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Updated look at the roster after the signing of Jabari Walker.

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With Jabari Walker's stellar play in Summer League, can he crack into the top-9 player rotation and get some minutes in the regular season? Can he win those minutes at the expense of Winslow and/or Watford?

If (when) Little gets hurt, who will step up and grab those small-forward minutes? Can Sharpe stay healthy? Will Johnson see the floor and play meaningful minutes?

The Blazers have one more 2-way contract available. Who will get that spot?

After the dismal lottery bound season last year, I'm looking forward to seeing this 'new' team compete for home court advantage in the playoffs in 2022-23!
 
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42N8Bounce said:
Updated look at the roster after the signing of Jabari Walker.

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With Jabari Walker's stellar play in Summer League, can he crack into the top-9 player rotation and get some minutes in the regular season? Can he win those minutes at the expense of Winslow and/or Watford?

If (when) Little gets hurt, who will step up and grab those small-forward minutes? Can Sharpe stay healthy? Will Johnson see the floor and play meaningful minutes?

The Blazers have one more 2-way contract available. Who will get that spot?

After the dismal lottery bound season last year, I'm looking forward to seeing this 'new' team compete for home court in the playoffs in 2022-23!
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I like the way you have that laid out. Not sure that Winslow is necessary more likely to get rotation minutes than other guys in the 3rd column, but the fact that he can slide between 3-4 certainly gives him a leg up. Ultimately I'd hope to see Sharpe replace Winslow in the 9-man, or even see Walker force himself into the "can't deny this guy minutes" category.
 
42N8Bounce said:
Updated look at the roster after the signing of Jabari Walker.

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With Jabari Walker's stellar play in Summer League, can he crack into the top-9 player rotation and get some minutes in the regular season? Can he win those minutes at the expense of Winslow and/or Watford?

If (when) Little gets hurt, who will step up and grab those small-forward minutes? Can Sharpe stay healthy? Will Johnson see the floor and play meaningful minutes?

The Blazers have one more 2-way contract available. Who will get that spot?

After the dismal lottery bound season last year, I'm looking forward to seeing this 'new' team compete for home court advantage in the playoffs in 2022-23!
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Nas and Hart should be the primary SFs and then when you consider how billups views the position you can sprinkle in guys like Payton, Keon, and eventually Sharpe. If Jabari is as good as advertised and gets on the court as a rookie, Winslow can slide to the three as well.
 
Scalma said:
Nas and Hart should be the primary SFs and then when you consider how billups views the position you can sprinkle in guys like Payton, Keon, and eventually Sharpe. If Jabari is as good as advertised and gets on the court as a rookie, Winslow can slide to the three as well.
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It seems like we have improved the ball handling at the forward spot.
 
illmatic99 said:
With the details of the Walker deal that just came out, our books look like this:

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We are one Didi dump from ducking the tax. That can come at the deadline.
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I thought Portland is taking the full $3.9M Bledsoe cap hit this year. Spotrac data indicates that, as does Basketball-reference.

In that case, we are well over the tax line & ~$2M under the hard cap.
 
CJ_is_Gone said:
I thought Portland is taking the full $3.9M Bledsoe cap hit this year. Spotrac data indicates that, as does Basketball-reference.

In that case, we are well over the tax line & ~$2M under the hard cap.
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They're stretching it.




 
I imagine we are just going to pick up some two way guys moving forward and call it a day? Maybe dump Didi?
 
I don't think we dump Didi and eat his salary. I think we just sign someone to a two way. Probably Kyle Alexander or Luke Garza.
 
Didi is worthless, I'd cut him after the trade deadline if they can't trade him.

When's the deadline for Keon 3rd year option? At this point I'd decline. People who said he was essentially the worth of a first round pick we're clearly wrong then and he looks to be worth even less today. With the Blazers having 7 SG it appears they agree.

Greg Brown reminds me of a couple inch taller Travis Outlaw, but with less athleticism and no shot. Blazers are so empty at 3rd string bigs I guess he is fine to keep.

B Williams is whatever... as a two way it's fine, and good to have an emergency PG if Dame and Simons are out.

If none of these guys were signed I'd look to replace them all with some of the scrub vets left, or undrafted guys, or oversees guys. As Jody care's more about tax than end of the bench talent we're likely stuck with all of them.

On the positive side Jabari looks awesome. If we go through 4 scrubs and pickup one good player that's doing quite well for the insignificant cost.
 
WesleyMatthews said:
When's the deadline for Keon 3rd year option? At this point I'd decline. People who said he was essentially the worth of a first round pick we're wrong then and he looks to be worth even less today.
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Why would we do that? There is literally zero upside, while there is a massive downside if he pops. Look at what happened to PHX with Jalen Smith. Let's not be like that.
 
Dougnsalem said:
You are SO correct! Eubanks worked his butt off. Win or lose, he tried his hardest. Dad and I have even wished that he would start before Nurk. I know that is drastic to say. That is how we feel. Nurk gets lazy at times. Eubanks fights to the end. LOVE IT!!!

And Payton??? This is gonna be a fun year....
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I like your enthusiasm!
 
PCmor7 said:
I'm not as sold on Eubanks as others on this board.

