What can CJ, Wright, and Leonard give you?

Hey quit pulling my leg!

 

I was on the same page. Come back later and see it is still going.

 

I think Bucks may be interested in CJ and change, perhaps Henson or Illyasova for CH and filler, but do we need/want any more bigs after signing Caveman?

 

The contract is reflective of cap flexibility and not investing too many years in a 32 year old that has missed a lot of time with injury.

 

Wright had suitors last year. (OKC)

As for CJ many NBA scouts are smarter than some of our fans. I doubt they are looking at his analytics from his rookie year where he missed training camp with an injury and the first few months of the season

Unfortunately the summer league may not help his value if they play him out of position again.

 

That's all it takes? We should go after mayo then!

 

I'm fine with sending more than that

 

I'd pass on Mayo. He showed up way out of shape and never bothered to try on the bucks. Everyone remembers the blazing start he got off to on the Mavs then forget that he became super inconsistent after two months. I'd honestly rather give CJ a shot then bring in an overpaid possible locker room cancer in Mayo.

 

I would stay away from him as well. There have been attitude questions every place he has played since high school. No idea if they are warranted, but none the less they still seem to keep popping up.

 

wonder if those three could get you in the discussions of kluv trade to boston. money wise it seems that bostons assets wouldn't thrill Minnesota other than draft picks and maybe green. bass holds little or no value to a rebuilding minny and rondo's departure would limit loves desire to go east. Rubio indicated little stomach for a rebuilding franchise along with adleman's departure and thought about greener pastures come RFA next season. so, as facilitator and a talent consolidation I would put forth a 3-way between minny-boston-portland. ainge gets his franchise savior(second since he took control) in kevin love
minny gets marcus smart jeff green and a protected 1st next year/their own and the clips unprotected another brooklyns 2016 and w/ little protections, their own 2017 (including smart lottery picks plus whatever the 16/17 yields and green)
minny also gets from Portland cj,trob,leonard

quite a haul for minny

Portland for facilitating this receives Rubio from minny and sullinger from boston
thoughts???
Rubio fraks with the cap space plan cause he needs rfa qualifier next year. sullinger is a meh but seems healthy enough for a guy who was predicted to be early lottery before back issues. rebounds and takes up space pretty good. solid back-up 4/5. Hibberts offer sheet and the good will that generated seems to be a part of the "cap space plan" for 2015 and am not sure how this impacts his potential acquisition.

 

I've always been a Rubio fan, at least comparatively speaking to the rest of the members on this forum. But I don't know if I could think of a worse team for him to come play for. Our offense is based on spreading the court with jump shooters which would be a disaster with Rubio skill set. Minny isn't ready to give up on Rubio either. He wouldn't be happy as a limited backup here after starting all of last season. The Minnesota 5 man starting offense was one of the most productive in the league; they were one of the only teams with less bench production than us. With Rubio having good and bad qualities they wouldn't want to give him up yet.

I'd be interested in Sullinger, he looks promising. I don't know if trading him for CJ makes sense for either team.

Wright and Leonard have zero trade value in my opinion. Better to just leave them on our roster. Especially Wright; he provided solid minutes at SF/PF for us last season. Yes it was disappointing from what we hoped he would provide but he was lightyears better than Pavlovic or Babbitt.

 

Rubio can't throw a basketball in a swimming pool

 

Rubio is a decent defender and a good distributor. He's also tall enough to play alongside Damian and be more PG to Damian's more SG.