that would be a terrific maximizing of the #7 pick and I would love it. There's a lot of noise around our interest in Collins from different sources, and KOC has said we've been after him for a while. Dame even follows him, fwiw Hell, if we move those other picks to DET for Grant, I would be glad to roll out a lineup of Dame/Ant/Grant/Collins/Nurk. I think that would easily win 50+ games if healthy and could make noise in the playoffs if Billups manages the defense well.
Check where that came from. It's like a feedback look of one person saying that another person say what the previous person said.
That would be an overpay IMO and who the fuck is this Twitter? No check mark. Have they ever broken any news or have any sort of validity at all?
It’s definitely not a reputable source, just think it’s interesting that this is floating around among several circles. where there’s smoke, etc.
I think you kinda hope the 7th pick turns out like John Collins. 20ish ppg, 9ish rpg, very good 3pt shooter. Not a horrible defender.
Yeah, so they've got a few people to click on them and follow but mostly they just take other sources quotes and don't credit them and so I don't know if this is from another more reliable source like so many of their quotes seem like they might be or if they just pull something like this out of their ass.
Yes they do. And they can help the Hawks lessen a HORRIBLE cap situation. If it was #7 for Collins and #16, I'd think pretty hard about it. Atlanta is where Portland was....they don't have leverage.
Unfortunately, Portland doesn't really have a way to relieve their cap situation. Collins makes more than the TPE. Therefore, Bledsoe's contract would have to go out. ~$18M of his contract would have to be guaranteed - leaving only $5M in savings for the Hawks next year.
I think that is a baseline hope, not like a "reach for the stars" type of hope. You hope that with the 7th pick you can strike gold and land an all star. Don't get me wrong if there is some kind of deal or collection of deals out there where we end up with John Collins and Jeremi Grant while just giving up the draft assets we have available without fucking around with the pick we owe the Bulls and all of the future draft picks that keeps off the board, along with Bledsoe and the TPE... then I think Cronin can seem like he made the moves he's made so far in his tenure look alright. I won't care how we get there. We'll have two really good (not great) forwards that are the best forward combo Dame has had since Nic and LA without giving away our future firsts after 2023. That's also if he gets Ant and Nurk back on reasonable contracts and Dame/Ant aren't just a Dame/CJ redux or worse.
probably never know....but I can't imagine Cronin will ever take any credit for that 2017 draft because all there is for the Blazer FO is blame and condemnation. Not one good thing in that draft for Portland.
