Jaylen Brown is gonna be the bust of the decade. And with 20 tears with cap space yall really think KD is a possibility?? Cmon now. If we wanna get crazy I say trade 2 future 1sts, Vonleh, Plumlee and Aminu to SAC for Cousins, draft Brandon Ingram then sign Al Horford Lillard / Frazier Henderson / McCollum Ingram / Crabbe Horford / Davis Cousins / Leonard
Interesting that many of you just think we need a stud SG and we will be set in 3 years. Can we even trade 2 future 1st round picks? Next year's is spoken for. Or is it? ....... since we may or may not make the playoffs. How does that work when there are so many "protections" on a pick?
Yup, forgot about Henderson. I know nothing about him so really have no opinion. I don't want to plug CJ into the starting SG slot since I like him off the bench, 6th man of the year role! Hell, maybe Montero will turn out to be an All Star SG! lol Damn, forgot about Harkless as well! Stupid Mondays! Ok, here is my lineup.... final answer: Dame / CJ Montero / CJ Harkless / Aminu Vonleh / Davis Leonard / Plumlee In a perfect world, where all the planets line up and CJ, Montero, Harkless, Vonleh, Davis AND Leonard develop to their potential. THAT is a contender right there! Hello back to back to back to back Championships!!
I'm still hoping we can take back Haywood and get a CLE 2018 1st, and I'd be willing to throw in CJ if they took back Ed Davis instead of Plumlee CLE 2018 1st, POR 2019 1st, POR 2021 1st, CJ McCollum, Meyers Leonard, Ed Davis and Al Farouq Aminu for DeMarcus Cousins and Caron Butler If shit blows up down in SAC, I'd have to think they'd take that offer. We go into next year with Crabbe, Connaugton, Cousins, Vonleh, Lillard, and Plumlee, plus oour draft pick (a wing, preferably Brandon Ingram) which total $48M, meaning we'd have $40M+ in cap space. We could actually make a realistic push at Durant at $28M (Max). Selling points would be a big 3 of Lillard, Cousins, and Durant, a chance to reverse a whole franchises bad luck, a chance to play with players who fit his style and can space the floor, a chance to measure a player that plays a lot like himself (Ingram), and a chance to play with an offensive genius in Stotts, along with veterans we could still add with remaining cap space. The city fits him, and we have Nike here. We add Durant and we could likely add Joe Johnson for $10M and a shot at a ring. You sign DJ Augustin for the $4M Cap Space Exception and Mo Speights to the $3M Bi-Annual Exception and you have the favorite coming out of the west Lillard / Augustin Johnson / Crabbe Durant / Ingram Vonleh / Speights Cousins / Plumlee
Basically we have the pieces to get Cousins if he becomes available and we could get him and still keep max room. Lillard+Cousins would be hard for any FA to resist. We don't score Durant you so have the possibility of Joe Johnson with an Al Horford, which would make you a contender. DMC is the key to it all.
One thing to consider in next year's draft is there are a lot of PF's in the projected lottery. If the wing we want does not fall to us, we may have to take the BPA and if that is a PF........we may trade the pick or Vonleh. Either way we need Vonleh to have minutes to increase his value.
In reality this lineup was a poor man's Golden State Warriors. I hate the Neil didn't deal LMA in 2013 but the management hitting the reset button shouldn't come at a surprise. At best, this was a 6-8th seed team.
Actually at best that was probably a fourth seed . . . but the point stands, they weren't going to win shit.
That's bollocks. This lineup, if fully healthy, would give Golden State all they could handle, especially with Afflalo fully in the mix as a 6th man instead of being unceremoniously dumped into the starting lineup.
Starter or not, Afflalo played like shit. And what makes you think the Blazers out of all the teams in the West would have given the Dubs "all they could handle?" There's nothing wrong with saying that, but without some supporting evidence to back it up, why would I believe that?
We were one of what, three or four teams in the league who ranked in the top ten in both offense and defense. We were on pace for 55+ wins, and I firmly believe that the addition of Afflalo would have pushed that number even higher once all was said and done. Remember, I said "fully healthy." That means no thumb injury for Aldridge, no broken hand for Lopez, no blown Achilles for Matthews, and no nagging knee and wrist issues for Batum. Even Dame was a little banged up by the time Matthews went down. If this team had the same health luck they had the season before, then Golden State would consider themselves lucky to limp into the Finals after going toe-to-toe with Portland in the WCF.
No team is "fully healthy" at the end of the season and counting on that is nothing but wish-casting. Even when they were fully healthy the year before the best they could manage was squeaking past the Rockets. This wasn't a radically improved team and certainly not a team the Warriors would have had trouble with - it's not like the Blazers managed to beat them earlier in the year when they were at full health.
Actually GS was pretty much full health in the play offs. One of only a couple teams that were and this is why I think we would have given them a run. They won the ring because most of the teams they faced were far more beat up than them.
