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All these other teams are pursuing players to get better, but Portland just sits there. Let's go after Kevin Love or someone who can help us win. If not, we will just repeat last season. The west is too tough to just sit on our hands.
 
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If this thread were a jumpshot.
 
We won 21 more games than we did the previous season. If we can repeat that, I would be more than happy winning 75 games next year.
 
Dduck71 said:
All these other teams are pursuing players to get better, but Portland just sits there. Let's go after Kevin Love or someone who can help us win. If not, we will just repeat last season. The west is too tough to just sit on our hands.
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Which starters do you want to give up to get Love and do you think we should cut off one of his fingers or just break one leg to convince him to sign here when his contract is up?
 
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Dduck71 said:
All these other teams are pursuing players to get better, but Portland just sits there. Let's go after Kevin Love or someone who can help us win. If not, we will just repeat last season.
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I'm sure he's willing to take the minimum to return to Oregon, right? Right?

I quite liked last season...

Dduck71 said:
The west is too tough to just sit on our hands.
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Well, the Rockets probably WISH they'd sat on their hands.
 
Wow. Your post obviously has no earthly clue how to run a team. If your post were any dumber, it'd answer a jeopardy question in an answer.
 
This concept is about as smart as an architect building a skyscraper with tampons.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Which starters do you want to give up to get Love and do you think we should cut off one of his fingers or just break one legs to convince him to sign here when his contract is up?
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Do you think Portland will be able to afford Mathews when his contract is up?
 
kluv 6years in the NBA, 3 seasons over 70 games. damn sure max contract player. silly
 
BigGameDamian said:
Do you think Portland will be able to afford Mathews when his contract is up?
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We have a billionaire owner. As long as we are winning, I don't think that's ever a problem.

What would be a problem is spending luxury tax on mediocre players like we did when Whitsett was running the team.
 
Im glad we didn't have a lot of money this off season. Some of these contracts were rediculous and we would have had to massively overpay for the top stars.
 
magnifier661 said:
We have a billionaire owner. As long as we are winning, I don't think that's ever a problem.

What would be a problem is spending luxury tax on mediocre players like we did when Whitsett was running the team.
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I don't know how many years PA would be willing to feed money into the league under the new CBA with its graduated tax rates and, especially, the repeater penalties. http://www.cbafaq.com/salarycap.htm#Q21

The Blazers presently have a team salary for cap purposes of $68,937,824 and the luxury tax threshold for the coming season is $76.8M. Signing LA to a max contract would put him at around $18.7M next season. Lopez is going to get at least $10M and you'd have to figure Wes at around the same. Add in Batum at $11.7M and Dame at $3.5M and the starting five would combine for around $54M. Assuming the luxury tax remains about the same, that leaves only about $22M to fill out the rest of the roster before you push into luxury tax territory. And once Lillard's rookie contract is up...yikes! Of course, the league will negotiate a much larger TV deal in a couple of years, so that will bump the threshold up a bunch.

Bottom line, my guess is that the Blazers won't hesitate to spend if the team continues to nudge into contention, but they may try to hedge their bets with some of the lower-tier players by using guys on rookie deals and players who will take the vet's minimum rather than paying big bucks for second stringers.
 
Maybe we can go dumpster diving like the Rockets are doing with Jeff Adrien and Joey Dorsey? Baron Davis, here we come!
 
Strenuus said:
You have a challenge for being the worst GM posts on here now.
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Well look at how long we kept players like Patty Mills, Elliot Williams and Greg Oden and the next one will probably be Allen Crabbe. I just said that he likes to see his young players blossom.
 
BigGameDamian said:
Well look at how long we kept players like Patty Mills, Elliot Williams and Greg Oden and the next one will probably be Allen Crabbe. I just said that he likes to see his young players blossom.
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And All Im saying is you have someone giving you a run for your money. Don't dissapoint.
 
In this thread...

Lillard for Conley
Oden for Lopez
LMA for Love
Batum for Wiggins
Wes for Vince Carter

Ok, not really in this thread but it might as well be.

Sign Pippen and MJ to come off the bench and the west is OURS!!!!!!
 
I understand the criticism with the OP and I agree with it. However, there are trades out there that could be made, that haven't. A good example is a Thaddeus Young trade. One Philly poster said that their GM has always been interested in CJ. It is reasonable to consider CJ and Young as the principals in a swap (Young makes $8, so we'd need to add other players).

Young is a very good player, but he's not a shooter so it's a question of him fitting our system. Lots of possibilities to discuss!
 
Welcome to S2 Dduck . . . I think you just got a harsh but real taste of this board.

Hang in there and don't take this stuff personally.

Go Blazers
 
Wizard Mentor said:
I understand the criticism with the OP and I agree with it. However, there are trades out there that could be made, that haven't. A good example is a Thaddeus Young trade. One Philly poster said that their GM has always been interested in CJ. It is reasonable to consider CJ and Young as the principals in a swap (Young makes $8, so we'd need to add other players).

Young is a very good player, but he's not a shooter so it's a question of him fitting our system. Lots of possibilities to discuss!
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Thaddeus young can't shoot either... That swap wouldn't make sense if that's what you want.
 
I wouldn't mind seeing the Blazers make a big move this summer, but probably highly unlikely. I'm guessing Blazers are done for the summer. Maybe the can convince a vet on a minimum deal and waive a young player. Trade deadline could be interesting.
 
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