Whiteside, if he wants to be here, willing to play backup, and will take $10 mil or less/year. Then Rolo, if he wants to be here, willing to play backup, and will take $10 mil or less/year. Then, neither, which costs $0 (or vet min). All 3 are attractive options, imho.
I love Aminu but he would require a trade in order to get him. We could do Ariza for him but I don’t think that would improve our team. So what I would do is sign Harkless to a 2 year 10 to 15 mil deal total. We can start Harkless at SF and have Ariza come off of the bench as a PF behind Collins. I think it would be wise to have Ariza come off of the bench next year cause he’s getting old so he can’t really play starter mins anymore. But as a PF off of the bench he can provide nice 3 point shooting and versatile defense. And for the Whiteside vs Rolo convo Whiteside is clearly better
I initially voted Rolo, but the major caveat to that is that re-signing Whiteside also retains our MLE, whereas signing Rolo would require use of our MLE, which prevents us from using it on another forward or a backup PG. So the question is actually "Whiteside and MLE FA or Roin Lopez", which definitely tips the scales in Hassan's favor for me.
Being a starter shouldn't determine the minutes a player plays as Ariza's minutes can be cut back just as easily whether he starts or comes off the bench. To me it's about creating the best lineups that work together.
This is silly. It's Hassan , and it's not close. Rolo has improved his game, but he's not Whiteside good.
The funny part of this comment is Rolo has not improved any portion of his game. He has dropped in every single statistical category that matters. He has aged since being here and he has not really changed his game at all?
Robin has a 3 pt shot recently since playing with his brother...I just don't want the team to get slower....he's really slow
Whiteside is the better overall player, but I think Rolo would be much, much more willing to step into the backup role behind Nurkic. Plus, I still loves me some Robin Lopez. I'd be thrilled to have him back on the Blazers under any circumstances.
Hmm Ed Davis would actually be a pretty good back up to Nurkic. He play solid defense and get rebound at a good rate. I would love to have robin come back to be our big men coach after he retire though
This team hasn't been good defensively for quite a while....except when Nurkic was on the floor. Take him out, and it gets worse in a hurry. Rolo was a little better defender than Whiteside....but he had guys like Batum and Matthews. Whiteside is stuck with CJ, Dame, 'Melo.....my goodness, Bill Russell couldn't save that group.
He didn’t do himself any favors the way he played in the bubble behind Nurk. Seemed totally disinterested in the backup role.
The best defensive team we've had under Terry was in 2017-18, when we were 8th in defensive efficiency (with Nurk/Aminu/Ed manning the paint). Our offense was only 15th that year unfortunately and we ran into Jrue/AD in the playoffs. The best defensive team before that was in 2014-15, when we finished 9th. Last year, we were 28th, which was an abomination.
