Facing facts

How do you know its in his DNA? He's played under one coach... thats it.

 

If you say so.

 

That’s was a

Maybe I am wrong and he can change... but Dame will be 30 next season and I would rather try something new while he still has a few prime years left.

 

Too bad he can't see you agreeing.

 

easier to trade?

Bazemore vs Turner? Whiteside vs Harkless + Meyers? Looks the same to me, but it could be the smaller contracts of Harkless & Meyers would be easier to trade individually than the big contract of Whiteside. I'm also seeing that Whiteside + Bazemore = about 4M more than the other three contracts. Probably doesn't make much difference

Hood's contract wasn't easy to trade at all (since he could veto a trade IIRC), and that's before he was injured. For the rest, vet minimum are always easy to trade

 

very subtle, made me chuckle

 

It’s not going to be okay this season. Too many key injuries and not enough time.

 

Yes, that's my point that the team is still playing like they'll be okay when they won't.

 

I agree with that. Basically Stotts has been horrible this season. It’s his job to motivate the team and he hasn’t done it.

 

Bazemore was supposed to be a shinning bright star of three point shots attempted and made. What happened to that?

 

Good question. He’s very inconsistent with the three point shot. Woefully so in some games.

 

His numbers suggested he could have been.

 

They are all expiring, the others were multi-year and expensive.

Hood wasn't trade bait.

We're in a far better position to take advantage of the next available great player divorce than we were had we not made those trades.

I was honestly impressed he was able to get teams to give up expiring deals for those contracts.

 

wut?

Turner & Bazemore were both expiring, and both teams were more than ready to move on from those players. It was unwanted for unwanted; expensive scrub for expensive scrub. And both teams ended up in the exact same spot they were before the trade...with a large expiring contract on a crappy player

in many ways, it was the same for Whiteside. He was a disruption in Miami and they wanted to get rid of him for that reason, and because they had Abedayo. And that Whiteside portion of the trade for Miami helped them secure Butler. And in the Whiteside for Meyers swap, they not only got somebody who could play with Abedayo, they saved 45M in salary and tax...there was nothing not to like in that trade for the Heat, and they had plenty of reasons to do so. There was no Olshey sales pitch needed

Portland actually added 16M in salary and tax by making those trades. That's what Jody Allen has to pay, on top of everything else attached to those 2016 deals Olshey made