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joeBlazers said:
We wasted all this time training Jake. just to let him walk !!!
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Yes after all this time, he can't defend anyone and once teams learned to take away his backdoor cut he disappeared on offense.
 
I really like Jalen Brown from Boston if we could acquire him some way that would be super.
 
Nando De Colo will hit free agency this summer as he looks to return to the NBA. He’s going to get more than the minimum, but if we were able to dump someone like Harkless, we could offer him part of the non tax MLE or the BAE (but if it came down to it I would give him the entire tax MLE, assuming it wouldnt be enough to keep Hood)

A refresher of what he can do:





Would be a great replacement for Turner (much better shooter) and profiles well with our backcourt because of his size (6’5)
 
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Scalma said:
Nando De Colo will hit free agency this summer as he looks to return to the NBA. He’s going to get more than the minimum, but if we were able to dump someone like Harkless, we could offer him part of the non tax MLE or the BAE (but if it came down to it I would give him the entire tax MLE, assuming it wouldnt be enough to keep Hood)

A refresher of what he can do:





Would be a great replacement for Turner (much better shooter) and profiles well with our backcourt because of his size (6’5)
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Technically a restricted free agent. Toronto holds his rights since he played for them last before leaving.
 
kjironman1 said:
Enes Kanter has made over $94 million in his career. He has plenty of money. Could he make more? Probably. But i wonder how much he is really after money at this point?
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Because someone cashed checks of up to $100m doesn't mean he has the money. Maybe h lost it on Vegas. Maybe he had bad business advisers . Maybe he had gold digger girlfriends. Maybe he gave it all to charity ...Maybe he wants to own 3 private jets when he retires or an NBA franchise or buy a team in Switzerland ... who knows what he needs/ doesn't need?... Hope you get my point.
Until we see what his demands are .... we wouldn't know.
 
Kanter resigning for a year on taxpayers MLE isn’t unthinkable. He probably won’t get much higher offers in the market and he knows what he’s getting here.

Same goes for Hood though the market for him might be slightly better.

We will have to choose one or the other though, can’t have both (can we give Hood 150% of his current salary though?).
 
Sarni said:
Kanter resigning for a year on taxpayers MLE isn’t unthinkable. He probably won’t get much higher offers in the market and he knows what he’s getting here.

Same goes for Hood though the market for him might be slightly better.

We will have to choose one or the other though, can’t have both (can we give Hood 150% of his current salary though?).
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We can give Hood 120% which without looking it up I believe is about $4.1 million. If he was willing to take the Tax-MLE would he take that being somewhat close so we could retain both? It's pretty much the only way to keep them.
 
We'll retain Hood.

Curry and Kanter will sign elsewhere.

Aminu will hold out. His agent will finally figure out that no one wants him to start for them. Then, he'll take $6 mil/year from us.

Simons starts the season in the rotation, Little does not.

Collins starts.

Jake will be kept for another year, and Olshey will regret it midseason.

Neil will try to make a trade, but it won't work out.... until the deadline when bad teams figure out they need to rebuild (eg Detroit).
 
I don't know how we will retain anyone who we don't have Bird rights on. I predict that Olshey will re-sign both Chief and Layman. I think Seth, Hood and Kanter will leave because all of them can get way more than we can pay them. We'll sign a player or two, with tpmle, that will contribute. I don't know if it will happen this Summer or in February but I also think we'll trade Evan, Meyers and a first rounder to either Detroit for Blake Griffin or Cleveland for Kevin Love.
 
Call me crazy, but I'd be VERRRY okay (disclaimer: at bargain basement prices, mind you) with Olshey doing his thing and replacing our outgoing guys by doing what he does best and going dumpster diving...

Trey Lyles, Stanley Johnson, Emmanuel Mudiay are all 23-year old RFAs with several years of experience under their belt and the only one who'd even potentially get matched would be Lyles. Tyus Jones, Hezonja, Vonleh also available... If we were able to land 2 or 3 of these guys on super team-friendly deals, I'd take that to the bank laughing all the way.

That said, no reason to take on any reclamation projects at anything BUT essentially the vet's min., so I'd also be VERRRRY price sensitive on this idea too. I just think we've got enough core components, experience and veteran leadership to take some chances on some screwballs, and if you miss you still retain at least some amount of cap flexibility into next offseason -- 2 grabs at the brass ring, as they say.
 
UKRAINEFAN said:
I think we will somehow retain Hood and Kanter definitely not Curry.
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hoopsjock said:
We can give Hood 120% which without looking it up I believe is about $4.1 million. If he was willing to take the Tax-MLE would he take that being somewhat close so we could retain both? It's pretty much the only way to keep them.
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Hes probably asking for more than triple that...
 
