Rumor Blazers looking for an established big

[BlazerCaravan]

And I'm okay with that. There's still a chance if Vonleh or Legend turn into a two way star, but yeah it's unlikely.

I think they have a better than 25% chance each. Both are above average defenders.

 

[KeepOnRollin]

Outside of Draymond, who else is a really good defender on that team? Iggy?

Bogut, Livingston... The team as a whole is. Top 3 in the league I believe.

 

[Blazinaway]

Jody Genessy @DJJazzyJody
There continue to be rumblings about how the Jazz want to — and can — re-acquire Paul Millsap and might trade Derrick Favors, per my source.

8:22 AM - 25 Jun 2015

I'd take Favors as an LMA replacement

 

[OSUBlazerfan]

Jake Fischer ‏@JakeLFischer 27m27 minutes ago
More on Portland: From multiple league sources, Blazers have internally discussed options to acquire Kristaps Porzinigs since his ASM proday

 

[Rastapopoulos]

I'd rather have Love than Aldridge right now to be perfectly honest. Love actually likes Portland.

He's a worse player overall, but a better offensive player, and would make the team pretty fun to watch.

EDIT: Forgot he's younger too, so there's always the chance he learns how to be acceptable on defense.

If you can't be with the one you love, Love the one you're with.

 

[B-Roy]

I don't think Love wants to come to Portland.

I think you'll be surprised when it happens. And then all the fluff pieces will hit about how Love wanted to return to Portland all along.

 

[Sean.ivity]

I think you'll be surprised when it happens. And then all the fluff pieces will hit about how Love wanted to return to Portland all along.

A buddy of mine who played ball in high school against love says they know mutual people and that He has heard the Love is home sick... grain of salt.

 

[B-Roy]

A buddy of mine who played ball in high school against love says they know mutual people and that He has heard the Love is home sick... grain of salt.

IF the Blazers actually offer him a max contract (and they will have the ability to), I really believe that Love would seriously consider it.

 

[Natebishop3]

IF the Blazers actually offer him a max contract (and they will have the ability to), I really believe that Love would seriously consider it.

Makes sense.

 

[magnifier661]

Would you be excited if this chain of events happen?

1.) Cleveland trades Thompson and filler for Aldridge.

2.) Portland signs Love Gia free agency?

 

[riverman]

A buddy of mine who played ball in high school against love says they know mutual people and He has heard that Love is home sick... grain of salt.

Living in Cleveland will do that to a guy

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

Would you be excited if this chain of events happen?

1.) Cleveland trades Thompson and filler for Aldridge.

2.) Portland signs Love Gia free agency?

I'd be more excited of number 2 happened and we drafted Upshaw.

 

[KeepOnRollin]

Thompson is a nice player (on one side of the ball at least) but he is no "established big" imo.

 

[e_blazer]

Would you be excited if this chain of events happen?

1.) Cleveland trades Thompson and filler for Aldridge.

2.) Portland signs Love Gia free agency?

Love Gia? Sounds like an Italian porn star.

 

[B-Roy]

Would you be excited if this chain of events happen?

1.) Cleveland trades Thompson and filler for Aldridge.

2.) Portland signs Love Gia free agency?

So....who starts? That's 4 power forwards.

Meyers/Vonleh
Love/Thompson?

Double white bigs front court. Ohhhh yeaaaaah

 

[blue9]

Would you be excited if this chain of events happen?

1.) Cleveland trades Thompson and filler for Aldridge.

2.) Portland signs Love Gia free agency?

I'll be excited about LMA leaving no matter HOW it happens! And that's why I'm not too distressed about Nic getting traded...I think it's a sign that LMA is gone! Unfortunately there's a tiny part of me that thinks we're freeing up cap space for Jordan to give LMA a "better" C to play behind.

 

[magnifier661]

Thompson is a nice player (on one side of the ball at least) but he is no "established big" imo.

I mean the scenario is Aldridge for Thompson and Love.

 

[KeepOnRollin]

I mean the scenario is Aldridge for Thompson and Love.

If we lose Aldridge we can sign Love outright. I pretty meh on Thompson personally. Especially with the contract I think he is about to get.

 

[magnifier661]

So....who starts? That's 4 power forwards.

Meyers/Vonleh
Love/Thompson?

Double white bigs front court. Ohhhh yeaaaaah

I think it has more to do with versatility and adoption to the new nba. True centers are seriously a thing of the past IMO

 

[Pinwheel1]

Jake Fischer ‏@JakeLFischer 27m27 minutes ago
More on Portland: From multiple league sources, Blazers have internally discussed options to acquire Kristaps Porzinigs since his ASM proday

This shit cracks me up. If the Blazers "internally" have discussed acquiring a certain player in the draft, why would they tell anyone? Sure they let it be known that they want to move up to get a player, but not a specific player. Why would they tip their hand? They wouldn't!

 

[craigehlo]

Mason Plumlee or Favors?

