Trading good starters for mediocre role players is a backwards step, no matter how many role players you include. Ross was terrible the 3 seasons prior to this one, so hes not a game-changer. I cant believe Blazer fans want this.
No. So overrated. IF we are going to lose an offensive juggernaut, lets get as juggernaut back. Whether offense or defense. Gordon is neither.
Isnt the common theme the team who gets the best player usually wins in the trade? I wouldn't do this if we were a lottery team looking to shed salary even.
If Harkless and Layman continue to play like they are I am seeing Olshey not pulling any trades at the deadline. If they do it might be for upgrade for backup center or backup power forward. If they go after Prince you get more of spot or iso type of player where Harkless and Layman they little movement to get there points not saying Prince can't do things just I haven't seen it.
Talked to knowledgable people recently, and got a better understanding of what might and wont happen. Since then, I havent come up with a single C.J. trade.
Are they saying Olshey wants too much for CJ or that CJ just has too little value to get something good back? Or that Olshey just loves CJ too much?
@UKRAINEFAN ... I spoke to someone who said that ORL is more interested in giving up a pick for CJ and not as many parts. Blazers want more pieces back.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh realllly? Now you have my attention, lol! The Magic currently are tied for 6th in the draft. Unfortunately not throwing in Gordon or a bad contract like Mozgov, Fournier, or Augustin makes it tough to find a deal where both teams get what they want. Maybe a 3rd team could help?
I don't like it, so add other pieces around, but something along cj and Leonard for vuc, ross, and Simmons gets it there $$ wise, and has us close to out of LT. If I play around more, think we can get out of the tax in something similar
I thought about something similar. I got stuck on them probably not giving up their pick if Vucevic is going out too. The best I can come up with is CJ, Nik, and Swan for Ross, Simmons, Augustin, 2019 1st, and 2019 2nd (via Cleveland currently 31st). It saves over $5 million so like yours we'd get close but we're taking on salary for next year instead of clearing it completely. They have a 2020 1st round pick from OKC that is top-20 protected which we could maybe get them to throw in. I don't know if I'd do that without some sort of guarantee the pick would be top-8 or something.
I would wonder how important it is to get all the way out of the tax bracket this season. Seems like paying some tax was already baked into the assumptions. I'd doubt the Vulcans would green-light additional tax this season though without looking it up, I'd guess Portland 'owes' about 10-11M in tax. That's not pretty but it isn't ugly either. I'd think a much bigger issue would be tax exposure next season so almost certainly an expiring contract or two would be a requirement for the Blazers
If I could get Orlando's pick and it wasn't lottery protected, that would be pretty freaking tempting to have CJ in that trade. I don't think it's something the Blazers would actually consider, but the top of the draft is looking pretty good. The other problem is, I think CJ if he was the "star" of a team would be really good and maybe he takes Orlando up to 10-11 in the draft, I don't think that would be worth it.
