Aminu will be our starting 3 next year...Crabbe will not start over CJ at the 2...I do agree we are solid at the point...the 4 and 5 are an interesting topic....as to who would I go after...Of course you go after Durant, we probably won't get him, but anything is possible...without wasting to much time Id go after Horford and Whiteside....A lot of people are saying go after Monroe, but he turned us down, he doesn't want to be here and I don't think he is even a free agent till after next season...other names that pop out on that list are Antetokounmpo, Middleton, fournier, Barnes, but we'd have to trade for these guys and we would have to give up to much...and Barnes will resign with the Warriors next year, why leave?
I think we are going to be a much better attraction to FA's like Whiteside than most people are giving us credit for... Especially when national television shows how truly beautiful it can be in P-town. Im out. Gonna go enjoy the pool.
Because it's a thread concerning one of positions the Blazers can still improve on. Or are we sold that Harkless can carry the load at starting SF next year?
If we could sign or trade for a better power forward... yes. I could see Harkless as the starting small forward next season.
A suggestion I've already made in the other thread but since this one is dedicated for the issue, well then maybe we could get DeRozan for a close to max deal and try him at small forward. He seems to have the tools to play this position, it'd allow us to keep Aminu at 4 and develop him there and we'd get an All-Star. For small ball basketball it could actually work quite well if he can learn to play the position with consistency. If it doesn't work out then we can either move him to SG and trade CJ for a big man, moving Aminu back to 3, or we could use DeRozan as a trade piece as he'd easily fetch a very good big man in the market. Obviously I'd rather go for someone like Horford or maybe even Howard but provided we don't get any of them, it's surely better to get someone like DeRozan and spend that money we have than keep the cap space unused. Crabbe would become dispensible if that happened as DeRozan would be cover SG with Harkless coming on to cover him at SF, so we could potentially put a package together including Plumlee and Crabbe to get Noel or Okafor from Philly (I'd imagine it'd require a third team involvement as Sixers don't really need Plumlee, but a lot of teams in the league could use him - trade Plumlee for a backcourt player or a forward and move that player to Sixers). All sides would benefit - Sixers would get a good SG and another player for a center they don't need because they have too many, we'd get a center we need. Then we'd try the line up of Dame/CJ/DeRozan/Aminu/Okafor or Noel. Question is if it could work with Okafor as it'd leave deficiences in defence, even if offensively that looks like a hell of a line up.
Yep but he can get away with this when he has McCollum, Aminu and Lillard next to him. You don't need all of them to shoot. Antetokounmpo does not have a range either and he's awesome. Also, I would consider value here - if you have cap space it's better to use this on someone like DeRozan and give it a try than just sit there.
And where does this assertion come from? Who advocated to "just sit there"? I'd rather use the money that we have on someone that can actually help our team. We don't need to waste the good money that we have. We only get one chance. Spending it on DeMar DeRozan would be a waste.
That's why I said only do this if other targets turn us down. If we can get Durant, Horford, even Howard or Biyombo (that's a stretch though), go for them instead as they'd likely help us more. We don't have trade pieces to acquire proper stars and if we cannot attract any of the top 2/3 who play in positions where we need reinforcements then it makes sense to move for DDR.
Well as I said, under Stotts coaching he may develop his shot like Aminu undeniably has. If it doesn't work out, it will be possible to use him as a trade bait next year or trade McCollum for a big man and move DeRozan to SG. It opens up a possibility of trading Crabbe too, and if we package Crabbe and Plumlee together we might get a Philly big.
Although I dont totally disagree with the logic that something is better than nothing because after the RLEC I really hate wasted cap space but unfortunately Im not sure the timelines will work out like that. You kind of have to pick your guys and go after them because of all the teams with cap space. You cant expect DeRozan to be sitting there after we have explored all of our other options.
That's true. You'd have to get a quick rejection from Whiteside, Howard and Horford to even debate on that and by the time that happens DeRozan might have already been signed by someone. I suspect he will end up in LA.
