Exclusive Official 2018 Trade Deadline Thread (1 Viewer)

[blue9]

Nobody is touching Turner until the final contract year. 1 1/2 more years of him ruining this team's on-court play is unacceptable. We need to cut our losses like Knicks will need to do with Noah. He needs to be waived with the stretch provision.

No. That just extends the pain. Just don't play him. We were willing to totally tank both Vonleh and Mo, so why not Turner?

 

[BonesJones]

Ok I was wrong then.

But how does that make us better? Turner is far from a useless player. No one would complain if he was making 5m.

Yeah, people still would. We'd wanna upgrade his role.

 

[Scalma]

Lol I mean if dame and CJ are off the table, who else are they going to call about?

 

[B-Roy]

Lol I mean if dame and CJ are off the table, who else are they going to call about?

Good actor.

 

[KeepOnRollin]

Good actor.

You think that is a lie? Every team that even let Olshey say the words Leonard or Turner without hanging up on him would have said, "well we will entertain it but it has to be a 1st round pick or Collins packaged with".

 

[Mediocre Man]

You think that is a lie? Every team that even let Olshey say the words Leonard or Turner without hanging up on him would have said, "well we will entertain it but it has to be a 1st round pick or Collins packaged with".

Yes, he's a liar

 

[craigehlo]

If they are so high on Collins, give him some more run. We need to see if he's the next BJ Mullins or the next DeAndre Jordan.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/carmelo/zach-collins/

 

[KeepOnRollin]

Yes, he's a liar

In this situation? No. Any some other situations? Yes. Show me a GM that isn't and I will hand you a large sum of money for your time.

 

[TBpup]

Lol I mean if dame and CJ are off the table, who else are they going to call about?

Meaning no one was calling about all the crappy contracts Neil handed out in 2016.

 

[KeepOnRollin]

If they are so high on Collins, give him some more run. We need to see if he's the next BJ Mullins or the next DeAndre Jordan.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/carmelo/zach-collins/

Agreed. Give him run. But I would much rather see if he is the next Derrick Favors or the next Joel Embid personally. I don't think those other two guys are good comps for him at all (not that my two are either, he is an unicorn).

 

[B-Roy]

I actually like Collins.

It's just this quote from Neil is so predictable. He knows they just had a shitty trade deadline. He knows people are angry. The only way he knows how to shift attention away from his crappy situation is by diverting our attention to something else, something that seems actually plausible.

 

[B-Roy]

I also think it's funny how Woj and a couple other well respected journalists constantly tout the brilliance of Neil Olshey and his moves and yet we still always get the short end of the stick when it comes to actual deals/moves.

 

[hoopsjock]

Aside from the tax itself and the eventual repeater penalties, the other effects of the tax come from being above the apron, not the tax line itself. Since the Blazers were only 2.8M over the tax line, they were well under the apron, so dealing Vonleh to get under the tax line didn't in fact do anything for the Blazers except save them money.

This isn't correct. The repeater tax isn't really that bad but it doesn't have anything to do with the apron.

 

[BonesJones]

Lol I mean if dame and CJ are off the table, who else are they going to call about?

So manipulative.

Trying to make himself look better by acting like every team wants Collins and he's a genius for drafting him.

Lmao.

 

[Haakzilla]

 

[LayneStaley]

If every team wanted Collins we shoulda traded him for a stud SF and our 1st rounder for Randle and had a really nice starting 5

 

[LayneStaley]

Fun trade fact: only player to be traded 2 times in the same season and win a championship the same year??

Rasheed Wallace

 

[PtldPlatypus]

This isn't correct. The repeater tax isn't really that bad but it doesn't have anything to do with the apron.

You should re-read my post. I was contrasting tax penalties (tax and repeater) with apron restrictions (mle, bae, s&t). I know the difference between the two.

 

[hoopsjock]

You should re-read my post. I was contrasting tax penalties (tax and repeater) with apron restrictions (mle, bae, s&t). I know the difference between the two.

Okay, I misunderstood what you were trying to say and then other people got confused thinking the tax line was the salary cap line and it turned into a big mess.

This won't come into play because they won't sign someone to go into the tax but technically we could outbid most other teams for players that receive buyouts. Tyreke wouldn't probably want to sign beyond this season but it would be sweet if we signed someone like that to a multi-year deal if the Grizzlies release him.

 

[SportsAndWhine]

Fun trade fact: only player to be traded 2 times in the same season and win a championship the same year??

Rasheed Wallace

Ah yes, legendary Atlanta Hawk Rasheed Wallace

 

[LayneStaley]

Porter/Doncic/Knox/Mikal Bridges/Miles Bridges/Musa

Now that the deadline has passed those are the targets for the draft depending on where we are sitting. I’d say the most likely is Miles Bridges...they have him compared to Kersey

I say he’s most likely cause I think all the rest except for Musa will be gone in the lottery. I know he’s a tweener but if he develops a better jumper he could be a nice player.