Trade Larry Nance Jr traded to Portland

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  1. UKRAINEFAN

    UKRAINEFAN Well-Known Member

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    Does he still have that kind of athleticism or have injuries taken their toll?
     
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    Cleveland is now paying around $75 million for 4 bigs so I'd say that its its a fairly safe bet that Love will be bought out.
    Love - $31 million
    Allen - $20 million
    Lauri - $16 million
    Mobley - $8 million
     
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    UncleCliffy'sDaddy We're all Bozos on this bus.

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    Yeah, because both Simons and Little have stepped right up and helped us right outta the box……
     
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    I love Larry Nance; I just don't really understand why Cleveland wanted to trade him. His rebounding and blocked shots are down quite a bit in the last two years though.
     
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    Fuck that guy.
     
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    Agree that it's not the home run we wanted but under a different coach, I can see how it MIGHT work with Dame/CJ/Powell. Philly hasn't moved Simmons and Toronto hasn't moved Siakam so there's still hope.
     
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    He leads the league in pass deflections, near the top in steals, decent passer, good screener, decent three point shooter. What's not to like? I think Billups will love him.
     
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    What’s not to like? Olshey couldn’t turn DJJ and a non lottery pick into an all star/missing piece. That’s what.
     
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    Good, then Toronto or Philly know better than to even ask for picks!
     
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    7' 1" wingspan
     
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    Yeah, I don't think this move actually changes the starting lineup, but it gives the Blazers a lot more options and frankly I wouldn't be surprised to see an ultra small closing lineup with Dame-CJ-Norm-RoCo-Nance. It's small, but if Chauncey can get them to fly around and at least give effort, I think it could be very effective.
     
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    I'd rather trade CJ in that situation. I think there's still a trade to be had. If we can trade CJ for a PF, Roco could start at the 3.
     
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    We’ve been waiting all summer for the Portland Trail Blazers to do something … anything … to appease their increasingly itchy All-Star guard Damian Lillard.

    Well, we finally got our deal on Friday, in the form of a three-team trade that sends Larry Nance Jr. to Portland, Derrick Jones Jr. to Chicago and Lauri Markkanen to Cleveland in a sign-and-trade. The Blazers also sent a 2022 first-round pick to Chicago (protected 1-14 through 2028), and the Cavs sent a top-46 protected 2023 second from the Nuggets to Chicago.

    Markkanen is the most “famous” guy in this deal and will have the biggest contract (four years, $67 million, with standard 5 percent raises, according to a league source; The Athletic also has learned that only $6 million is guaranteed in the final year, making it worth about $55 million in guaranteed money). We’ll get back to Cleveland’s bet on him in a minute.

    For now, however, the big story here is Nance, because he now heavily impacts the league’s biggest potential trade domino in Lillard.

    For the Blazers, this is probably a good thing. I’ve long argued Nance is one of the league’s most underrated players; my BORD$ formula pegs him as worth $15.2 million this coming season, even after an injury-riddled 2020-21, and he’s signed for two more years at a tidy $20 million total.

    Moreover, this is exactly the form of trade the Blazers had to be seeking all summer: Take Jones’ unwanted $9.7 million salary and a first-round pick, and turn it into a better player with a similar salary. Nance strikes me as about the absolute best-case scenario on a trade of this format, and the pick protection is robust enough to ensure the cost to the Blazers will be minimal if this all goes sideways and they have to blow up the team.

    Not only is Nance about the best player Portland could have hoped to receive in a transaction of this ilk, but he’s also the exact type of player the Blazers need. The power forward spot has bedeviled Portland the last three seasons, with Zach Collins never being healthy, Carmelo Anthony an entertaining but low-nutrition stopgap and Jones falling out of the rotation after the Blazers inked him to a full midlevel exception deal a year ago.

    Nance may not start games at power forward — that’s likely Robert Covington — but he’ll finish plenty of them and play large chunks of the time in between. He makes a great offensive partner with Lillard in particular, as Nance is a top-notch passer who excels making plays out of traps and “short rolls” — something that happens often with bigs playing with Lillard. He’s also an enthusiastic screen-setter and enough of a vertical threat on his rim run to suck in defenses.

    Nance doesn’t have a rep as a shooter, and you certainly wouldn’t want to feature him that way, but he’s quietly lifted his 3-point shooting mark to 35.2 percent and 36 percent the last two seasons. You can live with that. He’s also an underrated defender who, like Covington, gets his hands on a ton of balls — a key reason the Cavs forced a jillion turnovers a game at the start of last season before the injuries hit. And in a playoff game, he can slide up to the five for stretches with the second unit, giving Portland versatility behind Jusuf Nurkic that it lacked a year ago.

    https://theathletic.com/2794046/202...blazers-can-lauri-markkanen-thrive-with-cavs/
     
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    There is no hope if we get Simmons lmao.
     
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    incrementally, this makes us a better team and we turned a guy who wasn't in the rotation for someone who will, while being more versatile and on a terrific contract. Given the pieces we had to trade, this was a good move.

    But if we're judging Olshey's offseason on his ability to turn CJ into a star forward, I think we're gonna be sorely disappointed despite whatever else he does along the margins.
     
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    Nate is right, it’s a good trade but nothing more. We need a homerun
     
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    I think Mark Few would have loved him.
     
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    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    I didn't either. Just trying to bring levity. We can't all be @SlyPokerDog
     
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