The 2022 Trade Idea Thread, now with more urgency!

F***! Houston broke the streak! Enes was supposed to come back here next year from Boston.

 

there were no reports of Portland having interest in him, as much as I did. But all that died when we learned about limitations of his contract long term.

 

I can't see KP trading with us unless he absolutely rapes our front office--something not that hard to achieve.

 

Can’t wait for the off season when we sign players like harkless and aminu

 

KP had glowing remarks about Cronin a few months back. He actually was the first guy who hired Joe in Portland, so I don't see any more hard feelings.

That said, Indy and San Antonio were the really big winners of this deadline I think.

 

Well the Lakers are still stuck with Westbrook so I'm happy.

 

His beef isn't with the personnel, it's with ownership and the franchise. He still blames us for his addiction issues.

 

What happened to Moses Brown? Wasn’t he breaking out last year?

 

I'll take your word for that first part, but I'm pretty sure I read something a month or so ago.

 

I ran into him a few times when I lived in Indy. Once at Costco when he was with kids, and another time at a gym downtown. Took all my will power not to go over and curse him out for the Oden pick.

He got his revenge with the Babbitt pick that's for sure.

 

He's not the backup big we deserve, but he's the backup big we need .....

 

That Gerald Wallace trade back in the day gives me hope every time the deadline is over. But it looks like.... thats all folks.

 

Hate the playa, not the game. You wouldn't have found a GM that would have taken Durant over Oden in that position at that time.

KP would have been a great GM for the Blazers to have right now, IMO. He certainly assembled a good roster out of chicken scratch and fleeced a couple of other teams in the process. Brought in plenty of draft assets and maximized them.

 

He broke.

 

Exactly. Better to just hold onto the veterans, until another team decides they want to win now and will cough up a useful asset for one of them. If another team doesn't offer, then you just let them walk in the summer which we could've done with Roco.

If we ever really needed the unlikely scenario of cap space from Norm to sign a star or something we trade Norm at that time to an OKC type rebuilding team with a late pick for cap space. That would never have been hard to do. That is basically a worse case scenario if Norm ages into a very toxic contract.

Instead now we've lost the opportunity of getting any value for Roco and Norm, or the opportunity of keeping them around as a rotational player if we actually did want to go through with the Dame contending fantasy.

I thought it near impossible to have a trade that is a losing trade if you contend and a losing trade if you rebuild. Somehow Joe managed that with the Clippers trade.

 

Enes getting waived. Prepare to welcome him back to Portland hahahahahaha.

 

in all honesty, we should bring him back, nurk needs a backup

 

We have a shot, but the margin for error is slim. Cronin did himself no favors with the Clippers trade and not getting a little more back in terms of draft picks. It's not a foregone conclusion, IMO, that it couldn't be pulled off, although, as I mentioned somewhere else, I think a Kevin Pritchard who valued the draft and was really good at swinging trades would have been the ideal GM to have for what the Blazers are supposed to be trying -- or need -- to do right now.

 

for what? we don't want to win games. I'm guessing Nurk goes down with a mysterious injury sometime in the near future.