Please trade him. I'm begging. Among other reasons, we need to get value for him while we can. Same could be argued re Felton, Camby, Wallace. http://eye-on-basketball.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/22748484/35101827
Sounds good to me. If the roadie goes the way I suspect it will, it'll probably be about time to see Nolan, Elliot and Babbitt get as many minutes as possible to see if they can actually contribute anything to an NBA team -- better to get those answers now instead of later.
I kind of like the idea of Ridnour and Randolph for Jamal (we'd have to probably toss in a second rounder to get Minny to agree).
Useful how? He's going to opt out at the end of the year and this team very much looks like a team about to miss the playoffs. I say get something for him now while you still can.
He's a good player and a friend with Aldridge. Its likely the management/coaching that will cause him to opt out than anything. "getting something" isn't going to change the incompetence at the top. Nate will get fired if we don't make it past the first round, then we get stuck with guys who suck more than Crawford. I'd like to keep a Crawford-Batum-Aldridge core right now and build from there with a new coach.
if we're indeed missing the playoffs, why then would we add ridnour? a 31 year old PG, so not a PGOTF type, and owed 4 and then 4.3 million the next 2 years.
With the assets we have do you really think we're going to be able to get a "PGOTF"? without some major sacrifices? I sure don't. Bottom line, is that at some point the Blazers are going to have find PGOTF via the draft and in the meantime they'll probably have to settle for stopgaps ... at least Ridnour is slightly more competent than Felton.
We have a glut at SG. A dirth at PG. And Crawford will not sign with Portland for next season. We need to git while the gittin's good.
Keep Crawford if you can't get anything good for him. However, if you can convert Crawford's value (and I was against his signing, but he's actually been better than I expected and I do think he's been a valuable player this year) into equivalent future-focused value, I think you have to do it.
I'm not thinking we have the assets to make a home run trade for a PGOTF. But that doesn't mean we should trade for Ridnour to take up 4 million in cap space AND give them a 2nd round pick. I'd rather he retire and force Nolan to run the point and see what we have instead of ridnour. It just makes no sense at all.
You can trade for a fungible point guard like Ridnour at almost any time, so may as well do it after the imaginary cap space has been used, rather than cutting into it. I'm not a huge believer in the impact value of cap space (especially when you aren't a "destination franchise"), but it's still worth giving it the old college try and seeing if you can get lucky and sign a major free agent. If not, you can always go back to the Ridnour well later.
I was thinking the second rounder would compensate Minny for giving up Randolph ... but maybe they don't want it? In any case, the team is going to have to pay someone to run the point for a couple of years and they aren't likely to be a destination for a high level free agent like Williams.
So u wanna get back the clippers and twolves scrubs instead of him coming off the books to make all u whiners happy? Really smart!
I would rather he just opt out at the end of the summer and we get his cap space. Unless we can deal him for an expiring and a draft pick.
their compensation for randolph would be crawford, so they have an actual SG instead of a PG playing there. If they don't want that, that's fine. I mean, if we're looking for crap stopgaps, then the felton for blake trade makes more sense than this one. Blake knows the offense, shoots a lot better, and is slightly cheaper. So why go with Ridnour for Crawford, when there's the slight possibility crawford has value for some actual future piece.
