Forum Game Be The GM: Your Best Plan For The Blazers 2021 Offseason

[Chris Craig]

We have threads about trade ideas and threads about what kind of things tge Blazers need to do to get better. But, what is your best plan for the Blazers going into the season? Be the GM. What exactly would you do? You get one chance to make this team better.

Try to be realistic. Alot of us would love KAT, Siakam, Butler, etc but that isn't going to happen.

 

[Chris Craig]

Trade CJ McCollum for Jerami Grant and Mason Plumlee

Let Carmelo Anthony, Enes Kanter, and DJJ Walk

Resign RHJ

Sign TJ McConnell, Sign DeMar DeRozan, Resign Norman Powell


PG - Lillard/ McConnell
SG - Powell /Ant/Elleby
SF- DeRozan/Covington /Little/
PF - Grant / Collins/RHJ
C - Nurkic/ Plumlee

 

[Natebishop3]

Trade CJ McCollum for Jerami Grant and Mason Plumlee

Let Carmelo Anthony, Enes Kanter, and DJJ Walk

Resign RHJ

Sign TJ McConnell, Sign DeMar DeRozan, Resign Norman Powell


PG - Lillard/ McConnell
SG - Powell /Ant/Elleby
SF- DeRozan/Covington /Little/
PF - Grant / Collins/RHJ
C - Nurkic/ Plumlee

How are you signing DeRozan?

 

[wizenheimer]

for "best plan" absolutely must start as the owner because the first move is firing the GM

I think Olshey will fuck this off-season up as bad as any

 

[B-Roy]

Trade CJ + Top 25 Protected 1st for either Middleton or Harris (whichever team accepts the deal first). Protection on the pick goes top 25/top 25/2 seconds.

Trade DJJ for Tyus Jones.

Extend RoCo for 2 years/25 million.

Sign Collins for 3 years/21 million.

Re-sign Powell 4 years/80 million

Sign Batum 2 years/10 million with the Taxpayers MLE

Dame/Jones
Powell/Simons
Harris or Middleton/Little
RoCo/Batum
Nurk/Collins

End of bench guys don't matter (as long as they aren't Melo/Kanter).

That's about 148-150M in salary. 4 minimum salary guys pushes it to ~155M in total salary, which would give us one of the 3 highest payrolls in the league. If we fail this year, then the next year will probably be a blow up/take down.

 

[Chris Craig]

How are you signing DeRozan?

He's a free agent. You sign him, then resign Powell and go into luxury

 

[SlyPokerDog]

If I'm the GM the first thing I would do is give myself a big big raise.

 

[tester551]

He's a free agent. You sign him, then resign Powell and go into luxury

DeRozan will most likely make more than the MLE (and certainly more than the Tax MLE).... which makes this an impossibility.

 

[B-Roy]

He's a free agent. You sign him, then resign Powell and go into luxury

That's not how it works. If you want to keep Powell's bird rights you can't renounce him, which makes his cap hold almost 20 million.

 

[Hoopguru]

Could SA & Port resign both CJ & DeRozen the trade, they have exact salaries. Then re-sign Powell.

 

[Natebishop3]

Could SA & Port resign both CJ & DeRozen the trade, they have exact salaries. Then re-sign Powell.

I wouldn't want to pay DeRozan that much money. The guy isn't worth it anymore.

 

[tester551]

Could SA & Port resign both CJ & DeRozen the trade, they have exact salaries. Then re-sign Powell.

The team receiving a FA in a S&T gets hard-capped. The hard cap would be ~$6 or $7M above the lux tax line.
That may be a possibility, but I'm guessing Portland would be pushing right up against that hard-cap line.

 

[B-Roy]

Could SA & Port resign both CJ & DeRozen the trade, they have exact salaries.

I understood the gist of this, but good lord. What happened to this sentence?

 

[Hoopguru]

I understood the gist of this, but good lord. What happened to this sentence?

Typing on my cell phone with my toes is tough.

 

[Chris Craig]

Could SA & Port resign both CJ & DeRozen the trade, they have exact salaries. Then re-sign Powell.

