Trade Idea How We can Fix this Team, both Short Term and Long Term, by the Trade Deadline

[BBert]

I hope Neil does a trade that pisses people off but is good for the team in the long run!

So your primary objective is to piss people off?

I never would have guessed.

 

[BBert]

I guess I stuck this in the wrong thread yesterday; maybe one of the coaches should ask Harkless what should be done.
http://www.blazersedge.com/2016/12/...f-id-tell-you-why-blazers-are-losing-portland

Harkless hasn't been around long enough to fully understand that he cannot tell Quick or any other media leach anything "in confidence".

Hark: Don't do it. These guys are not your friend. Do not trust them. Ever.

Now, if you want to tell me, I promise I won't breath a word of it. Scout's honor.

 

[Trackjack]

I believe we need go after Noel great defender and rim proctectors. He fits Neil like ex lottery picks that been lost on the bench so he fits perfect for this team. Who we trade for him it would have to be Crabbe or turner due to they need veterans and wings. It properly take a one our 1st next year. This shore up our short and long term for this team.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

I'm sure Crabbe and/or Turner would be useful/productive players in San Antonio or Golden State. Turner is something like a Shaun Livingston. The problem with both players is entirely in what they're paid. Livingston makes a third what Turner makes. As I've mentioned before, Ian Clark makes a tenth what Crabbe makes. Those are the prices where role-players become real assets to good teams. If Crabbe and Turner were making a tenth or a quarter or a third what they're currently making, I'd love having both players on the team.

Money fucks up a lot of things. For one thing, if a guy's being paid minimum, he's in no position to feel butthurt at anything the coach asks of him. Come off the bench for ten minutes every other game? Sure! But when you're being paid like Crabbe and Turner it can either make you feel entitled (which is bad) or put undue pressure on you (which is bad). I'm sure a lot of Crabbe's problems this year are mental. You've got to wonder what your teammates are thinking of you and your mega-contract.

There wasn't really much Olshey could do with Crabbe, though - it was pay him or lose him for nothing. In that situation (like with Batum when Minny tried to get him) you pay him and think of him like an "asset". Sadly for Olshey and the Blazers, Crabbe has been just the first syllable of that.

Turner was avoidable, though. That was a desperate move after all the preferred choices turned us down (thankfully, in the case of Parsons).

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Remember how we deemed Batum unacceptable at the price he ended up getting? Well it's just $2M more than Crabbe and $4M more than Turner. Meanwhile, he's been tearing it up of late, averaging around 17/7/7.

 

[dviss1]

Sigh. Patty Mills.

Thing is, if SA had them, they would not only be better, they would be paid a lot less.

So when Danny Green got his 4 year 45 million that wasn't considered a huge bloated contract?

 

[Rastapopoulos]

So when Danny Green got his 4 year 45 million that wasn't considered a huge bloated contract?

No, it was "a freaking steal"