Notice Neil Olshey: Portland Trail Blazers still 'looking to make trades'

[illmatic99]

This summer has been so deflating as a fan. Imagine how Dame feels.

What a cluster.

 

[e_blazer]

This summer has been so deflating as a fan. Imagine how Dame feels.

What a cluster.

I'd love to see a splashy trade as much as any Blazers fan, but I'm not sure how getting Curry and two likely future rotation players in Simons and Trent, coupled with Baldwin's emergence as a major steal from last year equates to deflating. The second unit is definitely going to be much stronger than last year. I'm not in love with having lost Ed, but I don't see how Zach can be given the minutes he needs to grow without that change having been made.

But, yeah, find us a major deal at PF or SF, Neil.

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

This summer has been so deflating as a fan. Imagine how Dame feels.

What a cluster.

I’d say it really started with the way the playoffs started, the way they ended, then Boogie and Lebron did their thing. It’s been a crappy summer.

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

You mightily underrated his defense. He's a top 5 rim protector in the league that averaged something like 20ppg per 36 on 55% shooting over the 2nd half of the year.

I don’t think I’d hitch my wagon to Nurk either, not because he is a bad player, but because I don’t think he’s mentally capable of being the man. Fortunately he came to a team with a guy who is the man and allows Nurkic to be the 2nd 3rd option and be a big body defensively. I like the contract for Nurk, and I like the trade to get him too.

Now it does look like we let AC go for literally NOTHING, which while I wasn’t a fan ofhis game, it’s still a contract he shouldn’t of gotten coupled with a trade that seemed to have yielded nothing.

 

[e_blazer]

I don’t think I’d hitch my wagon to Nurk either, not because he is a bad player, but because I don’t think he’s mentally capable of being the man. Fortunately he came to a team with a guy who is the man and allows Nurkic to be the 2nd 3rd option and be a big body defensively. I like the contract for Nurk, and I like the trade to get him too.

Now it does look like we let AC go for literally NOTHING, which while I wasn’t a fan ofhis game, it’s still a contract he shouldn’t of gotten coupled with a trade that seemed to have yielded nothing.

Actually, assuming the TPE isn’t used, we got less than nothing for Crabbe because we got saddled with taking back a dead weight contract and having to stretch it over several years. The smarter play would have been to not match his RFA offer sheet and let him go to the Nets. Unless, of course, the TPE ends up being used.

 

[Pinwheel1]

Now it does look like we let AC go for literally NOTHING, which while I wasn’t a fan of his game, it’s still a contract he shouldn’t of gotten coupled with a trade that seemed to have yielded nothing.

So Neil matched the contract NJ gave AC in order to see if he would progress enough to keep, or use as trade bait. He didn't so he cut him and the contract loose. The penalty for matching...... one more year of his service, and 2% of our team salary in contracts coming back. Not a big deal. Matching salaries to try to keep from losing an asset is not that horrible of a gamble.

 

[tester551]

So Neil matched the contract NJ gave AC in order to see if he would progress enough to keep, or use as trade bait. He didn't so he cut him and the contract loose. The penalty for matching...... one more year of his service, and 2% of our team salary in contracts coming back. Not a big deal. Matching salaries to try to keep from losing an asset is not that horrible of a gamble.

1) Crabbe was never that good, and should have never been called an 'asset' with that contract
2) NO has let several other assets walk out the door without even attempting to re-sign them. Rolo, Gerald, & Ed all come to mind.... Therefore that logic justifying the move is inconsistent & faulty
3) you're right, 2% of the cap isn't THAT big of a deal. But Portland has about 5% tied up in dead space because of MULTIPLE poor decisions

 

[Pinwheel1]

1) Crabbe was never that good, and should have never been called an 'asset' with that contract
2) NO has let several other assets walk out the door without even attempting to re-sign them. Rolo, Gerald, & Ed all come to mind.... Therefore that logic justifying the move is inconsistent & faulty
3) you're right, 2% of the cap isn't THAT big of a deal. But Portland has about 5% tied up in dead space because of MULTIPLE poor decisions

In hind site he was over paid and shouldn't have been matched. But he obviously was loved by at least one other team so others might have also paid for a shooter in certain trade scenarios where we needed a big contract to be included.

Rolo, Gerald and ED were not young RFA's so I don't think these comparisons are very good.