New Quick Hint: All Star?

[e_blazer]

If that's true, does that mean he could be tradeable before July 1st? I wonder if KP really does have something in the works and asked Joel if he'd do this now so he can go forward with his plans? Then again I don't know enough about the CBA to know if that's even possible under the current rules.

If he's opted into his last year, then I think Joel is tradeable right now. According to the CBA FAQ page: "Teams are free to make trades again once their season has ended, but cannot trade players whose contracts are ending or could end due to an option or ETO." Seem to me that once he exercises his option, he could be included in a deal.

 

[BBert]

I love all the speculation. You guys are pretty sharp.

I don't believe there is anything KP can do to keep his job.

RE the July 1 issue: Maybe KP puts a deal together in principle but is fired before it is consummated? Just another way of screwing the guy, Revenge of the Nerds style.

I'm hoping for a draft day blockbuster (I imagine we all are). I'd like a point guard, please. The Brand + #2 deal would be pretty sweet too.

Does it make sense we could have an agreement with Monty to send three of his favorites over in exchange for CP3?

 

[Blaze01]

Well, it could be conceivable that Philly wants to unload Brand so badly that they would throw in the #2 pick to make it happen....I would be surprised to see it happen, but it certainly has happened before....

If that was the case then POR could throw back expiring deals of Miller & Przybilla for Brand & #2.....Or maybe more likely they dangle Aldridge & Miller, get back Brand & #2, figuring that Collins would prefer to go with a more proven player in Aldridge than another young big man like Favors (or Turner)....and then POR could spin off the #2 to SA for Tony Parker & change (probably using Przybilla (expiring) and Webster....

Parker, Roy, Batum, Camby\Brand, Oden is an upgrade IMO.....sign a "shooter" with the MLE, a guy like Korver, Morrow or Redick, maybe M. Miller....then use thier draft pick on a young big like Soloman Alabi, Seraphin, Sanders, Whiteside, Lawal....maybe thier 2nd round pick as well....a guy like Samuels, Varnado, Booker, Caracter, Pittman, Zoubek........

 

[Blaze01]

Let's see...so it is very conceivable that you could have

PG: Parker, Bayless, Koponen (or Mills?) or a vet (Ridnour, Foye, Watson) signed with the bi-annual exception
SG: Roy, Rudy
SF: Batum, M.Miller (MLE signing), Cunningham
PF: Camby, Brand, Pendergraph
C: Oden, S.Alabi? (or H.Whiteside...w\1st round pick if C.Ford rumours are true)

add a second round guy like Willie Warren, Mikhail Torrance, Quincy Pondexter, Terrico White, Jordan Crawford or Da'Sean Butler?

Resign J.Howard for 15th slot?

 

[mook]

Parker, Roy, Batum, Camby\Brand, Oden is an upgrade IMO.....sign a "shooter" with the MLE, a guy like Korver, Morrow or Redick, maybe M. Miller....then use thier draft pick on a young big like Soloman Alabi, Seraphin, Sanders, Whiteside, Lawal....maybe thier 2nd round pick as well....a guy like Samuels, Varnado, Booker, Caracter, Pittman, Zoubek........

If we were to trade for the #2 pick, wouldn't we be selling ourselves a little short to swap it for Parker? He is only 28 next year, but he's played a lot overseas and in the post season, and has had some injuries the last few years and his productivity this last year really took a nose dive. If he loses a step, he's not nearly the player he is right now. He doesn't have great perimeter shooting or passing to fall back on.

I'd rather see us work out a deal where we get back Darren Collison from the Hornets and maybe something else. Much younger PG who can hit three pointers.

 

[hasoos]

Rumor is Amare is heading to Miami, so probably not him at this point.

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

Quick doesnt know shit. Did I say that already?

 

[Ed O]

Quick doesnt know shit. Did I say that already?

Feel free to leave this thread to the rest of us, then.

Ed O.

 

[LameR]

Let's see...so it is very conceivable that you could have

PG: Parker, Bayless, Koponen (or Mills?) or a vet (Ridnour, Foye, Watson) signed with the bi-annual exception
SG: Roy, Rudy
SF: Batum, M.Miller (MLE signing), Cunningham
PF: Camby, Brand, Pendergraph
C: Oden, S.Alabi? (or H.Whiteside...w\1st round pick if C.Ford rumours are true)

add a second round guy like Willie Warren, Mikhail Torrance, Quincy Pondexter, Terrico White, Jordan Crawford or Da'Sean Butler?

Resign J.Howard for 15th slot?

