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I'd attempt to sign/entice Pao Gasol first. Use as much of the MLE as necessary.

If any money left, then target CJ Miles. Hope Mo Williams either doesn't opt out OR that he resigns for small exception money.
 
Maybe gasol might come here. If he could come off the bench, we got a great front court
 
Draco said:
Bench production is the main problem with this team. I want us to get a backup PF/C.

Pau Gasol - I would offer the max MLE but he probably goes to Memphis or a team with cap room.
Emeka Okafor - He would probably be my main target. I doubt anyone pays him more than the MLE and he could be a valuable addition like the Mavs buying low on an injured Tyson Chandler.
Andray Blatche - He only makes 1.3 million this year, I think we could offer him more than Brooklyn.
Spencer Hawes - He could be a good option for the MLE, but may earn far more money. He lacks the defense we'd idealy want out of a backup big. I think I'd rather try and get Okafor but if Hawes is available he would provide production off the bench and be able to take LaMarcus' spot in the offense as a jump shooting big.
Jermaine O'Neal - Could be a great option as an end of the bench veteran big man although I wouldn't give him the MLE.

Jordan Hill, Jason Smith, Boris Diaw are other big men I would show interest in.

I think Mo will opt out of his contract, if he wants to resign in the $3 million range that is fine but I would not use the full MLE on him. I don't think anyone offers him more than $3 million. If he leaves I think CJ could fill much of his role. We should let Earl Watson become an assistant coach. If Mo goes to another team we will need to add another PG to the roster. I would see if Claver accepts a buy out, he will be in the final year of his contract and can earn the same money but have far more playing time oversees. We could use his roster spot. Are we going to extend Meyers Leonard rookie contract another year? We have to make a decision on that this summer. I would think we will decline just as we did with Nolan Smith. We should probably consider trading him to free up a roster spot if that is the case. I'd rather have a player like Jermaine Oneal who I'm confident with a 15mpg stretch than Meyers.

So we only have one roster spot as is but could have as many as four if Neil does all of the above.
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I don't think Jerm will be as good next season. Although he has proven everyone wrong the last 2 years.

Out of the bigs, I like Hawes and Gasol. Both players have perimeter games and can rebound.

For guards, I would take Jack
 
I'm not sure, there are a lot to choose from this offseason, but I would also like to see Robinson and Barton really move forward in their careers and take a solid position on the second unit. But since both those cats are crazy bundles of energy, I think getting a free agent that is more of a glue guy/thinking player would be best. Bayless would be nice off the bench. I would love to get Humphries as backup C. I think Shaun Livingston is unrestricted, he would be perfect off our bench. I wouldn't mind Kirk Hinrich if he's cheap. Dallas has a bunch of unrestricted guys who could be helpful. As I go through the lists, there are a ton of options. The good news, with such a highlighted draft, many teams are focusing there, but this may be a great year for cheaper free agents.
 
magnifier661 said:
Maybe gasol might come here. If he could come off the bench, we got a great front court
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Olshey just needs to sell, sell, sell. Kind of hard to outsell Pao's brother though, if it were to come to that.
 
dviss1 said:
I might hate to lose CJ but... You may have something there...
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Why? what has CJ done? You want to wait 3-5 years to show he's a mediocre at best player before we let him go.
 
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BigGameDamian said:
Why? what has CJ done? You want to wait 3-5 years to show he's a mediocre at best player before we let him go.
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Says the fan that demanded we trade Lopez so we can get asik. Or the same fan that demanded we get Melo.
 
yuyuza1 said:
No need for that. We can get Mo's production pretty easily with minimum PG pickups.
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Not really. Mo leaving is going to leave a big hole to be filled off of the bench. He led the NBA is assists off of the bench, didn't he?
 
santeesioux said:
Swaggy P or whatever his name is would certainly make our bench scoring go up.
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Seriously swaggy Pete? Fuck if you thought mos defense and shooting was hair pulling worthy swaggy Pete will make you want to take a shotgun to the dome. Nooooo thanks
 
BigGameDamian said:
Show me where I demanded a Lopez for Asik trade? And show me where I demanded Melo trade?
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Sure no problem...

