The super Melo to Portland thread + The Big Blockbuster (2 Viewers)

[hoopsjock]

Really not sure why BK does this

Before they do that why don't we take advantage of them if they are willing to take bad contracts for picks?

Use the TPE (I know, 13 more days):
Blazers get Mason Plumlee (TPE), DeMarre Carroll, and Jeremy Lin
Nuggets get Caleb Swanigan
Nets get Evan Turner, Meyers Leonard, 2019 1st from Blazers, and pick(s) from Nuggets

Blazers Starters: Dame, CJ, Harkless, Aminu, Nurk

Blazers Bench: Lin, Baldwin, Curry, Trent, Simons, Stauskas, Carroll, Layman, Collins, Plumlee

That's a pretty dang good bench in my opinion. The only problem I see is big man depth if there are injuries.

 

[Orion Bailey]

Before they do that why don't we take advantage of them if they are willing to take bad contracts for picks?

Use the TPE (I know, 13 more days):
Blazers get Mason Plumlee (TPE), DeMarre Carroll, and Jeremy Lin
Nuggets get Caleb Swanigan
Nets get Evan Turner, Meyers Leonard, 2019 1st from Blazers, and pick(s) from Nuggets

Blazers Starters: Dame, CJ, Harkless, Aminu, Nurk

Blazers Bench: Lin, Baldwin, Curry, Trent, Simons, Stauskas, Carroll, Layman, Collins, Plumlee

That's a pretty dang good bench in my opinion. The only problem I see is big man depth if there are injuries.

Because. Its their decision making. They think Melo is an all star still. Like someone else said... Stupid is as stupid does

 

[hoopsjock]

Because. Its their decision making. They think Melo is an all star still. Like someone else said... Stupid is as stupid does

The tweet said they would be buying out Melo.

 

[illmatic99]

Before they do that why don't we take advantage of them if they are willing to take bad contracts for picks?

Use the TPE (I know, 13 more days):
Blazers get Mason Plumlee (TPE), DeMarre Carroll, and Jeremy Lin
Nuggets get Caleb Swanigan
Nets get Evan Turner, Meyers Leonard, 2019 1st from Blazers, and pick(s) from Nuggets

Blazers Starters: Dame, CJ, Harkless, Aminu, Nurk

Blazers Bench: Lin, Baldwin, Curry, Trent, Simons, Stauskas, Carroll, Layman, Collins, Plumlee

That's a pretty dang good bench in my opinion. The only problem I see is big man depth if there are injuries.

I would take out the Nugs in all this. Don't want to touch Plums' contract.

Turner + Caleb + pick for Carroll
TPE for Lin

We rid ourselves of Turner for a 3 &D guy who had a decent bounce back year. Lin can be a serviceable backup. Both have contracts that expire next summer. Turner will have a year left, but the 9 mil or so of extra salary they're taking on in aggregate can be offset by the pick and Caleb.

 

[Wizard Mentor]

Really not sure why BK does this

This should absolutely destroy Melo's ego - but it won't.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

I would take out the Nugs in all this. Don't want to touch Plums' contract.

Turner + Caleb + pick for Carroll
TPE for Lin

We rid ourselves of Turner for a 3 &D guy who had a decent bounce back year. Lin can be a serviceable backup. Both have contracts that expire next summer. Turner will have a year left, but the 9 mil or so of extra salary they're taking on in aggregate can be offset by the pick and Caleb.

So you're doing the same deal, except keeping Leonard and not acquiring Plumlee? In a vacuum, would you not trade Leonard for Plumlee?

 

[illmatic99]

So you're doing the same deal, except keeping Leonard and not acquiring Plumlee? In a vacuum, would you not trade Leonard for Plumlee?

Shit good call. I was misreading Barton's contract for Plums'. Did not want extra salary.

 

[hoopsjock]

Shit good call. I was misreading Barton's contract for Plums'. Did not want extra salary.

Yeah, Plumlee's contract is still tough to take on but not bad considering we'd be ridding ourselves of our two worst contracts and bringing in two other decent players on one year deals.

I really like a bench of Baldwin/Lin/Curry/Carroll/Collins/Plumlee. Since that's 6 guys it gives us some trade options too at the deadline since one guy would likely be out of the rotation.

