My thought is that getting Siakam for CJ and a first would be fantastic. I don't know if this is the way to do it but I can't come up with a better one right now.
As always the limitation is finding teams that would want CJ. Cleveland seems like a reasonable destination. They invested a ton of $ on bigs and appear to want to take a bigger step. They also have resisted extending Sexton even if the dude put up 24 ppg last year.
Yeah, I thought Cleveland was a good idea. I just don't know how receptive the Raptors will be. By going out and getting Dragic they are kind of saying that they aren't rebuilding but sticking with a team that is part young guys and part vets. They're hard to judge. I suspect if they start out the season winning a lot they won't be looking for a move like this but if they are losing like they did last season, they might just want to shake things up like this move does.
Even if Ujiri insists otherwise, i think the writing is on the wall for Pascal after they drafted Barnes and paid Anunoby last year. They also traded for Achiuwa, hard capped themselves with Birch and still have Boucher as their big men.
Last I heard he's out until early November so not missing much of the season.
Thank You.
Thats why I think Philly could wait to trade Simmons.
I would just much much rather pony up an extra first if that's what it took and get Simmons for ourselves because I'm pretty sure two firsts are worth the same as Moses Moody.
as would i, but more and more, I feel like the Blazers are out on Simmons. Dame was dropping Green's name multiple times yet again in his PC today. I don't like the idea of swapping CJ for Draymond, hence the Rui addition.
Dray is spent and as a second option is terrible. I don't care how cool him and Dame are, if the team is even thinking about a Draymond Green type of player they should still be in on Simmons.
we've gone over this ad nauseum. I prefer Simmons to Green as well. I'm just conveying the Blazers' possible thought process given how frequently he brings up Draymond.
Where did he say that? Not questioning you, just curious.
Obviously Simmons can defend the three so if the CJ and RoCo for Simmons and filler trade went down we could still easily start Dame, Powell, Simmons, Nance and Nurk but obviously we keep RoCo and our depth if we just trade CJ and probably draft considerations after taking the protection off the 2022 first.
At this point I would offer CJ a 2023 swap, a 2025 swap and both our 2024 and our 2026 first rounders.
