Trades possibilities....and what teams are open for business

We need to get into the Markkanen sweepstakes.

Would no doubt take a three or four team deal to work, but a lineup of:

Ayton / Clinghan
Markkanen
Deni
Sharpe
Scoot

Worth pursuing? Grant and Ant out, Markkanen and a pick or two in?

 

From BR…

Joes no pushover, I like it

 

Taken with a grain of salt on this one

 

You can like it to a point but if that just means deals that we need to get done and don't necessarily need to "win" won't get done because Joe is inflexible and unimaginative then we get stuck with rosters that don't make any sense. See every roster Joe has constructed.

 

Is there any danger of us not ending up with Avdija? Because that would suck. I don't think we've got much use for Bub Carrington.

 

The current roster (in theory) is excellently constructed.

 

No.
Just can't be official until July 6th

 

Again, we risk winning a championship and completely missing out of the stacked 2025 draft.

 

I agree. Once we trade Grant, we will look for the same type of player. Sure we will want a younger and cheaper upgrade, but he will have many of the same skills and length.

 

they run low on fuel. Injuries, road trips, bad coaching. The holes in the roster showed up very early last season. This team tried hard, sometimes. But they'd miss 10 shots in a row, with an offense designed to flatten out at the hoop. Leaving absolutely nobody back to play defense.

The straight up lazy ball becomes more frequent around midseason. Last January saw that brutal -192 road trip. In February the Blazers got smoked in all 9 games. The few wins in the final 2 months were against fellow cellar dwellers Memphis, Charlotte & Washington.

Cronin builds a shallow roster stocked full of young players. The whoopsies are too frequent to count. When the starting core have seen enough beatdowns, they grab a seat hand the wheel over to the Summer League squad.

Results from Cronin's rosters:
pick #7, pick #3, pick #7

... that's not bad for a 1st time GM.

 

Yeah compared to past years this roster is pretty damned balanced in terms of size, skill set and talent across positions.

I've said a few times that this whole thing works pretty well if Ant and Jerami stop going 1 on 5. I personally don't think Jerami will be playing his best ball anymore when the bulk of the talent on this roster is ready to start playing theirs but for just this year the only problem I see is if Jerami and Ant can buy into the system on offense and if they are going to get in the way of the development of Scoot and Shaedon who are our highest ceiling players on the roster.

 

Word for word from that Irwin dude's podcast.

 

It's still the moratorium but there is no reason to believe that a trade already agreed to would be in any sort of peril... unless I'm missing something. Is there a tweet or article that caused you to question the reported deal?

 

Trying to think of ideas trade possibilities that might surprise us if the Blazers go for more of a win now path. Trading two picks for Deni isn't really a win later move, although he is young.

Here is an idea if we wanted to go for it now... Garland is rumored to not want to play with Mitchell, and he proved to be effective enough without him he may warrant "his own team".




Blazers lineup after this trade

Garland Simons
Sharpe
Deni Thybulle
Grant Camara
Turner Clingan

 

Thanks highkin for repeating the obvious.

 

We heard this last week and came to the same conclusion … last week.
Grant looks like he’s the first trade priority though Cronin will pivot to Ant if teams are serious.
Again, obvious. But it’s also a good thing not to have to generate all the trade talk alone.

 

Phrase ad nauseam comes to mind.

 

Cronin is so wishy washy cause I want to say at some point maybe at end of season he said Ant was a part of the core or something but I could be wrong.