2023-24 Roster. Who stays? Who goes?

You are required to spend some money. He would be a good contract to trade in a year since he should get good playing time this season.

 

Seriously whats up with Matisse, want him signed

 

We gave him a qualifying offer and now have his bird rights to match any offers I believe. Same with Ibou Badji and John Butler Jr.

 

He’s restricted. We are in no rush.

 

It looks like Matisse will become the Blazers highest paid backup -



Here's the roster as it currently stands:



By my count:
- 13 players signed (with 1 team option - J Williams, 8/1/23)
- 2 QO (J Butler, J Badji, most likely 2-way contracts)

Blazers still have a few cap exceptions available:
- MLE (~$12.4M, ~$5.0M tax)
- BAE (~$4.5M)
- 2 trade exceptions (~$8.3M G Payton, ~$2.6M J Hart)
- Early Bird J Winslow

I talked with my season ticket rep yesterday and informed her that I'm not interested in the Blazers trading Lillard for scraps and seeing this team lottery bound for multiple years to come. I want a mix of a few young prospects/picks, and perhaps a few solid starters. I'm pretty confident she will pass my thoughts along to Cronin.

 

He might actually start...actually I won't be surprised if he does sliding Shaedon to the 2 and being the stopper with the first unit and a corner 3 guy as a 5th option on offense....Rupert will more than likely back him up.

 

The Blazers waive Jeenathan Williams.



The roster now stands at 12, with 3 open spots.



Of course, lots of changes are in the future with the Lillard (potential) trade looming. Blazers could really use a solid backup center, a starting small forward, and a backup point guard. Let's see how well Cronin does filling out and balancing this roster.

 

So now we have 3 roster spots and a two way spot left if Dame is still here.

 

I'd like to see Badji cut. Keon I'd like cut as well but they're going to at least wait until the deadline if they can get out of his deal. Hoping they don't pick up his option for next season.

Other than that it seems like the potential Dame trade is holding up all the 12-15 man activity we normally have. Pretty likely we add a couple rostered player in a deal with Dame making so much. I'd expect we get a Dame deal prior to camp but who knows.

Will be interesting if this goes to camp just how they'll fill out the back of the roster, and if Dame stays at home or participates. I'd probably expect a bunch of non guaranteed and 10 day contracts. I think you can have nonguaranteed deals that are paid game by game until January or something at which point they become fully guaranteed.

 

So based on the fact that we have three spot, and obviously Dame would be going out, we could take back Lowry, Jovic, Jaquez and maybe Martin along with their picks.

Jaquez is tradeable in several days.

 

Badji is a two way and I think he'll be playing on the Remix. No reason to cut him. He's super young.

Keon sucks. I'm fine with cutting him or tossing him in.

Something to keep in mind, any trade we do with Miami, we want to make sure they stay below the second apron or they can't trade their 2030 pick.

 

Ah I hadn't heard this yet, you sure? I thought we were another year from those restrictions coming up.

 

Ahhh. The Dame trade is finally complete.

I'm not a big fan of tearing a roster down and going full tank. This roster has a nice balance of some vets and young developing talent. I like it that the Blazers brought in Holiday, and at the same time upgraded the center position. I think this team can make some noise, and will only get better over the next few years.

Who starts at SF? Who starts at PG?



I'm looking forward to the 2023-24 season. Let's go Blazers!

 

I would be SHOCKED if jrue ever wore a blazers jersey.

also add skylar mays

 

Camara from Phoenix is much more likely to play for the Blazers than Jrue.

 

Blazers trade Jrue for Brogdon and Williams.



I still don't see anything official on the contracts of Knox and Reath.

Does Brogdon start? Is another trade coming before opening night?

 

I'm assuming Ant, Grant, and Ayton are locks to start.

What's your preferred starting lineup?

A)


B)


C)


D)


E)


F)


I'm leaning towards lineup B. But that's because I've only seen Scoot play for half of a summer league game. If he proves that he can handle starting, I'd go with lineup A.

I'd love to see Sharpe start, but I don't think the Blazers should play him out of position. Rotate him in behind Ant at SG, and also pick up some minutes as SF.

Sad to see Dame leave, but I'm excited to watch this new phase of Blazer basketball!

 

Mine would be Brogdon (great passer and 3-point shooter), Scoot, Sharpe, Grant and Ayton.

I know it won't happen.

I think Brogdon does Simons better than Simons, Scoot will run the floor as a passer and scorer (and is also a fantastic passer) , Sharpe must start. And then Grant and Ayton.

 

F to start the season but quick outs for brogdon and ant, so scoot and sharpe can come in. Walker replaces williams early as well.

Maybe i missed if, if so i apologize but dont we still have Winslow? He could have an impact.

 

Also great work in keeping us updated here. Great posts!