While it’s fun to talk about different trade scenarios and it’ll keep us busy until the draft/FA, I think we’ve gathered enough intel on Neil to predict exactly how this offseason will play out. Draft: This is the only place Neil might get aggressive. And by aggressive I mean he’ll move up a couple spots. He’ll draft a guy that no one really hates or loves. FA: He’ll meet with some secondary FA on the eve of free agency. He won’t actually sign him, and will instead settle on someone else that most people will hate. Connaughton will be back because why wouldn’t he be. Olshey will mention how much he’s developed. The only players that will leave will be Layman and maybe Napier. Then he’ll pick up some two way guys and vet minimum players that’ll excite us because we’ll be so desperate to forget how the first wave of free agency played out. Can’t wait to bump this thread in a month.
He will also say “Look, I’m not just gonna make a trade to make a trade”... the same excuse for the 5th year in a row... maybe in another 5 years the perfect offer will fall into his lap as we let this mediocre cake bake and spoil
This post is brought to you by the Number 2... You left out the part about the 2-way contracts/2nd round draft picks. Neil will find some diamond in the rough, either by buying a second round pick, or picking up a young player that some other team (probably ORL) has cast off prematurely. They will spend most of their first year in the G League and probably tantalize us with either a late season call up or by winning the summer league MVP during the summer of 2019. In another year or two, they will eventually crack the rotation and prove to be a solid, if unspectacular NBA player, just in time for us to lose them to free agency because some other team will offer them more money than our maxed out/taxed out roster can afford. Lather, rinse, repeat... BNM
Oh, I thought you were talking about a different "Number 2". One that might also lead to "lather, rinse, repeat".
I have real life friends... I don’t try to meet people in a forum like you. Why don’t you have me on ignore if you are so sensitive
The roster will be the same like this Season, and the reason is because Nobody want's to Deal with the Blazers because of all these garbage contracts
Neil olshey in Interview before the new Season: we were incredibly aggressive to make Deals but we couldn't make it
Olshey sounds to have a different mindset going into this off-season.. I'm not just going to continuously whine about the opportunities he hadn't missed yet. There will be plenty I'm time for that if/when he does.
Well we should know by draft day... there is no cap room, so if he doesn’t make any major deals on draft day then we are probably bringing back same roster for the most part...
Neil can't make people trade with him and a trade just to make a trade IS a bad idea. He's right about that. Do you really want him to make a CJ trade that ends up making us worse just for the sake of doing something?
There's creative ways to improve this team.. He hasn't shown the level of creativity needed in his tenure here. But the notion of "if nothing happens on draft night then nothing will happen" is false. We have a TPE, which can be used through July.. we also have future picks, and could trade whowever we draft with 24 if we don't sign him right away. Plus, a lot of teams will bet looking to make certain deals depending upon what happens in free agency.
So if a car salesman sells no cars in a quarter, is it okay because "he can't make people buy them"? Of course he can't make people do anything, but it's his job to, and trades aren't some elusive thing... Nobody has brought up CJ in this conversation...
No it wasnt, those were two, straight across deals. You obviously don't understand what I mean by creativity.
Exactly!!! This is the best analogy ever! It’s Neil’s job! He can make that excuse one trade deadline or offseason... but after 5 years people need to realize he is the problem!
