Portland - 2016 Offseason

Oneluckbox · Post #1441 » by **Oneluckbox** » Fri Jul 1, 2016 4:12 pm

annnnnnnnd what City he wants to play in. Idk too much about American cities or cultures but surely Memphis isn't THAT much more appealing than Portland

Waynearchetype · Post #1442 » by **Waynearchetype** » Fri Jul 1, 2016 4:13 pm

If you can do it, do it. I don't really trust Quick to break anything though.

Dame Lizard · Post #1443 » by **Dame Lizard** » Fri Jul 1, 2016 4:21 pm

Masterfully wrote:Clarkson staying in LA on "value" contract, 4 yrs $50 million,

That's a tremendous contract imo.

DusterBuster · Post #1444 » by **DusterBuster** » Fri Jul 1, 2016 4:23 pm

Fitz303 wrote:[tweet]https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/748910418853175296[/tweet]

Another one. This is what I'm hoping for

Ok, I'm on board with this offseason again!

DusterBuster · Post #1445 » by **DusterBuster** » Fri Jul 1, 2016 4:25 pm

Waynearchetype wrote:If you can do it, do it. I don't really trust Quick to break anything though.

Stein and Quick is solid confirmation though.

I guess I gotta eat some crow a bit if this was Olshey's plan. Whether it plays out or not, he is going big.

Dame Lizard · Post #1446 » by **Dame Lizard** » Fri Jul 1, 2016 4:27 pm

DusterBuster wrote:
Fitz303 wrote:[tweet]https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/748910418853175296[/tweet]

Another one. This is what I'm hoping for

Ok, I'm on board with this offseason again!

This would make the Portland vs Houston games so damn entertaining!

Oneluckbox · Post #1447 » by **Oneluckbox** » Fri Jul 1, 2016 4:27 pm

#believe

Brandon-Clyde · Post #1448 » by **Brandon-Clyde** » Fri Jul 1, 2016 4:31 pm

Dame Lizard wrote:
DusterBuster wrote:
Fitz303 wrote:[tweet]https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/748910418853175296[/tweet]

Another one. This is what I'm hoping for

Ok, I'm on board with this offseason again!

This would make the Portland vs Houston games so damn entertaining!

It might be interesting to revisit some of the game threads from the Houston series a few years ago

DusterBuster · Post #1449 » by **DusterBuster** » Fri Jul 1, 2016 4:33 pm

Brandon-Clyde wrote:
Dame Lizard wrote:
DusterBuster wrote:
Ok, I'm on board with this offseason again!

This would make the Portland vs Houston games so damn entertaining!

It might be interesting to revisit some of the game threads from the Houston series a few years ago

Dwight and Parsons were by far the Rockets best two players in that series. Harden pooped the bed outside of one game.

DusterBuster · Post #1450 » by **DusterBuster** » Fri Jul 1, 2016 4:35 pm

Lets just say I don't think it was a coincidence this news broke literally minutes before Parsons meeting with Memphis started.

PDXKnight · Post #1451 » by **PDXKnight** » Fri Jul 1, 2016 4:40 pm

Butter wrote:
Fitz303 wrote:[tweet]https://twitter.com/jwquick/status/748909623390851074[/tweet]

Bingo

Interesting. I would have thought they would have tried to get Howard first.

Interesting but very risky. Potentially half our cap spent on injury risks

Wizenheimer · Post #1452 » by **Wizenheimer** » Fri Jul 1, 2016 4:45 pm

Fitz303 wrote:[tweet]https://twitter.com/jwquick/status/748909623390851074[/tweet]

Bingo

ok then

Parsons would be getting about 22 million first year. Reportedly, Howard wants 24 million a year, so figure on 23 million first year. That means Portland would need about 45 million in cap-space

these are the guaranteed contracts, near as I can figure:

Damian Lillard $24,381,225
Al-Farouq Aminu $7,680,965
Ed Davis $6,666,667
C.J. McCollum $3,219,579
Noah Vonleh $2,751,360
Mason Plumlee $2,328,530
Anderson Varejao (stretched) $1,984,005
Pat Connaughton $874,636
5 Roster Charges 2.71 million

52.6 million

that would mean the Blazers would need to clear another 3.6 million in cap-space. Maybe, they could work Parsons and Howard enough that simply dumping Vonleh would be sufficient. Maybe not. That kind of leaves trading Aminu or Davis as the 'only' alternatives to clear enough space. Hopefully, if they did that, they could bring back at least one lower-paid player because they are going to need to fill out the roster big-tme

that nearly 2 million dollars of cap-space Varajao's stretch is eating up is a big wart in the plan. If going after 2 max players was the plan all along, then trading for Varajao and the first round pick is a real questionable decision. Making it more questionable is that the Blazers could have traded that 1st for one or two high 2nd round picks in the draft, giving them more roster filling players...which they will need if this plan succeeds.

I might have excluded a player from that guaranteed salary list too....Cliff Alexander. I think his guarantee date was June 30. That would add 874K in salary, but it would delete a 543K roster charge. Not a significant change really

DusterBuster · Post #1453 » by **DusterBuster** » Fri Jul 1, 2016 4:45 pm

Oden2 wrote:
Butter wrote:
Fitz303 wrote:[tweet]https://twitter.com/jwquick/status/748909623390851074[/tweet]

Bingo

Interesting. I would have thought they would have tried to get Howard first.

Interesting but very risky. Potentially half our cap spent on injury risks

This is the kind of swing you have to take though.

red_power · Post #1454 » by **red_power** » Fri Jul 1, 2016 4:45 pm

That's still better than guaranted treadmill 8th seed contender

PDXKnight · Post #1455 » by **PDXKnight** » Fri Jul 1, 2016 4:47 pm

All I know is if we sign both I'm hoping we do everything we can to acquire Trevor Ariza to play the 3

sabi · Post #1456 » by **sabi** » Fri Jul 1, 2016 4:48 pm

So its between memphis and Portland for parsons and boston and Portland for dwight. Or maybe dwight is contingent on parsons to portland.

PDXKnight · Post #1457 » by **PDXKnight** » Fri Jul 1, 2016 4:48 pm

DusterBuster wrote:
Oden2 wrote:
Butter wrote:
Interesting. I would have thought they would have tried to get Howard first.

Interesting but very risky. Potentially half our cap spent on injury risks

This is the kind of swing you have to take though.

Possibly but if it backfires we are in Armageddon type of cap hell

TTown · Post #1458 » by **TTown** » Fri Jul 1, 2016 4:49 pm

wouldn't that be parson's spot?

Post #1459 » by **The Sebastian Express** » Fri Jul 1, 2016 4:54 pm

Oden2 wrote:
DusterBuster wrote:
Oden2 wrote:
Interesting but very risky. Potentially half our cap spent on injury risks

This is the kind of swing you have to take though.

Possibly but if it backfires we are in Armageddon type of cap hell

Maybe. But I remind everyone there will surely be another amnesty event in the new CBA next summer, which would help tremendously on the off-chance this is pulled off and then goes terribly wrong.

PDXKnight · Post #1460 » by **PDXKnight** » Fri Jul 1, 2016 5:01 pm

The Sebastian Express wrote:
Oden2 wrote:
DusterBuster wrote:
This is the kind of swing you have to take though.

Possibly but if it backfires we are in Armageddon type of cap hell

Maybe. But I remind everyone there will surely be another amnesty event in the new CBA next summer, which would help tremendously on the off-chance this is pulled off and then goes terribly wrong.

Yup but as we saw with Roy pa also doesn't like forking out money when he's paying for career ending injured players