[ official ] 2016 summer moves

Sorry, they're very high on WCS. In fact, I believe they plan on playing him alongside Cousins.

 

Their bigs:

PF: WCS/Casspi/ Acy/ Skal
C: Cousins/Koufos/Papa G

Something's gotta give.

 

Cousins is talented but to start at both C and PF might be asking a bit much.

 

Hopefully Olshey starts building up his trade resume this summer. I've thought his best attribute is his ability to draft, distantly followed by trades, and then free agency. With a big whiff in the draft this year he now has not only the opportunity, but the obligation to improve his standing as someone who makes great trades. I've definitely appreciated his under-the-radar trades, a la Lopez, Harkless, etc - but we need a franchise-defining trade now. Barring that I'll be moderately impressed and/or pleased if he signs Whiteside or Howard, but IMO those are half-measures that - at best - will be "Keeping Up With The Jones's" moves.

 

Mean WCS. Oops.

 

A brilliant idea came through my genius mind.

76ers did not manage to trade Noel or Okafor for anything during the draft day and are still in a very bad need for a PG. The one they wanted went to Minnesota instead, therefore a good PG at Wolves - Rubio - has become expendable. He's on a hefty contract Wolves would probably like to get rid of. We have enough room to take Rubio's contract and then push him to Philly for Noel. Then again Sixers also have that cap space so they could take Rubio without giving up on anything if Wolves were willin to do this with us. Then maybe just throw Leonard S&T to Wolves who could use shooting and Cleveland's pick to 76ers who love picks? Would that ever work

 

I would take koufos as our backup center

 

http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/242390/Wizards-Preparing-Max-Offer-To-Joakim-Noah

Wow, everyone is going to somehow get a max offer.

 

If that really happens we would totally have to pay Dwight the full 30 mil a year to get him to come here.

 

Not gonna happen. A max deal for noah? They should be kicked out of the league if they do that.

They already have gortat. Gortat - noah a good fit?

Markieff morris too.

 

Well, for obvious reasons I want Gortat at Portland BADLY. Make it happen!!

 

Warriors, Thunder, and Spurs are the first teams to secure face-to-face meetings with Durant - per ESPN.

I swear to god if the Spurs or Warriors get Durant....

 

I see where Sergio is coming back to the NBA. I wonder where he lands.

 

I would love to bring Sergio back to Portland to lead our 2nd unit... He is one of my personal favorite Blazers all time. He never got a fair shake in Portland because of Nate McMillen who killed his confidence. Sergio became the best PG in Europe and lead his team to win championship and is still only 30 so has a good 3-4 years left in him.

 

Those two sentences seem to contradict each other.

Oh, you see THAT Sergio is coming back. What's the source? I would be prepared to bet that that's just flirtation to get a nice fat Euro-deal. I love Spanish Chocolate AKA El Chacho with a passion, but he still defends worse than I do, and I'm pushing 50 with a bad back. He does have a better 3 pointer than last we saw him, though.

(On the off chance he did come back, I'd have to say (sadly) that Houston looks most likely. But I think the star Euro-point that is more likely to interest NBA teams is Milos Teodosic. I also heard that he was interested in coming over.)

 

Betcha Cousins ends up on the Lakers.

 

http://hoopshype.com/rumor/sergio-rodriguez-back-in-the-nba/

My guess is he sees thre is a lot of money to be had this summer for FA's and he wants in on it.

 

Intriguing suggestion. Allow me to critique it:
* Do we really want Noel? In theory he should be awesome - he gets tons of blocks AND steals and should be capable of being a Tristan Thompson -guard-everybody type. But does he really have a good defensive impact or is he just a stat stuffer? And there's the whole trash-your-rental-and-threaten-the-landlord thing.
* Do the Sixers really want Rubio? They need shooters BADLY, especially as they've handed the keys to Ben Simmons who can't shoot a lick. (And who has also said he's a "point forward".) I think the Sixers are in the market for combo guards whose main talent is shooting rather than an old school PG like Rubio.
* Do the Wolves really want Leonard? I think Thibs would take one look at his "defense" on video and shudder violently.

I must confess I am intrigued by Noel. Maybe he could be great given a change of scenery, a la Hassan Whiteside, and his value has to be at a low ebb. I just don't know if all parties would sign off on this trade. I'm pretty sure if you offered CJ for Noel the Sixers would agree, but we don't want to do THAT. Sign and trade of Crabbe AND Leonard?

 

If we don't get any of centers in free agency then we should be in for Noel. Between him and Okafor I'm not sure who I prefer, I like Okafor's offensive threat but we really need defence now and that's Noel's job. I mentioned Noel as main target because he seems more achievable.

Agree on two remaining points, it'd be a hard deal to conclude. Would Sixers consider Crabbe? I doubt it when they have just drafted Luwawu and Korkmaz for the same position.

Ditto Leonard and Wolves - especially as he will not be much cheaper than Rubio.