Trade Blazers trade for Robert Covington!!

Its been important to Portland for sure. The draft, especially middle late round seems to be a 50/50 chance a player could help a team like Portland take the next step for Dames sake. A balance of youngsters from the draft which we already have, veterans acquired either through FA & trade's seem to the recipe for improvement.

 

I read something about this earlier today. It wasn’t the result of the deal for RoCo. We’d probably have been lower if not for the deal. We were already trending down given recent deals by other team and speculation that a significant amount of quality players will be changing teams.

 

Huge!!!!!!

dame/Simons
Cj/trentjr
Roco/hood/little
Melo/collins/hezonja
Nurk/whitside?

thats pretty solid overall

need one more upgrade at pf/center and we are contenders.
Fuck cp3...

 

Aaron Gordon, Danilo Gallinari, Paul Millsap, Jae Crowder?

 

I like Melo but I think we’re in bad shape if he’s our starting PF

 

I love this!

 

Eh...

yep. That's why i said we need one more upgrade at powerforward/center.
I don't think were in trouble with Melo starting but i don’t think were contenders. He should be our leading bench scorer.

 

I like the Covington trade although think it makes a bigger impact if he is playing mostly at SF. If he ends up at PF most of the time, I think it minimizes his impact. Stotts loves to go small....but what has that really every accomplished outside of one year at Dallas when he was the Asst. Coach?

 

Warriors were the best team of all time going small. LeBron's teams that won titles have basically always gone small with him surrounded by shooters. This years Lakers were bigger, but thats basically the only year LeBron has been part of a team that is bigger.

I'm really fine with getting another big forward, I think much more important than if Roco is at SF vs PF is if the other forward we get contributes on both ends of the court. During the DameCJ era we seem to only have offensive guys like Melo or defensive guys like Aminu; this gets exposed in the playoffs.

 

I lowkey would really like to get Draymond. Not sure what that would cost but putting Draymond with Nurk, RoCo, and GTJ would be insanely good defense.

 

...and if we get players like the Warriors had (two of the greatest shooters in history, one which is a top level defender) or someone like LeBron, we could probably do that as well. My issue is Stotts keeps doing it with players it doesn't work with.

 

I am not sure who matches up with LeBron and AD. But we did have the necessary size last year...they were just hurt. Would Ariza and Collins and Little have helped against those two? Yes, but we still would have lost. Just like every other team in the league did.

I am all for getting superstars, but IMO smaller players who can flat out shoot are a better option than bigger players who can't.
But you do need a few players who can play D.

 

As Pinwheel is saying... thats probably more Neil's problem or injuries.

There wasn't some magic big lineup Stotts could've gone to but failed to try.... He played twin towers of Whiteside and Nurk extensively. He started Gabriel and played Melo at SF.

Now I guess your point might be the team should target a big forward as its next priority so RoCo can play SF... that could have advantages... I just think the two way talent of who we put at forward next to RoCo matters 10x more than if such player is a SF vs PF.

 

Are they just scrapping exit interviews for last years roster? Seems weird we don't know which players have been told to look elsewhere this season or that they'll be coming back..

 

Should be made official sometime on Thursday. Has to go through league legal review.

 

Lowe and Givony just mentioned that the Mavericks were close to getting Covington, but the 2021 first we relayed put us over the top.

So likely the Mavs were offering the 18th pick and one of their long term contracts. Or possibly 18th + Boban/Justin Jackson and a future second or something.

 

I think so. They updated it on nba2k

 

I'm sure they would have loved to keep Curry though.