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I believe it's my first thread on this forum so if this somehow goes against the rules, apologize.

This is for all rumours across the league, not just Blazers, but will obviously be mostly Portland focused.

IMO what we have to focus on is getting a third star to go with Dame and CJ. Would prefer this to be someone young who will still be around in 2-4 years when GSW are no longer the dream team they are now.

One rumour I saw a couple of days ago is us going for Brook Lopez, trading Plumlee and first round pick for him. Aside from the obvious flaw in this i.e. we don't have the cap space and salaries are not matching, I would really, really like Brook here. At 28 he has to get out of Brooklyn now, they are not winning anything anytime soon and will probably not get into playoffs before he's 35. We would probably have to part with Leonard and some more to get the salaries matching, and we still cannot do that for a couple of months, but it's worth consideration.

Another I saw was us getting Blake Griffin, sending Crabbe and Harkless to Clippers and Vonleh to Kings who then send Gay to Clippers. This obviously considers that Kings just want to get rid of Gay and don't care what they get in return, and IMO we would be overpaying for Griffin. I like him and he would fit in the system but Crabbe and Harkless are too valuable. Send them Leonard/Plumlee and Harkless OR Crabbe and it would look better. Alternatively gamble on both of them and send Leonard plus Aminu (I like him a lot though). Obvious disadvantage is Griffin contract ends next year and he will probably not re-sign so it makes it all a bit pointless.

Honestly, I would prefer to go for proper youth. Okafor I think will be available for a good price and if Stotts can teach him defence, we could have a legitimate third option there. Philly might not even ask for much in return considering the abundance of talent at center there. Then again our most dispensable assets are also big men, so we would likely have to involve a third team in this trade.
 
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Fez Hammersticks said:
Neil tried for two years to land a big who can score on the block - Monroe and Kanter.

My gut feeling tells me that he'll push for Jahlil Okafor by the deadline.

....or DMC.
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At which point 76ers will be basically shopping him for a good price. Boston prefered to get Jaylen Brown who was projected lower than 3rd than give away their pick for Okafor or Noel, it was really strange because Sixers could then take Dunn and both teams would be better off currently.

I would probably let Plumlee go for him. I don't think we will have space to resign Plum at the end of season anyway. Then again why would Philly need another big.
 
Haakzilla said:
...no trades needed, that cake is almost done baking!
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Yep, very much looking forward to the season. The roster is deep and has huge upside. Imagine if Crabbe, Harkless and Leonard do make the leap in quality this season or any of them goes to borderline All-Star level like CJ last season!

We could make a trade to reduce salary bill if we are to re-sign Plumlee next year, or just trade Plumlee to get someone in return. Okafor would give us another dimension, we don't really have an inside scoring big.
 
If Chris Bosh can pass a physical he'd be an interesting option to look at.

If Harkless or Leonard falls out of the rotation and/or sucks it up all season, I would look at swapping one of them and maybe a pick (Probably not) for Jrue Holiday or Tyreke Evans.
 
Sarni said:
I believe it's my first thread on this forum so if this somehow goes against the rules, apologize.

This is for all rumours across the league, not just Blazers, but will obviously be mostly Portland focused.

IMO what we have to focus on is getting a third star to go with Dame and CJ. Would prefer this to be someone young who will still be around in 2-4 years when GSW are no longer the dream team they are now.

One rumour I saw a couple of days ago is us going for Brook Lopez, trading Plumlee and first round pick for him. Aside from the obvious flaw in this i.e. we don't have the cap space and salaries are not matching, I would really, really like Brook here. At 28 he has to get out of Brooklyn now, they are not winning anything anytime soon and will probably not get into playoffs before he's 35. We would probably have to part with Leonard and some more to get the salaries matching, and we still cannot do that for a couple of months, but it's worth consideration.

Another I saw was us getting Blake Griffin, sending Crabbe and Harkless to Clippers and Vonleh to Kings who then send Gay to Clippers. This obviously considers that Kings just want to get rid of Gay and don't care what they get in return, and IMO we would be overpaying for Griffin. I like him and he would fit in the system but Crabbe and Harkless are too valuable. Send them Leonard/Plumlee and Harkless OR Crabbe and it would look better. Alternatively gamble on both of them and send Leonard plus Aminu (I like him a lot though). Obvious disadvantage is Griffin contract ends next year and he will probably not re-sign so it makes it all a bit pointless.

