Trade Idea Post and Discuss Trade Ideas for the 2019-20 Season

Olshey is content with being mediocre.

 

I call bs on that. There has been nothing said by the Blazers to support your opinion

 

Why wouldn’t he be... people will keep buying tickets

 

The starting five is most likely set for next season. Whether it’s good enough to win a championship, only time will tell. They look balanced on paper. But they have yet to play a game together and won’t before the deadline. Olshey can’t/shouldn’t make any decisions until he evaluates them. Trading/not trading Whiteside would have a minimal impact because I don’t believe Olshey is looking to change that five until he does.

 

Everyone usually does off major injuries more Nurk than Zach.

 

Olshey already said who he wants to start that's Dame CJ Hood Zach Nurk.

 

Well who knows when Hood will be back and we need depth.

Cool

 

You mean to tell me the team hasn't come out and shared their whole plan for the direction of the team and all trade talks?

 

Dame
CJ
Ariza
Collins
Nurkic
Melo
Hood
Trent
Skal

and that’s not counting guys that could take a jump like Simons, Nas, Hoard, and Gabriel or Whiteside staying. Pretty solid starting point.

 

Ariza, Skal, Hood, and Melo are far from guarantees to be on the roster as all could be free agents.

 

half of those are up to Portland. Hood ain’t opting out either and you know it.

 

Batum would create another expiring contract for next season to deal, so not a terrible idea as it still allows us trade flexibility.

 

Yeah, that's my thought process.

 

Great.... A player making $28M whose play is only worth $4M.

Well have lots of teams lining up to take on that contract!

 

Yes it doesn't sound attractive, but 21 FA class is much better so there will be teams willing to get this contract back in order to free some cap space.

 

Do we need that big of a contract if we just want tradeable expirings? I'd rather have 2 guys making 14 to move around in deals than one guy making 28. Unless the market is there to acquire a star, having Batum just to trade his deal is pretty useless.

 

I would too, but we could probably get back more assets for taking on Batum (starting with CLEs 2020 2nd Round Pick).

Having Batums deal wouldnt be useless even if we acquired a role player. Itd match Otto Porters by itself. There will be other similar options that we cant see yet.

Having Batums contact would also mean we could match salary without giving up Ariza, this offseason and into next season.

 

Teams that are trading talent for assets dont care about the level of production of the expiring contract theyre getting back. They care about the assets they get in return for their talent (which usually doesnt come close to matching salary), as well as not having future contractual obligations. Expiring contracts help facilitate the transfer of assets for talent without providing future contractual obligations to that team.

 

Blah. blah. blah.

I'm well aware of your position & thought process on this. I just completely disagree with you.

But that's ok. You're entitled & have your mind already set...

 

Putting words in a persons post again that aren't there. This seems to be a bad habit of yours as you jump from one extreme to another. What I mean to tell you is that what you posted is nothing more than wild speculation that has no basis. Nothing more and nothing less.