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Michael Kidd-Gilchrist anyone? Still young, still a good defender. We could waive Melo to make room...

 
I am not defending Melo at all right now. His ball stopping and his defense are an issue but there is one statistic I thought was quite interesting

hes shooting 47% from 3 making 1.8 a game so far.

that’s pretty good
 
The problem is that this NO won't give up Melo because of all the drama of being the team who "gave me a chance". The bench is in trouble because of injuries/COVID and lackluster play:

Zach: MIA
Nassir: not 100%, doesn't seem to be favored by Stotts when he was healthy.
Hood: maybe will never by 100%
Simons: Despite being "the most gifted" ever seen by NO is not having any impact.
CJJ: rookie
Blevins: Really?
Melo: Really?
Kanter: Delivers on offense as expected, zero D.
GTJ: The lone dog on the bench. The whole team needs to adopt his attitude.
Gile: The man deserves real minutes. With Nurk unable to show anything like he is capable of, Giles should be battle tested.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist anyone? Still young, still a good defender. We could waive Melo to make room...
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First - there is no need to waive Melo to "make room". Portland only has 14 active roster spots taken, so there still is 1 roster spot still available.
Second - NO will not fill the open roster spot, because it will push Portland into the Tax. Cutting Melo would not help financially - so it's a non-starter.
 
tester551 said:
Second - NO will not fill the open roster spot, because it will push Portland into the Tax. Cutting Melo would not help financially - so it's a non-starter.
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Hmm. Let's just pretend that's not true so we can at least consider what players might do for us. I'm sure there's some financial shenanigans that can be done if we really like a FA.
 
Another guy who's older but more established-as-useful than MKG is Andre Roberson.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
Hmm. Let's just pretend that's not true so we can at least consider what players might do for us. I'm sure there's some financial shenanigans that can be done if we really like a FA.
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We'd have to make a trade where we take back less than what is sent out.
 
Bruno Caboclo, anyone? Waived by Houston. Only 25 years old.

Primarily a C now - 6’9” w/ a 7’7” wingspan. His natural position.



Can’t hurt to take a chance on him given what’s available.
 
Fez Forthright said:
Bruno Caboclo, anyone? Waived by Houston. Only 25 years old.

Primarily a C now - 6’9” w/ a 7’7” wingspan. His natural position.



Can’t hurt to take a chance on him given what’s available.
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We cannot sign him as we will go to luxury tax which is forbidden. We will continue with Kanter and Giles as our bigs.
Zach and Nurk again let us down. Once more they are not there and at this point i don't care about their luck, they are never there when we need em.
 


Would love this. He's possibly the best P&R defending big this side of Rudy Gobert.

Also.... yay
 
https://www.theringer.com/2021/7/1/22558854/clippers-rumors-free-agency-kawhi-leonard-paul-george

It’s worth noting that in 2019 Lillard was on Leonard’s list of stars he wanted to team up with, league sources say. But Lillard has four seasons remaining on his contract. Portland doesn’t need to trade him. If it came to the point where a trade was inevitable, Los Angeles wouldn’t have many goodies to add to a trade involving George, and if the Blazers would rather have younger players and picks, the Clippers would easily be outbid.
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the author is writing in context of Dame being traded to LA but if Kawhi has wandering eyes, why not Portland? He's now already got the Chauncey connection.

How hard is it for us create capspace? We'd have to get rid of CJ for nothing and Nurk/Roco probably and work around Powell's extension.

Far fetched but fun to think about
 
illmatic99 said:
https://www.theringer.com/2021/7/1/22558854/clippers-rumors-free-agency-kawhi-leonard-paul-george



the author is writing in context of Dame being traded to LA but if Kawhi has wandering eyes, why not Portland? He's now already got the Chauncey connection.

How hard is it for us create capspace? We'd have to get rid of CJ for nothing and Nurk/Roco probably and work around Powell's extension.

Far fetched but fun to think about
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S&T for Leonard with CJ + going back to LAC. Better for them than losing him for nothing and it balances us out tremendously. Far fetched of course, but that could work.
 
illmatic99 said:
https://www.theringer.com/2021/7/1/22558854/clippers-rumors-free-agency-kawhi-leonard-paul-george



the author is writing in context of Dame being traded to LA but if Kawhi has wandering eyes, why not Portland? He's now already got the Chauncey connection.

How hard is it for us create capspace? We'd have to get rid of CJ for nothing and Nurk/Roco probably and work around Powell's extension.

Far fetched but fun to think about
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If Kawhi is leaving, it's better for them if they blow it up. I think we could facilitate some kind of threeway that gets them young talent, much in the same way we have talked about Siakam.

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Natebishop3 said:
Is this a championship team?

Dame
Norm
Kawhi
RoCo
Nurk

I think the bench would be very key.
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it's better than the team they had in LA and they prolly woulda won this year if not for Kawhi's injury.

while it's fun to fantasize and we would undoubtedly be a contender, i don't like Kawhi. He seems like a shit teammate and his injury history is worrisome. He's also in line for a ~200 mil supermax beginning at age 31.
 
TBpup said:
S&T for Leonard with CJ + going back to LAC. Better for them than losing him for nothing and it balances us out tremendously. Far fetched of course, but that could work.
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S&T would be best for all parties involved and allow Leonard to get an extra year guaranteed. But doubt they would want CJ if they're losing Kawhi. They'd be ripe for a rebuild. I'd try to swoop in and land George if that were the case.
 
illmatic99 said:
S&T would be best for all parties involved and allow Leonard to get an extra year guaranteed. But doubt they would want CJ if they're losing Kawhi. They'd be ripe for a rebuild. I'd try to swoop in and land George if that were the case.
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If Kawhi decides he wants out, their best move is to get what they can for PG and jettison bozos like Pat Bev and Morris.
 
UncleCliffy'sDaddy said:
So……we end up with two very talented but injury prone head cases………? Thanks but no thanks.

But I did notice the “lol”…..
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I'm not sure if you have followed Chris Paul's career very closely, but that dude is 100% an injury prone head case. He's a very talented injury prone head case, but still an injury prone headcase none the less.

If we want to keep Dame and make a move for a title, we have to roll the dice.
 
illmatic99 said:
S&T would be best for all parties involved and allow Leonard to get an extra year guaranteed. But doubt they would want CJ if they're losing Kawhi. They'd be ripe for a rebuild. I'd try to swoop in and land George if that were the case.
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In a S&T, we would become hardcapped at around 139 million. If Kawhi starts at ~39, and we have Dame at 43, and assuming Powell at 20, we're only 37 million below that hard cap. Nurk and Covington make us 12 million below. So our starting 5 is at 127 million, Dame/Powell/Kawhi/RoCo/Nurk. But we need to fill 9 slots with 12 million dollars. Not gonna happen.
 
RR7 said:
In a S&T, we would become hardcapped at around 139 million. If Kawhi starts at ~39, and we have Dame at 43, and assuming Powell at 20, we're only 37 million below that hard cap. Nurk and Covington make us 12 million below. So our starting 5 is at 127 million, Dame/Powell/Kawhi/RoCo/Nurk. But we need to fill 9 slots with 12 million dollars. Not gonna happen.
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ya our best hope is kawhi goes elsewhere (miami/dallas) and we pounce on paul george.
 
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