Honestly, I would prefer to go for proper youth. Okafor I think will be available for a good price and if Stotts can teach him defence, we could have a legitimate third option there. Philly might not even ask for much in return considering the abundance of talent at center there. Then again our most dispensable assets are also big men, so we would likely have to involve a third team in this trade.
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Hi Sarni the deer =)

I'd definitely want Lopez. But don't know about Griffin. He seems to be on the decline of his career. I'd wait to see how this team does before pulling the trigger on a trade.
 
I do not believe the Blazers will make a trade before the draft. Let this season play out to see what we have, and what we need.

This is a deep team that can take an injury hit or two, and still do well in the playoffs.

The only reason I see the Blazers making a trade before the deadline is if they can trade a player for a good draft pick or three. The trade would need to help eliminate some, or all, of next season’s projected luxury tax.

I may adjust my theory due to changes in the new CBA.
 
Last year the blazers had a back court and a lot of very good players.
This year the blazers have a back court and a LOT of very good players.

If there is an opportunity to get a 3rd VERY, very good player, they will probably do that. However, such opportunities are rare.
 
I love this team as it is right now.

If perhaps Meyers makes a big jump in his development, I could see Aminu or one of our small forwards and a big being used to go after a player and a draft pick. My guess is that NO is going to keep Plums and wants to pay him next year. IF that's true we will have to make room without hurting the team too badly. I would still love to see Sabonis here, but his dad was my favorite player in the NBA so there's that.

Zbo is said to be coming off the bench for Memphis, He could be interesting on our team. Scrappy scorer (defense?) and seems more mature than when he was here before.
As some have mentioned Brook Lopez could probably be had for a combo of younger players....maybe?
Chris Bosh???

Or just let it bake and see what happens. I really don't care either way. It's just more fun looking at all the possibilities.


In NO we trust.
 
Pure speculation trade idea, no rumor.

Dallas trades Wes Mathews straight up to the Bucks for Greg Monroe.

Dallas needs big help. The Bucks need a SG due to Middleton’s injury.

Both teams swap bad contracts of equal amounts.
 
Sarni said:
I believe it's my first thread on this forum so if this somehow goes against the rules, apologize.

This is for all rumours across the league, not just Blazers, but will obviously be mostly Portland focused.

IMO what we have to focus on is getting a third star to go with Dame and CJ. Would prefer this to be someone young who will still be around in 2-4 years when GSW are no longer the dream team they are now.

One rumour I saw a couple of days ago is us going for Brook Lopez, trading Plumlee and first round pick for him. Aside from the obvious flaw in this i.e. we don't have the cap space and salaries are not matching, I would really, really like Brook here. At 28 he has to get out of Brooklyn now, they are not winning anything anytime soon and will probably not get into playoffs before he's 35. We would probably have to part with Leonard and some more to get the salaries matching, and we still cannot do that for a couple of months, but it's worth consideration.

Another I saw was us getting Blake Griffin, sending Crabbe and Harkless to Clippers and Vonleh to Kings who then send Gay to Clippers. This obviously considers that Kings just want to get rid of Gay and don't care what they get in return, and IMO we would be overpaying for Griffin. I like him and he would fit in the system but Crabbe and Harkless are too valuable. Send them Leonard/Plumlee and Harkless OR Crabbe and it would look better. Alternatively gamble on both of them and send Leonard plus Aminu (I like him a lot though). Obvious disadvantage is Griffin contract ends next year and he will probably not re-sign so it makes it all a bit pointless.

Honestly, I would prefer to go for proper youth. Okafor I think will be available for a good price and if Stotts can teach him defence, we could have a legitimate third option there. Philly might not even ask for much in return considering the abundance of talent at center there. Then again our most dispensable assets are also big men, so we would likely have to involve a third team in this trade.
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There were a lot of rumors about us going after Brook last season,which of course never materialized. Why I do think he would be a good fit here, his foot issues have me worried and it would cost far too much to get him. As well it wouldn't put us under the cap, which I believe will be something Neil looks for before he pulls the trigger on a move.

