Only two of those players were going to help us in 2016-17... Are Hark/Chief better than Whiteside? If you heard Neil traded Leonard, Hark, and Aminu to Miami for Whiteside, what's your reaction?
No thanks. I guess we say bye to Whiteside then. That hurts I would have rather rolled with Aminu/Harkless and go for Whiteside.
We are not going to add two max players. I don't see them gutting the team like that. My theory is that Whiteside was Neil's 1A. We had a meet set up with him but, Neil finds out that Whiteside has basically ruled us out, so he turns to his 1B option, Parsons. And of course, he will never say this, because we want our 1B to think he was always the 1A.
I could see us trying to acquire Kanter or Monroe. They only make 17 million. That five million difference lets us keep Harkless. Deal Aminu for either Monroe or Kanter and you still get to keep Harkless and Crabbe. Dame CJ Harkless Parsons Monroe With Crabbe, Plumlee, Davis, and Vonleh coming off the bench.
Too much if that is true. If we could keep Aminu it would be worth it. Then we just need to find a cheap back up PG.
I think Parsons would be a good fit in the Blazers' scheme, but I'm not exactly doing cartwheels over the possibility they add him.
Don't really see much difference there. At the end of the day it's a player on your books for a certain price. You're entitled to your opinion, but Crabbe over Howard??