Fultz4thewin

20/21. This is the incentive for him. He makes a bit more money over the course of his deal

Yeah. 200 million in revenue only increases the cap by 3.33 million.

You want short term answers to long term problems and that's not really necessary. The only thing this franchise needs to do is not sign Fournier this summer. The general strategy is fine because the general strategy has nothing to do with Vucevic. He's just training wheels for fultz and Isaac.

That's the main thing we need to solve in the short term.

You don't think Isaac gives us a few extra wins?

Because there are more options for deals. Teams are more willing to include players in trades when they can turn around and sign an outgoing players replacement the next day.

Meh. A big chunk of this issue is being caused by going from Isaac to Birch and I don't really know why we're still forcing that lineup other than to avoid playing mcw-Ross-iwundu-Birch-Bamba lineups. Another big problem is we've been an average defensive team for a while which is impacting the offense. Subtracting Isaac, aminu, and MCW simultaneously has really hurt us. Another big problem is missing augustin. He was really carrying our bench scoring before he got hurt. It's forcing Ross to do too much. Hopefully with some rest fultz and Gordon pick up the offense starting Saturday because I'm afraid "fixing the offense" is going to be investing in Fournier and replacing iwundu with Wayne Ellington.

Also, not that it changes things much but we don't have the second worst offensive rating. We're at 26.

Last year we lost 51 games due to injury from our rotation players. 35 of those games were Bamba A normal team misses around 100 games for the whole season from rotation players due to injury Today, if Isaac misses the whole season, we're already at 171 missed games from rotation players. Nobody wants to hear it because they're using this as an excuse to vent about the teams real problems but we're meeting expectations for our situation. I spent the entire summer saying we're not going to be much better this year because we're not going to have an outlier level healthy season. I can go back and find the posts. But instead of having a normal level of health we're having almost a worst case scenario level of health. And we're handling it pretty well. On top of that we've had the 7th hardest schedule to date and just came off of the longest road trip in franchise history. But that's over. We've cleared that. Going forward we have the second easiest schedule. We'll end up as the 7th seed with 39 wins

Ummmmm...

Not really. Takes us through the trade deadline Edit: remember, if we trade one of our guys for 2 players, even if we don't want the second player and he was only included for salary matching we need a roster spot for that guy before we waive him. So Clark takes us through the trade deadline. If we need his roster spot we can waive him from his 10 day to create the roster spot and then waive the new player and resign Clark for the rest of the season.

I'm not worried about that. He was shooting 36% from 3 in the 24 games before his big game against Boston which skewed his numbers positively so I didn't want to include it

No. There's a difference. We drafted chuma We don't mind getting off of our pick. Those are facts that aren't necessarily linked by causation. I think we would have drafted him regardless if he was injured or not.

Yes. If I could add one player onto this team of guys who are reasonably available I'd add Bridges. I'd add Bridges over hield, Wiggins, dinwiddie, Russell, whoever. There's incredible fit. He's cheap so we get to keep our options open long term. A fully developed Bridges is the ideal sg you can fit between prime fultz and Isaac.

Bridges is shooting guard Isaac and hit 44% of his threes his last year in college in one of the highest volumes that year. He made more threes than okeke and herro combined. You're betting on him finding his shot. The other guys are salary filler.

We drafted chuma because our analytics department had him as a top 5 pick and he fits what we like in players. If he was healthy we would have drafted him. I don't think we want 2 rookies. I think we're looking at dumping our pick. I'm not sure Gordon comes into play with that.

https://tradenba.com/trades/6ahdUIPdN

I could see that happening. I don't know if Nola would be interested but I see the logic from their side

We only play 8 of 27 days starting from yesterday so every single player on the roster should be pretty well rested going into March

Maybe you're misremembering because that's what it was

Someone fultz should end up similar to in time.

Special circumstance

No. You don't understand. Portland's main goal is to keep Lillard happy. Lillard is basically committed to Portland forever without conditions. The only thing that would get him to change his mind about that is losing CJ. And he just said this the other day That don’t have nothing to do with my commitment to the team,” Lillard told Quick. “I mean, it’s not like we are going to do something that is going to take us to the championship at this point. I think it’s more important for us to protect the assets we have, the guys who are going to be here and who are going to help us going forward. I don’t think it makes sense to sacrifice that just to make a desperate play.” So understand when you make McCollum deals it's basically the equivalent of another fanbase making Isaac deals.