LA gone before or on draft day

Who is this Hickson you speak of?

And right now, Soup Juggler is better than Barton

 

tristan is worse than hickson, if he is the big piece coming back, thats dumb as fuck

 

What do they have that we do not?

Irving and Lillard are close in value.

I would rather build around Wes at the 2 compared to Waiters.

There is a huge difference at SF.

Thompson is average and the reason they are wanting to build around LMA.

Zeller and Leonard are close in value, with Zeller being better now and Leonard having more potential.

Varejao is the better center, but I would not want to build around someone with his size due to injury concerns.

Nothing else on the Cleveland roster excites me.

 

Irving is by far a better player than Lillard and he is younger.

Matthews is a one dimensional player, and Soupy is from the Cuse, so that's a wash

SF per 36 12/4.5/2 vs 13.5/5/4.5 Not really huge

So Zeller is better to a player wanting to win now....check

Again, Vaginajao is the better player at C than anything on our roster

What else on our roster excites you?

 

Thompson makes far less than LMA. It would free up another 10 million to sign a solid PF like Al Jefferson. A rotation of Al + Thompson is better than our current PF rotation.

 

why would you trade LMA and then sign someone like Al Jefferson ?

 

Because Jefferson plus the asset is better than Aldridge...If you believe that

 

yeah, but it'll be more expensive. this is Al Jefferson's time for a big contact + Thompson will have his large contract extension in 2 years. on a talent standpoint, its a downgrade. You figure Jeffersons going to get 12m per year or so on a new contract and Thompson is only 4 now but will probably ask for 8-9m a year if he plays decently at all on his next contract.

 

Add in #1s salary and #19s and we only free up around 4m in space if we trade LA for the proposed deal.

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I do not. I think it makes us worse long term, and mediocre short term. Terrible move.

 

so if

hickson >tristan
and
lma> big al

what sense does that make??? if you want tristan so bad, just resign hickson, he is better

 

double post

 

I don't think Tristan Thompson will reach the heights that LA has , but I agree with the thinking that he could be a "Dale Davis" type of player at the PF position, solid if unspectacular.....so not 20/10 but 15/10 around? I think that is likely....You get a player like that back PLUS the #1 and #19 pick, I don't think that is necessarily a bad return for LA.....

http://hoopsanalyst.com/blog/?p=662#more-662

 

Yet we won 9 more games with historically one of the worse benches ever and a tougher Western Conference?

 

Having Batum is a huge difference.

 

Ya, I have nothing to back me up. Just what I feel.

Irving only played 59 games
Vaginajao only played 25 games

I think that probably has a lot to do with it. I would assume those two would add 9 wins.

 

but then you discount Irving of improving any

Batum is a poor defender, but you know that

 

And if they were Blazers, you would probably be saying that those injuries prove that they're injury-prone bums. Which probably is true anyway.

 

I would say it about AV for sure

 

Al actually has a higher PER than LaMarcus and helped his team to a better record last season. I'd take #1, #19 and Thompson for LaMarcus in a second. The cash freed up would make the Blazers major players in free agency and really make this roster deep.