2022 Free Agency Thread

Discussion in 'Portland Trail Blazers' started by B-Roy, Jun 23, 2022.

  1. tykendo

    tykendo Don't Tread On PDX

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    Doesn't matter, they have a license to go over the Cap by 200 mil.
     
  2. Natebishop3

    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    You're worth what people are willing to pay you.
     
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    SharpesTriumph Well-Known Member

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    It does matter since they lost the two players.... They don't have any way to spend more money on the cap right now except for the tax MLE.
     
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    I don't wonder. They're cheap. They're also not entirely out of their mind to think putting that many resources in a center is a bad idea. Well, guess you shouldn't have drafted a center with the #1 pick then, huh?

    If the Blazers have a chance at getting Ayton for only Nurk and Hart, you take it and run. He's a massive upgrade with potential to get much better at his age.
     
  5. Eastoff

    Eastoff But it was a beginning.

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    Like when we paid Meyers, AC, and ET?
     
  6. Natebishop3

    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    Value means different things to different people. A team with no guards would be willing to pay more money for a guard. A team with tons of guards.... you would think.... would pay less money for a guard.

    In the case of GP2, we lack defense, so we overpaid for a quality defender. It's all about value.

    There's value around the league and there's value to individual teams. Those don't always align. A guy like Dame or CJ or now Ant, are worth more to Portland than they might be to other teams because we can't get star free agents. So we overpay to keep our guys because we know we can't go out and replace them.
     
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  7. Mr. Robot

    Mr. Robot Well-Known Member

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    if im not wrong, zach lavine is the first klutch client to sign in free agency

    nurks deal could be coming very soon...

     
  8. BLAZINGGIANTS

    BLAZINGGIANTS Well-Known Member

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    You’d be wrong. A couple Klutch clients have signed, at least I understand.
     
  9. Mr. Robot

    Mr. Robot Well-Known Member

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    well, i havent seen a single tweet from woj or shams where rich paul/klutch are mentioned
     
  10. illmatic99

    illmatic99 formerly yuyuza1

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    a bunch of Klutch clients signed since the evening yesterday:

    LaVine, Lonnie Walker, Troy Brown Jr., Juan Toscano-Anderson
     
  11. BLAZINGGIANTS

    BLAZINGGIANTS Well-Known Member

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    BAM, FAMS!

    I can’t be wrong cuz I never am!

    (But you knew that!)
     
  12. PtldPlatypus

    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    You're right--Advanced stats show that Robinson was significantly better than Nurk last year. Better TS%, WS, BPM, Ortg, Drtg, VORP...it wasn't even close.
     
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    I question yours all of the time and I think most in here do plus we don't even question your impartiality.
     
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  14. Mr. Robot

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    oh god, here we go with tha analytics again
     
  15. Labinot41

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    I mean he is UFA, he can sign with any Team he wants, if they want him, but i doubt that's gonna happen, i dont think many teams are interested in him, that should tell you something. He should accept a Blazers offer around 65-70M because that's what he's worth is
     
  16. Natebishop3

    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    This team never learns...

    We replaced CJ with Ant.

    We replaced Norm with GP2.

    I just don't understand how you can look at our results from the past 10 years and then go right back out and make the same mistakes..... and yet.... the FIRST damn thing I said when I heard that we were bringing on Cronin was that I didn't want the stink of Olshey still on the team. Welp.... here we are. The team still wreaks of spray tan and Appletinis.
     
  17. RR7

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    GP2 is nothing like Powell though. And there's plenty of differences between CJ and Ant to give that a look.
     
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  18. Natebishop3

    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    I feel like you're overlooking the main point of my post.

     
  19. TBpup

    TBpup Writing Team

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    Basically the vast majority of sports have gone to an analytics approach. Facts do matter. It's not to take away from some things Nurk does well, but the whole "Nurk is worth the max" thing is where credibility gets lost for people.
     
  20. blazerfan11

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    We just traded for Jerami Grant. He is decent.
    Justise Winslow is also decent on defense.
     

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