An update look at Claver and Freeland

Roy would keep the ball out of Rubio's hands which is the most attractive aspect to Rubio. His defense would be awesome though. Another glaring problem is his outside shot.

I don't think Rubio would be the ideal PG for this team. Bayless is looking like it though, and actually so is Kop and Mills. Players that can move without the ball, hit the open shot and commit to defense.

 

Of the three we own the rights to I think Koponen and Bayless are the most intriguing.

Koponen held his own defensively against D.Rose a few years back and is a legit 6'5" at the PG spot. During that game Vs. Team USA, Petteri and Batum had nice chemistry and gave Beasley, Rose and the rest of Team USA fits.

[video=youtube;VHBUoVgHKs0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHBUoVgHKs0[/video]

 

Thanks for the vid. I'll try to catch a few of their games online.

 

And even if we did use it all up, we'd regain the MLE the following season.

I'd much prefer to use our MLE in this manner. We'd be likely underspending for talent than competing with 29 other teams and overspending.

 

Are you sure about that? I thought that if you used the MLE on a multi-year contract, that "slot" was filled for the duration of the deal, and you had to rely on other (lower) exceptions.

 

teams over the salary cap (which Portland may or may not be this next offseason) get a full MLE every offseason whether they use it yearly or not. Also, it's my understanding that a foreign player who doesn't come over right away (like Freeland & Claver) can only be signed to their respective rookie scale deal until 3 seasons have passed. In Claver's case, he would be slotted to make slightly less then Darren Collison who is to make 6.3M over 4 years with team options after years two and three. After that 3 year period passes without them being signed, the player can be signed by whoever holds their rights as if they are a RFA.

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Precisely