Official Jerami Grant trade rumors/ideas thread

I wasn't one to buy-in to the theory that trading Dame was going to get us closer to contending in the next 4-5 years (which is about as far as I think any team can reasonably roster plan). Despite the trade working out in general, I still don't see the path to us contending within 5 years of trading Dame. So, I'm not a fan of rebuilding for 10 years.

I am a fan of maximizing assets though and I do not think Deni should be untradable by any means. I can't imagine anyone would think that's smart.

 

Appreciate that very well-reasoned and logical take! Make sense to me.

 

IMO if we don’t have the pieces to compete with 3 top 7 draft picks in a row and 2 forwards acquired in trade that are borderline all-stars(one of which could be a DPOY candidate) then I have real concerns over a future built around more picks. I’m more concerned with the coaching than the talent on this team.

 

Portland doesn't have any elite talent. And that's what it takes to be a contender. If you're a fan satisfied with 40-50 wins and a shot at a first round win, then what the Blazer roster is right now is probably satisfactory

OKC got to the finals because of SGA and Jalen Williams. Without those two guys the Thunder might not have wons a playoff series. Indiana got there because of Haliburton and Siakam. Without them, maybe a 1st round exit. Boston won last season because of Tatum and Brown; Jrue and White wouldn't have got the Celtics past the semi's. And Dallas got to the finals because Doncic and Kyrie. Denver won because of Jokic and Murray. Aaron Gordon is as good as Deni and he wasn't going to get the Nuggets rings

again, if just returning the the playoffs is success enough, then sure, hold favorite players untouchable. If you want to contend, all options should be on the table

 

How do we know Sharpe won’t have the kinda jump SGA had?

 

If you wanna trade Deni/Camara for some young proven commodity sure but to trade them for picks 3 years from now doesn’t seem like a good idea.

 

SGA averaged 24-6-5 in his third season with a PER of 21.6, while playing solid defense. Sharpe average 19-5-3 with a PER of 14.5 while playing weak defense

in his 4th season, SGA averaged 25-5-6

looks like a significant gap so if Sharpe is going to jump, he needs to jump a lot

 

What kind of playing time was each getting that third year? Serious question. Was SGA starting all year that year?

 

Nevermind looks like the min were roughly the same but SGA only played 35 games that year. I think a jump is in Sharpes future.

 

Wasn’t SGA the number one option though. They gave him the team. Sharpe has played pretty well when Simons was out. Neither Sharpe or Scoot has been handed the team like SGA.

 

small sample but I’ll take it.

 

What signs point to Sharpe turning into an SGA level player?

I'll bet Sharpe isn't an all-star in year 5 and a three time all-star/all-NBA player by year 7.

 

Camara is an elite talent. Jamal Murray has made the same amount of All Star appearances as Kris Murray.

 

I think the fact that he’s balled out pretty hard with no Simons blocking him is a pretty good sign. I don’t think he needs to turn into a top 3 NBA player for us to compete either.

 

Correct. Nor have they done enough to warrant it.

 

SGA wasn't held back by established vets because he's good enough to separate himself from those guys by either being better than them or being able to play with them. That's a superstar skill.

 

I swear the people that wanna trade our best players now are the same that used to tell me how crazy I was that I thought it was time to trade Dame. What goes around comes around I guess.

How bout this. Let’s start winning and see how far we can get with what we got and trade players accordingly.

 

Or maybe CB didn’t have the balls to sit Ant down on the bench where he belonged.

 

Wait. So you thought it was a good idea to trade our best player and now you don't? Isn't that equally as crazy? Maybe more crazy because our previous best player was an All-NBA player while our current one isn't even an all-star.

And I do want to repeat myself, I'm not saying we have to get rid of Deni. I'm saying we should be open to trading him if we can get a return as good or better than Desmond Bane. I also was open to trading Dame for an elite return.

 

I disagree. Sharpe has increased his scoring each year even last year with a decrease in minutes. If we give the team to him, he can easily average 23-25 points.