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We HAVE to make a trade.

yamers said:
Ye i wasn't a big fan of the dante signing. I knew he was what he is since the day he was drafted. I was really against that pick.
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I knew it when Jazz landed nr. 5 pick. I even had a dream that Jazz will draft Exum and was posting here how terrible it would be way before the draft.
 
LoPo said:
I'm pretty sure you can't combine them. However, they could be useful. Unfortunately, we rarely ever use trade exceptions. I think the last time we used a trade exception was to acquire Al Jefferson by using the one we got by trading Boozer.

We should try to use our exceptions. Guys like Jeff Green, Kaminsky, Korkmaz, Bobby Portis and some others might be available closer to the deadline. We might have to send out a minor asset, but it could make sense.
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Go. Get. Portis.
 
MVP said:
I knew it when Jazz landed nr. 5 pick. I even had a dream that Jazz will draft Exum and was posting here how terrible it would be way before the draft.
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It’s good to see your hate is longstanding and before he was even drafted, yep Dante is not playing any good, I agree. So let’s trade him for anything at all and give him and the Jazz a new start. That’s my view.
 
Tragic66 said:
It’s good to see your hate is longstanding and before he was even drafted,
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Its not hate, dude. Its is objective evaluation of a player - and his red flags before the draft were screaming very loudly - stay away from me!!!!! After he was drafted I said, ok lets give him some time, maybe he will show something special. Unfortunately yamers, me, kyoto, seattlefan and some other were dead on -dude is a bust as nr. 5 pick. Had he been drafted in late 20's nobody would expect much, unfortinately with nr. 5 comes a bit higher expectations.
 
NUMBERICA said:
Is he out of the rotation or something?
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No idea but with Lauri now back, I gotta think he loses some time.

He’s a FA (I think UFA but I forget) and is pretty much what we need. Long, pretty athletic, young, can hit the 3, plays defense (I think—he did in college), and to me, based on all that, has a lot of upside, especially relative to wha i think his cost would be.

@Saint Cy of JFC

Is this a fair commentary on Portis?
 
Portis is a restricted free agent this summer. Not really sure he stands with Chicago. Do they like him?

Also, if we get Portis, the Mirotic dream is officially dead.

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LoPo said:
Portis is a restricted free agent this summer. Not really sure he stands with Chicago. Do they like him?

Also, if we get Portis, the Mirotic dream is officially dead.

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Nah, let’s just make sure we facilitate a deal where Portis goes to NOP.
 
Here’s part of the issue with Portis. His (perceived) personality. Maybe there are work ethic issues too, I don’t know. But I can’t see Lindsey going after a young player with such character concerns.

Which brings me to my concern/beef. If Gobert and Ingles and Mitchell are such great ****ing leaders, shouldn’t they be able to rein him in, get him to buy in, get him to want to work his *** off, and become as great as he can maybe be.

Sorry, but the FO and media can’t rave about how great the leaders (Quin included) are on our team and how great the chemistry is between the guys and then have a FO unwilling to go after a guy with some issues. That’s not great leadership. That’s getting vanilla players you know are willing to fit your vanilla ways.
 
I'd be willing to take chances. I don't really see the upside with Portis, though.
 
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