A realistic scenario if Aldridge and Matthews both are gone.

[Pinwheel1]

1 offer Kawi Leonard crazy money that make the Spurs think about it. Make the Spurs pay. That will buy the Lakers time to sign LaMarcus. Make Cleveland play up and sign Tristan Thompson to an offer sheet. Tristan is Lebrons guy then we have more $ love won't turn down. Kevin love will then have to choose Cleveland Boston or Portland. Best chance we got to save this franchise is to make Kawi the highest paid player in the league.

What is crazy money? Can someone offer anyone more than the max? I like this idea if possible. He would fit in perfectly with the other young players. I just don't think it is possible.

 

[magnifier661]

What is crazy money? Can someone offer anyone more than the max? I like this idea if possible. He would fit in perfectly with the other young players. I just don't think it is possible.

Depends on what Spurs are trying to do. I know last season they tried convincing Leonard to take less for the good of the team. He respectively declined. If they try pulling that shit again, Kwahi may sign the offer sheets given.

 

[HailBlazers]

I came up with the realistic scenario assuming Aldridge leaves and Matthews wants too much. I believe this scenario is completely realistic: We don't pick up team option on Kaman and sign Paul Millsap & DeMarre Carroll who are both Unrestricted Free Agents. We get defense & shooting from Carroll and a quality Power forward in Millsap who is consistent, has range and can shoot 3's just like Aldridge. Thoughts?

While realistic compared to some hair brain ideas around here it goes to show how screwed we are if we lose LA and/or Matthews.

 

[Wahdeezy]

1LA is gone 2 Wes is out of his mind 15 mill per year if LA is gone that's more reason to not sign Wes. Don't like the tank idea Dame will just leave too. Next years draft is nowhere near as good as this years. Love is the key he will put up timberwolve numbers here on a Portland playoff team. Good enough for Dame to sign a max deal. Dame and Love and future developing bigs + CJ is the perfect realistic plan with LA and Wes gone. Wes can easily be replace with a combination of GHenderson and a half the price Danny Green.

 

[magnifier661]

1LA is gone 2 Wes is out of his mind 15 mill per year if LA is gone that's more reason to not sign Wes. Don't like the tank idea Dame will just leave too. Next years draft is nowhere near as good as this years. Love is the key he will put up timberwolve numbers here on a Portland playoff team. Good enough for Dame to sign a max deal. Dame and Love and future developing bigs + CJ is the perfect realistic plan with LA and Wes gone. Wes can easily be replace with a combination of GHenderson and a half the price Danny Green.

What crack you smoking??????

http://www.hoopsrumors.com/2014/09/2016-nba-free-agents.html

Next years free agent class is epically better than this years.

 

[Minstrel]

Tanking and rebuilding around cap space makes sense for Miami and Los Angeles and (theoretically, if they have good management) New York--destination franchises, largely due to the cities they reside in. Portland isn't ever going to pull in the A-class free agents, so building a plan around having the cap space to compete for Kevin Durant's services isn't reasonable. If Portland lost Aldridge but pulled in Millsap and Carroll, that would be quite a solid reload. Neither player is Aldridge, obviously, but Millsap has been one of the more underrated players in the NBA during his career...a tremendous two-way player. And Carroll is a very nice three-and-D option.

Plumlee would make a good Lopez replacement and you hope that Vonleh can eventually develop into a secondary star or, at least, a good two-way player...someone who can provide rim protection, rebounding and three-point shooting, with some explosiveness out of the pick-and-roll.

 

[bradk8605]

Thank you Minstrel, you echoed my thoughts exactly, I looked through the list of unrestricted free agents that fit a need if Aldridge and Matthews leave and came up with Millsap and Carroll as targets. You are correct Portland will most likely not get any A-Class free agents, and it is highly likely that they would not get any restricted free agents.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

What crack you smoking??????

http://www.hoopsrumors.com/2014/09/2016-nba-free-agents.html

Next years free agent class is epically better than this years.

He said next year's draft, not next year's free agents.

 

[KeepOnRollin]

Next year's draft is crap. We traded next year's pick last year instead of this year's for a reason.

 

[Wahdeezy]

Next year draft class not next years free agent class but somebody mentioned were going to have one of the most cap space this year and the only big named free agent mentioned linked to us is Kevin Love. Even if we get to next years free agent class with cap space we still won't see any realistic big named free agents linked to us. Plan A Kevin Love and Kris Middleton Plan B Milsap for a couple of years only (because our future PF is Vonleh) and Middleton/Carroll. ATL Hawks did it with the right depth set of role players in the right system.

 

[Scalma]

The reason why you don't see Portland linked to anyone is because olshey doesn't allow any leaks. I'm sure Tuesday night he'll be going after his main target hard and well know who it is then.