A sign and trade would work only if DeRozan signs for a good deal less than CJ. We can't make a trade that puts us over the tax right?

I'd rather trade CJ for Grant anyway. Forget DeRozan

 

[Natebishop3]

A sign and trade would work only if DeRozan signs for a good deal less than CJ. We can't make a trade that puts us over the tax right?

I'd rather trade CJ for Grant anyway. Forget DeRozan

I would love to get Grant.... but I don't see why Detroit would do it.

CJ is going to be 30 in a few months.

Grant just turned 27. They're a young team and really not that close to contending. I just don't see why they would want to do it.

 

[TBpup]

I think it might be possible to get Turner and Porzingis. Both have issues but they compliment each other as they seem to want to play opposite positions on opposite ends of the floor. KP likes to play offensive center and Turner can spread the floor as a stretch '4'. Turner prefers to play defensive center while KP would prefer to guard PFs.

Turner
Porzingis
Covington
Powell
Dame

That is a LOT more length, better shooting and better defense even though KP will have some issues with smaller/quicker PFs.

That leaves Collins/Little/Ant (don't want anyone else back or gone in a trade). Get another big, a backup PG for the love of God, and any wing with length. Would take one of Kanter/Giles/RHJ as at 10+ player. No Melo.

 

[PCmor7]

I understood the gist of this, but good lord. What happened to this sentence?

His screen name is "hoopguru," not "postguru." If you understood what he was trying to say, he accomplished his screen name.

 

[Hoopguru]

A sign and trade would work only if DeRozan signs for a good deal less than CJ. We can't make a trade that puts us over the tax right?

I'd rather trade CJ for Grant anyway. Forget DeRozan

Do you think Pistons would really include grant for CJ?

 

[Phatguysrule]

I'd start by gathering all the blackmail I could find on every other GM, president, and owner.

I would imagine Microsoft has plenty of info on most of us and Jody knows a guy...

 

[calvin natt]

for "best plan" absolutely must start as the owner because the first move is firing the GM

I think Olshey will fuck this off-season up as bad as any

 

[TBpup]

I'd start by gathering all the blackmail I could find on every other GM, president, and owner.

I would imagine Microsoft has plenty of info on most of us and Jody knows a guy...

We haven't heard from 'Hat Guy' in a while...

 

[Fairly-Hard]

Move the team to Seattle you say?

 

[Natebishop3]

Dame
Norm
Siakam
Roco
Collins

Ant
Little
Bouche
Patty Mills (free agent signing)
DJJ

 

[B-Roy]

^ 4 firsts for CJ??? CJ does not have that sort of value at all.

 

[Hoopguru]

GM - Hoopguru
Plan of action:
- Hire Billups (the rumors about Spoel are just that) I wouldnt give up a 1st rounder for him either
- let Melo & Kanter walk
- pkg CJ & Little for Harris or Randell
- sign Norm
- sign Rachaun Holmes as 4/5 (he's made for todays game)
- keep one of Giles or Leaf
- change uni's to Green (mountains) Blue (sea & some lakes/rivers) & Brown (high desert, lawn fudge) - get rid of the cross country stripe for Mule & Wagon

 

[Natebishop3]

^ 4 firsts for CJ??? CJ does not have that sort of value at all.

One of them are from us.

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

I think it might be possible to get Turner and Porzingis.

How?

 

[Natebishop3]

How?

If DJJ didn't opt out

 

[Natebishop3]

I'm honestly not sure if this is championship caliber team

Dame
Norm
RoCo
KP
Turner

The defense would be much improved in some areas..... KP is not a good defender though.

I really think we need to try to trade CJ to a team like NY, who has young talent but wants to win now, and then move that young talent to a team with a star and no shot at competing. I'm not sure who that is though. Beal isn't a good fit. Siakam is injured. I'd still take him though. Jimmy Butler would be fantastic, but we need Miami to tank. We need them to decide to build around Bam.

To me, this trade makes a lot of sense for all teams involved. NY gets their lead guard. Miami gets a bunch of young talent to go with Bam. We get our second star.



Dame
Norm
Butler
RoCo
Nurk