|| Official || Trade Deadline Thread

To play devil's advocate, people said Z-Bo could never play defense and for the past several years he's been the starting PF on a great defensive team.
Defense is one thing that CAN be taught. You don't need to be a great athlete to play great defense, all you need is a great system and willingness to buy into the system.
If a player sucks at defense there's nobody to blame but the coach.

 

It's Milwaukee, nobody will want to go there unless there's some big name players there, and Monroe is the biggest name they have. They just got lucky and signed a big name free agent so why would they sell him off hoping to get lucky again, but with a below .500 tem instead of one coming off a year in which they were a 6 seed

 

I'd take Monroe if they were just looking to shed Salary and take a bench player like Meyers back. Greg isn't good on the pick and roll and can't shoot further than 8 feet out. He is however a tenacious rebounder and a solid post player that can get to the FT line. I think he could fit in but wouldn't be the missing piece we are looking for.

 

http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=gkpg3do

I wonder if we could pull this off.

Yes I know Noah is out but we can afford to eat salary.

 

I would nut....

 

That trade makes no sense. Vonleh and McDermott haven't shown anything valuable. And Indy is giving up Ellis and George for McCollum? I'm not buying that

 

My pitch was CJ/Meyers/Plumlee for George. Vonleh went to Indiana, so I think that's why he included him.

 

Neil said something interesting. We can absorb salary between when the season ends and the official end of the calendar season (July). Then we won't just save 2/3rds of the $ by absorbing salary at the deadline to get to the floor, but all of it. And the other team still gets out of lux tax for shedding salary

Interesting thought.

http://www.csnnw.com/blazers/do-bla...eadline?guid=3uI_f9eTgEGp3D_4LFMoa0EOeaxR9dl3

 

Would you trade CJ in a trade for Monroe if the Blazers could also get back Parker or Middleton?

 

That would never ever happen

 

10 days til the deadline.

Let the trades begin now that the distraction that is the Superbowl is over. So much convo about Whiteside right now in the national podcasts. I'd be all over trying to get him.

 

IMO Monroe's trade value is barely positive given salary and team performance and the possibility Bucks who just signed him may be ready to dump him. No way I trade CJ for Monroe, I don't want Monroe in any case but "if" we did try to trade for him I offer Meyers and capspace, that is it

 

I don't know if I'd even want Monroe for a salary dump. I never understood why he was coveted.

 

Weren't we trying to get Monroe to placate LaMarCooch?

 

I thought we were trying to get him as a replacement for LMA.

 

I agree fully with this. Only take on Monroe IF no starters going out. Just a bench player or two and cap space. He'd be a nice add for that price.

Yes, if Parker included somehow. No, for Middleton.

I really love our guards right now. Don't want to trade them for "almost" anything. Keep looking for the right deal.

 

Middleton has been very solid this year. Much more so than Parker.

17.7 ppg, 3.9 assists, 3.7 rebounds, and he's shooting 41% from three, but Middleton is essentially Allen Crabbe with a starting role. Because of that, I'd rather have Parker.

 

Yeah I can't remember the timing. I thought we wanted him and tried to sell him on playing with LMC, but it seemed to me that he, like everyone else, knew LMC was leaving, and he didn't want to come to our gutted team. Maybe I remember wrong.

 

http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/240699/Magic-Willing-To-Listen-To-Tobias-Harris-Offers

People wanted him last summer too.