What will Neil do with Aminu?

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What will Neil do with Aminu?

  • Trade him in a larger deal for an impact player on a longer term contract

    Votes: 4 12.9%

  • Trade him in a dump for a pick or younger player

    Votes: 4 12.9%

  • Let him walk

    Votes: 9 29.0%

  • Re-sign him in the summer after his contract expires

    Votes: 14 45.2%
  • Total voters
    31
  • Poll closed .
illmatic99

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Is he gonna be another wasted asset who will walk for nothing in return? I tend to think he has some trade value as a 7 mil expiring deal. We'll still be in the tax this year even if we dump him for nothing like we did with Vonleh last year. He has no incentive to re-sign here after his deal expires either, so we'll be competing for him in UFA like everyone else.
 
My guess?

He’s going to use a pick to dump one or two shit contracts. That would make re-signing Aminu easier, if they choose to go down that road. That’s Olsheys boy, I doubt he dumps him.

Personally I don’t mind Aminu, I just don’t want him starting over Zach.
 
yuyuza1 said:
Is he gonna be another wasted asset who will walk for nothing in return? I tend to think he has some trade value as a 7 mil expiring deal. We'll still be in the tax this year even if we dump him for nothing like we did with Vonleh last year. He has no incentive to re-sign here after his deal expires either, so we'll be competing for him in UFA like everyone else.
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Technically we do have Aminu's Bird Rights.
 
Scalma said:
My guess?

He’s going to use a pick to dump one or two shit contracts. That would make re-signing Aminu easier, if they choose to go down that road. That’s Olsheys boy, I doubt he dumps him.

Personally I don’t mind Aminu, I just don’t want him starting over Zach.
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I don't want him starting period. But I would totally resign him for about 5 mil per.
 
I don't really care about Aminu, honestly i wouldn't miss him if he left at the trade Deadline or in free agency. His Defense is overrated, on Ball good but not constantly good, and off Ball he looses his man pretty often, which i saw that in the Dallas Game as Barnes had a lot of open 3s. That just one example of his off ball Defense. Offensive he sucks, he can't pass, can't handle the Ball, he will allways be a streaky Shooter, this year he shots 34% on mostly wide open 3s, thats pretty bad to be honest
 
i selected the pick or young player choice. I can see him being moved in a very similar fashion to the way Plumlee was. Swap him out for someone with longer control.
 
Labinot41 said:
I don't really care about Aminu, honestly i wouldn't miss him if he left at the trade Deadline or in free agency. His Defense is overrated, on Ball good but not constantly good, and off Ball he looses his man pretty often, which i saw that in the Dallas Game as Barnes had a lot of open 3s. That just one example of his off ball Defense. Offensive he sucks, he can't pass, can't handle the Ball, he will allways be a streaky Shooter, this year he shots 34% on mostly wide open 3s, thats pretty bad to be honest
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Aminu is clutch and always ups his game in playoffs.
 
Houston is desperat for a 3nd wing and they don't care about Picks, but i don't know if Neil would do that. That would make them stronger this year and us weaker
 
The worst case scenario would be to over-pay to keep him and do nothing to upgrade the forward positions. Ergo, that is what the team will do.
 
RR7 said:
i selected the pick or young player choice. I can see him being moved in a very similar fashion to the way Plumlee was. Swap him out for someone with longer control.
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The only difference I see is when they traded Plumlee, they were something like ten games below .500, or at the very least outside the playoffs looking in. Even if Olshey were open to trading Aminu, I don’t think he would do it unless Portland was struggling. For all intents and purposes, they aren’t right now.
 
Scalma said:
The only difference I see is when they traded Plumlee, they were something like ten games below .500, or at the very least outside the playoffs looking in. Even if Olshey were open to trading Aminu, I don’t think he would do it unless Portland was struggling. For all intents and purposes, they aren’t right now.
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Haha! Three days ago, everyone said they were struggling. One win makes a big difference, I guess.
 
KingSpeed said:
Haha! Three days ago, everyone said they were struggling. One win makes a big difference, I guess.
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Hence “for all intents and purposes.” They were in the playoff race three days ago, and as long as they stay in it, Olshey won’t dump Aminu...imo.
 
Scalma said:
The only difference I see is when they traded Plumlee, they were something like ten games below .500, or at the very least outside the playoffs looking in. Even if Olshey were open to trading Aminu, I don’t think he would do it unless Portland was struggling. For all intents and purposes, they aren’t right now.
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That's very true. I wonder if they would have taken the same risk if we were similar to now, knowing the contract issue was still there. Plumlee was a good, but limited, player. And I think his upside was primarily gone by the trade. Nurk had tons of upside, but the risk was there. I was trying to look at different options from contenders to fit a similar deal, with Aminu.
 
KingSpeed said:
Aminu is clutch.
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Surface level misinformation. Typical KS post...

Aninu's TS% in clutch situations

2017-2018 - 42.9%
2016-2017 - 45.6%
2015-2016 - 36.2%

This here hes been at 63%. But those 35 games are an outlier when compared to the 200 some games before it. Not to mention that he gets even more wide open looks in the clutch.

But ya know, facts and stuff.
 
