Exclusive Drummond: THE thread

I mean, he's better than Giles. If nurk was out the whole season and hes a backup on vet minimum? Maaaaybe? Probably still not, though. It seems like there's a lot of teams that go small with their backup bigs. Rather not have 2 lumbering ones as our options

 

He’s averaging 17.5/13.5 with about 2 blocks and a steal. He was pretty good when Cavs were winning earlier in the season.

 

Do you have a link to that? It’s hilarious. I want to share.

 

Has he ever played a playoff game?

 

Why would Cleveland want CJ?

 

This absolutely screams national media person that isn't locked into Portland's situation. Oh a big man is available and Portland needs one! It makes no sense.

1) Drummond's contract alone makes this a non-starter.

2) If Olshey wanted a player like Drummond he would've just re-signed Whiteside in the off-season at 1/20th of the cost.

3) Kanter is better as both a backup if Nurk is healthy and as a starter in the meantime for this team.

 

If we're getting Drummond that means we're moving Nurkic.

 

Drummond as the replacement again doesn't make sense. We'd have to give up Nurk AND one of Hood/DJJ/RoCo AND at least one or more of Collins/Ant/Little plus still be under the tax enough to sign at least 2 players (or more if we gave up more than 3 in the deal). Super unrealistic.

 

I'd be okay with Drummond if we could transplant Kanter's offensive ability into him. You still have a lumbering center who can't switch, but at least now you have a pretty good rim protector and one-on-one defender (against bigs), who can actually score.

Drummond is basically an inverse of Kanter...both are rebounding monsters, Kanter is a defensive zero, Drummond is an offensive zero. But Drummond is paid like a guy who can do both, Kanter isn't.

 

can he make one of these for melo?

 

And against the Blazers a few days ago he looked to have slightly better mobility than the Lincoln Memorial. He's always put up good numbers that seemed empty. Now they seem emptier.

 

Doug Smith: I will go back to what an NBA advance scout who I greatly respect told me of Andre Drummond “He can get you 30-20 and have no impact on the game”

 

I can't imagine why any team would trade for him. He's a buyout waiting to happen.

Once that happens, though, yeah, I'd definitely look at getting him for a vet min if he were willing to take it.

And if I were Drummond I'd seriously consider Portland. A lot of centers (Nurk, Kanter, Plumlee, Meyers to name a few) have really spruced up their careers by setting screens for Dame. Whiteside is pretty much the only one I can think of where it was a completely lateral move to play in Portland.

 

I guess if you wanted to clear some cap space?

Honestly, if I'm Boston, I'd trade Kemba for him. Kemba has been a massive bust.

 

Is Drummond even a good defensive player? Or is he a good defensive player in the same way that Hassan Whiteside was?

50% true shooting as a center. Ugh. That's even worse than Nurk.

 

Definitely the comparable to Whiteside part. He's a little more mobile than Whiteside but Whiteside's a much better finisher.

 

This doesn't make any sense. Nurkic isn't dead or even lost for the season. We have a great backup once Nurkic is back - why would we be looking to acquire a center who is paid more than our two current centers combined?

 

Watch that clip I posted. He's fucking horrible.