Forum Game Be The GM: Your Best Plan For The Blazers 2021 Offseason

We haven't heard from 'Hat Guy' in a while...

 

Move the team to Seattle you say?

 

Dame
Norm
Siakam
Roco
Collins

Ant
Little
Bouche
Patty Mills (free agent signing)
DJJ

 

^ 4 firsts for CJ??? CJ does not have that sort of value at all.

 

GM - Hoopguru
Plan of action:
- Hire Billups (the rumors about Spoel are just that) I wouldnt give up a 1st rounder for him either
- let Melo & Kanter walk
- pkg CJ & Little for Harris or Randell
- sign Norm
- sign Rachaun Holmes as 4/5 (he's made for todays game)
- keep one of Giles or Leaf
- change uni's to Green (mountains) Blue (sea & some lakes/rivers) & Brown (high desert, lawn fudge) - get rid of the cross country stripe for Mule & Wagon

 

One of them are from us.

 

How?

 

If DJJ didn't opt out

 

I'm honestly not sure if this is championship caliber team

Dame
Norm
RoCo
KP
Turner

The defense would be much improved in some areas..... KP is not a good defender though.

I really think we need to try to trade CJ to a team like NY, who has young talent but wants to win now, and then move that young talent to a team with a star and no shot at competing. I'm not sure who that is though. Beal isn't a good fit. Siakam is injured. I'd still take him though. Jimmy Butler would be fantastic, but we need Miami to tank. We need them to decide to build around Bam.

To me, this trade makes a lot of sense for all teams involved. NY gets their lead guard. Miami gets a bunch of young talent to go with Bam. We get our second star.



Dame
Norm
Butler
RoCo
Nurk

 

I got the Blazers in our channel's 2021 Mock Offseason so I'm not gonna leak my plans.

 

All the teams I wanted to bust are still in it.

Clippers
Bucks
Sixers

I was really hoping the Clips and Bucks would get knocked out quickly.

 

Okay, I don’t wanna trade Dame but if we go full rebuild I like this, I’m assuming a 1st goes to Indy and New Orleans in both trades. Depth will be lacking but how fun would that team be.

Murray/McConnell/Morris
Powell(resigned)/Hart/Murray
Ingram/Powell
Porter Jr/Ingram
Sabonis/Zach

That’s eventually 4 all-stars in the starting lineup and a pretty nice 9 man rotation.

 

If I was choosing a new head coach for our team, I would choose Johnnie Bryant. The funny thing is that my second choice isn't even seemingly on the team's radar in Ime Udoka. Both of these guys have coaching experience under really good head coaches (Bryant under Snyder and Udoka under Pop) the thing is while Udoka's team is still playing, he's one of several all star assistants but Bryant was Thibbs's associate head coach this season during their huge turnaround. So that's a big deal.

That being said, out of the candidates considering... what a shit show, I guess Chauncey but you better believe him that what happened in 1997 was consensual because if not the kind of monster that Chauncey was according to the allegations is far far worse than anything Jason Kidd has been involved in. So I'd hire Johnnie Bryant.

I think given tonight's loss and what I see as a series loss upcoming, the Bucks are going to be looking to make some changes. So I think we should be able to get Khris Middleton from them for a package that includes CJ. I actually think that CJ and a future first would get the job done. Middleton is good and he's obviously more well rounded than CJ but I don't think he's as potent of a scorer as CJ is. So trade CJ for Middleton during the draft.

I expect that DJ is going to opt in and obviously Norm is going to opt out. So the next priority would be to re-sign Norman Powell and I would make that happen (in this dreamworld where I'm the Blazers GM). I would sign Elfrid Payton with the MLE. I'd sign Bismack Biyombo with the BAE. I'd let Zach shop himself and I think he'd end up taking the QO or a three year 18M contract fully guaranteed. I'd get extensions done with RoCo and Nurk.

That would give us Dame, Norm, Middleton, RoCo, Nurk, Ant, Nas, Payton, DJ, Zach and Biyombo. We'd have Elleby and I'd bring back RHJ and sign one of a couple of G Leguers that I invite to camp.

 

I would love to have Sabonis... but Indy wouldn't trade him for Nurk for the same reasons you want him. He's better than Nurk.

 

Yeah this is fantasy stuff, maybe the 2 1s go with Nurk/RoCo/Simons and the Pelicans deal has no picks in it.

 

We should start tanking for the best freshman in the world right now

Marquese Chriss Paul George Hill-abdul Rahim

 

I am surprised about posts trading Nurkic. Is that it? No more fewer?
I mean, he was clearly not happy and I assume it was because Stotts AND CJ.

Why would Siakam or Sabonis be better here?

 

Better in what way?

Better than Nurk? Better than CJ? Better than they are on their current teams?

 

I mean, in previous season, under Stotts (and I am almost sure here) neither Sabas nor Siakam would be better here than Nurk was.