by Neil Olshey In some of the fantasy trades on here, we get more than "commensurate value," so based on your Olshey quote, he would indeed make the deal. However, he doesn't think all of S2's "deals" are even fathomable.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! I've been on the O'Quinn to POR bandwagon for well over a year, for exactly the same reasons the author mentions (plus his a VERY under rated passer - his AST% of 17.5 would be second on our team, better than both C.J. and Napier). He would be a GREAT fit next to Nurk at PF and can also back him up at center. If we don't get him, I won't lose much sleep over it, but Olshey needs to pull a Bob Whitsitt and cock block the Thunder. He can't let a division rival improve their biggest weakness - no bench. OKC has to crash and burn, so PG13 will leave for nothing, Melo will stay for another year, eating up 28 million in cap space, and then leave for nothing and they have to tear it down and started over depleted of all the assets they used to assemble their current "Big 3". BNM
No, and no! If DEN gets a PG, we're fucked. It's their biggest weakness, by far. It's why I picked us to finish ahead of them in my preseason predictions. Both Hill and Walker would be a HUGE upgrade for DEN. Walker is a better player, but Hill might be a better fit and will command a much lower price on the trade market. They won't have to gut their team to get him. SAC management are such idiots. Signing the 31-year old Hill made no sense for a rebuilding team, and now they will end up giving him away for practically nothing - hopefully not to a division rival. BNM
Utah fans booed Rodney Hood tonight, something tells me if he was a well spoken white guy they would give him some slack. He had 15 pts in 21 mins of play, shot a little under 50%. They can boo his ass all the way to Portland. I really think he will be traded before the dead line.
Hood smacked the phone out of a fans hand the other day and that rubbed a lot people the wrong way. But mostly Hood has been the one fans chose to blame this year because they’re ‘underperforming’. Although he’s having one of his best yrs in the league, they just expected him to step up and largely fill Hayward’s void and he’s just not that guy.
Who hacked Boob's account?? This is like the Hawaii nuclear bomb emergency. Some clerk must have pushed the wrong button. But I thank her for warming the cockles of my cold dead heart.
Cock blocking a division rival is a total Whitsitt move. Unfortunately, it sometimes backfires. See Rod Strickland - The Sequel. We didn't need a third PG. We already had Damon, who was already insecure and whining about losing playing time to Greg Anthony. The Lakers were the front runners to land Strickland, but Whitsitt swooped and and signed him at the last minute to specifically prevent him going to LA. It was the straw that broke the camel's back on that locker room. We were already two, in some cases three, deep at every position with guys who all thought they should be starting. Adding Strickland to that roster sent a team that hadn't lost more than two games on a row all season into an immediate tailspin. They immediately lost five in a row, and 14 of their last 20 games. In five weeks, they fell from the #1 seed to #7, lost home court advantage and were swept in the first round by the same Laker team they nearly defeated in the Western Conference Finals the year before. Be careful. Sometimes being a cock blocking asshole comes back to bite you in the ass. This case is different. We can actually use O'Quinn. He's not redundant and unnecessary, like 34-year old Rod Strickland was. We're not two deep with starter quality players at every position. In fact, we're not even one deep with quality starters at either forward position. O'Quinn would clearly be the second best big man on our roster behind Nurkic. He'd be a natural backing up Nurk and also playing next to him for stretches. He would make our team better. We wouldn't just be getting him to cock block OKC. That would just be a pleasant side effect. BNM
New York dollars are pesos in Portland. After the Knicks traded us Jared Jeffries and Channing Frye, the stats of each were cut in half as Blazers. Therefore, O'Quinn's 60% shooting and 1 rebound every 3 minutes would become 30% and 1 every 6 here. More seriously, 1) As a former #49 pick, his grand total of 0 for 6 3 point shots in 44 games this season would mean that Stotts would have to hit the road, and 2) Carmelo's PER dropped in 1 year from 17.9 to 13.9, need I say more.
Rodney Hood is being booed in Utah for missing shots. Could use a change of scenery, and we could use his scoring -- (doesn't bring much else, though). I'd like to see him rebound the ball a bit better.
Rodney Hood’s per 36 is pretty much exactly what we need at the wing. 21 pts and 38% from 3 and that’s in that ugly offense at Utah. He needs to improve his rebounding and assists numbers but I bet put in the right role and system that would be easy.
