Burks is a decent player (as a 6-8th man).
I never said they were 'assets'. Just that the reported package is better than Dort (who is wildly overrated)
Noel has averaged about 5 points and 6 rebounds over the last 3 seasons, when he hasn't been injured. He's an acceptable backup big for a limited role. But that is why he's only worthy of a minimum contract; instead, he'll make 9.2M next season
Burks is a one-dimensional player, kind of like Tony Snell on Red Bull. His career marks in PER and TS% are below average; he's a mediocre rebounder and passer. He seems worthy of somewhere between a vet-minimun deal and 4M/year, but 4M is an overpay. But he will make 10.1M next season
Burks + Noel will make 19.4 M. The supposed NY offer didn't mention Bledsoe so essentially Portland would drop from 7 to 11 AND waste their big 'valuable' TPE for a couple of grossly overpaid scrubs. It's an insulting offer and I suspect it was deliberately leaked out of NY to be an insulting offer. And a leak like that might very well show there is a conflict in the Knicks front office about a Portland offer. Maybe Blazers offered something like Bledsoe + #7 for Randle + 11 + future pick(s)
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I'm not in favor of 7 for Dort and 12...at all. I kind of hate it in fact. He's a bad shooter as a smallish guard. Norm Powell with shitty offense and much better defense. He'll be in the final year of his rookie extension next season too, which is not a plus. Maybe the biggest red flag is that he's missed more than 90 games in 3 seasons. Now I don't know if it was injuries or a lot of DNP-CD's in his rookie year, but if injuries, that's a big concern
but I can see what the bet might be with Dort...that he might be a clone of Marcus Smart. A 3rd year comparison:
accounting for the fact that Smart has been on much better teams, in many ways Dort equals or beats Smart in the comparison. The big advantage for Smart is that he can play PG. He has a much higher assist rate which may mean that Dort is locked into being a small wing
there is also the significant factor that Dort's salary fit's easily into Portland's smallest TPE so it doesn't cost the Blazers an additional asset
still, I don't find that persuasive at all....especially not at the cost of #7.
I suppose if the plan was something like #7 for Dort + #12 + #30 + future pick; then the Blazers traded #30 + future pick for Grant while using #12 on Duren/Sochan I could throw up a little and accept the trade
