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Should the Blazers puruse Carmelo Anthony?

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Boob-No-More said:
Honest question. Do you think Crabbe improved his overall play last season? His scoring average went from 10.3 ppg to 10.7 ppg, but his minutes also increased from 26.0 MPG to 28.5 MPG. His PTS/36 actually went down from 14.2 to 13.5.

Where do you think any improvement in his play will come from? Improved handle? Better rebounding and passing? More assertive? Better defense?

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I would LIKE Crabbes to be more assertive and trust his handle. Then see what happens. Could be good, could be bad. But we need to find out. Also, iirc he started off last season doing that more then he went away from it, possibly because of his foot issue? I'll give the guy the benefit of the doubt one more time. He def needs to put up this season or ship out.

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RR7 said:
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I do have a trade where Turner goes to NY. Didn't want to post it cuz BNM says I can't post a trade where Gordon comes to Portland, but I'm gonna do it anyway!

Turner and Leonard to New York

Anderson, Gordon and Ariza to Portland

Anthony and Crabbe to Houston

In one swoop I get rid of Portland's three bad contracts. Anderson is a better fit and better player than Leonard. Gordon is a better player than Crabbe. Ariza only has one season left but at this point I think his all-around game might be better than anyone we have at SF.
I think Houston is good with this; they get rid of Anderson's horrid contract, value Anthony over Ariza and Crabbe/Gordon is a wash.
New York probably does have to get a pick here or probably one from Houston and one from Portland. They have to really like Turner, but hey they just signed some guy who is a nobody for about the same price.
http://www.espn.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=ycq69n4f
 
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I like removing Leonard's contract but that is cancelled out by also losing good player Harkless. I like receiving two picks but these are two second rounder which are hardly worth anything.

Anderson at $10M a year would be a good get. At almost $20M a year, it's a bad deal whichever way we look at it, and the fact that he'll take minutes from Swanigan and Collins makes it even worse. We will have three contracts close to $20M a year that will be impossible to move for the next three seasons in Turner, Crabbe and Anderson. That's going to make it very hard for us to build here. Hope we might somehow be able to get Jae Crowder for some of our assets (doubtful).
 
Of course we haven't seen details yet so it's pretty hard to grade it.
 
Glad to hear it's expanded to a 4-team deal - hopefully we aren't (a) taking back Anderson or (b) trading Harkless.
 
Sarni said:
I like removing Leonard's contract but that is cancelled out by also losing good player Harkless. I like receiving two picks but these are two second rounder which are hardly worth anything.

Anderson at $10M a year would be a good get. At almost $20M a year, it's a bad deal whichever way we look at it, and the fact that he'll take minutes from Swanigan and Collins makes it even worse. We will have three contracts close to $20M a year that will be impossible to move for the next three seasons in Turner, Crabbe and Anderson. That's going to make it very hard for us to build here. Hope we might somehow be able to get Jae Crowder for some of our assets (doubtful).
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Boston's front office is very high on him, and it's just not going to happen without blowing them away.
CJ or Lillard + multiple firsts.
Only way Crowder is coming to Portland is through free agency. Meaning he's not coming to Portland.
 
I believe the 4th team was need to be involved due to Olshey trying to get rid of Leonard.
 
Brooklyn is my guess if Leonard is involved. They had interest in Olynyk so they should have interest in Leonard. They also have the cap space to absorb his contract without sending anything out except a second or something.
 
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