Blake is puke, I don't want him anywhere near the Blazers. Besides like you said Crabbe and Hark are an important part of our teams success.

I could see Neil going after Okafor. As for Shorts teaching him defense...well I don't think Shorts is teaching anyone defense.I
 
Sinobas said:
Hi Sarni the deer =)

I'd definitely want Lopez. But don't know about Griffin. He seems to be on the decline of his career. I'd wait to see how this team does before pulling the trigger on a trade.
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Blake Griffin does some idiotic things from time to time but the guy is still one of the best post players in the game. The dude just scores! Something that the Blazers lack unless, Vonleh can become one of those guys.
 
At Vonleh's age, I'm expecting him to make a huge leap in his game over the next 2 seasons...Faried won't make that kind of leap..Meyers needs to make that jump this season....I don't see Faried as an upgrade worth selling the future over
 
The Blazers are $1 under the Luxury tax level with a team that will likely finish somewhere in the #3-6 range. They also have 11 players who are used to being regular rotation players. So likely Vonleh goes from starting 50+ games to getting scrap minutes (not much of a chance to develop) and that leaves 10 fighting for minutes when Stotts has historically shown he likes a rotation of 9 and that 9th player only gets around 7-12 minutes.

Lillard / McCollum
Harkless / Crabbe / Turner
Aminu / Davis / Vonleh
Plumlee / Leonard / Ezeli

As long as the Blazers are winning, that may work but it's not hard to imagine some frustration due to a log-jam of good players. This team seems ripe for a consolidation trade at some point.

:matrix:
 
By the deadline there will be more interesting options for a consolidation trade....we'll know who's a bad fit or disgruntled on another team by then and who's not cracking the rotation here..I think we'll make a trade then but now let them fight it out for minutes early in the seaosn
 
TBpup said:
The Blazers are $1 under the Luxury tax level with a team that will likely finish somewhere in the #3-6 range. They also have 11 players who are used to being regular rotation players. So likely Vonleh goes from starting 50+ games to getting scrap minutes (not much of a chance to develop) and that leaves 10 fighting for minutes when Stotts has historically shown he likes a rotation of 9 and that 9th player only gets around 7-12 minutes.

Lillard / McCollum
Harkless / Crabbe / Turner
Aminu / Davis / Vonleh
Plumlee / Leonard / Ezeli

As long as the Blazers are winning, that may work but it's not hard to imagine some frustration due to a log-jam of good players. This team seems ripe for a consolidation trade at some point.

:matrix:
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And I think Neil knows that. We couldn't let Crabbe walk away for nothing, so we had to match, but we simply have too many guards and centers. Someone has to go, so it makes perfect sense that we pair up Crabbe with Plumlee and ship them off for a big. I think it will be Crabbe because Turner brings intangibles that we were sorely lacking last year - IE ball handling and distributing. That was something that Batum provided, and we missed it last season.

I also think Plumlee will be in the package because he's still on his rookie scale and I think that dude is gonna get paid. We have Meyers and Ezeli on fairly affordable contracts. Although, with that said, both of those guys are injury prone.
 
riverman said:
At Vonleh's age, I'm expecting him to make a huge leap in his game over the next 2 seasons...Faried won't make that kind of leap..Meyers needs to make that jump this season....I don't see Faried as an upgrade worth selling the future over
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Ya but do you really want to wait over the next 2 seasons? Let's get Boogie or Griffin and win it now!
 
BigGameDamian said:
Ya but do you really want to wait over the next 2 seasons? Let's get Boogie or Griffin and win it now!
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I've been waiting since the last championship so a couple seasons is nothing!...if Meyers makes the leap this season...we might speed up the process..Meyers frustrated Boogie when he was healthy
 
The more I think about Lopez, the more sense it makes, especially considering the fact that we have a logjam of bigs worthy of PT, and they have very few. Meyers/Aminu/Vonleh for Lopez seems like it could make some sense for both teams.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
The more I think about Lopez, the more sense it makes, especially considering the fact that we have a logjam of bigs worthy of PT, and they have very few. Meyers/Aminu/Vonleh for Lopez seems like it could make some sense for both teams.
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You will take your Greg Monroe and LIKE it.
 
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