Which Teams Will Rebuild?

I agree, it's kind of ridiculous. If they rebuild, they rebuild around MKG. Getting rid of him makes no sense.

 

Gasol would be a great addition. I've read that he prefers big cities, with lots of "cultural options" like symphonies and museums, but I don't know Portland well enough to know if it would be satisfying to him in that sense. On the court, though, he'd fit really, really well.

 

Lionel Hollins created Grizz style of play and they reached the WCF. Never got back there after firing Hollins.

 

Teams that should rebuild:
Atlanta: Build around Schroeder and Bazemore and get some young assets for Teague and Millsap.

Houston: Harden will never lead a championship team. Time to trade him for some young assets and build a team the right way, as I don't think many free agents want to play with him

Memphis: They have no depth anymore and have already gotten draft picks for some of their rotation pieces. Time to complete the process and get 3 more 1sts from Gasol and Randolph

New Orleans:
They already sucked but it's time to trade Holiday and Evans. Those two are hurt a lot, and so s Davis. They should be trying to get another lotto pick or 2 and pursue guys that fit Davis and can actually defend. Guys like Dunn, Chriss, Valentine, etc.

Teams that should readjust:
Milwaukee: Not enough shooting. They need to get rid of MCW, and go after a 3 and D SF and a stretch 4

Brooklyn:
There's no point to tank. They should go sign a Rondo and an Eric Gordon to try to not give Boston another good pick:

Indiana:
Let Mahinmi go and go for a star big man or a cheap replacement (Aldrich?). They need more depth, and have the cap room to do it.

 

Thing is, the Blazers didn't HAVE to blow it up. A lot of teams wouldn't have. But the Blazers made a bold, and correct, decision to do a complete retool around Dame. Hats off to the Blazers organization for having the courage and confidence to make the right play.

I think you're rght a lot of teams won't have the guts to do the same until they are forced into it.

 

Miami? No chance. They can't blow it up at the end of Wade's career. Also, if Bosh can actually play again, they'll be fine.

Atlanta might have to. Free agency will determine a lot for them. If horford and Bazemore leave... who would see them as a destination? They don't have a lot to sell high on.

Chicago, Memphis and Houston should but they won't. Chicago should trade Rose ASAP and Pau.

 

Brooklyn has to blow it up in my view..do what Portland did and get some younger talent and develop it

 

They don't have a draft pick

 

The problem is that Boston has swap rights on their 2017 first round pick and Boston outright owns their 2018 first round pick. So blowing it up is pretty unappetizing for them, since they won't reap any draft benefits from it for the next two seasons.

Honestly, this might be the worst trade in NBA history:

Boston gives up: Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, Jason Terry, D.J. White, 2017 conditional second round pick
New Jersey gives up: Gerald Wallace, Kris Humphries, MarShon Brooks, Kris Joseph, Keith Bogans, 2014 first round pick, 2016 first round pick, Celtics' option to swap 2017 first round picks with Nets, 2018 first round pick

If Boston builds a juggernaut, the Nets will have a huge hand in it.

 

Plus they basically gave us Lillard for the right to trade Gerald Henderson in that terrible trade.

 

The fact that they didn't protect any of their picks is what makes it so bad.

 

I'm sure you know that when Neil Olshey was with the Clippers he neglected to put any protection on the 1st round pick that he sent to the Cavs with Baron Davis for Mo Williams and Jamario Moon. At the time, the Clippers were expected to have a pick around the middle of the first round, but they ended up with some injuries and ended up with the 8th worst record in the league and ended up defying odds and "winning" the lottery, for Cleveland, which the Cavs used to select Kyrie Irving.

It was a salary dump by the Clippers at the trade deadline, and CLE got to double down on their good fortune, when the NBA added the amnesty provision to the new CBA the following summer, which the Cavs promptly used on Baron Davis.

Point being, I'm glad Neil learned that lesson at the Clippers' expense and not ours, and apparently he has. The top 55 protection he put on the 2nd round pick we sent to ORL for Mo Harkless took protecting a draft pick to new level.

BNM

 

Austins D League team "The Million Dollar Men" are constantly on the rebuild. The GM believes they can be made better, stronger, faster.