Eric griffith said: The better Napier plays the harder it is for the Blazers to keep him next year. I know to keep Nurkic is the Most Important thing, but I think it's also important to keep napier because he's Playing great with Dame and Cj in the 3 guard line up and i really like his game. Well he also could be tradet at the deadline but if he's continue to Play like this i would like to resign him
Got to keep Nurk because we have no other center. Got to keep Noah because he is our best PF Want to keep Napier ....just because he is good How? We need to make a trade this year so we are not over the luxury cap..... just in case we need to go over next year to resign these guys. Try to avoid the repeat offender rule. Neil will catch heat but he needs to dump someone.
I'd like to have a player that isn't a 6' score-first guard that's able to contribute to the team. So, as great as it is that Bazz is playing well, he's largely irrelevant as he's the 3rd small score-first guard on the depth chart.
Small guys are better shooters and better ball handlers. I am fine with 3 of them on a 15 man roster. If height was such a factor, taller guys would be stopping them. I would rather have a quick player who is a few inches too short but actually stays with his man than a taller player who gives the short quick players a few feet of space because he's scared the guys will blow by them. Can't have too many shooters who can handle the ball IMO. Those 3 are our only 3........ who can do both.
And Layman and Connaughton would bring us down to 9 players. Olshey could pick up any random cheap replacements and it wouldn't hurt us. Napier is a valuable player in the NBA. Don't be fooled by how little we paid to get him.
This is why you overpay 2nd rate players like Turner, Hark, Crabbe etc...you never know how its going to come back to bite you. Maybe the Blazers should trade Damian for Anthony Davis and keep Napier as the starting PG.
How much is he realistically going to get and how much will we be able to pay? I think he gets no more than $5M, we should be able to give him that. I think we'll draft a small forward and let Harkless go.
Teams seemed to be interested in Harkless...I'd deal him just for the cap space to retain Vonleh and Napier.
Yup I would be happy to just dump Harkless for cap space Layman could do just as anything Harkless can. Shit anybody on this board could fill in for Harkless
I will say it is a long season. Right now neither Harkless nor ET are shooting very well and we tend to focus on that. While Napier and Leonard (2 games) are both shooting well. I am sure things will flip flop a few times throughout the season. Thus the life of bench players. But yeah Neil only has a couple months to figure out how he wants to get under the luxury tax for this season. Then worry about the next few seasons later.
assuming Nurk is the #1 priority frankly IMO its better to sign Napier and Vonleh than to draft more rooks, I'd probably look to trade Meyers or Turner or Hark and add this years pick and/or Biggie to shed salary. If we keep Vonleh Biggie is not needed
Did you watch the Memphis game? Napier didn't shoot when he had at least 4 good looks at the basket. He looks like a player who works hard and tries to be good at his position. Please don't let him be the next Patty Mills. i'd hate to see him end up as a "bargain" at San-Antonio or Houston.
I think we should keep Vonleh and Napier next season. But I got strange filling that Olshey will trade Vonleh sometimes this season due to him drafting Swanigan and Collins. You know Olshey don't want to be wrong about his draftees. I hope he don't due to Vonleh is powerful rebounder and very good defender. Last night he also starting get more comfortable and confidence on offense. But there Olshey saying Swanigan is better than Vonleh now I am starting to feel that Olshey is not as good as he thinks he is.
I hope not, I love the Caleb story but he just does not have the physical tools that Noah does, especially quickness/jumping that Noah has and while it took Noah a while he appears to be finally "getting it" and it's hard to believe he is only 22 until next August. Assuming Nah can keep up this level of play I'd keep Noah and maybe even look to move biggie if he could help dump one of our bad contracts.
