If CJ were to be traded, who are we most likely to get?

Wow! With Curry going to Boston, can we get Draymond Green.

 

If Miami does acquire Lowry in a sign & trade, Darryl Morey-on is running out of options for a Simmons trade. I still think CJ would be great next to Embiid as a scorer, facilitator. And i could see him making the Eastern Conference All Star team. That Miami scenario might be a good thing for the Blazers.

 

· The Blazers have shown no inkling they intend to move on from Damian Lillard or C.J. McCollum, and have a slew of their own free agents—Norman Powell, most notably, plus guaranteeing the $12 million for the final year of Jusuf Nurkic’s contract, which Portland is expected to do—to deal with. Ex-Blazer Nicolas Batum is on the Blazers radar, per a source, with Portland projecting to be limited with what it can spend by its $5.3 million mid-level exception.

How about no one.

 

We will be trading Stotts era CJ for a Billups era CJ.

 

I wonder if CJ is really better than Norm. He is, for sure, more fun to watch at times, but I am not sure how his great to watch skills translate. At this point, I would rather have Powell at SG, just for his attacking the basket ability - something that CJ does not do. My point is, Blazers got Norm for Trent Jr and Rodney. Trent is a young prospect and Rodney is after injury guy. Would you expect Philly to trade Ben Simmons for Norm Powell then?

 

CJ isn't necessarily better than Norm next to Dame but in terms of what he could bring to Philly he's worlds better than Norm. Philly has so many Norman Powell type players they have a hard time finding them PT. They have no one that operates on perimeter and scores on all three levels they way CJ does and they need that badly.

 

Yeah, I just think when Dame is asked if the difference that Chauncey can make would be enough and he gave a flat out "no"... that Olshey trying to sell him that bill of goods will result in Dame putting this team's performance early in the season on a very short leash.

 

cj mccollum is without a doubt better player than norman powell

is he a better fit for this team than powell, thats whole other topic

 

He is arguably a better offensive player, but Norm at least tries on defense. CJ is the king of giving up the corner three.

 

CJ is so so so far ahead of Norm offensively and offense is so so overvalued in this league that for sure CJ is worth more than Norm. Now in just a little bit we'll see what Norm is getting paid. Norm at 20M might have better trade value than CJ at 30M.

 

Won't be this Blazers fan. At this point I/we can't do anything to change the past, and my #1 fear is that we sell significant future assets with CJ for lateral (perhaps even backward) move. If we need to move on from Dame sooner rather than later, I want our full cache of picks. Doing nothing is still better than doing something desperate and stupid.

 

Blazer fans right now.

 

yeah I’m bored lol

 

there you have it: the only two options available

signed, Neil Olshey

 

It's so hilarious how true this is.

 

Ha... I don't think anyone is suggesting that these are the only two options, but not trading CJ does not imply that they were good offers on the table that Neil simply turned down due to his attachment to CJ. I know it's not fashionable to not burn Olshey every chance we get around these parts, but it is certainly reasonable that there is no good CJ move out there this summer.

 

it is only reasonable if CJ isn't the all-star level SG so many have said he is

 

You understand the reason I (and many others here) are laughing about this, is that this is literally what he's been saying (and doing) for about 6 years straight right? Even if it's a correct statement, you have to think about the decisions that led us here, who made those decisions, and whether you think his current decisions (or nondecisions) will lead us down the exact same path a year from now (it will).