The Aroldis Chapman deal basically.... We'd have to clear a bunch of cap space. Neil would earn GM of the Century if he can pull that screw job!
Gonna get more than we can give.... I think? But ya, adding a vet back up center should ne a priority this off season. Heu Neil!!!!!!! Maybe one that will actually play
I think a healthy and hungry Ed Davis will suffice as our a backup big. He will be a FA in the year after, so he's gonna be motivated. And DEN will probably bend over backwards to keep Plums just to save face.
I don't think we can sign Plumlee again until a year after we traded him and fact is...we can't afford him as a backup and don't need him...we can draft a backup
Man, I was just thinking about this, but how much money do you think Plumlee will miss out on due to this trade?
I think he is being exposed, and the league is seeing all the issues that we have been seeing for the past year.
I agree with this. Davis and a rookie seem to be our best bet to back up Nurk unless we can trade Leonard and a pick to a team with multiple bigs, but who desperately needs one of them to space the floor. Maybe Meyers and a pick for Henson? He is a little skinny for center but he can protect the rim.
Pointless. He won't be making less than $12M next year and probably over $15M and we won't be able to extend Nurkic in 2018. He will stay at Denver or go to Charlotte, Milwaukee or Orlando. We will draft Patton, Allen, Adebayo or Collins.
Players generally look better in a fluent Stotts run system which gets the best out of the players he plays. It's like our version of SA. You can take a player who plays in the offense of a majority of teams in the league, put them on the Blazers, and their trade value will go up.
Turner is a bit of a statistical anomaly, much of the reason for that could be attributed to the depth of players we have who do what we want from ET. The other part is our offensive system not always playing into his strengths as a player.
Or at least getting the most out of him. As long as players are getting minutes I feel confident that our coach is putting them in their best situation to succeed. I bet the players will attest to that. I recall hearing Dame say how much he appreciated coach just letting him play in his first year.
In theory playing with Nurk should help ET too, but he has been hurt since we have gotten Nurk. Too early to tell. Crabbe had a frustrating game last night, lot of shots that were in and out, but he has played well with Nurk.