MARKET - I don't think Hood or Kanter have the market some people are rampantly speculating they will have. The Blazer media is getting carried away with this as well. Those players are not likely at all to be getting paid ~$10 million per year. Now if we had the cap space maybe we make some stupid decision to pay them that much, but fortunately Neil prior bad decisions have protected himself from himself. We have seen teams be very cautious in the dollars they throw at role players from 2017-on. Of course any overpaid contract offer is possible, but what are likely outcomes and what is possible for underpaid contracts as well?

KANTER - A rebuilding team is not going to want Kanter. Playoff teams don't want him as a starter with his poor defense. Center is currently the deepest position in the league with quality minimum salary players. How much are teams paying for their backup? I don't think any team offers him more than the $5milion tax MLE.

HOOD - Rodney Hood is the player we likely prefer. The most ideal scenario for us would be he accepts the ~$4.5 million raise we can pay him from his last year contract. He wore out his welcome in Utah, Cleveland wasn't interested in resigning him. He has confidence, motivation, and attitude issues in prior stops. Will another team pay him more? It's possible, but he could also be one of those guys at the end of musical chairs with no place to sit.

OFFSEASON - My dream offseason would be us signing Kanter with the tax MLE ~$5.5million and Hood at the $4.5 million max raise. Both one year deal with second year player options. However if Hood will only take the tax MLE at $5.5 million then I think we have to give him that. Then we don't have more than the minimum to sign Kanter so he is gone.

AMINU - Either way I'm walking away from Aminu, his defense is slipping and I expect it to continue to decline slightly each year going forward. His offense is always below average, you just pray he is making threes and he didnt for 15 of 16 playoff games. Plus he feels entitled to a starting spot, so I think bringing him back and sticking him on the bench will not sit well with him. I want us to have options of who to start at forward. Aminu and Harkless provide too similar of a skill set, we don't need both of them. Plus Aminu salary will count about 3x the actual cost in luxury tax and I'd rather see Jody Allen pay that when the need to the team is greater. Now if we trade away Harkless I'd reconsider this, as one of Harkless and Aminu is good to have.
 


I’ll take Grant thank you. There’s your backup/third PG.
 
Ok call your shot, let’s see who gets it right. Who is Portland signing?

I’ll start it off: Kyle O’Quinn. That won’t be the only signing, but it’s the one I’m calling.
 
WesleyMatthews said:
MARKET - I don't think Hood or Kanter have the market some people are rampantly speculating they will have. The Blazer media is getting carried away with this as well. Those players are not likely at all to be getting paid ~$10 million per year. Now if we had the cap space maybe we make some stupid decision to pay them that much, but fortunately Neil prior bad decisions have protected himself from himself. We have seen teams be very cautious in the dollars they throw at role players from 2017-on. Of course any overpaid contract offer is possible, but what are likely outcomes and what is possible for underpaid contracts as well?

KANTER - A rebuilding team is not going to want Kanter. Playoff teams don't want him as a starter with his poor defense. Center is currently the deepest position in the league with quality minimum salary players. How much are teams paying for their backup? I don't think any team offers him more than the $5milion tax MLE.

HOOD - Rodney Hood is the player we likely prefer. The most ideal scenario for us would be he accepts the ~$4.5 million raise we can pay him from his last year contract. He wore out his welcome in Utah, Cleveland wasn't interested in resigning him. He has confidence, motivation, and attitude issues in prior stops. Will another team pay him more? It's possible, but he could also be one of those guys at the end of musical chairs with no place to sit.

OFFSEASON - My dream offseason would be us signing Kanter with the tax MLE ~$5.5million and Hood at the $4.5 million max raise. Both one year deal with second year player options. However if Hood will only take the tax MLE at $5.5 million then I think we have to give him that. Then we don't have more than the minimum to sign Kanter so he is gone.

AMINU - Either way I'm walking away from Aminu, his defense is slipping and I expect it to continue to decline slightly each year going forward. His offense is always below average, you just pray he is making threes and he didnt for 15 of 16 playoff games. Plus he feels entitled to a starting spot, so I think bringing him back and sticking him on the bench will not sit well with him. I want us to have options of who to start at forward. Aminu and Harkless provide too similar of a skill set, we don't need both of them. Plus Aminu salary will count about 3x the actual cost in luxury tax and I'd rather see Jody Allen pay that when the need to the team is greater. Now if we trade away Harkless I'd reconsider this, as one of Harkless and Aminu is good to have.
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I kind of think this as well. I don't think Hood and Kanter are going to get paid like a lot of people think. The market for centers was not great last free agency. I'd like to the Blazers to turn the page on the Aminu era. Let's step out of comfort zones (Stotts) and move onto Zach or someone else.
 
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