Ezeli and Leonard healthy and producing at the deadline=Plumlee trade?

This is probably thinking a little too far ahead but w/e.

If Leonard and Ezeli are healthy and effective come the deadline (and that's a big if), how likely do you think it is that Plumlee is traded at the deadline? Who do you start at center?

We'd miss his passing , but I think Leonard has shown that he's capable of shorting the pnr when Dame/CJ is trapped and either hitting the mid range or floater or identifying the open shooter if the defense rotates. He doesn't have the handles that Plumlee has, but I'm not sure how valuable that really is.

An Aminu/Davis/ Ezeli/ Leonard really makes sense to me as a future frontcourt rotation.

 

75% chance. We can't pay him. We have no reason to pay him with the frontcourt logjam we have. He also has trade value and we could likely get a first for him.

 

The bigger question is who we pursue at the deadline. Vucevic? Cousins? A healthy Chris Bosh?

 

Vucevic is the only realistic option, but don't like the fit at all. We don't have the right combination of assets for Cousins or Bosh imo.

 

I think Bosh is attainable if the Heat are having a bad season. Prior health concerns and age make him a realistic option.

 

If Plums is healthy and effective, Biebs may well get traded.

 

Ezeli is here, most likely, two seasons. If he's healthy, he gets paid and (assuming the CBA doesn't change much) we don't have Bird Rights. If injuries are killing him, then he's gone.

So, yeah, I'd consider dealing Plumlee in the right move, but I wouldn't feel pressure to move him simply because the others were doing well.

 

I'd rather have Meyers at $9M a year than Plumlee at $15M a year.

 

We can offer a starting salary of roughly 13.5 mil per to Ezeli. If he only plays 20 or so min per game and wants to be here as much as it seeemed so at his presser, I think thats an agreeable deal for both sides.

 

I wouldn't.

 

You can't play Plumlee with Ezeli or Davis. You can play Meyers with either.

 

If Plums is expendable based on the other four doing well, and we decide to go after those guys, then we need to move another one of our bigs like Meyers or Davis.

If Cousins comes to our team, he will get 36-40 minutes and we will still have a log jam of bigs with not enough minutes.

If Davis/Aminu/Ezeli and Meyers are all playing well, do we really need much more front court help?

We will probably have to take a chance by the trade deadline as we have all pretty much agreed we have log jams that need to be moved around, but this is a really tough decision because so many of our guys are still on the up and are young with potential. Dont want to trade a future star and dont want to get stuck with a guy showing big promise that turns into a dud.

I am glad Olshey is a numbers and video guy on top of lifestyle(meaning wanting guys who fit our culture) because I think this is going to be the most stressful and busiest regular season for him. He cant take any nights off with his ongoing assessment of this team if he wants to make the right decision come the deadline.

Id love Boogie, but we would have to make more room for him than just moving Plums as far as our bigs, or we still have the same logjam of bigs, maybe more so because Boogies is more minutes than Plums.

 

Sorry, man, I just don't agree. One of the lessons from last season is that Meyers can't move his feet enough on D for PF duties. I see what you're saying from an offense/shooting POV, though.

There seems to be a lot of disagreement about Biebs on these forums. Some think that he's a non-NBA player because he can't move his feet and he make horrible decisions. Others think that he's too valuable to trade, even for Boogie! (I'm exaggerating both POVs, of course). I'm closer to the former, you seem to be closer to the latter. Honestly, I hope YOU are right!!

 

Yeah, he's a C. But he fits perfectly next to Davis because Davis is more of a PF.

 

The trade value of the Blazer players mentioned in this thread is a mystery. My guess is, all of the players we “may” be whiling to trade have more value to our own team than to other teams, at this time.

Many things can happen before the trade deadline. An injury on a team trying to make noise in the playoffs is the obvious one. By then, some of our tradable assets may have more value to other teams. But what do we need back to make the trade worthwhile?

Given the future cap space issues, my guess is, draft picks, probably not another player and his contract.

Right now, I do not see any trade that would make sense for both the Blazers and the other team. With slim odds a trade will be made before deadline. But there is a lot of basketball to play between then and now.


This is the roster we probably will have in the playoffs, so get used to it.

 

Because those reasons would make him attainable, and if he gets healthy he could be that nursing piece to a ring.