Trade Blazers trade for Thybulle

I much prefer Red Bull.

 

Why? I think its clear we wont bring them back. Just needed the $ off the books so we can duck tax next yr.

 

You keep saying we're going to be trying to duck the tax again next year. Why? Since we are getting out of the repeater territory this year, isn't it expected that we start spending again? Is this just Jody hate (if so, I get the frustration)?

 

Really? You don't think we'd bring them back if they played well?

 

The moves were very clearly motivated by saving $

 

Why else did we trade for everyone who is gonna be a FA this summer? We got rid of GPs contract. We didn't want Wiseman. What else could it be? Surely its not cuz we think Knox and Reddish have untapped potential, because thats even worse.

 

Hart was going to be gonna be a FA so what's the difference? Wiseman is shit, so we didn't want him. I don't know enough about Knox and Reddish to say there, but why does that equate to us dodging the tax next year? I don't understand.

 

We got a pick for Hart.

We coulda had Bey even if you didn't want Wiseman.

I will bet anything we dont bring any of Thybulle, Reddish, Knox back. No contracts going past this summer. Writing is on the wall.

They know they will have to pay out the nose to keep Grant so they are structuring tbe books to avoid tax next yr. It's exactly what they did last yr with Nurk/simons deals coming up.

 

This team is hopeless.

 

I don't think you have thought this one through. Even if the moves were because of the 'tax", that doesn't mean they won't be back if they play well.
If the goal is to stay under the tax line every year, (Which I do not believe) they have never got rid of the better players on the team or stopped from overpaying them. If Thybule and Cam play better than others, the "others" are the ones that will be shipped out to clear salary....not the ones who can help us win.

 

I heard on the radio he is a two time all defense team. When is the last time we had that?

 

2021 and 2022 2nd team

 

Bro Cam and Knox are gleague caliber players, if that. Thybulle is fine but is tough but strictly a one way player. We did nothing today to help this team while adding very little for the future.

 

We haven't had that at all. Thats game changing defense. Ill let it play out before i write him off.

 

Never ?

 

Didnt Roco do that before coming here? Thought he was even a first team guy

 

Just because they swing for the fences doesn't mean they automatically get into the outfield.

 

You are correct! In 2018.

In 2018, he was named to the NBA All-Defensive First Team.

 

Yeah, he did it once, but not twice.

Marcus Camby and Theo Ratliff are two names that jump to mind that might've been a multiple time all-defensive player prior to joining Portland, Ratliff might've even made it as a Blazer. Pippen was All Defense as a Blazer as well.

It's been a long time!

 

You may be right, but how you or I feel about them is not the point. It is how they feel about them. If they do turn out well they will keep them.

They obviously have been targeting Thybule for a while so they must like him, and we know that Schmitz has liked Cam for a while.