Scalma said:
The only difference I see is when they traded Plumlee, they were something like ten games below .500, or at the very least outside the playoffs looking in. Even if Olshey were open to trading Aminu, I don’t think he would do it unless Portland was struggling. For all intents and purposes, they aren’t right now.
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yep

the day before the Nurkic trade, Portland was 23-31. They were 9th seed, 1.5 games out of 8th seed, but 8 games out of 7th seed with just 28 games left in the season. Their future was lottery or 8th seed, so making a move like that trade wasn't really risking anything substantial

now, they are 5th seed, only 2.5 games out of 1st (1.5 games out of 11th and 4 games out of 13th). So a trade at this point would be risking a lot more than was risked in Feb 2017. Further, only a few months ago Dame had a meeting with PA (and IIRC had a 2nd one later but maybe that's wrong) about the direction of the team. Trading away a 4th year starter for cap relief and maybe a draft pick seems like something that could get Dame riled up and Olshey can't afford that

if the Blazers can't find a salary-relief trade for a light cost between now and the off-season, I fully expect Aminu to go down the same off-ramp Davis did
 
wizenheimer said:
yep

the day before the Nurkic trade, Portland was 23-31. They were 9th seed, 1.5 games out of 8th seed, but 8 games out of 7th seed with just 28 games left in the season. Their future was lottery or 8th seed, so making a move like that trade wasn't really risking anything substantial

now, they are 5th seed, only 2.5 games out of 1st (1.5 games out of 11th and 4 games out of 13th). So a trade at this point would be risking a lot more than was risked in Feb 2017. Further, only a few months ago Dame had a meeting with PA (and IIRC had a 2nd one later but maybe that's wrong) about the direction of the team. Trading away a 4th year starter for cap relief and maybe a draft pick seems like something that could get Dame riled up and Olshey can't afford that

if the Blazers can't find a salary-relief trade for a light cost between now and the off-season, I fully expect Aminu to go down the same off-ramp Davis did
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Which makes me wonder what would happen if Portland stays in the thick of the race and Olshey is presented an opportunity to dump Turner (by attaching a pick.) Would he still do it? Probably makes Meyers the most likely “salary dump” candidate, although I don’t know how you pass on an opportunity to dump $18 million.
 
If we are still in the playoffs hunt Olshey will not trade Aminu but won't resigned him so Zach can start next year. It like Davis this last year. I am not saying we won't trade at deadline but it won't be Aminu.
 
KingSpeed said:
Aminu is clutch and always ups his game in playoffs.
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BonesJones said:
Surface level misinformation. Typical KS post...

Aninu's TS% in clutch situations

2017-2018 - 42.9%
2016-2017 - 45.6%
2015-2016 - 36.2%

This here hes been at 63%. But those 35 games are an outlier when compared to the 200 some games before it. Not to mention that he gets even more wide open looks in the clutch.

But ya know, facts and stuff.
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Annoyingly, KS is right in this case, if you focus on the full sentence and not just the clutch portion of it.

https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/a/aminual01.html#all_playoffs_per_game

Regular Season 2PT%: 0.466
Regular Season 3PT%: 0.337
Regular Season FT%: 0.732

Playoff 2PT%: 0.517
Playoff 3PT%: 0.430
Playoff FT%: 0.738

I still think he's a net negative for the reason you said, though. Aminu is dared to shoot like no one else on the roster come playoff time. He makes a few more as a result, but he's still hurting the team because he's not commanding any respect from the defense.
 
handiman said:
Annoyingly, KS is right in this case, if you focus on the full sentence and not just the clutch portion of it.

https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/a/aminual01.html#all_playoffs_per_game

Regular Season 2PT%: 0.466
Regular Season 3PT%: 0.337
Regular Season FT%: 0.732

Playoff 2PT%: 0.517
Playoff 3PT%: 0.430
Playoff FT%: 0.738

I still think he's a net negative for the reason you said, though. Aminu is dared to shoot like no one else on the roster come playoff time. He makes a few more as a result, but he's still hurting the team because he's not commanding any respect from the defense.
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I simply singled out the one part he was very wrong about. I know he shoots better during the post-season. But to say he's "clutch" couldn't be further from the truth. That's something he's said before this year. Now if he said he's been "clutch this season", that would've made sense.
 
handiman said:
Annoyingly, KS is right in this case, if you focus on the full sentence and not just the clutch portion of it.

https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/a/aminual01.html#all_playoffs_per_game

Regular Season 2PT%: 0.466
Regular Season 3PT%: 0.337
Regular Season FT%: 0.732

Playoff 2PT%: 0.517
Playoff 3PT%: 0.430
Playoff FT%: 0.738

I still think he's a net negative for the reason you said, though. Aminu is dared to shoot like no one else on the roster come playoff time. He makes a few more as a result, but he's still hurting the team because he's not commanding any respect from the defense.
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Ding ding
 
Chris Craig said:
Why let him walk? Makes no since
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He’ll be hard to keep if they don’t find a way to dump Turner/Leonard/Meyers. I haven’t seen evidence that the team is ok with being in the tax.
 
Chris Craig said:
Why let him walk? Makes no since
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