I'm kind of done with Aminu, Mo, (Turner). One down, two to go. It's a buyer's free agent market. Blazers should be able to sign a good fit on a team-friendly deal.
Yeah the demand for centers ain’t great and why would a team give Cousins a big contract over guys like Horford, Vuc, Valenciunas, or even Brook? He doesn’t make sense for a rebuilding team. But then again, it only takes one dumb team. Knicks, Lakers, the usual.
In addition to Hassan Whiteseide we got: Alex Len Miles Plumlee Mason Plumlee Aron Baynes Bismack Biyombo Willy Hernangomez (@BonesJones) Tristan Thompson John Henson Dwight Powell Jon Leuer Andre Drummond (can opt out) Thon Maker (restricted) Damian Jones (restricted) Domantas Sabonis (restricted) Montrezl Harrell Ivan Raab (restricted) Anthony Davis (lol) Kelly Olynyk (can opt out) Jahlil Okafor Timofey Mozgov Jakob Poeltl (restricted) Marc Gasol Serge Ibaka Derrick Favors Dwight Howard Ian Mahinmi
I haven't checked the math exactly yet but what about a trade of Harkless and Leonard for one of: Mozgov Biyombo Mahinmi Tristan Thompson Would any of those teams do that straight up if it worked? I think most of those guys the difference in money we save would be enough to open up the Full-MLE. Say we traded Leonard and Harkless for Biyombo. It says it works on TradeNBA checker. It would save us $5.8 million next year easily opening up the Full-MLE. Now that we have Bazemore is that worth it?
At the deadline we could possibly combine Biyombo and Bazemore to get up to $35 million in expiring money going out too for trades.
Shocking myself I think I'd actually prefer Kanter to Cousins. He's not worried about his touches, getting a max deal, going to the bench if Nurk is healthy. Plus all those injuries. I just don't see the upside, especially with our backcourt construction. We don't need high scoring offense with shitty D from our centers.
Yeah I'm similar. However if we trade away Harkless I'd be much more interested in bringing Aminu back. One of them is useful, but playing them both is a show we've seen enough of.
In that case, if Mo could stay healthy I'd rather keep Mo and let Aminu go. Also, with so many free agents available, I'm doubting there's a team that would rather lose an asset to acquire Mo than simply add someone from the scrap heap. Like Aminu, haha.
If we were able to dump Harkless into someone’s cap space, I don’t think we’d ask for anything in return, so it’d essentially be like signing a FA. The acquiring team would also get his bird rights, so it’d be a relatively low risk move.
i like mo and aminu as blazers, i just dont like them as our starters. especially aminu. moe had glimpses of amazeballs, but it never really amounted to anything unfortunately.
I definitely want Kanter if we can get him on a reasonable deal. He's familiar with the team and he likes it here.
If not...Ed Davis would be easy to plug in again..and not expensive...I think Enes will find a way to stick around though
