Love vs Henderson (3 Viewers)

[weaponsgrade]

Is Portland playing Love for trade bait, keeping Henderson?

 

[SharpesTriumph]

No

 

[weaponsgrade]

If Portland is keeping Caleb. Why? With Henderson back at some point. Would it not make sense to put up Love as a trade possibility? Too many guards?

 

[Sheldon Shape]

Dame and Jrue are going on 36 years old. They aren't going to be fully healthy. They will miss games. Scoot has shown he will miss games as well. Nothing wrong with keeping Caleb and not too many guards at all. The question is would Caleb want to sign on a long-term deal knowing there are 3 other point guards in front of him.

 

[Cugel]

Totally different players. Scoot is a pass first guy.

 

[weaponsgrade]

Dame and Jrue are going on 36 years old. They aren't going to be fully healthy. They will miss games. Scoot has shown he will miss games as well. Nothing wrong with keeping Caleb and not too many guards at all. The question is would Caleb want to sign on a long-term deal knowing there are 3 other point guards in front of him.

Ok. But as you said, Caleb could sign elsewhere for bigger bucks if his play continues. Waiting, they could lose him and value. Nobody knew he was this good.

 

[BBert]

If everyone is healthy, and there's a log jam at PG, I'd look into what we could get for Jrue. Meanwhile, we should hang onto Love until the end of the season and make the qualifying offer. Having lots of options and possible trades is a good problem to have.

 

[STOMP]

If I was the GM, I'd always be open to offers for any of my players & Caleb has shown himself to be worthy of a commitment from a team. It's nice to have options. That said, Caleb isn't a natural PG in his play style but he is traditional PG sized. Going forward, his career projects best on a team playing along with one of those rarest of unicorns, a larger distributor... like Deni

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[JfizzleBlazer]

Keep in mind keeping Love will eat into a good portion of whatever exception(s) we have this offseason. I would totally do it, but we are going to have a log jam next year at guard.

I do not see Jrue getting dealt. The value won't be there and he is a perfect fit next to Dame.

Scoot needs to come back and show he can play. Maybe some team still has high hopes for him.

 

[STOMP]

Keep in mind keeping Love will eat into a good portion of whatever exception(s) we have this offseason. I would totally do it, but we are going to have a log jam next year at guard.

I do not see Jrue getting dealt. The value won't be there and he is a perfect fit next to Dame.

Scoot needs to come back and show he can play. Maybe some team still has high hopes for him.

Huh? Why do you expect Dame to ever be close to the Dame we fondly recall ever again? He's coming back from an injury that has taken down many younger players before him. How about we don't put the cart before the horse on expectations of him post injury? The chances of a young player coming back from a bad hammy are much better then an old player coming back from a ruptured/torn achilles no matter how much fans are rooting for the old guy

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[JfizzleBlazer]

Huh? Why do you expect Dame to ever be close to the Dame we fondly recall ever again? He's coming back from an injury that has taken down many younger players before him. How about we don't put the cart before the horse on expectations of him post injury? The chances of a young player coming back from a bad hammy are much better then an old player coming back from a ruptured/torn achilles no matter how much fans are rooting for the old guy

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Of course. I've said this take probably 5 times and this is the only time I didn't mention ONLY if Dame looks 85% of what he once was. If he looks nothing like what he was, you obviously keep Scoot.

I'm of the mindset that I want one consolidation trade to bring in another star player (again, as long as Dame looks like he will recover at a high rate).

Dame, Jrue, Camara, Deni, Sharpe and a star (like Bam) would get me super excited for next year.

 

[STOMP]

85% of a 36 year old Dame can't create his own shot. If that turns out to be so, he's a poor man's prime Steve Kerr. Wipe away the nostalgia, everyone bows to father time.

Maybe some team still has high hopes for Scoot following an injury that shouldn't affect a 22 year old (his age next season) long term? Unless there is some behind the scenes stuff that gives the team legit pause, I sure hope that team is the PTB. Every player deals with injury but the meat of his promising career is still before him.

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