It’s probably too early to now until the Dame trade is complete, but what do the Blazers do to staff the Center position. assuming the Blazers trade doesn’t bring back a significant center, and assuming the Blazers use the Dame trade to move Nurk, who is left to sign or trade for at center?
Too many unknowns until the Dame trade is done. Maybe Nurk goes out in the deal? Maybe Nurk stays? Maybe one of Claxton, Ayton, KAT, Jared Allen, etc is acquired? Maybe LaVine is acquired and we have 5 guards? Allen instead could make sense as a trade for Grant during the season.
I'm a fan of getting Simmons in a Dame trade, especially if taking on his salary gets us additional pick(s). Strangely feel like there's upside he regains some form, and would fit well with Scoot/Sharpe. Might be able to flip him again for picks if he regains. If he busts doesn't hurt us much as we are fine losing, and next year he's an expiring contract.
If LaVine came them Simons would be traded and maybe it also means that Sharpe isn’t quite ready to start?
They might buyout that 6'10 MVP center in Europe..forgot his name..Donte something? I think he plays in Real Madrid or one of the Spanish teams. It's a 6 million buyout I read.
that ogre is so slow, the Blazers would run 4 on 5 offense and tell him to stay behind and guard the basket.
I was hoping Cronin would hire Thomas Bryant, but Miami picked him up for Dame's (soon to be) new team.
Eubanks was probably getting G-league flashbacks with Cronin & Billups young & tiny 3-4 guard lineups. going dark horse here - maybe Drew saw Billups having fun while throwing games on purpose in the tail end of the season, and questioned the ethical composition of this franchise? Who cares about Drew Eubanks right? He was just a crummy backup Center. Well.. last I looked the Blazers don't even have a crummy backup Center.
I think there's some kind of Australian regiment in partial control of the Blazers. If we sign Patty Mills and get Simmons in the Lillard trade, they'll start selling kangaroo shaped pretzels at the Moda Center.
Char has 4 C's, Mark Williams likely the main guy and not to be traded. But after that they have a young/raw Kai Jones, then Nic Richards a guy at 25 who played well last yr , then they drafted Nnagi. Too many young guys and not much minutes. Would try to trade with them
