It's funny. People like you spit at Quick when you don't agree with his "rumors", but you seem to accept them when they support your opinions. Even if we end up staying pat, you will have no idea whether or not Cho explored further trade options.
Props to NJ! This is a much bigger gain than NY got! They are now set at PG and C, the two hardest positions to fill in the NBA. They will be able to get compentent wings, all they need is another big man and that team will be looking at HCA.
Utah fans seem even more delusional than Portland fans. They now have 3 non-elite PFs (Favors may get there someday, but not now) and downgraded at PG. I wish the Blazers had received Deron Williams so I could "sour" on him.
The comments on the Salt Trib seem mixed from what I saw. The Sloan fiasco turned about half the fanbase against him recently.
Excellent point. I stand corrected. Repped. I really do think that handcuffing them with Milsap's deal and then taking Wes precipitated the rebuilding of that franchise.
Not people like me. I jokingly say Quick knows nothing because some people in here claim that. Regardless of what anyone thinks of Quick, he is closer to the team than most.
I gotta partially agree with MM, its very sad if the Blazers hold onto the expiring contract of Joel. I can’t say I’m surprised since we have always held onto big expiring deals, Sabas, Damon, Van Exel, Shareef, Raef. But I had hoped the team would try to add some talent this year.
Does Utah have any restricted free agents this summer. Maybe we can take Fesenko from them this summer . . . just to fuck with them. Got to kick the Utah dog when he is down.
But who knows what we could have got if anything? Not every trade would help us. It's easy to say we should have done this or that, but since we don't know what is being offered or what is being turned down we can't judge accurately.
I think expiring contracts are generally overrated by fans and media. Yes, once in a while a team gets something valuable for an expiring contract, but it doesn't seem very common. As an example, the year Portland had RLEC, Cleveland had WSEC (Wally Sczerbiak's Expiring Contract) which was about the same size...plus at least as much motivation to make a deal as Portland, if not more, to get Cleveland over the hump with LeBron James. They weren't able to turn it into anything. I'd love to see Przybilla, at minimum, turned into something. But I don't know that history supports that the expected value of expiring contracts is high. I'm certainly open to evidence to the contrary.
The Warriors are involved in this trade as well. It would have to be for either Millsap or Jefferson, wouldn't it?
