I personally didn't care about dumping RoCo at all. He was never going to re-sign here after the season. I was mostly pissed about dumping Norm for a pile of garbage.
The complaint when I said guys that gave their teams minutes or in Ariza's case his salary was used to match an acquired starter, were about the guys that we gave up along with the picks for the two role players that we eventually sent out for virtually nothing. I get why RoCo went for so little and why Nance was just an addendum in his deal (I would have called RoCo the same but we didn't get shit for Norm either)... I am still just livid that we gave up three FRPs for such minimal upgrades that we ended up just dumping.
And those two couldn’t even make the play-in last year. You need depth.
I know, thought about that after i already did post. Knew LaRue was truly the 1st, and Bill came after. But i guess i give the Blazers Mgmt. a break for LaRue, because soon after they got Bill and we all know how that turned out. But wear the real Big Man mess up began was with the Bowie pick. Then the Blazers not having deep medical info on Oden was second. So hoping , if we get lucky, Wemby is the charm.
SGA is expected to be 1st team All NBA. Williams had a tremendous rookie season & we'll see next year what Chet brings... big upside there.
Wow. More excited than to be in the playoffs? A draft pick? You can have that shit.
They both had injury issues last year AND yes, you need depth. But it's easier to address "depth" when you have two of the best players in the NBA already.
I'm much more invested in the May 16th ping pong balls than many years of doomed to lose playoffs.
The last time I had some optimism (albeit not alot) when the Blazers hit the playoffs, Aldridge was on the team. They've clearly been undermanned ever since. Finally firing Soapy gave me at least a glimmer of hope that they might not continue to be mismanaged and somewhere down the line they could become relevant again.
I'm not sure what Shaedon would bring in return. If Dame wants vets around him, someone on their rookie deal would have to be packaged with another higher salaried vet which could boost or deflate the talent coming back. I do think he has more value on the market then Ant though, higher ceiling. Failing winning the VW lotto, if they decide to build a contender around Lillard then hopefully they break their trend and don't half ass it. Push the chips into the middle and trade the pick, Ant and Shaedon for talent that fits. I think Grant and Matise both fit though Thybulle may be a 20-25 minute guy.
I don't think we have enough filler to bridge the gap between Nurk and Simmons.
No. The only way I would be happy with Simmons is if he was waived and picked up on a minimum.
If it is completed after the new league year Nurk (16.8), Nas (6.2), Knox (3), Keon (2.8) and Trendon (1.8) get us to 30.6M multiplied by 1.25 (or 125%) and you get 38.25... Simmons is at 37.9
SGA is a 5 year vet, not a young up and comer.
The question you asked was does OKC have a better young player then Shaedon? SGA is just 24 & obviously still getting better
YOu said this last April as well though.
How about we limit it to players who could have qualified for the rising star game? Which would be rookie and sophomore players from 2023.
Their top pick didn’t play, so seems a bit disingenuous.
Adding Shaedon Sharpe was much, much better than losing in the first round of the playoffs.
The other two Thunder players I mentioned previously. Williams had a tremendous rookie year (probably finishes 2nd in the ROY vote) and Chet has the potential of being an impact frontcourt player.
