Which makes me wonder what would happen if Portland stays in the thick of the race and Olshey is presented an opportunity to dump Turner (by attaching a pick.) Would he still do it? Probably makes Meyers the most likely “salary dump” candidate, although I don’t know how you pass on an opportunity to dump $18 million.
If we are still in the playoffs hunt Olshey will not trade Aminu but won't resigned him so Zach can start next year. It like Davis this last year. I am not saying we won't trade at deadline but it won't be Aminu.
Annoyingly, KS is right in this case, if you focus on the full sentence and not just the clutch portion of it. https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/a/aminual01.html#all_playoffs_per_game Regular Season 2PT%: 0.466 Regular Season 3PT%: 0.337 Regular Season FT%: 0.732 Playoff 2PT%: 0.517 Playoff 3PT%: 0.430 Playoff FT%: 0.738 I still think he's a net negative for the reason you said, though. Aminu is dared to shoot like no one else on the roster come playoff time. He makes a few more as a result, but he's still hurting the team because he's not commanding any respect from the defense.
I simply singled out the one part he was very wrong about. I know he shoots better during the post-season. But to say he's "clutch" couldn't be further from the truth. That's something he's said before this year. Now if he said he's been "clutch this season", that would've made sense.
He’ll be hard to keep if they don’t find a way to dump Turner/Leonard/Meyers. I haven’t seen evidence that the team is ok with being in the tax.
It's not ideal, but it's not like Olshey hasn't done it before! IMHO, letting him walk is still better than keeping him, over-paying, and locking him into the rotation for the next 3-4 years. It would be great to trade him for value - but given Olshey's track record, that seems like the least likely outcome.
I think it was pretty clear that "Aminu is clutch and always ups his game in playoffs" refers to a single thing, e.g. clutch because he ups his game in the playoffs, not two separate things. If they were stated as multiple sentences, I could buy your interpretation.
Layman's emergence probably makes it less likely that Neil brings back Aminu-- I think the past month has changed my prediction a bit. If we want even some value for him instead of letting him walk, the time to trade him is now.
Aminu is Olsheys boy and Stotts trusts him. Sticking to my prediction that they re-sign him. Layman’s emergence makes it more likely they use a pick to dump Meyers (or the less likely Turner/Harkless) imo.
As much as I want this to not be true... I can't see Olshey trading his starting PF while in mix for a top-4 seed in the west. The only hope for it would be that his love for Collins is so strong that he sacrifices Aminu so that Collins is pretty much forced into more minutes with the starters. The only other scenario I can envision is if they acquired Melo then I could see Aminu being shown the door. Something like this: http://www.espn.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=yaf9u8z7 Plus our lottery protected 1st to Sacramento
You honestly would waste a pick to dump Meyers? He’s only got a year left on his contract and he’s actually contributing this season.
