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Which Free Agent would you most like to see in a Blazer uniform?

  • Dwight Howard

  • Hassan Whiteside

  • Al Forford

  • Kevin Durant

  • Harrison Barnes

  • Bismack Biyombo

  • Bring back Nic Batum

  • Other

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TBpup said:
If the Blazers renounce Henderson ($9,000,000), Kaman ($6,520,800) and Robers ($3,711,422) that will put give them $24.6 million to go after a FA. Unless Dwight were going to take less than the max, that almost eliminates him unless you renounce Harkless or Leonard. Let's say you did both, you would have right at $40 million to perhaps go after someone like Whiteside at $22 million and then another $18 million to ad another FA or make an unbalanced trade.

Would it be worth it to renounce everyone of a big salary and take a shot at 2 big time free-agents? Who would you want at the $16-18 million mark? Let's say Ryan Anderson fit into that slot just for example.

Whiteside/Davis/Kaman (re-sgined at a vet min)
Anderson/Vonleh/Alexander
Amimu/Montero/Layman
CJ/Montero/Connaughton
Dame/CJ/FA PG - vet min

Is that roster worth letting Meyers, Crabbe and Harkless go?
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18 million is almost exactly how much Millsap makes :devilwink:
 
TBpup said:
If the Blazers renounce Henderson ($9,000,000), Kaman ($6,520,800) and Robers ($3,711,422) that will put give them $24.6 million to go after a FA. Unless Dwight were going to take less than the max, that almost eliminates him unless you renounce Harkless or Leonard. Let's say you did both, you would have right at $40 million to perhaps go after someone like Whiteside at $22 million and then another $18 million to ad another FA or make an unbalanced trade.

Would it be worth it to renounce everyone of a big salary and take a shot at 2 big time free-agents? Who would you want at the $16-18 million mark? Let's say Ryan Anderson fit into that slot just for example.

Whiteside/Davis/Kaman (re-sgined at a vet min)
Anderson/Vonleh/Alexander
Amimu/Montero/Layman
CJ/Montero/Connaughton
Dame/CJ/FA PG - vet min

Is that roster worth letting Meyers, Crabbe and Harkless go?
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I'll take a look at options in that 16-18 mark, but it'd be an easy no on Anderson for me. Leonard is about as good from 3. Leonard can cover bigger post players relatively well. Anderson...can't really cover anyone that well. Obviously depends on cost, but if Anderson requires us to dump Leonard AND Harkless, I'd just as soon keep Leonard over him, and Harkless. I dunno where Crabbe went in your lineup either.
 
I was just using Anderson as a 'slot' example. I'm not really high on him either.

Crabbe I left off because even though his cap hold is very small, his salary is likely to be much much higher. If somehow he would be willing to hold off until the Blazers signed a big FA and then Portland could go over the cap to sign him....that would help Portland A LOT!
 
I know there are people who still don't like him, but I'd love to bring back ZBO for the right price. I think he'd be a great veteran that we could plug into the power forward spot who can score and rebound. He has grown up a lot since we traded him.
 
Who would fans like to see at that $16-18M slot that is either available as a FA or in an unbalanced trade?
 
TBpup said:
If the Blazers renounce Henderson ($9,000,000), Kaman ($6,520,800) and Robers ($3,711,422) that will put give them $24.6 million to go after a FA. Unless Dwight were going to take less than the max, that almost eliminates him unless you renounce Harkless or Leonard. Let's say you did both, you would have right at $40 million to perhaps go after someone like Whiteside at $22 million and then another $18 million to ad another FA or make an unbalanced trade.

Would it be worth it to renounce everyone of a big salary and take a shot at 2 big time free-agents? Who would you want at the $16-18 million mark? Let's say Ryan Anderson fit into that slot just for example.

Whiteside/Davis/Kaman (re-sgined at a vet min)
Anderson/Vonleh/Alexander
Amimu/Montero/Layman
CJ/Montero/Connaughton
Dame/CJ/FA PG - vet min

Is that roster worth letting Meyers, Crabbe and Harkless go?
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I wouldn't let Crabbe go because his cap hold is fairly small; Davis has a much bigger cap hold and would not be so valuable if we had Whiteside. I probably wouldn't let anyone go except the three obvious ones unless it gets you two of Durant, Horford, Whiteside.
 
Wizard Mentor said:
1) If I'm Durant, I want to go to a team that is championship caliber WITHOUT me - that's not PDX, sorry to dreamcrush. Our only path to get KD was to trade for Boogie first, and that never happened.

2) We need to swing as big as possible:
  • top tier player: $21 Mil.
  • mediocre player: $16 Mil.
there's just not a big enough salary gap to not go all in for the top tier player. In fact, getting a mediocre player for $16 Mil might just be the worst possible thing we could do.
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If I'm Durant I'd want to go somewhere that ISNT a championship contender before but becomes one when I arrive. I'd want to go to a great culture with good people in the locker room. I'd want to play for a coach that would use me well (not just Isos). That fits with what he days about a good basketball situation surrounded by good people.

We have a chance, don't let anyone say otherwise.
 
BonesJones said:
If I'm Durant I'd want to go somewhere that ISNT a championship contender before but becomes one when I arrive. I'd want to go to a great culture with good people in the locker room. I'd want to play for a coach that would use me well (not just Isos). That fits with what he days about a good basketball situation surrounded by good people.

