We kept Layman, We gave Hunter a shot on our SL team, Now we've signed Stauskas. Either Bartlestein owes us big, or he's blackmailing Neil! https://basketball.realgm.com/info/agent-client-list/Mark-Bartelstein/15 Dude needs to just deliver Jabari Parker to us!
Speaking of Jabari Parker... I just posted on the TPE thread about helping out the Bucks by just taking on salary since they are hard capped now but what if we helped them out in a different way. We do a sign-and-trade for Parker and then take on a bad contract too such as Dellavedova. It would be EXTREMELY tricky to do so and stay under the tax apron since we'd be hard capped too and would require Nurk taking the QO but what if that is the reason Olshey couldn't give Davis even $4 million because that would make the sign-and-trade impossible?
I can barely even PRONOUNCE "Stauskas." It sure doesn't roll off the tongue. Takes me 3 seconds to say.
I heard that during the 2016-17 season Olshey called the Bucks about Parker and they basically said something to the effect of they would only trade him if our end included Dame. Um, hell no, but then he got hurt again so his value has plummeted.
He did have a a 22 point game and 18 point game but his problem is inconsistent in his shooting and now I getting to believe he was sign and play until Trent or Simons are able to take over.
Maybe this has been talked about before...but assuming that the 4.4M no-Ed thing was because of money... NO could have cut and stretched Meyers for 21.8M over 5 yrs. Or, 4.4M/yr, roughly. Follow me here... If this is the "no-tax, cheap year" and they know they're going to be taxed the next 2, then they could stretch Meyers for 4.4M this year, get Ed for 4.4M this year, and have saved 1.8M on this year's cap. Now, they still would have a 4.4M-a-year cap number until 2022-2023, but that's fine, because we have a 2.8M cap hit from Nicholson until 2023-2024.
Okay, I did the math on a Jabari Sign-And-Trade, it only works if Nurk takes the QO (which I still don't think he does) or if the Bucks don't make us take back Dellavedova too. Assuming for the sake of this discussion though: Blazers currently have 15 players on the roster if you include Nurk, Simons, Trent, Stauskas, Layman, PapaG, and Baldwin. If they made us take Dellavedova with the TPE then we would have to cut $4 million somehow to accomplish this. The easy solution would be if Parker accepted $4 million less than whatever we traded them. So lets say it was Evan Turner (just an example) who makes $17.68 million in 2018-19 then we could sign Parker to a 4 year deal with raises starting at $13.68 million. I'm not sure if that is enough to get it done, maybe considering his injury history. We'd have to cut one player or trade someone before the start of the season too, we just couldn't take on any extra salary because we'd be right at the line and hard capped. Is Parker good enough to warrant this type of move?
That helps! Thanks. That's what I'll call him until he's waived at the end of preseason. Similarly, I delayed learning how to spell Przybilla for his first year. Everyone else avoided that by calling him Joel all the years he was here, but I persevered and learned it. Speaking of spelling a preseason tall SG, it's Cobe Karl, not Kobe Karl. If Olshey's big summer get is Stauskas, why doesn't he bring in Morrow and Karl.
Morrow signed a non-guaranteed training camp deal. It looks like Stauaskas is fully guaranteed so I doubt they would cut him.
Really? Wow, another mouth-wateringly unbelievable Olshey genius move to paint himself into a corner. This board has the carving knives out to cut SteakSauce.
