John Salmons to Portland?

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  1. Natebishop3

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    I would do that, but I'd really like to get my hands on Andre Miller.
     
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    B-Roy If it takes months

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    Wait till this summer.
     
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    its hard to imagine but amazingly people see potential in sergio and outlaw at this point lol.

    a pg who cant score, defend, shoot....

    a sf who is awful on defense after 6 years in the league...and still has no clue
     
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    Not too bad, but I think not so good that it's worth firing those bullets (RLEC, Outlaw). I'd rather wait and try for a better deal, right up to the deadline. If the deadline comes and goes, Portland can let RLEC expire and pursue Andre Miller in free agency, an even better version of Hinrich and who's age dovetails nicely with the development of Bayless as the eventual starter.
     
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    Not enough IMHO. I'd rather let it expire and take our chances in free agency.

    The Bulls aren't going to be an ideal trade partner since they always do well in attendance and probably aren't feeling the financial crisis as much as some other teams.
     
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    as far as kp not being at fault for our sf problem....i disagree....he should have fixed it by now. we would have 3 more wins if our pg and sf didnt avg 4 points a night
     
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    So after all the dust settles (assuming anything happens at all, which i kind of doubt) we're left with this going forward:

    Hinrich/Blake/Bayless
    Roy/Rudy
    Salmons/Batum/Webster
    LMA/Gooden/Diogu/Shavlik
    Greg/Przybilla

    (Red=guys living on borrowed time or likely gone by next season)

    I admit it doesn't scream instant "contender" to me, but assuming LMA and Greg blossom into what we hope they can become, this makes us no worse than "solid" at the three and one, and our frontcourt gets a little tougher.

    EDIT: Scratch this. On second thought I like the idea of getting Miller more if possible this summer.
     
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    Is there any chance we can trade for Gooden's beard without being saddled with Gooden hisself?
     
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    Well at least Salmons would give us some depth Now at the three. If Webster was healthy I would say NO Way. But he is not. We can always move Salmons up stream in the summer.
     
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    Because we want to have 3 about-all-star-level SGs locked up for the next 4 years? Seems that that's a great consolidation for talent, but still leaves us a bunch of holes and a SuperLogJam at SG.
     
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    Well, Martin is 6'7'', same height as Salmons. Couldn't he play small forward?
     
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    no, he's way undersized and overmatched physically.
     
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    Probably. It seems, though, that we'd be back in the position of our PGs not being good enough to get the ball around to Martin, Roy, LMA or Oden, and in the little I've seen of Martin he doesn't seem like either a) a finisher at the rim or b) a defender. Don't get me wrong, I think he's quite good, but he seems to duplicate a lot of the things Roy brings (both good and bad)
     
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    false.
     
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    On the upside, it wouldn't hurt their chances at landing one of Blake Griffin or Ricky Rubio or whomever actually goes first overall.
     
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    I say no to Salmons, RJ, and any other scrub that can't play D. I don't care about scoring. Give me 10pts a game, and absolute lock down defense at PG and SF and I'm sold. KP go get Wallace please!
     
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    Completely agree. Salmons is an above average defender though.

    Gerald Wallace should be the target. He's the best attainable defender out there.
     
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