I don’t want to trade Dame but I think CJ/Powell/Simmons/RoCo/Nurk is a more well rounded starting lineup and we know how good CJ is without Dame. Thoughts?
If you can make some of the plus that we get with Simmons, Nurk and DJJ into Myles Turner then we might have something to work with. That lineup doesn't have enough shooting for me. That being said, I want the CJ plus for Simmons trade but then I want to turn Nurk into Boucher.
A bunch of picks in the 20s. What good is that going to do. If you move Dame you need lotto picks for him. Multiple chances of lotto picks for him.
If you move Dame they don't stay lotto picks. Pretty much every team in the league has too much talent on it for Dame to miss the playoffs with them. I also don't think we would send Dame to a bad team... he's been good to this franchise. One last point is that multiple first round picks have value no matter what team they're coming from.
Not value that is equivalent to a top 10 player in the league. You don't deal a superstar for a bunch of 20ish picks. The draft is a good spot to trade him. Then you know what pick you're getting to ensure it is a top 5 pick. I'd rather do a 3 team trade where simmons goes somewhere else (maybe OKC?) And we dig into their chest of goodies.
You trade Dame Nurk is outta here...he's already said it...if we insist he stays he'll be uninspired all season and depressed....if Dame is traded you need to include Nurk in the trade in my view...I don't believe for a second that Dame gets traded nor that Dame tells his trainer what career moves to make...people act like Dame is some emperor or something...he's just a guy with his own choices
If we trade Dame for Simmons, Nurk isn't exactly the best fit next to him anyway. Hopefully we could get Boucher from Toronto for Nurk... they don't have a true C and have the shooting from the rest of their starters to really make Nurk work.
Dame for Simmons would be nuts and I wouldnt do it. If he asked out then we can do better than Simmons imo.
my thought is fuck that fire Olshey right now and get somebody who will at least try to build a contender around Dame
Dame/Filler trash for Simmons/Thybulle/Maxey/2 1s I’d pull that one I think. CJ/Maxey Norm/Simons/McLemore RoCo/Thybulle/CJ2 Simmons/Nas/Snell Nurk/Zeller I don’t think we sign McLemore and Snell if we planed on trading Dame considering all the pieces we could get back in a trade for him.