BigGameDamian said:
So you would do this trade? http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=jwcz6ab
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BigGameDamian said:
Lillard\Mello\Aldridge I think would be good enough for a championship. I would do it if Mello was willing to sign a 2 or 3 year deal with the Blazers.
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BigGameDamian said:
You don't know that Mello would be a disaster.
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Do you want your gems for ASIK?
 
Okay so someone explain how a veteran post player gives us more firepower off the bench. Lopez is more than adequate as our starting 5, Trob is developing nicely into a good hustle energy 4 and Freeland is fine as a backup 5. Where we really struggle is scoring from the 2 and 3 overall, especially off the bench. Sure maybe CJ or Crabbe or Barton can do it, but Wright isn't good enough.

BTW you guys really undervalue Mo. Good good locker room guy on this team.
 
Mediocre Man said:
A vet big is a must.
Assuming we keep the team together, they need some guys with playoff experience
then nothing but defensive players
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One move: Add Gortat

The rest will develop....argh..."bake"

Chemistry is a good thing - - perhaps we replace Wright with another shooter, but Gortat will add much needed depth in the middle. With LMA, RoLo and Gortat - - we are tough and can weather the mid-year nagging injury.
 
BBert said:
Olshey just needs to sell, sell, sell. Kind of hard to outsell Pao's brother though, if it were to come to that.
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Either way you got two instant contenders to pick from. Pau is that good.
 
I think Olshey and Arn Tellem are pretty close, so I would look at players who have him as their agent as possible FA pickups. The 2 I'm thinking of are Gasol and Mike Miller. Veterans who can come in and score, something our current bench lacks the ability to do consistently.
 
(Before reading if anyone else had them...)
Avery Bradley
Shaun Livingston

The former for his relentless defense, the latter because he's a big PG who would work great next to Lillard - the reason I wanted him LAST year.
 
Soooo... why would Gortat leave starting for and up and coming team to take less money an be a backup on a different up and coming team.
 
Just like rockets fans were delusional in thinking the calls in the series were going 80/20 against them.
a lot of blazer fans are delusional in thinking all STARTING caliber players will take a lesser role to come off the bench and less minutes to come off the bench as well.
Considering the blazers starters play a lot of minutes why would players that could start for the other 29 teams want to come off the bench?
Bradley/Ariza/Lowery/Gortat are All players that could, and SHOULD be starting on their respective teams. What makes people assume they'd be willing to take a reduced role(minutes/bench/money) to come off the bench? Even Miami can't get those players to come off the bench.
SMH @ some of the posters in this thread.

Edit - Wesley Matthews has already proven he isn't good @ coming off the bench. So please wake up fanatics.
 
magnifier661 said:
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Do you want your gems for ASIK?
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First off thats not demanding a trade and I'm not the only one in here who was saying we should consider Melo. I do believe yout the one that first said something about how the dude just scores. I do believe there is a conversation about it in the thread "Trades that move the needle" I'd bump it but I'll get banned.:MARIS61: Anyway I'm not the one that started the whole thing anyway.
 
People are over valuing post bench players. If you look at the remaining 8 teams, there aren't many reserve posts to be excited about. Chris Anderson in Miami, Diaw in SA, Plumlee in BKN, Scola and Mahinmi in Indiana, Steven Adams in OKC, Glen Davis for the Clippers, and Drew Freakin Gooden in Washington. Compare our own Robinson and even Freeland to those guys and we arent as terrible at the position as people like to rant about.

What we need is ballers regardless of position. Right now we have nothing from the wing off the bench.
 
Defense, defense, DEFENSE!

Full MLE: Avery Bradley

Leo/scraps: Larry Sanders
 
We need a back up pg, badly. Thank god mo is opting out n
 
ehizzy3 said:
We need a back up pg, badly. Thank god mo is opting out n
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I know he said that earlier in the year, but what about now that he's playing like shit? He could really fuck them by not opting out.
 
The more I think on it it Chris Kaman is a very likely candidate, there is an Olshey connection as well
 
santeesioux said:
I know he said that earlier in the year, but what about now that he's playing like shit? He could really fuck them by not opting out.
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It would actually help the Blazers, though. Mo would be used in some manner, and the entire MLE could be used to add some scoring and defense. Mo not opting out is a positive, IMO. Keep him, or use him in a trade, either way that money is already accounted for next year and doesn't impact the MLE space.
 
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