Is he gonna be another wasted asset who will walk for nothing in return? I tend to think he has some trade value as a 7 mil expiring deal. We'll still be in the tax this year even if we dump him for nothing like we did with Vonleh last year. He has no incentive to re-sign here after his deal expires either, so we'll be competing for him in UFA like everyone else.
My guess? He’s going to use a pick to dump one or two shit contracts. That would make re-signing Aminu easier, if they choose to go down that road. That’s Olsheys boy, I doubt he dumps him. Personally I don’t mind Aminu, I just don’t want him starting over Zach.
I don't really care about Aminu, honestly i wouldn't miss him if he left at the trade Deadline or in free agency. His Defense is overrated, on Ball good but not constantly good, and off Ball he looses his man pretty often, which i saw that in the Dallas Game as Barnes had a lot of open 3s. That just one example of his off ball Defense. Offensive he sucks, he can't pass, can't handle the Ball, he will allways be a streaky Shooter, this year he shots 34% on mostly wide open 3s, thats pretty bad to be honest
i selected the pick or young player choice. I can see him being moved in a very similar fashion to the way Plumlee was. Swap him out for someone with longer control.
Houston is desperat for a 3nd wing and they don't care about Picks, but i don't know if Neil would do that. That would make them stronger this year and us weaker
The worst case scenario would be to over-pay to keep him and do nothing to upgrade the forward positions. Ergo, that is what the team will do.
The only difference I see is when they traded Plumlee, they were something like ten games below .500, or at the very least outside the playoffs looking in. Even if Olshey were open to trading Aminu, I don’t think he would do it unless Portland was struggling. For all intents and purposes, they aren’t right now.
Hence “for all intents and purposes.” They were in the playoff race three days ago, and as long as they stay in it, Olshey won’t dump Aminu...imo.
That's very true. I wonder if they would have taken the same risk if we were similar to now, knowing the contract issue was still there. Plumlee was a good, but limited, player. And I think his upside was primarily gone by the trade. Nurk had tons of upside, but the risk was there. I was trying to look at different options from contenders to fit a similar deal, with Aminu.
Surface level misinformation. Typical KS post... Aninu's TS% in clutch situations 2017-2018 - 42.9% 2016-2017 - 45.6% 2015-2016 - 36.2% This here hes been at 63%. But those 35 games are an outlier when compared to the 200 some games before it. Not to mention that he gets even more wide open looks in the clutch. But ya know, facts and stuff.
yep the day before the Nurkic trade, Portland was 23-31. They were 9th seed, 1.5 games out of 8th seed, but 8 games out of 7th seed with just 28 games left in the season. Their future was lottery or 8th seed, so making a move like that trade wasn't really risking anything substantial now, they are 5th seed, only 2.5 games out of 1st (1.5 games out of 11th and 4 games out of 13th). So a trade at this point would be risking a lot more than was risked in Feb 2017. Further, only a few months ago Dame had a meeting with PA (and IIRC had a 2nd one later but maybe that's wrong) about the direction of the team. Trading away a 4th year starter for cap relief and maybe a draft pick seems like something that could get Dame riled up and Olshey can't afford that if the Blazers can't find a salary-relief trade for a light cost between now and the off-season, I fully expect Aminu to go down the same off-ramp Davis did