We have a chance, don't let anyone say otherwise.
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I think he's worried about
#legacy
 
TBpup said:
http://basketball-players.pointafte...1#43-FAQ-Ranking-of-Every-2016-NBA-Free-Agent

They rank the top 50+ Free Agents and with all the money Portland has, all they are projected to get is Ian Mahihmi at #18. That is a bit depressing.

Motivation Neil!
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I doubt these guys put much thought into this list. Although I understand why Gasol would go to San Antonio, I'm not sure why the Spurs would want to have another big man.

That'd be 3 players around 7 feet tall, and David West. What they need is a better PG and SG.
What really bothered me is that Marvin Williams is in his 10th year, and he still is a role player.
 
Ian Mahinmi would be only slightly less exciting than Cole Aldrich. If we have to dumpster dive to that level I hope we do look at trades for guys like Monroe instead.
 
TBpup said:
Who would fans like to see at that $16-18M slot that is either available as a FA or in an unbalanced trade?
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My ideal offseason: Sign Whiteside to max, sign and trade Crabbe and draft pick for Noel, sign Sergio, and bring back our remaining free agents... No team will bring the ball into the post with Whiteside and Noel patrolling the paint.
 
Gronk Brady said:
My ideal offseason: Sign Whiteside to max, sign and trade Crabbe and draft pick for Noel, sign Sergio, and bring back our remaining free agents... No team will bring the ball into the post with Whiteside and Noel patrolling the paint.
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I would rather have okafor.
 
If Olshey can make somewhat kind of miracles happen, this would be one hell of a lineup next year

PG: Dame/Rodriguez/CJ
SG: CJ/Crabbe/Connaughton/Montero
SF: Aminu/Harkless/Layman
PF: M.Williams/Davis/Vonleh/Alexander
C: Whiteside (or Howard)/Plumlee/Davis
 
All I know is, we need someone bigger than Plumlee, so Plumlee can start at (PF not) PG. Anyone. Doesn't matter the talent level. Okay, you held a gun to my head, it's Ezeli.
 
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jlprk said:
All I know is, we need someone bigger than Plumlee, so Plumlee can start at PG. Anyone. Doesn't matter the talent level. Okay, you held a gun to my head, it's Ezeli.
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PG as in point guard? Or do you mean PF?
 
What the hell are you doing up at this hour? We great artists live by the night to escape the critics.

Corrected.
 
Gronk Brady said:
My ideal offseason: Sign Whiteside to max, sign and trade Crabbe and draft pick for Noel, sign Sergio, and bring back our remaining free agents... No team will bring the ball into the post with Whiteside and Noel patrolling the paint.
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If you are taking Whiteside then better take Okafor from Philly. If you're having Horford then Noel makes more sense. I really doubt 76ers will give us either unless we get really creative with our trading.
 
I still don't understand the Whiteside love. He's shown flashes, but he's been injured and been inconsistent. Is this a guy we want to use our max on?
 
Dreaming a bit more (too much i guess). To give 22M to Whiteside and 26M to Horford we would have to shed about 7M in salary and renounce all of our RFA except Allan Crabbe. By trading Ed Davis it would be possible if my maths are correct. Do you think that trying to sell this idea to both Whiteside and Horford could help them both agree to come in Portland?
Dame-CJ-Aminu-Horford-Whiteside / XXX - Crabbe - XXX - Vonleh - Plumlee.
 
That lineup would be insanely competitive and would also get you veterans coming to play with that group at a vet minimum or the mid-level exception. Of course there would be some spots to be filled but that is a case of quality over quantity.
 
TBpup said:
That lineup would be insanely competitive and would also get you veterans coming to play with that group at a vet minimum or the mid-level exception. Of course there would be some spots to be filled but that is a case of quality over quantity.
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Definitely. But I try not to be too much excited about this idea.
 
Chris Craig said:
If Olshey can make somewhat kind of miracles happen, this would be one hell of a lineup next year

PG: Dame/Rodriguez/CJ
SG: CJ/Crabbe/Connaughton/Montero
SF: Aminu/Harkless/Layman
PF: M.Williams/Davis/Vonleh/Alexander
C: Whiteside (or Howard)/Plumlee/Davis
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I also think adding Whiteside and Williams would be great; but we don't have enough cap space to sign them both. Would require releasing Montero and Alexander and trading Davis and Connaughton at a minimum, and probably that would not do it either..
 
SwissBlazer said:
Dreaming a bit more (too much i guess). To give 22M to Whiteside and 26M to Horford we would have to shed about 7M in salary and renounce all of our RFA except Allan Crabbe. By trading Ed Davis it would be possible if my maths are correct. Do you think that trying to sell this idea to both Whiteside and Horford could help them both agree to come in Portland?
Dame-CJ-Aminu-Horford-Whiteside / XXX - Crabbe - XXX - Vonleh - Plumlee.
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I think the news is a little grimmer than that; using this , you will find you must also get rid of Vonleh. So in essence stripping down to Lillard, CJ, Aminu, Crabbe, Plumlee. Really drastic, and I would do it. Would those two guys sign if they knew we had to strip down that much? Maybe if Olshey showed them a reasonable plan as to how he would fill the roster?
 
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