Trade Powell to Portland!

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  1. tester551

    tester551 Well-Known Member

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    Great. Skillsets Portland fails to use over and over.
    We never get out in transition & we don't play defense.
     
  2. Natebishop3

    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    Trade CJ.

    Start Powell.

    Done and done.
     
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    he will opt out, hes having a career year

    he wants that long term contract in range of $15mil-2$0 mil
     
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    love this

    Yet here we are, a day away from a deadline in which Powell might be the best scorer that gets traded. If he does get dealt, he would become the highest-scoring 43 percent 3-point shooter ever to be traded at 19.5 points per game. The ends aren't as impressive as the means. Powell generates points in just about every way that an NBA player can do so. He shoots at least 41 percent on both pull-up and catch-and-shoot 3s. He draws more fouls on a per-possession basis than Kyrie Irving and Paul George, makes 64 percent of his field goals in the restricted area and ranks in the 85th percentile or better in terms of spot-up, isolation and pick-and-roll scoring efficiency. He is that preciously rare multi-level scorer, a possible deadline addition as capable of creating shots for himself as he is benefitting from the ones a superstar makes for him.
     
  6. Natebishop3

    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    Yeah.... he's in for a rude awakening.
     
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    theres no sense in paying three guards a lot of money and they didnt want to play trent jr at small forward

    powell can play small forward, well see if the blazers will play him there, cause thats the only way they offer him an extension, otherwise it will be the same thing as it was with trent jr

    but like i said, if the blazers want to keep him long term and he likes the offer, hes gonna resign for sure, why wouldnt he, were a playoff team
     
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    As does Trent. So the question becomes which player is actually worth it..
     
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    Who we getting for CJ?
     
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    GrandpaBlaze Predictions Game Master

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    LeBron - the Lakers want someone who can play now.
     
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    Stotts ain’t holding any ball handler back. It’s the guys that can’t dribble that get fucked. Powell should be fine.
     
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    Mediocre Man Mr. SportsTwo

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    Powell is a great defensive guard, also, if I’m not mistaken, don’t we retain his Bird rights?
     
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    powell is the better player and hes 27 yo

    well see where the blazers gonna play powell, if they play him at small forward, theres a chance we try to resign him, if they play him as backup for cj mccollum, hes as good as gone (in that case wed keep trent jr)

    you simply dont pay a lot of money to three guards
     
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    We do.
     
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    Nice get looking forward to having another consistent scorer, now go get John Collins
     
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    Cornering the market on undersized SGs that can't pass or rebound. this does nothing for our playoff prospects
     
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    Raptor fans are saying the same thing about Powell's defense that we're saying about Trent.
     
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    Hopefully, Dame/Powell will have more synergy on the court... so we can flip CJ for frontcourt help.
     
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    So he'll be wasted here, then.
     
  20. B-Roy

    B-Roy If it takes months

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    He did seem much better in his first few seasons.

    More focus on defense = less focus on offense I guess.
     

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