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No rare that he is on the phone -- the rest of the time he "plays" GM using the ESPN trade Machine
 
Scalma said:
I’m sure players love seeing him on the phone while they practice.
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I'm sure they know there is always a possibility of them getting traded without him showing up on the sidelines with a phone.
 
Taking the Saric trade a step further:

Would you still do it if they insisted on us taking back Dieng?
 
Scalma said:
That’s not a press conference. Or not what I meant.
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I think it depends on what the organization thinks of the acquisition. If we got Anthony Davis I'm guessing there would be a big press conference. Hood could go either way.
 
If the sporting news report is to be believed, we at least know that Moe is the guy they’re shopping, most likely attached to our pick. With the acquisition of Hood, I don’t think we’re in the market for wings, especially ones that don’t really defend, so forget Fournier. Pelicans are awful on the wing. They’re starting a guard at small forward and have almost no depth. Harkless would make sense for them. He’d step into their starting lineup immediately. I’d rather trade Turner but he’s more important to our team.

Is Moe more attractive to the Pelicans than Wilson Chandler? Chandler is an expiring but it’s not like the Pelicans need the cap space. Harkless would interest me more for numerous reasons if I’m them.
 
Scalma said:
The Blazers may not yet be done, either, league sources told Sporting News. Even with Hood in the fold, they’ve continued to attempt to find ways to bring in another difference-maker to bolster their playoff prospects.

Portland general manager Neal Olshey was hesitant to make a move at the deadline last year, only offloading forward Noah Vonleh. Since then, other league executives have suggested Portland regretted the lack of deadline action.

How much of a splash the Blazers could make likely will depend on their willingness to include second-year forward Zach Collins in a deal. Portland has resisted inquiries about Collins, who has been developing slowly but steadily.

Portland is expected to make Harkless available, according to sources, as well as the team’s first-round pick. Harkless has another year on his contract, at $11.5 million, which would scare off teams looking to protect cap space next summer. (The Knicks and Nets, for example, have had interest in Harkless in the past.)

The Blazers also could dump Harkless as a way to reduce their luxury-tax bill, but the team already has a roster spot open and is intent on maximizing this current group, which could break up after this year when players like Evan Turner, Meyers Leonard and Harkless head into the final years of their contracts.

Portland has expressed interest in Pelicans big man Nikola Mirotic, among other available players — Evan Fournier of the Magic, Jeremy Lin of the Hawks, JaMychal Green of the Grizzlies — sources told Sporting News.

There’s good reason for the Blazers to strike now. In past seasons, Portland has been too reliant on pick-and-rolls from guards Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum as the staple of the offense. That produced regular-season wins but not playoff wins — over a seven-game series, opponents can make adjustments to disrupt even the best pick-and-roll offenses. That’s what the Pelicans did in sweeping the Blazers in the first round of last year’s playoffs.

Over the last five weeks, though, the Blazers have been expanding the offense and running things through center Jusuf Nurkic more frequently. Nurkic is only 24 and has made great strides as a ball handler and a passer out of double teams this season. He’s averaging 3.2 assists and has an assist percentage of 17.8, both career highs.

In 17 games going back to late December, Nurkic’s assist percentage has spiked to 21.4. Before that, his assist percentage had been just 15.2.

The offense, of course, still revolves around Lillard and McCollum, and according to NBA.com stats, Nurkic throws more than 75 percent of his passes to one of those guards. But he’s also throwing a lot more passes to those two. In the last 17 games, he’s thrown 37.4 Lillard-McCollum passes, up from 31.1 in the first 34 games of the year. Last year, Nurkic threw only 28.0 passes to Portland’s two star guards.

Ideally, in addition to Hood, the Blazers will add another top-tier perimeter threat for Nurkic to find. Portland has changed its approach. It’s got just a few days to further make its personnel line up with that new approach.
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this looks like a lot of rehashing of older 'reports', including things Olshey has said in the past. And it's also taking a lot of liberties with terms by essentially labeling Hood a "difference maker". That's really broadening the definition

and it broadens it further by essentially implying that all the Blazers are really offering is a player the level of Harkless, with his knee issue, and a late 1st round pick. If Portland was really looking to add a difference maker, they would not be taking Zach out of the equation. This sure looks like confirmation of Portland being "aggressive" by offering little in the way of assets and upside, and hoping to strike gold in the bargain bin...in other words, Olshey's comfort zone
 
Scalma said:
If the sporting news report is to be believed, we at least know that Moe is the guy they’re shopping, most likely attached to our pick. With the acquisition of Hood, I don’t think we’re in the market for wings, especially ones that don’t really defend, so forget Fournier. Pelicans are awful on the wing. They’re starting a guard at small forward and have almost no depth. Harkless would make sense for them. He’d step into their starting lineup immediately. I’d rather trade Turner but he’s more important to our team.

Is Moe more attractive to the Pelicans than Wilson Chandler? Chandler is an expiring but it’s not like the Pelicans need the cap space. Harkless would interest me more for numerous reasons if I’m them.
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Moe + 2nd for Mirotic?
 
Dame: I found out (about Rodney Hood trade) when everyone else found out.

Casey: Are you expecting any more moves to come (not necessarily with Portland, but in the league)?

Dame: I know about a lot of stuff that's probably gonna happen. Y'all just gonna have to wait for that to happen. I'm pretty sure things are going to happen.
 
hoopsjock said:
Taking the Saric trade a step further:

Would you still do it if they insisted on us taking back Dieng?
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Sure, but I want to offload 2 of our presumed "rotation" players in that deal. Turner/Moe for Saric/Dieng/Bayless
 
yuyuza1 said:
Dame: I found out (about Rodney Hood trade) when everyone else found out.

Casey: Are you expecting any more moves to come (not necessarily with Portland, but in the league)?

Dame: I know about a lot of stuff that's probably gonna happen. Y'all just gonna have to wait for that to happen. I'm pretty sure things are going to happen.
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I think Dame genuinely likes Hood as a player. He’s been pretty complimentary of him. Said he was always a tough matchup and remembers Hood guarding him.

As far as this quote, he’s probably talking about Davis going somewhere.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
Sure, but I want to offload 2 of our presumed "rotation" players in that deal. Turner/Moe for Saric/Dieng/Bayless
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Would you still include a pick?

From Minnesota's perspective (even though Thibs got fired) they probably need to feel like they "won" any trade involving Saric even though he hasn't played well for them because if they don't get much for him that would mean they basically traded Butler for Covington.
 
yuyuza1 said:
Dame: I found out (about Rodney Hood trade) when everyone else found out.

Casey: Are you expecting any more moves to come (not necessarily with Portland, but in the league)?

Dame: I know about a lot of stuff that's probably gonna happen. Y'all just gonna have to wait for that to happen. I'm pretty sure things are going to happen.
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Is this legit and more moves are coming, or Dame is trolling us?
 
yuyuza1 said:
Said it with a straight face.

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I just wonder if it’s related to Portland. If the info was coming from his boy Haynes, you’d think Haynes would’ve reported about it by now. But if it’s coming from Olshey it’s obvious why no one knows.
 
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