He is the one semi-legit back-up 5 we have, so it'd seem he'd have to get minutes. On the other hand, he's undersized, a poor shooter outside the paint and an average athlete at best. His stats in a quarter of a season last year were good, but they also were compiled essentially for a G-League team in mostly meaningless games.

I wouldn't be surprised if some of his minutes end up going to Watford or Walker when Nurk is on the bench. They aren't a lot smaller than Eubanks and they offer more things, especially in defensive flexibility.

There's also the chance that the Blazers sign either Kyle Alexander or Luka Garza as a two-way player. Obviously, both offer things Eubanks doesn't and are more natural 5s than is Drew. If Cronin keeps either of them, they could either take some of Eubanks' minutes or platoon with him.

There's also the chance the Blazers pick up someone else as a backup 5 before the season.

I'm just not sold that he's a definite for steady minutes even if it looks like he has to be Nurk's backup right now. There are a lot of other options there.
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I hope they don't sign Garza.
 
illmatic99 said:
With the details of the Walker deal that just came out, our books look like this:

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We are one Didi dump from ducking the tax. That can come at the deadline.
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Yeah I'd be shocked if we stay in the tax at the deadline. Can dump some of these end of the bench guys then. Or if a player such as Winslow, Little, etc gets injured dump them instead.
 
illmatic99 said:
Why would we do that? There is literally zero upside, while there is a massive downside if he pops. Look at what happened to PHX with Jalen Smith. Let's not be like that.
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There is more than zero downside, it'd be guaranteed salary on next year's cap/luxury tax.

Not saying the team for sure should decline, but they should review if he's worth that cost. Whatever the Clippers drafted him at is a sunk cost.

Jalen Smith is your example of how that can backfire, but he signed for the same as his option.
 
We can always try to move Keon for a pick at the deadline to a team still intrigued with his talent if we aren't playing him or he isn't playing well.

By pick I mean 2nd round pick.
 
A lot of Collin Cowherd's in here who think they can tell if a player will make it by watching him a few times down the court.
 
Pinwheel1 said:
I am pretty sure there are other options.
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It's kind of all or nothing. Either we accept that the whole point of a forum is post a wide range of opinions (including predicting whether a player will suck or not) or.... we don't.

At the end of the day we're all a bunch of nerds who like to talk hoops and think we know more about the game than we probably do. Where's the fun if we can't post something and then go back 10 years later and say, "I was right!" Or.... 10 years from now you can go back and say, "you were wrong!"
 
Natebishop3 said:
It's kind of all or nothing. Either we accept that the whole point of a forum is post a wide range of opinions (including predicting whether a player will suck or not) or.... we don't.

At the end of the day we're all a bunch of nerds who like to talk hoops and think we know more about the game than we probably do. Where's the fun if we can't post something and then go back 10 years later and say, "I was right!" Or.... 10 years from now you can go back and say, "you were wrong!"
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Still, by now you would think that fans would be smart enough to know that one year is not long enough to dismiss a player who just turned 20.
 
Pinwheel1 said:
A lot of Collin Cowherd's in here who think they can tell if a player will make it by watching him a few times down the court.
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I mean, you think we sign Payton II and hard cap ourselves essentially burying Keon if we had any semblance of hope for the kid next year?

Its not his fault he got traded to a team in love with undersized guards.

Some of us just don't see it.

Remember when people thought Luis Montero was gonna be a stud someday?
 
Pinwheel1 said:
Still, by now you would think that fans would be smart enough to know that one year is not long enough to dismiss a player who just turned 20.
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You vastly overrate the abilities of most fans :lol:

Also.... where's the fun if I can't grossly overreact from one game to the next?
 
I am hopeful that the combination of the defense we are seeing in summer league, the new player additions and the fact that it will be season 2 of this defensive system that we will see a jump in our defense this season to near top 10 ranking. If that does happen it changes the outlook of what the team can accomplish because should be top 10 in offense.
 
Now that we've learned a little bit about some of the Blazers' young guns, it's time to distribute minutes. Here's how I see it -

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I think Hart will win the starting SF spot.

I'm making a bold prediction and saying Walker will beat out Winslow for the backup PF & SF minutes.

Tough to tell how Sharpe will fit in. For now, I've slotted him in to grab some garbage minutes at SG & SF.

Let's hope Little stays healthy and competes for some of those SF & SG minutes.

I'm feeling a bit more comfortable with Watford's development. Johnson, not so much. Brown, meh.

I'm excited about this coming year!
 
42N8Bounce said:
Now that we've learned a little bit about some of the Blazers' young guns, it's time to distribute minutes. Here's how I see it -

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I think Hart will win the starting SF spot.

I'm making a bold prediction and saying Walker will beat out Winslow for the backup PF & SF minutes.

Tough to tell how Sharpe will fit in. For now, I've slotted him in to grab some garbage minutes at SG & SF.

Let's hope Little stays healthy and competes for some of those SF & SG minutes.

I'm feeling a bit more comfortable with Watford's development. Johnson, not so much. Brown, meh.

I'm excited about this coming year!
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I would be shocked if Walker gets more minutes than Winslow.
 
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