Trade Blazers trade for Robert Covington!!

Imma disagree here. Covington is better suited at PF. There are no Karl Malones any more. Plus it means no Melo. I think our primary lineup is going to be Trent and Covington at forward. It's super-small but feisty and it gives up threes at just about every position. They might not be our starters, but I think that's our balls-to-the-wall lineup.

 

I think you are right. Bigger more physical PF's can't guard the perimeter..so they don't last long on the floor. You still need one on the roster just in case a team goes big, but like you said not many Karl Malone types out there. Utah tried it with a Gobert /Favors lineup...but that did not work, so they ended up moving Favors to back up center most of the time.

I think for this year we try to get Millsap and start him at PF and Covington at SF, but then when Millsap goes out RoCo moves over to the 4. My guess is RoCo ends up finishing games at the 4....with Dame, CJ, Trent, and a center.

 

I still like the idea that if Detroit buys out Ariza, we pick him up with the MLE instead of Millsap and start Ariza and RoCo at the forward spots. Zach comes off the bench for bigger lineups, Gary will come off the bench (even though he should start over CJ) and "a center" how about Nurk who will be our second best player this season.

Also who the fuck is carl Malone, is that the Carl Sr. to Carl's Jr.?

 

We couldn't sign him after trading him away.

 

I hope we sign Crowder.

 

"No Re-Acquisitions — Once a team trades a player, it cannot reacquire that player during the same season. If the team trades a player between seasons, it cannot reacquire that player until the end of the next season. The only exceptions to these rules are if the player is waived and no other team claims the player."

So if Detroit buys Ariza out and nobody claims him at 12 million, we can definitely sign him.

 

On most nights, that is likely true. But when we play the Lakers and Trent/Covington have to guard James/Davis, I'm thinking we might be more than a bit outmatched. That is who we have to go through, so let's plan for that. Goodness knows, Stotts will go small every chance he gets anyhow.

 

While that is inaccurate, found clarification that we actually could sign him, because he was waived by the pistons, not the team we traded him to.

 

Aren't we supposed to be signing Millsap for that (not that he did much for the Nuggets against the Lakers)? I wish we'd've targeted Xavier Tillman for this reason.

 

Yup sorry was just working off of the hypothetical

 

I'd much rather have Covington + Ariza than Covington + Melo

I guess a pipedream is Covington + Jermai Grant + Ariza. But that sure would be interesting. I'm pretty ambivalent about Millsap, but he'd plug fairly well into Grant's position and make it less of a pipedram

 

I don't even know what pipe your smoking to get into that deep of a dream state. In this dream what is Ariza signing for?

 

Jerami Grant is a pipe dream.

 

I believe the dream is that the Pistons waive him and he takes a vet's minimum deal here. In other words: not likely.

 

Blazers could split the MLE giving Ariza part of it. There's also the BAE. 3.6M for Ariza might have a little bit of traction

 

True, but what makes you think that the Pistons are going to cut him loose? Have you read something to that effect?

 

I read somewhere that is what it was believed they would do. Who knows....they just practically gave away Kennard.

 

Edit: Never mind. I forgot that he still only has $1.8M guaranteed. Yeah, they'll probably dump him.