The Clash said it best. Should I stay or should I go. Joe has said he plans to make a splash this off season to build around Dame. So who do you think should go in a trade for an All-Star? Who do you think will go? I hope they keep Thybulle and Sharpe. I also like Reddish. That being said our other “assets” won’t bring shit. We do have 2 picks this year to trade, so there is that
I think just to make the salaries work it will be Ant and Nurk as the base of what's outgoing with a bunch of draft assets to get a bonafide second star.
I like Thybulle, I like Dame and I like Sharpe. I won't be upset if Reddish stays. And I won't be that sad if Simons is traded for an upgrade (but also won't be sad if he stays). The rest I don't really care much about.
That's a pretty great summary of how I feel. I also would love to keep Jerami Grant! Just you know, the one from the first 25 games where he actually cared!
Ant, Nas, Nurk, Keon, Eubanks, Watford, Butler can all go and if his foot is really fucked, Winslow too. Grant we should get a discount for the extra year but I'd keep him, Thybulle, Reddish, Dame but that's about it. The guy from Senegal I have no idea about. Ryan is a deccent 3rd string pt guard.
Problem is most teams with a star probably won't want our players. There will be other teams with better deals.
Keep: Dame, Sharpe, Thybulle. Like to keep: Reddish-seeing possibilities Too much money: Grant Like to see gone: Ant, Nurk Wouldn’t mind keeping: Walker, Watford, Eubanks Anyone else is don’t care-just as soon they were gone. On fence: Billups-hasn’t shown me anything but hasn’t really had much with which to work. Think there are better options.
Honestly, Lillard should be available if the price is right. My faith in Cronin being able to pull off a blockbuster that makes us a contender is basically nil. Our best bet at building a championship core might be through the draft organically.
Blazers only have 7 players under contract this summer: Dame, Ant, Nurk, Sharpe, Little, Watford, Walker. That's not a good collection of tradable contracts. I think that's especially true if you consider Nurkic to have negative value compared to his salary and injury history, which I do. With Dame off the table, that leaves Ant & Little
We keep… Dame Sharpe Thybulle Reddish Watford, Walker, Keon(cheap bench contracts) We Trade… Ant Nurk Little We let walk… Grant Winslow Eubanks That leaves 7 guys on the roster and 2, maybe 3(Sharpe) starters plus what we get in the draft and what we get for the “We trade” guys above. My question is if we let Grant, Winslow, and Eubanks walk and only resign Thybulle what is our cap situation hypothetically?
