UOducksTK1 wrote:
See and that's where I disagree, with a #6 pick, I would not take someone like Spencer Hawes. I don't want 8ppg and 6rpg and 1bpg. And you bolded Channing Frye... Dude was garbage at Portland, and while he found a perfect fit in the Suns, he is still a terrible Center. A SF in a Center body, who really can't do anything but sit on the 3point line and jack up 3pointers. A poor man's Al Harrington.
Draft a big later OR go FA/trade route. There's plenty of servicable centers who can put up 7ppg 10rpg 1-2bpg. You don't waste a #6 pick on it.
UOducksTK1 wrote:
See and that's where I disagree, with a #6 pick, I would not take someone like Spencer Hawes. I don't want 8ppg and 6rpg and 1bpg. And you bolded Channing Frye... Dude was garbage at Portland, and while he found a perfect fit in the Suns, he is still a terrible Center. A SF in a Center body, who really can't do anything but sit on the 3point line and jack up 3pointers. A poor man's Al Harrington.
Draft a big later OR go FA/trade route. There's plenty of servicable centers who can put up 7ppg 10rpg 1-2bpg. You don't waste a #6 pick on it.
UOducksTK1 wrote:
See and that's where I disagree, with a #6 pick, I would not take someone like Spencer Hawes. I don't want 8ppg and 6rpg and 1bpg. And you bolded Channing Frye... Dude was garbage at Portland, and while he found a perfect fit in the Suns, he is still a terrible Center. A SF in a Center body, who really can't do anything but sit on the 3point line and jack up 3pointers. A poor man's Al Harrington.
Draft a big later OR go FA/trade route. There's plenty of servicable centers who can put up 7ppg 10rpg 1-2bpg. You don't waste a #6 pick on it.
But if you look at the guys in the top 30... who's available? No one really... and a lot of them have bad contracts.
I guess that is true. I looked up a few guys I liked and they really do have giant contracts. I guess you'd have to eat up a lot of cap space for a serviceable center. I still stand by though that Drummond just isn't fitting the bill for me right now.
IF we take him at 6, that's great. He has a lot of potential, and he could be good. I'd just sleep way better at night if we had Kidd-Gilchrist or Barnes. :/
Getting away from the compelling Channing Frye discussion for a minute, the ruling came in on the Bird rights issue.
Players claimed on waiver who are resigned by the claiming team can go over the cap. Thus, we can go over to sign JJ Hickson.
Ya, the interesting part is who do we spend money on?
If they can't get Derron Williams, Steve Nash, or Eric Gordan. Then I hope they save a large chunk and make an offer for James Harden next year.
I could go for that but, I'm not sure the Blazers would go for him since he essentially plays the same position as Batum, who they really want to resign. I've never been all that enamored with Batum since he has absolutely no killer instinct and disappears all too frequently. I think that Harden will resign with OKC, but could also jump to somewhere he could be a starter. There just aren't that many guys who are worthy of massive contracts this year so I hope Portland just continues to build a solid rotation that has room to grow and then hit FA again next year since they may have no 1st-rounder in next year's draft.
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Harden is more of a small guard than a small forward.
I think there's some similarities between him and Brandon Roy.
OKC is going to have a tough decision. They already have Westbrook and Durant on a max contract and both Harden and Ibaka are restricted free agents next year. I don't think they can keep both considering they're a small market team and the new CBA has stricter penalties for going over the cap.
Boom wrote:Harden is more of a small guard than a small forward.
I think there's some similarities between him and Brandon Roy.
OKC is going to have a tough decision. They already have Westbrook and Durant on a max contract and both Harden and Ibaka are restricted free agents next year. I don't think they can keep both considering they're a small market team and the new CBA has stricter penalties for going over the cap.
I guess he is since he always came in for Sefalosha. Harden would be a heck of an upgrade over Wes Matthews and Eliott Williams at SG. Right now, Portland has only 1 scorer that makes defense scheme around (LMA) and adding someone like Harden would give Portland a perimeter player for defenses to worry about.
Only way that the Blazers have max or near max cap space next summer is if they renounce both batum and hickson and trade at least one of their picks for a future pick
lukeyrid13 wrote:Only way that the Blazers have max or near max cap space next summer is if they renounce both batum and hickson and trade at least one of their picks for a future pick
giving harden huge money would freak me out. he's a very good player, obviously, but he puts up these numbers by going up against the opposing team's third best defender every night... in a league where most teams are lucky to have one plus-defender. i mean, he's young and talented, but when you give a guy the money he's going to eventually wind up getting, you at least want to KNOW he's capable of being THE guy for your franchise, no?
anyway, taking into account the fact that smokescreens are always running rampant this time of year, a lot of signs are pointing to lillard with the #6. sounds like he really impressed the people one needs to impress at his workout.
