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The Blazers could have had Seattlite Nate Robinson, but didn't, and all posters here agreed that he would be terrible.

The Bulls were smarter.
 
Blazers could've had a great bench this season. Nate, Birdman, etc. Olshey tanked.
 
Mark Jackson about taking care of the ball after jack did his patented dribble off his foot
 
The Bulls weren't smarter. Nate was on a non guaranteed $800K sized contract. The Bulls almost cut him loose in January, but Rose wasn't coming back and Kirk Hinrich missed a few games and they realized they needed him.

I've been posting all season long that Nate is our best guard. I've also been posting that Belinelli should be our starting SG.

I think the Bulls will lose both.

If the Blazers signed both, you'd have an instant bench upgrade. You'd start Belinelli and have Wes to back up SG and SF. Nate to fill in whenever and as much as you need him.

I'd keep JJ and use the #10 pick on a C. I think the Blazers would have between $3M and $7M in cap space left over, too.

JJ at $4M, Nate and Belinelli at $2.5M each.
 
Denny Crane said:
The Bulls weren't smarter. Nate was on a non guaranteed $800K sized contract. The Bulls almost cut him loose in January, but Rose wasn't coming back and Kirk Hinrich missed a few games and they realized they needed him.

I've been posting all season long that Nate is our best guard. I've also been posting that Belinelli should be our starting SG.

I think the Bulls will lose both.

If the Blazers signed both, you'd have an instant bench upgrade. You'd start Belinelli and have Wes to back up SG and SF. Nate to fill in whenever and as much as you need him.

I'd keep JJ and use the #10 pick on a C. I think the Blazers would have between $3M and $7M in cap space left over, too.

JJ at $4M, Nate and Belinelli at $2.5M each.
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JJ will get more than $4M
 
If Hickson were $4M, everyone here would agree with me about him. As for Robinson, Olshey says, first he'll fill us up on needle-movers for a few years, then he'll improve the bench.
 
jlprk said:
If Hickson were $4M, everyone here would agree with me about him. As for Robinson, Olshey says, first he'll fill us up on needle-movers for a few years, then he'll improve the bench.
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Yep! I think someone will pay him at least $8 mil
 
Denny Crane said:
I don't think so. Who do you think will have the cap room and want to sign him for more? It's a new CBA.
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There's an awful lot of teams with cap space this summer. I think someone will overpay him.
 
magnifier661 said:
If we can keep him for $4 mil; I'd take him in a heartbeat
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You can roll over your cap space by signing him to whatever cap space you have for one season.

When he becomes a UFA after next season, you'd have his full contract as cap space again.

Personally, I think he'd be a great backup PF/C for any team, but at $8M he's making starter money. Who wants him for that much, I ask again?
 
Denny Crane said:
You can roll over your cap space by signing him to whatever cap space you have for one season.

When he becomes a UFA after next season, you'd have his full contract as cap space again.

Personally, I think he'd be a great backup PF/C for any team, but at $8M he's making starter money. Who wants him for that much, I ask again?
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I guess we'll see. I think he's going to get paid more than the Blazers want to pay him.
 
God Damn! Didn't think Manu could still get up like that
 
Someones gonna pay JJ 4 years 30M to be their starter.
 
Natebishop3 said:
I guess we'll see. I think he's going to get paid more than the Blazers want to pay him.
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There were 10 teams with cap space last season. Another 14 with MLE type money to offer. Nobody wanted him last season.

We'll see, eh?
 
Denny Crane said:
There were 10 teams with cap space last season. Another 14 with MLE type money to offer. Nobody wanted him last season.

We'll see, eh?
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Well for one he was released and had a partial season of good output. This season, he was a leader in rebounding, fg% and a high PER playing undersized. This summer will be different
 
Denny Crane said:
There were 10 teams with cap space last season. Another 14 with MLE type money to offer. Nobody wanted him last season.

We'll see, eh?
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This year he put up 12 and 10 with 68 DD or something like that. He will get a decent size contract.
 
Denny Crane said:
There were 10 teams with cap space last season. Another 14 with MLE type money to offer. Nobody wanted him last season.

We'll see, eh?
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Different situation. He had just been waived by Sacramento, he had a string of good games at the end of the season, but this is a case of him being consistent over the whole season. I think he will have assuaged some fears with his play this season. I don't think he's worth more than five million per year, but I think he'll get closer to 8.
 
Joakim Noah was the MVP of that game. And pretty much every Bulls game.

Why isn't Thibodeau runaway favorite for COTY? That guy could take OUR bench and make it compete.
 
Denny Crane said:
There were 10 teams with cap space last season. Another 14 with MLE type money to offer. Nobody wanted him last season.

We'll see, eh?
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He didn't explore his opportunities because he knew he had a good thing going in Portland. Had we rejected him, he would have spread his tentacles and gotten offers from all the cute little fishies.
 
I'll post one more time about JJ. The new CBA is just harsh and punitive toward cap offenders. To sign a guy like JJ to $8M/season is exactly what teams want to avoid. Especially since JJ has played on 3 teams in 5 seasons - you have to consider if you can move his contract down the road if you need to. You've got your GM telling the rest of the GMs that he sucks at defending the rim, that you'd take him in a reserve role only, and you aren't even making him a QO to make him RFA.

The CBA is so harsh that OKC traded Harden, Dallas is unlikely to try to keep OJ Mayo, etc. I see the league becoming a real star's league with few guys making huge contracts and everyone else making $5M and under.

Plus the teams that supposedly have cap space would only do so by renouncing guys they're likely to keep. You think Atlanta, for example, wants to "upgrade" from Josh Smith to JJ? I think they're going to figure out a better replacement or keep him.
 
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Would you take Curry over Parker?
 
Man I love Lillard but I would absolutely love Curry over Lillard. When he is on not much will stop him.
 
I hope that Lillard can become Curry.
 
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