Shams: Lillard to Milwaukee in three team deal

Ado05 · Post #101 » by **Ado05** » Wed Sep 27, 2023 6:39 pm

Raps needed to acquire Lillard if they wanted any shot recruiting Giannis. Thats officially over, its time to rebuild.

dagger · Post #102 » by **dagger** » Wed Sep 27, 2023 6:39 pm

Scott Hall wrote:
AkelaLoneWolf wrote:Does Masai go after jrue now? He would not be a bad consolation get.

Jrue is 33 and not a star player he doesn't move the needle at all and now that Milwaukee has the East on lock
for the next few years it's pointless to trade assets for Jrue.

Raps really need to fully embrace rebuilding at this point

Actually, Rue is not as bad as that, he plays way better D than Lillard for one. I'd be looking at a deal for him.

Post #103 » by **Duffman100** » Wed Sep 27, 2023 6:40 pm

HiJiNX wrote:How can I even defend the front office after this??

The Blazers Front office?

djsunyc · Post #104 » by **djsunyc** » Wed Sep 27, 2023 6:40 pm

Green Backpack wrote:Wow that's an amazing deal for the Bucks

makes them favorites in the east the next 2-3 years which is why they do this deal.

those 28/29/30 picks could be pretty good for portland as dame will be done and giannis may not be there.

MiamiSPX · Post #105 » by **MiamiSPX** » Wed Sep 27, 2023 6:40 pm

HiJiNX wrote:How can I even defend the front office after this??

There will be some quick pivots to "Dame isn't really a #1 anyway". Within the hour we see 1-2 of these from posters that were ready to dump Barnes for him.....

dTox · Post #106 » by **dTox** » Wed Sep 27, 2023 6:40 pm

Someone do a wellness check on JROY, man was turning down hefty trade proposals from short sighted posters here, only to end up with a 33 year old Jrue Holiday, who is looking to retire after his current deal ends.

Syd-TK3 · Post #107 » by **Syd-TK3** » Wed Sep 27, 2023 6:40 pm

Duffman100 wrote:
Syd-TK3 wrote:Imagine being involved in every possible trade but never actually doing them all I can do is laugh

I mean it's 'rumuored' were part of every possible trade. We have no actual idea what level invovlement we were and what was posturing from everyone else.

Lol Shams literally had the toronto tweet in his drafts ready

sidsid · Post #108 » by **sidsid** » Wed Sep 27, 2023 6:41 pm

Realkeeper wrote:
NinjaBro wrote:What this tells me is that OG and Dick was never on the table.

Only guys on the table were Boucher and Nowell.

The offer likely was Trent plus futures, which is very similar to the Heat offer. What this tells me is that they wanted an actual player like Jrue for, currently, unknown reasons.

goinrogue · Post #109 » by **goinrogue** » Wed Sep 27, 2023 6:41 pm

Ado05 wrote:Raps needed to acquire Lillard if they wanted any shot recruiting Giannis. Thats officially over, its time to rebuild.

Honestly Giannis was never leaving the bucks. He’s not that guy.

I’m happy this isn’t happening. Build around Scottie.

My guess is Masai balked at including Dick and a far future first.

Mark_83 · Post #110 » by **Mark_83** » Wed Sep 27, 2023 6:41 pm

Jrue to Blazers doesn't really make a lot of sense for them. Do we try to get him or even Ayton?

Inevitable · Post #111 » by **Inevitable** » Wed Sep 27, 2023 6:41 pm

Looking forward to the F5 thread that goes nowhere this time next year for Embiid, and the one for Luka the year after.

dTox · Post #112 » by **dTox** » Wed Sep 27, 2023 6:41 pm

dagger wrote:
Scott Hall wrote:
AkelaLoneWolf wrote:Does Masai go after jrue now? He would not be a bad consolation get.

Jrue is 33 and not a star player he doesn't move the needle at all and now that Milwaukee has the East on lock
for the next few years it's pointless to trade assets for Jrue.

Raps really need to fully embrace rebuilding at this point

Actually, Rue is not as bad as that, he plays way better D than Lillard for one. I'd be looking at a deal for him.

For what purpose? Go for another 7-10th seed? Just end the misery and hit the reset button, FO needs to face the music.

djsunyc · Post #113 » by **djsunyc** » Wed Sep 27, 2023 6:42 pm

dagger wrote:
Scott Hall wrote:
AkelaLoneWolf wrote:Does Masai go after jrue now? He would not be a bad consolation get.

Jrue is 33 and not a star player he doesn't move the needle at all and now that Milwaukee has the East on lock
for the next few years it's pointless to trade assets for Jrue.

Raps really need to fully embrace rebuilding at this point

Actually, Rue is not as bad as that, he plays way better D than Lillard for one. I'd be looking at a deal for him.

SFour · Post #114 » by **SFour** » Wed Sep 27, 2023 6:42 pm

there will always be another disgruntled allstar/superstar to go for....the important thing is that Raptors still have the assets to make a big trade, as long as the team isn't being completely gutted.

YogurtProducer · Post #115 » by **YogurtProducer** » Wed Sep 27, 2023 6:42 pm

Duffman100 wrote:
Syd-TK3 wrote:Imagine being involved in every possible trade but never actually doing them all I can do is laugh

I mean it's 'rumuored' were part of every possible trade. We have no actual idea what level invovlement we were and what was posturing from everyone else.

Especially since it was reported Miami hadn’t even spoken to Portland.

dagger · Post #116 » by **dagger** » Wed Sep 27, 2023 6:42 pm

I am kind of happy the Heat get screwed over. And as for the Gianni's pipe dream, he's going to be an FA around when Dame can't play at his current level. That's going to be an old team.

djsunyc · Post #117 » by **djsunyc** » Wed Sep 27, 2023 6:42 pm

jrue makes 36.8 mil this season and player option at 39.4 next season. he is 33 years old.

will · Post #118 » by **will** » Wed Sep 27, 2023 6:42 pm

YES!

Raps don't do something stupid.

JShuttlesworth · Post #119 » by **JShuttlesworth** » Wed Sep 27, 2023 6:43 pm

I'm mostly laughing at everyone who thought we were getting Lillard...and especially those who wanted to move Barnes for him

Tofubeque · Post #120 » by **Tofubeque** » Wed Sep 27, 2023 6:43 pm

Surprised Raptors didn’t beat an offer of Holiday, Allen a 2029 first and 2 swaps. But the Blazers thought it was a good idea to trade 4 players for one of the most infamously soft and overpaid bigs in the league, so who knows what they’re thinking.

Not sure why anyone’s celebrating the Bucks making the deal, they’ll probably run the East for several years from this. I hate Riley too but the Heat have won fewer titles in the past 10 years and their stars are ancient.