Canada)

PG
Ricky Rubio (Spain)
Dante Exum (Australia)
Raul Neto (Brazil)

TWO-WAY CONTRACTS
SF Eric Griffin
PG Nate Wolters

 

I'm shocked Morrow was still on the market, and we got him so cheaply. Assuming he makes the team, talk about a bargain.

 

Welcome back. Err wait your a Jazz fan now?

 

As long as he can stand in the corner and shoot threes, it's a good move.

 

Bye bye.

 

Huh? Switch sides like that huh? Weirdo

 

This reminds me a lot of the D Wright signing in 2014 or whenever it was. Small signing that could pay unexpectedly big dividends. Wright was no world beater that year but had a meaningful role on the court and in the locker room.

 

I think i'm getting rid of Davis before i let go of Connaughton.
Davis was just dreadful this past season. We won't extend him.

 

Why aren't we signing Monta Ellis??

 

Wow, Deron Willilams is still a FA? I don't recall a guy whose career feel off a cliff so fast. His career started plummeting at age 28. And the Jazz lost Jerry Sloan over him.

 

Check his stats last season, then his age.