You've really become infatuated with the Philly-then-San Antonio trade haven't you?

 

[B-Roy]

Let's see...so it is very conceivable that you could have

PG: Parker, Bayless, Koponen (or Mills?) or a vet (Ridnour, Foye, Watson) signed with the bi-annual exception
SG: Roy, Rudy
SF: Batum, M.Miller (MLE signing), Cunningham
PF: Camby, Brand, Pendergraph
C: Oden, S.Alabi? (or H.Whiteside...w\1st round pick if C.Ford rumours are true)

add a second round guy like Willie Warren, Mikhail Torrance, Quincy Pondexter, Terrico White, Jordan Crawford or Da'Sean Butler?

Resign J.Howard for 15th slot?

That team blows. You have 2 capable shooters and a 15 million dollar wasteland on the bench.

 

[Blaze01]

So does the current one, or haven't you been watching?????

 

[EGame]

Yeah, the current team when not healthy blows (actually even that is argueable). When fully healthy, I believe we are quite a force.

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

Yeah, the current team when not healthy blows (actually even that is argueable). When fully healthy, I believe we are quite a force.

BOOM SHAKA LAKA!

 

[Blaze01]

If we were to trade for the #2 pick, wouldn't we be selling ourselves a little short to swap it for Parker?

I certainly don't think so....The guy is still pretty young, is arguably thier best player IMO, has NBA playoff and finals experience (wasn't he an NBA finals MVP?...edit...yes he was, in 2007)....He can score at will, I think he would play extremely well off of Roy and would be that consistent #2 scoring option that Aldridge has been unable to provide....

All this specualtion of Chris Paul, Deron Williams or Chris Bosh are pipedreams....they are not going to happen...Here you have a player who is seemingly available and is a very good player...I don't see a lot of other players of his caliber on the market....Andre Iguodala, Rudy Gay, Danny Granger, Monta Ellis, Joe Johnson...some good\really good players there, but I don't think any of those players is better than Tony Parker, nor have any of them achieved anything close to what he has in his career so far.....

 

[Denny Crane]

Carlos Boozer.

 

[Blaze01]

Yeah, the current team when not healthy blows (actually even that is argueable). When fully healthy, I believe we are quite a force.

A force to what? Get out of the 1st round?

 

[Blaze01]

Carlos Boozer.

I like Boozer actually, I would flip Aldridge for him in a heartbeat...that being said I don't see Boozer coming to POR...

 

[EGame]

When healthy, why not? The fact we missed Roy (a fully healthy Roy) against the Suns in the playoffs this year was huge (especially because his replacement blew), and of course, missing Oden and even Pryzbilla hurt as well. I don't see why not when healthy.

 

[Blaze01]

I think your dreaming...the team was healthy 2 years ago and couldn't get past HOU, who couldn't get by the Lakers....

Even healthy this team wasn't advancing past PHX, let alone having ANY chance to beating the Lakers or Celtics....

Beating LA in the playoffs is a COMPLETELY different animal than beating them in the regular season....

I see\hear a lot of comments from overly optimisitc fans that somehow surmise that if POR were healthy then we would be title contenders, when the team has done nothing to show that it could be....

 

[EGame]

That is because we have a huge problem standing in our way (other than health), and that is our current head coach. Dude has nothing as far as offensive sets and our defense is pretty not good. Nate cannot seem to make necessary adjustments necessary to counter the opposing team. Even if we are missing our best player, he still needs to try and counter and create matchup nightmares. He did the opposite, he created a matchup dream for the Suns mainly by playing Rudy one minute to many in the playoffs. I agree we may not get far with our current coach, but with one who can maximize our talent and actualy run offensive sets and such, we could be pretty dang good. I would love to trade for an all-star like everyone else, but I really think nothing is going down and we will be running with the same team next year which is fine. If we don't trade for an all-star and have the same team next year you may as well not even cheer for the Blazers, since we have no chance.

 

[Denny Crane]

Steve Blake would be a shooter the team is missing

 

[hasoos]

That is because we have a huge problem standing in our way (other than health), and that is our current head coach. Dude has nothing as far as offensive sets and our defense is pretty not good. Nate cannot seem to make necessary adjustments necessary to counter the opposing team. Even if we are missing our best player, he still needs to try and counter and create matchup nightmares. He did the opposite, he created a matchup dream for the Suns mainly by playing Rudy one minute to many in the playoffs. I agree we may not get far with our current coach, but with one who can maximize our talent and actualy run offensive sets and such, we could be pretty dang good. I would love to trade for an all-star like everyone else, but I really think nothing is going down and we will be running with the same team next year which is fine. If we don't trade for an all-star and have the same team next year you may as well not even cheer for the Blazers, since we have no chance.

