Brook Lopez

[B-Roy]

You're saying that it's better to let assets expire (become worthless) than to convert them into something of potential value (trading them away)? How does that make sense?

Capspace isn't worthless. If you're going to trade these "assets", they should be for expiring contracts.

I use the term assets loosely, because no one is willing to give much value for them.

 

[B-Roy]

That would leave me with a do over team of Drummond, Aldridge, Jones, Batum, Teague, Williams, Smith. Nice rebuilding chips and assets for future trades. While those trades might not all work, they are all reasonable

They are not, LOL.

How you ended up at that roster from ours is baffling.

 

[magnifier661]

Capspace isn't worthless. If you're going to trade these "assets", they should be for expiring contracts.

I use the term assets loosely, because no one is willing to give much value for them.

That is of course if Portland is an interesting destination for a free-agent. They will want two things: Money and winning. If we show disfunction and look like shit this season, we will get the table scraps and pay a great deal for em.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

Capspace isn't worthless. If you're going to trade these "assets", they should be for expiring contracts.

I use the term assets loosely, because no one is willing to give much value for them.

All I would want to trade them for are picks or young, untapped potential. There's no reason we can't both trade away assets and still retain significant cap-space.

 

[BBert]

To clarify, I'd much rather have first round draft picks this year than tons of cap space. But it doesn't appear we are going to get a bunch of first round picks for our mutinous crappy guards. I don't know what the Blazers are doing with Camby and Crash (that would make a good title for a crappy tv show, but I digress) but they should be traded for picks and prospects at all cost, IMO. Take a loss, I don't care. If we can't get picks and prospects, we need to let some of these contracts go at the end of the year and start over. Yes, it's that bad in Blazerslandia.

 

[B-Roy]

All I would want to trade them for are picks or young, untapped potential. There's no reason we can't both trade away assets and still retain significant cap-space.

We don't know what deals are out there. The only ones I'd be willing to take are expirings + picks or a good young player.

I highly doubt we can get the latter with what we're offering. I wouldn't take a non expiring without a higher (15 or lower) pick in the draft.

 

[B-Roy]

That is of course if Portland is an interesting destination for a free-agent. They will want two things: Money and winning. If we show disfunction and look like shit this season, we will get the table scraps and pay a great deal for em.

That's only for the top stars, of which there's only one this off season.

Good but not great players like Hawes will most likely follow where the money goes.

 

[Denny Crane]

You do if your team isn't as good as Chicago's to start with. We have guys like that already on the team. What we don't have are the other pieces

The Bulls had 3 starters, and one of those was after signing Boozer. Their starting SG was a D-Leaguer, Keith Bogans even after signing those 3 and Boozer.

They dumped most of their players for cap space to try and sign two of the three who ended up in Miami.