[Official] The off-season thread

Damn nvm about Gary Neal

He picked it up as the season went on it looks like

 

YOU HAVE to re-sign Aldridge, no matter how bad he faded at the end

 

Does Pop's shoot for Mills?

 

If we renounce our exceptions and Mo/Earl leave as expected, we will have about 7 mil in cap room that should be enough for a solid bench player.

Or two if we strike gold like PHX did this summer.

 

I'm trying to figure whether the Lopez we saw was just better than he appeared anywhere else or was just the perfect fit in personality and skillset for this team. I wouldn't call him a disappointment at all. That said, is there someone out there that does what he does and could do it better or do a few other things? If so, you always have to be open to a move. When you start falling in love with all your own players, you stop progressing. With LA on the team, the Blazers need a big, rim-protector, who fights on the boards and can set screens. However, he is a liability, IMO, on pick-and-roll defense, although he will attempt to contest the guard on occasions -- it's worth noting that I don't know whether he is being told to slough off the guards when the other teams P-n-R or it's just how he's comfortable playing it.

 

How much would they gain if they could somehow dump Wright?

 

The Spurs didn't miss a beat when Parker went down. Patty has had 3 good seasons for the Spurs. He's shot above 40% from 3pt range every year.

 

Other interesting unrestricted free agents that might be in our price range:e Lowery, Gortat, Bradley, Ridnour, Morrow, Sefolosha, Jordan Hill, McRoberts, Hawes, Turner

 

Sign 'em all. That's a decent bench.

 

I think either Pau or Frye make a ton of sense. Frye will probably be declined his option by the suns (they need to spend a lot of $ re-upping other guys and may make a run at Love)

We could absorb Frye and he'd fit into the everyone's contract expiring after next season thing.

Maybe something like Frye to us, Victor and two of the suns picks in this draft to Minnesota, and a S&T Love to Phoenix? Love, Morris, Bledsoe, and Dragic is a pretty damn nice core. If Len panned out they could be set.

 

Fans on this board just plain missed with their evaluation of Mills when he was here. IMO and I stated it often. Mills was the teams 2nd best shooter off the dribble behind Roy. As I recall his PER was poor........but his jumper was sweet. We should have kept him.

 

Frye would be nice but not a priority IMO. We need a another PG. If we go big then it needs to be real big or a really quick leaper. not a stretch 4.

 

Is it just me or are we missing the fact that Allen can go over the cap if he wants too and pay the penalty?

 

Why would you want a really quick leaper next to Robinson? Channing's man defense on 5's is pretty good actually, and he boxes out well. He would fit very well next to Aldridge for spurts (Aldridge works the post) and perfect fit with Robinson, who has plenty of room to work inside, can pursue offensive rebounds (while Frye on perimeter setting screens), etc.

If we want to develop Robinson, Frye would be great.

Completely agree on a b/u PG for Lillard though! (to also play with)

I feel like something like this works for everyone (if Minnesota knows they're losing Love)

Claver, Morris, and a Suns first to Minn
Love to Phoenix (S&T)
Frye to Portland

We'd still have the full MLE to use on a PG, maybe Vasquez? Doubt Bradley is going anywhere he won't start, although I'd love to have him here.

 

realistically all we have is the MLE (6 mil plus or minus a bit)) and the BAE (2 mil), no capspace

 

I like Jordan Hill and he realistically is in our price range, he is a PF/C so that fits two needs and last yr registered 9.7 pts and 7.4 rebs in 20.8 minutes, he's 26 and IMO would be a nice fit

 

What people tend to miss on is that young players, the role players, not superstars, need time. You can't expect every young draft pick to immediately be a good role player for you, and you can't act like we missed out when a young guy from our team succeeded at his next stop. It's situational, but a lot of it is just experience.

I think going into this offseason, if I'm Olshey, I look to poach a few guys like that from rosters who haven't yet turned that corner, but are right on the verge of it. Like LOpez did for us this year. Someone mentioned Jordan Hill, you look at how he was kind of a disappointment early on, part is new situation, but a lot more, IMO, is just gaining that experience in the league, that 25-26 year old range where things start to slow down for a lot of guys.

 

Oh so true.

 

I'll add to my previous comment, just spit balling of random guys that could potentially turn a corner, and find a role, and likely for cheap:

I think a guy like Xavier Henry is someone that can come in and be a decent scoring option off the bench.
Kevin Seraphin I think could take a small leap into a solid backup PF/C.
I think Cole Aldrich could be a backup C in a Freeland ish sort of mold, but better shot blocker.

Are any of them better than what we have? Probably not. But iwe were to package a few bench guys' salaries to work something out this offseason, I'd look to fill in the roster spots with guys like this potentially.