Actually until Oden went out, the Blazers were #1 in the league in defense if I remember correctly.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

I have a feeling Quick is just doing this to get the hopes up of Blazer fans and then dash 'em.

 

[Shooter]

Sounds dubious. But, on the outside chance there's a rumored deal for an actual all-star, who would it be? My guess: Andre Iguodala.

You can't be serious. Andre Iguodala, while a nice player, is not the kind of all-star who is going to make anybody swoon, including Paul Allen.

 

[blazerboy30]

I think your dreaming...the team was healthy 2 years ago and couldn't get past HOU, who couldn't get by the Lakers....

Even healthy this team wasn't advancing past PHX, let alone having ANY chance to beating the Lakers or Celtics....

Beating LA in the playoffs is a COMPLETELY different animal than beating them in the regular season....

I see\hear a lot of comments from overly optimisitc fans that somehow surmise that if POR were healthy then we would be title contenders, when the team has done nothing to show that it could be....

This is silly.

First, you use the team losing to HOU 2 years ago as "proof", as if nobody on our team has improved, our team didn't change, or as if matchups don't matter.

Then, you're complaining about posters being optimistic about us beating the Suns if the Blazers were healthy, yet you feel fine making a completely unfounded assumption that POR would have LOST even if healthy.

Unfortunately for you and your assumption, we at least have some data to show that the Blazers were looking like an elite team, even when not completely healthy. Before Oden and Joel went down, and still without Batum, we were an elite defensive team. Is it your opinion that we would have gotten worse after adding Batum? I think most posters here still thought we had a lot of improvements to make, even though the stats show we were rounding into an elite team.

Nobody can be sure that we would be contenders if completely healthy, but some stats show that even without our starting SF, not starting our best PG, and still looking rusty, we were playing like an elite team.

 

[BGrantFan]

I think your dreaming...the team was healthy 2 years ago and couldn't get past HOU, who couldn't get by the Lakers....

....

I must have missed Andre Miller and Marcus Camby on the Blazer roster for that Houston series...

 

[BBert]

I have a feeling Quick is just doing this to get the hopes up of Blazer fans and then dash 'em.

The sick bastard!

 

[oldmangrouch]

I must have missed Andre Miller and Marcus Camby on the Blazer roster for that Houston series...

That's a good point. Against the Rockets, Roy and LMA played well, but the inexperience of the supporting cast really hurt. This time around, Roy was busted up, and LMA did not play particularly well. The circumstances were completely different.

Of course, I would pick that 09 Rockets' team to beat this year's Suns' team....but I'm sure many people will disagree.

 

[Nikolokolus]

Steve Blake would be a shooter the team is missing

I'd rather shoot myself.

 

[Blaze01]

This is silly.

First, you use the team losing to HOU 2 years ago as "proof", as if nobody on our team has improved, our team didn't change, or as if matchups don't matter.

Then, you're complaining about posters being optimistic about us beating the Suns if the Blazers were healthy, yet you feel fine making a completely unfounded assumption that POR would have LOST even if healthy.

Unfortunately for you and your assumption, we at least have some data to show that the Blazers were looking like an elite team, even when not completely healthy. Before Oden and Joel went down, and still without Batum, we were an elite defensive team. Is it your opinion that we would have gotten worse after adding Batum? I think most posters here still thought we had a lot of improvements to make, even though the stats show we were rounding into an elite team.

Nobody can be sure that we would be contenders if completely healthy, but some stats show that even without our starting SF, not starting our best PG, and still looking rusty, we were playing like an elite team.

The proof is in the results...2 years...2 1st round exits....the 1st year we were a FAVORED seed...this year many claimed we had a FAVORED matchup...yet, both times we lost...Did injuries this year hamper this team? Absolutely they did, but even with a healthy Roy I don't this team had enough to defeat the Suns...our offense is far too predictable and stagnant and far too reliant on 1 player (Roy) being the difference maker.....and what does Nate say this year? "We need more shooters" As if having more people standing on the perimeter would have made all the difference.....pathetic....

FAR FAR too many agonizing offensive possesions that resulted in a desperate shot attempt to beat the shot clock....You cannot win in the playoffs with that type of offense

and no other player that can consistently step up as a #2 (let alone having a consistent #3 option) option....You can't win on the back of one player....not even if your name is Lebron James...