They wanted a roster spots to convert Spencer. 2-1 they did gives them that. 1-2 does not. Thybulle and Timelord adds 2.5 to their salary this year. Porzingas deal shaves about a million this year, plus the 3ish owed to Hield next season.
Wasn’t an All Star for us. I doubt he would have ever been an All Star if he stayed here.
Yeah on the one hand agree with you - but Kuminga is going to want shots and minutes. Maybe the Blazers just weren't interested in him potentially screwing up team chemistry.
Yeah there's not only the apron but also the tax teams try to get under. It seems like half the league will be trying to just get under one of those limits at this as well as future trade deadlines.
He was a good player for us, the clippers, and the heat. Kind of at CJ level except better defense. Both of these guys are normally not quite Allstars but very close and above average starters. I'm not real hung up on who actually becomes an all-star, plenty of other years Deni wouldn't have got it like this year.
Oklahoma City rebuilt their roster very quickly after losing three superstars. Portland, meanwhile, just limps along year after year, always in the middle of the pack, and never with championship potential.
We made about as marginal of a trade as we possibly could have. I don't think Vit gets us any wins this season and I don't think he gets us any higher in the lottery. I do like the move for the future if the idea is to build around Deni and go young but if that's the idea I don't see why no vets were moved.
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I understand he found it impossible to trade Jrue but now we have 7-8 PGs: Scoot, Wesley, Jrue, Lillard, Deni, Love and Cissoko is also a combo guard who can run point. Krejci also has "experience handling point guard duties". Why didn't he trade Love or Wesley? Aren't we kind of unbalanced? I still think Deni is most effective when acting as a point guard and is our best PG IMO. Will be interesting to see if he can recover completely from his back injury. Maybe Cronin thinks some guys can be traded easier next summer, especially if he can sign Cissoko and Love to contracts and give them more playing time to prove they are legitimate? Isn't that what we say every year though?
I don't think he ever went after Giannis. Contracts, age, production made Grant and Jrue untradeable and Cissoko, Wesley and Love haven't played enough to establish any value. Robert Williams? If Cronin's goal is still to get into the playoffs, he couldn't trade him is the only reason I can think of. Unless Robert has expressed a desire to stay and doctors have given an assurance his knees are ok long-term (which I doubt, so he might be the biggest mystery not being traded?).
What @blazerkor said.
Caleb is Dames buddy. I don’t know if he’d be too happy with that move?
I don't know that he found it impossible to move Jrue. He might have had a number of offers that just weren't up to his liking. We don't ever know much about what was and wasn't out there and which reports were based on real information but right now with the change in ownership we know even less than usual.
I don't know what move you're talking about. I was saying that I don't see us waiving somebody so we can move Caleb from a two way contract to a regular one because we have so many ball dominant guards.
I agree it was 'solid' for what it was, in a vacuum.. Trade a seldom-used player with a season ending injury for a back-end-of-rotation player who happens to be pretty elite at shooting three's which just happens to be a major team weakness
might not be. But I was talking more about impact in the context of some people being disappointed that Blazers didn't do more at the deadline. Krejci's career PER is 10.6 when the league average is 15.0; his career winshare/48 is .079 when the league average is .100. His career BPM is -2.0 when the league average is 0.0. So yeah, he's a role player, and probably not even a average role player. Maybe a 7th or 8th man
