I doubt Cavs will participate in this trade. IF they did, Portland should just keep Allen for themselves.
BTW, Utility Sports just had Ant Simons to Orlando for Black and 2 firsts and he's hardly a Blazers homer.
I still wouldn't. You're getting Black in the deal who is a SG known as a defensive guy. Shape your defensive identity around your prospects. Let's get bigger and more defensive minded. Two of Holland, Williams, Buzelis, Salaun, Ware would be good. Then grab a shooter in the 2nd.
I would love it if our first trade was this. So that would give us Black, pick 11, Denver's pick in next year's draft and fulfill our obligation to Chicago. I think we would waive Lonzo. Then I'd like to see us package 7, 14 and whoever the Hawks want between Tisse and Rob... or even both guys to move up to 1. We draft Sarr at 1 and we see who falls to us at 11 but the my target would be whoever is there between Salaun, Buzelis or Cody Williams. I actually like Cody the best out of the three. We would come out of the draft with Black, Sarr and let's just say Williams and we'd still have Jerami to use as a trade piece to pick up even more future draft assets or young talent.
He can play PG too. I think he can be a 1, 2, or 3 on the court. I like Knecht, but I don't think he has a particularly high ceiling. I'd rather go for a higher ceiling guy like Holland, Williams, Buzelis, Salaun or Ware. I want this franchise to start building a defensive identity. Knecht is 23 and has been bad on defensive thus far. I like him, just not enough to draft him over the other guys.
If Black is not good at PG then I don't see the point of getting him in a trade. I doubt he can shoot as well as Rupert. But I don't disagree about the other guys being a better option than Knecht. My point is if you trade Simons then Knecht becomes more attractive.
Can we sneak a way into this trade to pry Daniels away from NOP? Maybe we could trade Brogdon to be a win-now starter or 6M in Cleveland and add a future 2nd? Daniels still has to improve his shooting, sure, but he would immediately improve our defense and rebounding. Improvement on offense is going to have to improve from within. It’s going to be ugly, I get that, but we can build a defensive identity and eventually add offensive upgrades when opportunities come along.
Depth is nice but doesn't he and Camara fill the same role? We can only afford so many below-average shooters.
Not sure Daniels is who I'd target but I do like the idea of sending Brogdon out. If Cleveland trades away Garland he could be their 5th starter; Evan Mobley Brandon Ingram Keldon Johnson Donovan Mitchell Malcolm Brogdon That's way better positional balance for Cleveland and I like that blend of offense/defense.
I did it for the 4 conference finals teams, but I'll post the 8 semi-finals teams: Boston: 2nd in 2ptFG% - 2nd in 3ptFG% Cleveland: 8th in 2ptFG% - 15th in 3ptFG% Indiana: 1st in 2ptFG% - 9th in 3ptFG% NYK: 22nd in 2ptFG% - 14th in 3ptFG% Dallas: 4th in 2ptFG% - 13th in 3ptFG% OKC: 5th in 2ptFG% - 1st in 3ptFG% Minny: 16th in 2ptFG% - 3rd in 3ptFG% Denver: 7th in 2ptFG% - 10th in 3ptFG% so out of 16 shooting marks, 11 were top-10, 7 were top-5. Only 2 of the 16 weren't in the top half of the league and one of those was 16th. Good shooting has become more important than good defense or good rebounding meanwhile, Portland: 30th in 2ptFG% - 30th in 3ptFG% if Portland is drafting for the future, they should not draft any bad shooters. They have already cornered the market
Exactly. Although to be fair those shooting percentages by the Blazers are a little misleading. They account for 22 different players. Most of which were only there for a tryout.