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

I think it has more to do with versatility and adoption to the new nba. True centers are seriously a thing of the past IMO

Just need a shot blocker

 

[blazedanugz]

A buddy of mine who played ball in high school against love says they know mutual people and that He has heard the Love is home sick... grain of salt.

im gonna go ahead and shoot that down immediately.............trust me on that one. im not shooting down the idea of him playing here but he is not homesick haha.
kevin never wanted to play here until his later years but i dont think he thought a situation like this would present itself.

 

[oldmangrouch]

After reading this thread, I feel like lighting myself on fire.

It's hard to believe that just a year ago the future seemed so hopeful!

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

"Options"

As in a deal is on the table or brainstorming?

 

[TBpup]

Jake Fischer ‏@JakeLFischer 27m27 minutes ago
More on Portland: From multiple league sources, Blazers have internally discussed options to acquire Kristaps Porzinigs since his ASM proday

That is all well and good but unless they somehow do a S&T with the Lakers for the #2 pick, I don't see how they get him and they don't have the pieces to trade to NY if KP happens to fall to #4.

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

After reading this thread, I feel like lighting myself on fire.

It's hard to believe that just a year ago the future seemed so hopeful!

Who knows? We could be better next season for all we know.

 

[e_blazer]

If we lose Aldridge we can sign Love outright. I pretty meh on Thompson personally. Especially with the contract I think he is about to get.

Yeah, we can try to sign Love outright, but it's more likely that he chooses to re-sign with the Cavs. Also, a S&T with the Cavs gets LMA out of the West and into the East, avoiding making a main opponent stronger.

 

[Boob-No-More]

How is that much worse than Golden State?

In every single possible way imaginable that matters: offense, defense, coaching, playoff experience, their starters are better, their bench is MUCH better. In fact, I can't think of one single area where the imagined line up of Lillard, Crabbe, Danny Green, Kevin Love and Meyers Leonard would be as good, or better, than GSW's current roster.

Mags already mentioned defense, but to expound on that...

GSW is the best defensive team in the league. Draymond Green was 1st Team All Defense and 2nd in DPOY voting. Andrew Bogut was 2nd Team All Defense and 6th in DPOY voting and has led the league in Defensive Plus/Minus the last two seasons. Andre Iguodala was 1st Team All Defense last year when he was a starter - that's right, they have a guy coming off their bench who was 1st Team All Defense just a year ago. The Blazers would have Meyers Leonard and Kevin Love at the 5/4 defensively, matched up against Draymond Green and Andrew Bogut, two of the top 6 defenders in the league. Klay Thompson is better defensively (and offensively) than Danny Green (who would be the Blazers best defender) and Steph Curry is a better defender than Damian Lillard.

BTW, that proposed new line up takes away our 4 best defenders (Lopez, Aldridge, Batum, Matthews/Afflalo - who weren't exactly great defensively) and replaces them with Allen Crabbe, Danny Green, Kevin Love and Meyers Leonard. Green is the only one as good as any of the guys he'd replace. Crabbe and Leonard are young and unproven and Love flat out sucks on defense.

Offensively, also not close. Their best player just won MVP and an NBA championship. Curry is way better than Lillard at this point. He's a better shooter, better passer, better ball handler and better defender. He won MVP, and he won it easily. Lillard wasn't even mentioned in the MVP discussion and didn't get a single vote. Kevin Love would be our second best offensive player, and we all saw how he was exposed when he actually had to play on a good team with other scorers.

Bench - not even close. They had two players (Iguodala - 4th and Speights - 7th) finish in the top 7 in 6th Man of the Year voting. They just had a bench player (Iguodala) win the finals MVP and have another bench player (David Lee) who is only two years removed from being an All Star. They also have Speights (who averaged 10.4 PPG and had a PER = 19.5) and Livingston coming off the bench.

Coach: Steve Kerr just won COY and an NBA title. I like Stotts, but he's no Steve Kerr. He's been past the first round once in his entire career as a head coach.

The proposed line up of: Lillard, Crabbe, Danny Green, Kevin Love and Meyers Leonard would be lucky to win 35 games in the West. The lineup that won 54 and 51 games the last two seasons would match up much better against GSW, and even that's not close. GSW won 67 games and the NBA Championship. We won 51 games and got stomped in the 1st Round.

About the only thing that line up has going for it is youth, but GSW isn't exactly old. They just had two players (Draymond Green - 2nd and Klay Thompson - 5th) finish in the top 5 in Most Improved Player voting. Meyer's Leonard was the only Blazer to receive a vote - exactly one 3rd place vote, which was good enough to make him part of an 11-way tie for 2oth place in the MIP voting.

I guess the better question would be: How is that not much, much worse than Golden State?

BNM

 

[Boob-No-More]

A buddy of mine who played ball in high school against love says they know mutual people and that He has heard the Love is home sick... grain of salt.

So, LeBron went home and now Love wants to come home. I think Love needs to hypnotize LeBron and convince him he's really from Dayton, OR, not Dayton, OH.

BNM