Season Speculation, Trade Ideas & Discussion Pt. 4

[Weemsickew14]

The rebuild seems pretty simple to me. I think we trade all of our picks plus whatever else needed to get Trae Young. Right after we get our PG of the future we go get our C via free agency. Realistically, I can't see the rockets keeping Capela and I think he is the perfect C for us and I would even max him out. This leaves us looking like this:
Young/Ulis
Book/Reed
TJ/Jackson
Bender/Quese/Dudz
Capela/Sauce/Tyson

I believe this team easily makes the playoffs for many years to come...

[Mulhollanddrive]

I think McDonough said he doesn't expect to be active this trade period more relying on internal improvement.

But I'm sure we can fill 200 pages on Monroe for a swap of 2nd rounders.

[jredsaz]

Like someone else mentioned this is definitely an Eric Bledsoe type of situation when he was on the clippers. The Blazers are in desperate need of any cap relief possible as they are going to sign nurk to an extension this offseason.

Piggybacking on NAVs idea, how bout Turner/Napier for BK and the latest 1st ( or 2 seconds?) round we got this year? It saves the blazers 8M over the next 2 years by swapping the BK contract and they get some picks.

I really like bazz, he can score from all 3 levels, reminds me of a mini Booker. Plus, if we trade for him he doesn't have the track record yet to demand an enormous contract so maybe we can get him signed for 10 a year if he proves his worth this year.

If we really wanted him, why not just throw him a RFA offer that Portland wouldn't match? At that point we would know if we were able to address it in the draft. Why give up anything at all for him or take on a bunch of money to get him a month or two early.

I doubt he will have any/many suitors in free agency since most teams outside of us, the Magic and maybe the Knicks have a couple good point guards.

Thing is the blazers are not afraid to go over the cap to keep a piece. If you remember they matched crabbes giant offer even though they really didnt need to. Hopefully Oshley learned his lesson and they have enough on their plate with nurk that we can just sign him for free this summer.

They are now. That was coming off a year they upset the Rockets in the first round. That turned out to be a mirage and now they look like a bottom on the bracket playoff team in the luxury tax. Not even Paul Allen likes to pay extra for that.

Portland might be a team - along with the Clippers, Hornets, and Pistons - that have All Star and near All Star caliber players looking to blow it up at the dearline or draft.

[ImNotMcDiSwear]

I think McDonough said he doesn't expect to be active this trade period more relying on internal improvement.

But I'm sure we can fill 200 pages on Monroe for a swap of 2nd rounders.

Yeah I expect we swallow Monroe's cap space, try to acquire a vet PG this summer (very possibly a RFA via S&T), S&T Len for scraps, let BK beat out Ulis for a spot and waive Ulis, draft one of Ayton, Bagley, Jackson or Bamba, as well as PG prospect to work on with our second pick... possibly trade Chandler for a minor upgrade at the C spot.

All during the summer. Nothing now.

[Mulhollanddrive]

Interesting to read Triano suggest he worked the players too hard in practice but that they need to develop.

Wonder if that's a subtle tank or just how they're going about things.

[jcsunsfan]

The rebuild seems pretty simple to me. I think we trade all of our picks plus whatever else needed to get Trae Young. Right after we get our PG of the future we go get our C via free agency. Realistically, I can't see the rockets keeping Capela and I think he is the perfect C for us and I would even max him out. This leaves us looking like this:
Young/Ulis
Book/Reed
TJ/Jackson
Bender/Quese/Dudz
Capela/Sauce/Tyson

I believe this team easily makes the playoffs for many years to come...

lots of fa centers

[thamadkant]

The rebuild seems pretty simple to me. I think we trade all of our picks plus whatever else needed to get Trae Young. Right after we get our PG of the future we go get our C via free agency. Realistically, I can't see the rockets keeping Capela and I think he is the perfect C for us and I would even max him out. This leaves us looking like this:
Young/Ulis
Book/Reed
TJ/Jackson
Bender/Quese/Dudz
Capela/Sauce/Tyson

I believe this team easily makes the playoffs for many years to come...

with the way the game is going... do you honestly think a team will pass on Trae Young?

They wont.... especially with late lottery picks.

[Weemsickew14]

The rebuild seems pretty simple to me. I think we trade all of our picks plus whatever else needed to get Trae Young. Right after we get our PG of the future we go get our C via free agency. Realistically, I can't see the rockets keeping Capela and I think he is the perfect C for us and I would even max him out. This leaves us looking like this:
Young/Ulis
Book/Reed
TJ/Jackson
Bender/Quese/Dudz
Capela/Sauce/Tyson

I believe this team easily makes the playoffs for many years to come...

with the way the game is going... do you honestly think a team will pass on Trae Young?

They wont.... especially with late lottery picks.

Our pick will hopefully be top 5, which gives us a decent chance at him considering so many teams have pgs already.I also wouldn't hate drafting a C like Bamba and signing/trading for a solid vet pg. That would yield similar results

[Qwigglez]