How is USG calculated? Norm got shots up, but he was never filling any kind of PG role on the team. CJ was basically our backup point guard. Norm was filling our SF role.
"An estimate of the % of team plays used by a player while they were on the floor" Not very clear, is it?
The order of transactions does not matter. Everything is based on the cap situation at the end of the season. Play on this website for a while: https://www.spotrac.com/nba/portland-trail-blazers/cap/2021/ For this '21-'22 Season, the Cap is currently projected to be $112M with the Lux Tax line being at $136.6M https://bleacherreport.com/articles...xury-tax-reportedly-set-for-2021-2024-seasons By my calcs, the Hard Cap will be ~$141.5 M. If Hard Capped, the team must stay below the number at all times for the entire season - no exceptions. Current Cap Scenario Dame - $39.3M CJ - $30.8M RoCo - $13.0M Nurk - $12.0M (Portland will guarantee this contract) DJJ - $9.7M (Assuming he'll opt into this contract) Ant - $3.9M Little - $2.3M Elleby - $1.5M Nicholson - $2.8M (dead cap space) $115.3M for 8 players (which is already above the cap line) Tools available to sign players Bi-Annual Exception - $3.6M -> (if used, will be hard capped) MLE (~$10M) or Tax MLE (~$6M) -> if the Full $10M MLE is used, the team is hard capped Sign & Trade -> If receiving the FA player via S&T, the team is hard capped Bird Exceptions -> Allows us to resign our own FA to new deals Rookie Contracts -> Portland doesn't have any picks this draft... Minimum Contracts -> Each one has ~$1.8M cap hit Scenario Planning Option A (go 'all in' with the current players) + Resign Powell @ $20M/yr (Bird Exception) + Resign Collins @ $7M/yr (Bird Exception) + Resign Kanter @ $5M/yr (Bird Exception) + Let everyone else walk = ~$148M in salary for 11 players. Since Portland is over the Hard Cap, we'd only have the Tax MLE and Min Contracts available to fill out the remaining 4 roster positions. Total Team Payroll would be ~$158M (with an additional ~$85M tax bill) Paying $250M on a first round exit team is not a smart decision.... Option B (the FA play) + Resign Collins @ $7M/yr (Bird Exception) + Resign Kanter @ $5M/yr (Bird Exception) + Let everyone else walk = ~$128M in salary for 10 players. Portland would be within $14M of the Hard Cap (with 4-5 roster spots to fill). Assuming Portland only caries 14 players on the roster, Portland could sign 3 players to Min Contracts. That would only allow Portland to use part of the normal MLE and sign someone up to ~$8M. IF Portland decides to let Kanter or Collins walk, we could possibly use the FULL MLE ($10M) and the Bi Annual Exceptions ($3.6M) to sign new players. Total Team Payroll would be ~$141M (with an additional ~$20M tax bill) Conclusion This summer is going to be very disappointing to most fans. Portland will be stuck in Cap Hell with very few options for improvements. I'd anticipate that they are targeting someone with the Tax MLE ($6M) and Min Contracts in FA.
Nah not really. Totally going off memory, most of his plays were either a drive or a corner three kind of thing. They'd get him the ball and he'd try to attack the rim or put up a shot. Not much facilitating or running the offense.
Pretty interesting but CJ Elleby has been working out with Norman Powell since the season ended. They've been together almost every day at least from their IGs. He also responded "more work to be done" or something similar to the Blazers posting about him. Seems like he likes it here quite a bit. If they don't fuck with him in negotiations I think he's ours to lose.
Every year anybody counts on free agency in Portland is disappointing. I actually can't believe people still count on it for significant improvements. We need to improve via draft and trades or we're not going to improve. And we don't have the time to wait on the draft.
I'm pretty sure it is every time a possession is "finished" by a player. So any time a player makes a basket, has an assist, a turnover, or goes to the foul line.
If C.J. is such a better dribbler, why is Norm so much better at getting to the rim? As far as I see, C.J. uses his handles to get himself jumpers and floaters and that's pretty much the extent of its usefulness.
Strength plays a big role at getting to the rim. Norm has strength and length on CJ, which probably give him more confidence to finish. Ant is the dunk champion and his weakness prevents him from attacking the rim effectively as well.
Powell has everything you want in a SG minus the clutch factor, he should be the starting 2 next year.
