Rumor Woj says the Blazers are one of the teams most interested in a wing upgrade at the deadline

• Teams are targeting the availability of Brooklyn's DeMarre Carroll, Utah's Alec Burks, Orlando's Evan Fournier and Atlanta's Kent Bazemore, among others.
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  From the Woj article. I'd be interested in any of them, depending on the price, but I think I'd rather take a chance on a lesser established player, like Malik Beasley.

 

Juan Hernangomez is another name. He's been a healthy inactive for Denver. I like his game and it'd be an Olshey type move.

 

It would be pretty amazing if Brooklyn got a 1st rounder for Carroll after being given two just to take him on! 3 First rounders to a half year of overpaid (but not so much now that performing again) guy is amazing.

 

Not sure what your point is?

We drafted two bigs last year. Could have taken a flier instead of Swanigan?

Could have hypothetically traded CJ to move up and grab someone, tgen took a SG at 10 instead of a PF/C?

 

Best trade for us.

 

Well, I read about him.

Top shooting % at FT and 2-pointers, good for a forward at 3s. He has always played guard. He's been the starter on all 7 of his teams, for most games. His age is 32.

He's a better dribbler than, say, Crabbe, or any of our forwards except Turner. Good dribbler with moves on video I saw, not of course in the class of our guards.

He's playing more aggressively this year, the reason being Carmelo leaving, according to the RealGM Knicks board. ("He's a Rick Fox.")

Less than 2 years ago, Memphis traded him to Charlotte for 4 2nd-round picks. The Knicks then stole him by doubling his pay to $12M per year.

Remember that a Knick dollar is a Blazer peso. His stats jumped up when he joined them a year ago.

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He would improve our dribbling at forward, for drives to the basket. His pay is higher than what I was thinking, and he's older. I'm hoping to cut payroll. If we got back a 1st round pick...it would be an expensive price for a pick...probably not. Also, you want to give Napier and Davis, my 2 favorite players.

 

I also like Napier and Davis, but they both have positive trade value (you need to give something of value to get something of value - usually) and both will be FAs this summer. We may not be able to bring them back anyway. In which case it's better to get something for them than to let them walk for nothing.

BNM

 

My only point is that there wasn’t a lot of talent at the SF spot in last year’s draft. Only four guys at that position went in the first round. Tatum and Josh Jackson were out of reach at 3 and 4. Neither of those guys is showing anything like enough impact to be worth parting with CJ. Justin Jackson and Anunoby look like a whole lot of meh, but still went at 15 and 23. They weren’t good enough to take at Collins’s spot, but still went before Swanigan because of the scarcity of guys at that position.

 

I would like to see us try to pick up a guy like Terrence Ross, he has 3 point ability (although is struggling this year) and is VERY athletic.

 

There are so few decent wings in the league right now.

 

Which is so bizarre considering it used to be the deepest, and easiest to fill, position in the league.

BNM

 

Since you’re here and know the team better than we do, what’s the feeling around there, what does Chicago need? Are fans interested in Harkless lol

 

Apparently, the Bulls want a 1st rounder + expiring contracts for Mirotic. That certainly won't happen, so it'll be interesting to see what they'll actually take.

 

lockedonjazz talks Mirotic - says he's probably just an average (35%) 3 point shooting and it's likely that his current tear is an aberration.

https://www.lockedonjazz.net/

 

They can't trade him until January 15th, but that still gives them a 3 and a half week window before the trade deadline on February 8.

Yes, we need to shed just under 3 million to get under the luxury tax threshold. Would the Bulls be willing to take back $15.5 million in salary for Mirotic's $12.5 million. They are way under the cap, but I'm sure they'd like to preserve as much space as possible to go after free agents next summer. We have Ed Davis, who is an expiring contract at about $6.35 million, plus several other smaller non-guaranteed contracts that the Bulls could rescind, if they wished (Noah Vonleh, Shabazz Napier, etc.).

I'm not sure we could come up with a package that would appeal to the Bulls, unless we sweetened it with a 1st round pick, and I'm not sure Portland would be willing to do that.

BNM