Merged: Dumb question / Bring Over Freeland Now?

They need someone who can score off the bench. When your starters average 80.5 ppg, I can see why Von Wafer would be attractive. Anything to get Marcus Williams to the bench.

 

Hmmm why does this sound familiar? .....

 

He may not be a chemistry major but he's done a good job revamping the Grizzlies.

And a good job of trumping Pritchard.

 

I'm a little slow. You tell me.

 

It sounds just like here. We struggle to score. We have a few guys who carry most of the load and get little or no help. Guys we depended on to score for our bench are all out.

 

I got you.

 

The deadline was/is irrelevant since injury exceptions are for team's over the cap. The Blazers are currently 1.4 million under, thus nothing to create an exception for.

 

Ah, yeah, my bad. Although, I wonder if it works the same as the MLE does, where it's kind of one or the other? Like we can use the injury exception, and waive our cap space.

 

I wouldn't trade Nic Batum's labrum shavings for Von Wafer.

 

Can't we get some sort of exception to get a roster spot? Or do we have to waive someone?

 

have to waive someone, unless you get down to 7 healthy bodies left.

 

it takes two to tango, and I'm sure that Freeland would prefer to dance while locked in at a significantly higher pay scale then if he were to come over this year. He'll probably command less then a MLE but much more then the 1M or so per year for 3 years that he'd be due as the 30th selection.

I've never seen the guy play outside of highlights and don't really have a feel on how well he'll do in the NBA. I wonder how his listed 6'10 would look beside LA's 6'11. If he can guard most PFs decently and is good enough overall to warrant rotation minutes, Portland should have minutes for him. LA is big enough to get a lionshare of the backup center minutes so a 3 man Bigs rotation with a true 6'10 Freeland works on paper.

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