 

[illmatic99]

 

[Labinot41]

 

[Natebishop3]

That is the biggest “duh” of all “duhs” this summer.

 

[Labinot41]

That is the biggest “duh” of all “duhs” this summer.

What is a duh

 

[dviss1]

What is a duh

"Duh"

Is a word that's supposed to mock the sound that a person with special needs allegedly makes. It's an idiom that basically means:

"Even a person with special needs knows this".

 

[Natebishop3]

"Duh"

Is a word that's supposed to mock the sound that a person with special needs allegedly makes. It's an idiom that basically means:

"Even a person with special needs knows this".

What......?

 

[Strenuus]

"Duh"

Is a word that's supposed to mock the sound that a person with special needs allegedly makes. It's an idiom that basically means:

"Even a person with special needs knows this".

Really? I actually never even knew that, if true.

 

[dviss1]

What......?

That's why people say "Duh".

People even do it while making a funny gesture with their arm up against their chest like they're "retarded".

 

[dviss1]

Really? I actually never even knew that, if true.

Just think about it for a bit.

 

[Strenuus]

Just think about it for a bit.

No, I get it, I just didn't think something so ubiquitous and said by so many people had an undertone like that.

Which is funny, because one of my favorite things to do (but maybe not the most healthiest) is de-constructing words to find the meanings of it.

 

[Natebishop3]

That's why people say "Duh".

People even do it while making a funny gesture with their arm up against their chest like they're "retarded".

I have never seen anyone do that. And I have never heard this before.

I have seen people slap their head and say "duh."

 

[Strenuus]

I have never seen anyone do that. And I have never heard this before.

I have seen people slap their head and say "duh."

There's such an easy way to make this go political... must resist.

 

[BonesJones]

My interpretation is that Melo had just enough burst to take guys off the dribble in his prime. Now that that's gone, defenders can just pressure him and take away his jumper and Melo can't exploit that.

 

[Natebishop3]

There's such an easy way to make this go political... must resist.

I just hate how everything seems to go back to something politically incorrect.

 

[dviss1]

There's such an easy way to make this go political... must resist.

It's not political at all. It's actually pretty logical.

 

[dviss1]

I just hate how everything seems to go back to something politically incorrect.

Jesus dude, I say the shit (duh) all the time. I also say the word retarded and don't really care what people think.

 

[Natebishop3]

Jesus dude, I say the shit (duh) all the time. I also say the word retarded and don't really care what people think.

I'm not really meaning it as an attack on you..... it just sucks to hear something so bland as "duh" can be considered offensive.

 

[dviss1]

I just hate how everything seems to go back to something politically incorrect.

He asked a question and I gave him a truthful answer.

And for the record, this is SUCH a whiny ass post... Jesus..

It's even in y'alls stupid ass dictionary:

duh

imitate a mentally retarded person as an answer to an obvious remark or question. The person using "duh" is thereby sarcastically indicating that he/she is not retarded and the forgoing remark or question is obvious to him/her.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Duh

 

[dviss1]

I'm not really meaning it as an attack on you..... it just sucks to hear something so bland as "duh" can be considered offensive.

You're creating all of this. Very weirdly I might add.

No one was offended.

 

[Natebishop3]

He asked a question and I gave him a truthful answer.

And for the record, this is SUCH a whiny ass post... Jesus..

It's even in y'alls stupid ass dictionary:

duh

imitate a mentally retarded person as an answer to an obvious remark or question. The person using "duh" is thereby sarcastically indicating that he/she is not retarded and the forgoing remark or question is obvious to him/her.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Duh

You're creating all of this. Very weirdly I might add.

No one was offended.

Whatever man.

 

[BigGameDamian]

https://www.blazersedge.com/platfor...melo-anthony-melo-thunder-trail-blazers-trade

Simmons: Carmelo Anthony Could Be Good for Trail Blazers

The popular national figure suggests that Melo to Portland shouldn’t be a dead topic

 

[KingSpeed]

I would still take Melo on our team. As a starter. Both CJ and Dame want to play him and I think he'll look much better next to them than he did next to Westbrook. I think Olympic/Hoodie Melo can still help a team win in the NBA. Sign us up, Neil!