It's pretty easy to connect the dots that the Blazers need a wing upgrade and would definitely be interested in Prince. Since he still has one more year left on his rookie deal it also makes sense from a cap perspective. I'm having a difficult time figuring out what Atlanta is doing. Is Prince just too old even on a rookie deal? Are they looking for more picks even though they have a pretty good stock pile of future 1sts? If so Turner and Trent/Swanigan plus a 1st for Lin and Prince would be a great move for us. They might make us take Plumlee back though instead of Lin. I don't know if that's worth giving up assets for.
If we want to give them Turner, I think we definitely need to take Plumlee back, even if we give them our first..
Just say no to any deal involving the Asian Black Hole. People need to learn to look beyond the stats, and observe a player's effect on team success.
They’re rebuilding, they should be taking on contracts. Plus Turner becomes an asset next year that they can use to add another pick.
The ringer guys don’t think Atlanta needs Prince because he likes to have the ball in his hands and they’re prioritizing Collins/Young/Huerter instead. They also think Bembry can replace him.
If Olshey isn’t looking to dump a contract a first would work straight up for Prince since we still have the Vonleh TPE. That would however require cutting someone, unless we found a team willing to take on Baldwin/Stauskas/Swanigan without sending anything back. That might actually explain why Baldwin and Swanigan are in the g league, and not the rookies. Showcase baby.
He's shooting 36.7% from 3 this year, shot 38.5% last year. He's 6'8", 220 lb. He turns 25 in March. I don't know about his defense. I thought he had a good rep. on defense, but at least one poster here is skeptical.
I swear, if the clowns managing this team, getting paid for it, and the useless know nothing fans ruin another season for me, I'll terrorize your white asses
How so? I think it's actually a pretty good deal. Lin is a better backup PG than Turner and we shed a year off his salary in the summer. And Price would be our mainstay SF of the future still on a rookie deal. Hell, we'd be players for the full MLE in the summer as @hoopsjock et al have been pushing.
Ant is the future. We don't need some scrub even the Hawks don't want. And Turner is one of our most important, smartest, most underrated players. I veto this deal
The future what? Simons is like 4 yrs away from even sniffing rotation minutes. The sooner ET is off this team, the better. While ET is a better defender, Lin is better across the board.
Prince's advanced stats are abysmal given his usage and shooting percentages. Can't figure out why. Maybe he plays too many minutes without doing anything? Or his team sucks in general and everyone is bad?
Replace Ant with Swanigan and we have a deal! It still works on the trade machine, but it says that it will lower Atlanta's wins by 17, (Won't affect ours). http://www.espn.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=yczn4rcy
BTW, Atlanta has potentially two top 10 picks and 3 second rounders in 2019. I'm guessing they'd want a pick in 2020
He’s probably like Oubre (I say probably because I don’t sit around watching the Hawks.) His flashes are really good but doesn’t have the consistency to justify a serious return in a trade. Plus you gotta pay him next year. Not a big deal for Portland though, since a bunch of their shit contracts will expire.
Wouldn't his extension be for 20-21 as long as we pick up his option and let him go to RFA? His caphold for the summer of 20 is around 10 mil, which is reasonable given our future cap situation.
