2019 Trade Deadline Discussion

[Cptgrnlngs22]

The bucks have cleared space for this summer with the trade they did with Cleveland sending out delladova. They can resign anyone they want now. We are not going to be able to poach their players this summer.


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[Handlogten's Heros]

Tobias Harris has been so damned impressive when I've watched him. I think he'd murder it with the help we could give and in our system.

I keep hoping the clips paying more attention to outside free agents and not their own guys will give us the opening we need to steal him. I'd take him over Middleton at this point. Love guys that keep getting better every damn year.

 

[Alfalfa]

Tobias Harris has been so damned impressive when I've watched him. I think he'd murder it with the help we could give and in our system.

I keep hoping the clips paying more attention to outside free agents and not their own guys will give us the opening we need to steal him. I'd take him over Middleton at this point. Love guys that keep getting better every damn year.

Been a fan since his Detroit days. But it's too good to come true.

 

[NUMBERICA]

The bucks have cleared space for this summer with the trade they did with Cleveland sending out delladova. They can resign anyone they want now. We are not going to be able to poach their players this summer.


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1. When is anyone going to acknowledge the absolutely critical importance of Brook Lopez?
2. They don’t have Bird Rights on Lopez and they have to do serious maneuvering to sign him to a market-competitive contract. They also have him for nothing now.
3. Of their pending four free agents (their ENTIRE starting lineup that isn’t Giannis), one of them is restricted.
4. The second they prioritize keeping Bledsoe or Lopez, someone on that team is very vulnerable.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Been a fan since his Detroit days. But it's too good to come true.

I liked him when I watched him bully Gordon in the post a few times in Orlando. Wanted us to toss a max his way that offseason. Small ball wasn't a thing and he wasn't as proven a shooter.

He seems like a class act as well. I'm going to keep hope alive until the ink is dry with someone else or until we make a big trade using our cap space.

 

[NUMBERICA]

Tobias Harris has been so damned impressive when I've watched him. I think he'd murder it with the help we could give and in our system.

I keep hoping the clips paying more attention to outside free agents and not their own guys will give us the opening we need to steal him. I'd take him over Middleton at this point. Love guys that keep getting better every damn year.

At least for this team, Harris is vastly preferable to Middleton.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

1. When is anyone going to acknowledge the absolutely critical importance of Brook Lopez?
2. They don’t have Bird Rights on Lopez and they have to do serious maneuvering to sign him to a market-competitive contract. They also have him for nothing now.
3. Of their pending four free agents (their ENTIRE starting lineup that isn’t Giannis), one of them is restricted.
4. The second they prioritize keeping Bledsoe or Lopez, someone on that team is very vulnerable.

I think they let Bledsoe walk... and that will be the key. They are aided by two things:

1- A limited market for bigs and a seemingly good stock of players that teams may prioritize before Lopez. I think if he was offered MLE or something a little better he accepts.
2- The restricted FA of Brogdon and the moratorium. If someone could sneak in with an offer of $20m+ and his caphold went up immediatly then they'd have no time to address Lopez and would have to choose Lopez &Bledsoe or Brogdon. They will have a few days to figure out Lopez/Middleton/Bledso before they have to worry about an offer sheet for Brogdon.

It's worth watching for sure. They have the two big shields with the guys we want though... they can lay down the 5 year deal with Middleton and can match anything on malcolm. May have to replace Lopez, but that doesn't help us. It's a difficult dance, but I think they can do it and only lose Bledsoe.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

At least for this team, Harris is vastly preferable to Middleton.

I would not have said that at the beginning of the year. His individual creation/scoring has improved so much. His shot is money. Impressive young man.

 

[silesian]

Jazz are 5th in ESPN BPI, 6th in Sagarin rankings, 8th in 538 rankings

You guys who bitch about the Jazz playing terribly need to breathe and develop some perspective.

They are going to finish somewhere 3-6 which is pretty amazing given the strength in the WC.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Been a fan since his Detroit days. But it's too good to come true.

Also, with Tobias the thing that needs to happen is we clearly need to be better than the clips. So things are trending in a direction that we could end up being the team with though pre-season. Good showing in the playoffs and he looks at that PF spot and says " if this team won 50 without me... has young guys getting better... now they add me... how good will it be?" Meanwhile Clips are having meetings with KD, Kawhi, Jimmy Butler?, Kyrie?... It might be easy to say... 4 year max on the table with a good young up and coming team... "I'm in".

LA weather is nice... but these guys want to win and get respect. I think he is gettable if we finish strong. When we were struggling it made me really worry about our ability in FA. I'm feeling a bit better about our chances now. Still a long shot, but I think he has more upside than I would have guessed.

 

[SCS]

Jazz are 5th in ESPN BPI, 6th in Sagarin rankings, 8th in 538 rankings

You guys who bitch about the Jazz playing terribly need to breathe and develop some perspective.

They are going to finish somewhere 3-6 which is pretty amazing given the strength in the WC.

I assume you're referring to my post.

I have perspective. I said they were playing terribly earlier in the season. Which is undeniable fact. Also, despite my pessimistic attitude this season I've always claimed that I think they will finish with 45-ish wins. I think that a lot of the time people read my posts and think I'm saying we are just awful. That's not the case. I just don't think we are as good as we were last year. Or as good as many of us expected we would be this year. 45 ish wins isn't terrible. It's just not the 50-55 many of us expected.

 

[SCS]

Any way we could get Sweet Lou from the Clips?