Do The Blazers Tank?

[ABM]

...or attempt to trade for /acquire a decent big man?

 

[Denny Crane]

Say no to:

 

[Minstrel]

With the way they've been decimated by injury, tanking and playing hard may yield rather similar results. :/

 

[ehizzy3]

tanking in the nba is useless with the lottery

 

[santeesioux]

Play hard every game, but if anyone else goes down for a long time, we'll just really be that bad.

 

[andalusian]

Go for the championship. Or, at least, 18-0.

This team might have to learn to play fast, small-ball now. Whatever happens with it, happens, and it is not a lost year.

 

[ABM]

This team might have to learn to play fast, small-ball now. Whatever happens with it, happens, and it is not a lost year.

So, then....night in, and night out, this team can compete with Howard and Aldridge as our Centers?

 

[illmatic99]

We're 18-12. It's too late to tank.

 

[SheedSoNasty]

So, then....night in, and night out, this team can compete with Howard and Aldridge as our Centers?

Pendergraph might have to man up, too.

It won't be pretty, but it's what we've got.

Will we get another player exception?

 

[Natebishop3]

Man, at this point, I don't see much hope of doing anything in the playoffs without a big man. We're too decimated by injuries to make a trade, unless we can pry away Okafor from the Hornets. I say fuck it, try to play our hardest, and draft the BPA.

 

[andalusian]

So, then....night in, and night out, this team can compete with Howard and Aldridge as our Centers?

More like Aldridge and Pendergraph, it seems. On the other hand, PHX is doing very well with Channing Frye as their Center. Aldridge is twice the player Frye is. Are they going to win a ring? Not likely. But Aldridge is too good a player, Roy is too good a player, JB has too much potential - and Miller is still a very respectable player in this league. Add the role players and hope that Rudy, Nic and Travis come back. Add maybe a trade or two, and we should be at least in playoffs contention.

 

[hypnosmurf]

I hope not.

 

[ABM]

We're 18-12. It's too late to tank.

Let me reiterate......


By tank, I'm effectively saying KP makes no moves.

OTOH, assuming Batum, Rudy, and Travis can come back by the playoffs, might KP try and swing a deal involving Bayless or Miller and, say, Cunningham or Pendergraph, plus a 1st Rounder for a (expiring?) Center?

 

[SheedSoNasty]

What deals out there wouldn't just be a band-aid type of move? We ARE guard heavy right now, but I don't see what would be plausible while also adding to our future depth.

 

[mgb]

Let me reiterate......


By tank, I'm effectively saying KP makes no moves.

OTOH, assuming Batum, Rudy, and Travis can come back by the playoffs, might KP try and swing a deal involving Bayless or Miller and, say, Cunningham or Pendergraph, plus a 1st Rounder for a (expiring?) Center?

I don't think we should make any moves. I don't consider that tanking though. I think a move would probably make us worse, especially in the long term.

 

[Entity]

There's no point in trying to make moves just so we can make something of this season, especially since we're not going to get much for injured players, and the fact that other GMs are going to know we're desperate and try to take advantage of that. We'll just have to suck it up and play it out.

 

[e_blazer]

Absolutely no way this team tanks as long as Nate's the coach and Brandon Roy and LA are available to play. This year's emphasis changes from trying to contend in the playoffs to developing young players and trying to improve the others. Given the guts they showed tonight, people would be stupid to count them out in any game.

 

[craigehlo]

Time to trade. Get Camby KP.

 

[andalusian]

There's no point in trying to make moves just so we can make something of this season, especially since we're not going to get much for injured players, and the fact that other GMs are going to know we're desperate and try to take advantage of that. We'll just have to suck it up and play it out.

This is the last year for the next 5 years or so we have any cap space. It would be stupid not to use it.

 

[crowTrobot]

here's a stat. if the lakers lose tonight (currently trail the thunder by 12) we will be tied with them for best conference record at 12-5. pretty amazing all things considered.

 

[Nikolokolus]

Let me reiterate......


By tank, I'm effectively saying KP makes no moves.

OTOH, assuming Batum, Rudy, and Travis can come back by the playoffs, might KP try and swing a deal involving Bayless or Miller and, say, Cunningham or Pendergraph, plus a 1st Rounder for a (expiring?) Center?

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playoff aspirations aside, our most tradeable assets are probably Blake and Trout (even with him busted up) and you could probably sweeten it with a guy like Rudy and toss in some Euro draft rights and get somebody decent.

My best hope is that KP can somehow turn Blake into Brandon Bass either straight up, or maybe do a trade of Blake, Rudy, Travis and Claver's draft rights for Anthony Randolph and Vladamir Radmonivich -- which gives the Dubs cap relief, takes back a non expiring 6 million dollar deal with two more years and gives them an intriguing prospect in Rudy with some untapped upside and a 2nd or 3rd point guard they can let walk at the end of the year.

 

[SheedSoNasty]

Time to trade. Get Camby KP.

Who's also injury prone. That would be fantastic. We'd have a solid 21 feet of unusable centers on our roster.

 

[ABM]

What about, say, Andre Miller for Nazr Mohammed?

 

[Minstrel]

It would be a bit amusing if this was the first Portland team since the 1999-2000 team to make the second round.

 

[Nikolokolus]

What deals out there wouldn't just be a band-aid type of move? We ARE guard heavy right now, but I don't see what would be plausible while also adding to our future depth.

Rudy for Anthony Randolph, but also ship Blake and Travis' expiring deals to the Dubs who probably need to tear it down and rebuild and take back Vlad Rad who makes 6 million this year and next.

 

[Nikolokolus]

What about, say, Andre Miller for Nazr Mohammed?

That really doesn't seem like a move the Bobcats would want to make. Miller's guaranteed two years are not going to be very attractive. Blake is probably going to be easier to move.

 

[Pinwheel1]

Let me reiterate......


By tank, I'm effectively saying KP makes no moves.

OTOH, assuming Batum, Rudy, and Travis can come back by the playoffs, might KP try and swing a deal involving Bayless or Miller and, say, Cunningham or Pendergraph, plus a 1st Rounder for a (expiring?) Center?

I would have no problem trading Miller, Cunningham, Pendegraph, and a couple Euros for a Center. Now who would that be?

 

[Pinwheel1]

The last time we discussed Joel Freeland....... What was the verdict on the earliest we could get him?

 

[RR7]

Is there a move to be made that helps? Then look at it. Is it more tanking by not making a move, then trading away one of 8 rotation players? I don't see us doing anything. I say hell no to tanking though, and I'm still pretty sure we make the playoffs with this group. It just got tougher, but so be it.

 

[julius]

Who's also injury prone. That would be fantastic. We'd have a solid 21 feet of unusable centers on our roster.

instead of the 14' of unusable knees we have.