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[Fez Hammersticks]

Either Collins is being moved for Love...

Or Collins is the starting PF...

 

[Chris Craig]

Thank God, no more of those swishy 3 fucking annoying posts right?

Be nice

 

[rotary111]

Blazers didn't have to throw in a pick to move either player, however, @swish3 will be leaving Portland for sunny Miami!

 

[BBert]

I wanted 3 things. Get rid of aminu and mo harkless and ET!!! All happened!!! Whiteside is a beast!!! Him and nurk will be destroying oppression and rotate! We still got zach and bazemore is a nice addition and mario will have break out season!!! And we got hood!!Yes finally we are doing some serious damage in FA, its under the radar but silently we are kicking ass

Not a fan of his overall game or his past issues, but he protects the rim and he rebounds. Just what you need in the playoffs. Especially off the bench when the backups are trying to get to the rim.

 

[THE HCP]

So, with all these moves, I guess it's guaranteed that Collins will be starting at PF?

For good or bad I hope so. Love that kids game even though he has a ton to learn. Throw him in the deep end!

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

Whiteside is alright center. He's not that good, let's not kid ourselves.

No he’s good his motor and his head are often not into it though.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Fuck. Not good. Still, I guess people were just complaining that we were overstocked with wings and understocked with bigs.

We'll miss Mo and Aminu MARK MY WORDS.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Who starts at power forward?

Who is the backup center?

Still work to do

 

[Natebishop3]

Either Collins is being moved for Love...

Or Collins is the starting PF...

We don’t have the money to match Loves contract - unless we’re dealing CJ.

 

[B-Roy]

 

[Chris Craig]

Either Collins is being moved for Love...

Or Collins is the starting PF...

Blazers can't trade for Love now. They blew their load. Im ok with that. Collins is our starting 4.

Unless they trade CJ, but come on

 

[TBpup]

Either Collins is being moved for Love...

Or Collins is the starting PF...

Collins is the starting PF.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

 

[Natebishop3]

People are actually unhappy with a trade that sends out Harkless and Meyers Leonard for a staring caliber center?

 

[BBert]

Just wait until Meyers has a good game in Miami.

Yeah, watch him break out LOLOL

 

[PtldPlatypus]

Blazers can't trade for Love now. They blew their load. Im ok with that. Collins is our starting 5.

They could after 8/24...

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Meyers should love Miami...

 

[BrianFromWA]

All seriousness, I think Meyers is a good piece on a team without a center. The known unpredictability of Legend vs. the flammability/volatility of Whiteside.

That said, with Hezonja and Whiteside, Dame/CJ/Ant better be practicing their Lobs.

 

[Serbian]

Whiteside averaged only 21 minutes per game and had 12 pts and 11 boards on average, up his minutes to 27-28 and easily he scoring 15+ 10+ rebounds in his sleep

 

[GDiama]

Who starts at power forward?

Who is the backup center?

One of those must be Zach, right?

 

[CupWizier]

Man, I wonder what we do when Nurk is back.

Platoon them. Whiteside was able to average over 12 points and 11 rebounds in about 23 min and a per of over 23. I'm not sure if you get that production with Harkless and Leonard combined. Very solid move.

 

[noknobs]

Definitely upgrades us at center until Nurk is back, and really Nurk will unlikely be himself for the entire upcoming season. Love that he's expiring so we can trade him if he continues to be a headcase even around Dame. But the guy averaged a double-double and almost 2 blocks a game in just 23 minutes last year.

Could be huge if he's properly motivated... and since he's in a contract year I think he will be.

 

[blazedanugz]

So are we done now?

 

[SheedSoNasty]

Makes one wonder if Paul Allen was the one holding back Neil from making trades/changes. With all due respect to PA. Of course.

 

[BBert]

The Heat board is about to blow up...

I'll bet the Heat board is as happy as the Blazers board right now haha

 

[Rastapopoulos]

I wanted 3 things. Get rid of aminu and mo harkless and ET!!! All happened!!!

Have you ever heard of a story about a monkey's paw?

 

[DollaBel]

So Collins has to be our 4, unless we’re doing something else. I think thats Olshey’s back up plan, but I also think he’ll be trying to see if he can grab someone decent for that position like Morris somehow.

Dame/Simons - CJ/Baze - Hood/Hezonja/Little Morris/Collins/Hezonja - Whiteside/Collins

Until Nurk gets back would make me feel pretty damn good in all honesty. Whiteside aint great but he’ll have some huge nights and our spacing with Dame and CJ might help him be a lot better, especially with how we tend to get the best out of guys who struggle elsewhere typically for effort/emotional reasons like Whiteside (also I definitely forgot about Hezonja, even better). Our defense does seem pretty shaky tho now with Harkless and Chief gone.

 

[oldmangrouch]

I have to give Olshey credit. He figured out that as long as Aminu/Hark/ET were on the roster Stotts was going to give them the bulk of the minutes.

 

[Duckhook]

The Heat board is about to blow up...

Which one? can you link it? Thanks

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Why couldn't WE be the ones to end up with Josh Richardson? Oh yeah, because we didn't have Jimmy Butler...