Well they didn't get much from Brooklyn because Houston had there hands tied by Harden wanted out so right that decrease Houston chances get close fair market with trade. More likely that Houston probably didn't want to trade him to western conference team so that probably hurt them there. Now CJ because he got a big contract don't me a lesser value player with on there contract is not just as good as CJ the player. To me CJ contract is to big for what CJ gives us on the floor. Yes he can score but besides that the rest of his game is average or below average.
Its now up to Jody & Bert to put a few stars around Dame. She should go into tax big time for the next 2-3 years to build a Championship team like the big boys are. Some of the elete teams are way over 100 million in Tax penalties. Marketing and winning can recoup some of it.
"On a burning bridge your options are minimal at best. Depending on where you're standing. And how much breath is in your chest." Summed up the answer you're probably gonna get lol
Your whole take on CJ's value is way off in my estimation. Why in the world would you think his value is at an all time low when he is coming off a career year? Is it because he had one bad series? I sure hope you don't think that the NBA evaluates a veteran by just looking at six games. The fact is, just like we know that CJ and Dame weigh each other down by both of them dominating the ball on offense and playing bad defense, other teams will know the same thing. GMs around the league will think like people in here do, including yourself, that CJ will play better without Dame (it's your entire reason to trade Dame instead of CJ and you seem to think other GMs can't see that and need a season of proof). There is value out there for a guy who can score like CJ. I don't think he's for everyone but I think there will be enough teams interested that we don't have to take pennies on the dollar in a trade that has CJ outgoing. As far as your question of who we can get for CJ let me say this, you don't know. That question is a trap. Someone gets creative and says we can get Siakam in a three way and you will shoot it down. Someone says that if the Clips lose, Paul George will be available and CJ would be a good centerpiece in a trade package for him and you shoot that down. I know this game. So the likely answer is we don't know what player, that's on CJ's level we'll get in return for CJ, it just stands to reason that we can get someone of close to equal value because that's how trading commodities works.
Didn't Paul try that and wasn't successful by doing that so he decided he wasn't going to do that anymore. So I believe she don't have to she won't do it but might not have any choice next year.
The ONLY circumstance in which I would trade Dame is if he asked to be traded. In which case, I would accommodate his wishes out of respect and appreciation.
hes probably teaching him how to be a selfish player between cj mccollum and powell, he can hardly find better mentors having one guy like that is too much, let alone three of them (carmelo), they wouldnt pass the ball to god, let alone another player
Bobby marks states that we have the full MLE but if we use it then we’ll be hard capped. How do we have that? we used it last year.. we probably lose the Full MLE when burka contract is guaranteed and Powell is resigned right?
Hes correct. The full MLE is there to use, but if used, we'd be hard capped at ~$5M above the Lux Tax line... severely limiting options. Most likely we'll use the tax MLE at ~$6M to avoid the hard cap
appreciate it. So if we use the full MLE, we can still guarantee Nurk and resign Powell or not? Or is a situation that things need to happen in a certain order? if we resign Powell and guarantee Nurk, does the full MLE go away?
He didn't strike me as especially selfish. He missed some open shots but he didn't force himself into the offense like CJ does.
And i say again, the only team that wins when trading a generational talent, is the team receiving that generational talent. OKC has bucu draft picks that may or may not ever lead to a contending team. With todays one and done, most players in the draft are a total crapshoot. I will stick with the generational talent until he retires, or wants out.
I am currently on the don't-trade-Dame-but-if-we-want-to-rebuild-use-Dame-to-get-Ja-Morant train. Ja may also be a generational talent.
I was gonna try to find out if Powell actually was better at assists than CJ. But CJ is much better, in fact his 23% assist rate was his best ever and up 10 points from two years ago. Powell assist % was only 10. But I do think he can learn some toughness from Powell.
Right. CJ had a usg % 0f 27 and Norm about 20. I agree with you on the eyeball test, that Norm looked like maybe he wanted to pass more but he learned in a different system than Stotts, so I don't think guys were where he thought they would be.
