Summer "BIG Swing" trade

[LayneStaley]

I don’t like Chris Paul at all.

 

[Sheldon Shape]

I like this news because it would end Ant's return and going all in on Scoot.

 

[SharpesTriumph]

That would be an addition I would totally be on board with. No interest in Westbrook.

Wouldn't really make sense to bring in CP3 if we were keeping Ant.

 

[SharpesTriumph]

Rather just go get Andre Miller to coach him.

Paul played 82 games last year and was very effective. I'd totally be on board with bringing him here. We don't need a PG coach - we have Billups. However if Ant is gone we're going to need someone else to chip in at that position. I like the youth we have at other positions and having a stable vet lead that group could calm everyone down. Ayton and Grant aren't those types of vets. 40 year old CP3 could do that.

 

[SharpesTriumph]

Agreed.
Miller was one of my all-time favorite Blazers.

I really liked having Andre Miller here and hated trading him for Felton.

However Miller is 50 years old. CP3 just played 82 games and is a decade younger. Billups is even younger than Miller - so really no need for a guy like him. If we're going to target former players as an assistant we should get a wing or a big.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

CP3 is going to be a head coach some day. He’s basically a player coach at this stage of his career.

If they’re still committed to Scoot this would be a great move

 

[Mrvioletowl]

Man, I can't wait for post season. So many options. CP3 would be a great backup for what we need. I am down for Isaak and picks for Ant. Then see what we can get for Grant and Ayton.
Let's say it's Zion. Would Zion, Isaak and CP3 make you happy? I'd still rather have someone else than Zion, like Adebayo. Heat is looking to rebuild from what it sounds like and adding Bam, Isaak and CP3 would make us 48 minute nightmare on defense for the opposition.

 

[Natebishop3]

Paul played 82 games last year and was very effective. I'd totally be on board with bringing him here. We don't need a PG coach - we have Billups. However if Ant is gone we're going to need someone else to chip in at that position. I like the youth we have at other positions and having a stable vet lead that group could calm everyone down. Ayton and Grant aren't those types of vets. 40 year old CP3 could do that.

I think Andre Miller was a better distributor than Billups. He couch teach a lot about how to run an offense.

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

I think Andre Miller was a better distributor than Billups. He couch teach a lot about how to run an offense.

Yeah but who had the bad attitude, Miller or Roy?

 

[Natebishop3]

Yeah but who had the bad attitude, Miller or Roy?

Roy.

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

Roy.

Yeah but who had the bad attitude, Miller or Roy?

@THE HCP - spill the details my dude

 

[Natebishop3]

@THE HCP - spill the details my dude

The various reports out of the media at the time was that Roy was pushing for Blake to start and he didn't like Oden being the focus of the offense.... but who knows.

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

The various reports out of the media at the time was that Roy was pushing for Blake to start and he didn't like Oden being the focus of the offense.... but who knows.

@THE HCP should set up a AMA with Oden and the forum!

 

[Natebishop3]

@THE HCP should set up a AMA with Oden and the forum!

I saw an interview with Roy recently where he was just gushing about Oden, so who knows.

 

[Ripcity4life77]

Zion is about to get a new deal in NO if reports are true so you can take his name off the table.

 

[Mrvioletowl]

All aboard the Adebayo train in that case!

 

[RR7]

CP3s a dick puncher. Have hated him forever. Would be bummed if we signed him.

 

[SheedSoNasty]

Zion is about to get a new deal in NO if reports are true so you can take his name off the table.

I hope so.

 

[HailBlazers]

CP3s a dick puncher. Have hated him forever. Would be bummed if we signed him.

He would never sign here imo.

 

[SharpesTriumph]

Man, I can't wait for post season. So many options. CP3 would be a great backup for what we need. I am down for Isaak and picks for Ant. Then see what we can get for Grant and Ayton.
Let's say it's Zion. Would Zion, Isaak and CP3 make you happy? I'd still rather have someone else than Zion, like Adebayo. Heat is looking to rebuild from what it sounds like and adding Bam, Isaak and CP3 would make us 48 minute nightmare on defense for the opposition.

If Cronin can flip Ayton and Grant for Bam or Zion he should get executive of the year for the next decade lol.

 

[BigGameDamian]

 

[SharpesTriumph]

CP3s a dick puncher. Have hated him forever. Would be bummed if we signed him.

CP3 is not a Dick puncher..... This guy is the real Dick puncher

 

[Ripcity4life77]

I will say this on Zion -- this is just my guess ...

Zion will get one more year and if things work out and he can stay healthy then he will be the cornerstone moving forward but now let me translate what I think is really happening ...

They explored moving him and while they might have got a solid offer or two it was not what they thought he was worth ( guess -- high lotto pick top 8 to 10 plus a couple solid pieces and prolly another future 1st )

 

[Mrvioletowl]

I will defend that Batum punch until I die. Navarro used to make SGA look like an amateur. When asked why he did it, Batum just said - if they're going to call foul no matter what I do, he might as well feel it.

 

[RR7]

CP3 is not a Dick puncher..... This guy is the real Dick puncher

That was like 7 years after CP3. I remember. CP3 remembers. I know Julius Hodge remembers. Fuck CP3 and his dick punching

 

[BigGameDamian]

All aboard the Adebayo train in that case!

if we traded for Adebayo we would definitely have to include someone like Camara +11.

 

[SharpesTriumph]

I will defend that Batum punch until I die. Navarro used to make SGA look like an amateur. When asked why he did it, Batum just said - if they're going to call foul no matter what I do, he might as well feel it.

Batum wasn't ejected either... Maybe the refs were sick of the flopping too.

 

[SharpesTriumph]

if we traded for Adebayo we would definitely have to include someone like Camara +11.

The Blazers and Heat front offices have a very close relationship too!

Or not.

 

[Mediocre Man]

CP3s a dick puncher. Have hated him forever. Would be bummed if we signed him.

I feel the same

 

[Ha Seung-Boumtje-Boumjte]

I feel the same

Chris Paul is a Hall of Fame irritant. A wizard of the well-placed elbow, a conductor of crotch carnage. This man has been quietly—and sometimes not so quietly—attacking the groin area of his opponents since Wake Forest. Who can forget 2005, when young Chris introduced Julius Hodge’s family jewels to an ACC moment of silence?

We’re not talking reckless violence. We’re talking calculated anatomy manipulation. Surgical. Efficient. Respectfully disrespectful.

And that’s exactly what Scoot Henderson needs. Chris Paul could teach Scoot how to fight through a screen and make the screener question whether children are in his future, how to take a “charge” that also somehow ends with your knee inside the other guy’s soul, and how to say “my bad” while casually stepping on your opponent’s hand.

But to complete the Low Blow Legion, Portland needs more than CP3.

We also need some new assistant coaches. I nominate Corky Calhoun. Drafted in 1972. Played for the Sixers, the Suns, the Lakers, and yes—your Portland Trail Blazers, in the hallowed 1976–77 season. While Bill Walton was winning Finals MVP, Corky was on the bench, studying knees, groins, and angles like an old kung fu master in a Shaolin temple. Corky averaged 4.2 points a game for his career, but you don’t measure men like Corky in points. You measure them in vibes. In discomfort created. In screens set at just the wrong moment for your pelvis. If you’re building a team around tactical mischief, Corky is your Yoda. He knows how to disrupt a possession without drawing a whistle. He knows how to foul someone just enough that they don’t even want to retaliate—they just want to go home.