I won 2 t-shirts and a foam finger at yesterday's Blazer Lotto Party! Oh and I got to see HCP, he's always so much nicer in person than he is in the forum but I was a little grossed out when he said something about he hasn't changed his underwear in 5 years.
You realize that the cost for Millsap is more than just the pick don't you? $8 million of the 12-13 million in cap space PLUS the pick...Is he THAT much better than what POR could get at #6? I don't think so at all...UTA was a better team than POR this year and all you do in a trade like that is widen the gap.....well done... LIke I said a stupid idea by Hollinger and idiotically pushed by Blazer homers like Wheeler...
I agree. If you're going to eat up cap space and trade the #6 pick, I'd prefer to do so for a veteran SG or PG, as opposed to adding a player in the one position of strength, thereby forcing LMA to play center and defend the Bynums, Perkins, and Marc Gasols of the NBA. A SG would be fantastic, and Wes wouldn't be overpriced or overmatched as a 6th man, which is where he's best suited.
I'm not advocating the trade, I'm just saying in terms of production Millsap is probably the ceiling for a lot of these guys outside of the top 5 of this years draft. If the whole idea is to get better right away (which it sounds like the Blazers want to do) then trading a young player for a vet like Millsap is a step in that direction.
I disagree with that assesment....I think at #6 you can get a all star\perennal all star caliber player...Millsap has not and will never be that type of player... A trade like that is a "safe out" and teams that do that rarely have success....
Clingan, if the only thing he works on this offseason is his 3pt shot and starts doing a weird flex thing every time he gets a rebound.
Probably Kasparas, considering he's from Illinois and we have the 11th pick. Meyers was from Illinois and we picked him with 11.
