TPEs (Traded Player Exceptions)

I wonder if Oubres contract situation would impact Portland’s decision to pursue him or not. I don’t think they want to commit to more players beyond the 19/20 season but then again Oubre is young, and they wouldn’t HAVE to pay him if they didn’t want to.

I think one of Lee, Chandler, and Oubre will end up in Portland sometime before FA starts.

Lee for TPE straight up.

Chandler/pick for TPE.

Gortat/Oubre for our two TPEs.

 

Even the 29 win Knicks think he is too small to play small forward and you want to pair him with undersized McLillard

 

Not really. He’d be paired with one of them with the second unit. And while he shouldn’t start at SF there are still certain lineups where you could play all three together.

 

I just don’t think Lee puts us ahead of even the Pelicans... waste of TPE... and he is 33 so his game will start to decline

 

Funny you bring up the pelicans. They run a lot of three guard lineups that Lee could’ve helped out against, on both ends. Houston is another when they run Gordon with CP3 and Harden. Lee would be a significant upgrade, despite his age or his bench status.

 

Hmmm

 

I like Gortat... the Polish Hammer! If Nurk is planning on taking QO in hopes of a 20 mil payday I’d just let him walk and have Gortat be a stop gap til Collins takes over

 

God no. Collins is a PF. Olshey has only compared him to power forwards.

And the Nurk stuff is just a national writers guess. Nurk wants to be in Portland. No one is giving him 20m, his agent should know that. Something should get done.

Gortat would come here to be a backup, buried on the bench, or get bought out. That deal would be about Oubre.

 

I heard oubre want's a Max Contract next Year, so Maybe Washington Shopping him

 

No one is paying him close to max with his pedestrian numbers. I want Max too. Am I getting it?

 

They gave Otto Porter a max contract. They may just be dumb enough to do it again.

 

24 minutes at SG available if McCollum is the backup PG.

 

So with the only tool we have to improve the team, you want a backup 33 yr old SG to play 24 min a game? I don’t see how this team wins a playoff series in that scenario

 

He's still good. LeBron is 33. Being 33 doesn't make you a bad player. A 3-and-D vet the next couple years to bridge the gap till when Simons is ready makes sense.

 

BTW, I would love if Trent could resemble anything close to Courtney Lee in the next couple years.

 

Technically they matched a max contract offer. A little different. But the year before his max contract Otto Porter put up a PER of 17.3 while Kelly Oubre has a PER of 11.9.

I think them paying MAX to Porter is yet another reason there is no chance they give it to Oubre.

 

Shoot, give us Otto Porter Jr... he's legit.

 

What do people think about KCP? I know he wanted more, but he'll be an FA, and the Lakers will
not be re-signing him.

 

I don't know if we have the cap room to get KCP, he might be looking for more than the MLE.

 

We can't use the TPE?