Free Agency Thread - 2018
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The Blazers went from a bad defensive team to a solid one in a short period of time which coincided with his arrival. Young, still has upside. Good advanced stats. No injury issues. Regardless of position I consider him a qualitatively better player than the other FAs are injury issues, like Parker, bench players like Smart etc. Him and Capela.
As for the Kings big men it’s “flotsam” which can be interchanged aside Bagley/Giles and maybe Skal. Any which haven’t proven to be quality starters soon IMO. Bagley/Giles duo struggling in SL to positively impact.
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As for the Kings big men it’s “flotsam” which can be interchanged aside Bagley/Giles and maybe Skal. Any which haven’t proven to be quality starters soon IMO. Bagley/Giles duo struggling in SL to positively impact.
Etc
I don't disagree that he has some upside, but his fit might be worse than Lavine or Parker. If we were to sign Nurkic than you take away minutes from two of your potentially best players and minimize WCS value (trade or otherwise). The young with upside players are most likely the ones who also have had injury issue (Lavine and or Parker). That all being said I am for going after Capela 
I think he would fit perfectly with Fox and Bogdan.
I think he would fit perfectly with Fox and Bogdan.
That's not what the poison pill is referring too. Its when the cap number for the outgoing team is different than the incoming.
http://www.cbafaq.com/salarycap.htm#Q91
It makes it harder to trade the player because someone needs to have cap space.
http://www.cbafaq.com/salarycap.htm#Q91
It makes it harder to trade the player because someone needs to have cap space.
He's a slightly rich mans version of LaVine as far as advanced metrics go. Same story. Career year had meh metrics. ACL tear. Not as good after ACL tear. Not much room to improve from his career year. Not quite as bad a defender but still not good on that end at all.
Marcus Smart would be a much better option despite his shooting. He's a winning player.
Marcus Smart would be a much better option despite his shooting. He's a winning player.
With Smart reportedly considering signing the QO for $6M, there might be a chance (??) to get both in under $18M. Still, he'd probably need a pretty decent raise from what Boston is offering to come to a losing team with a young starting PG installed, so maybe there's not enough room left there...if we give him $10M+ to induce a signing, I don't know if what's left could lure Hood. Now, if we stretched Z-Bo...
I still consider Vlade a bit unqualified and on his last legs, and I don’t want him to make decisions that will continue to linger with the remaining cap. I wasn’t sold on the theory behind LaVine, and the contract, and I don’t trust Vlade beyond wanting someone with that type of hype (“PlayStation”), not to disrespect the wisdom of those who did want him. From Vlade’s FA endeavors from Achilles Matthews, to Hill etc and I disagreed with LaVine, I just hope he doesn’t leave us with some last bad decisions
If people were mad that Bagley wasnt put in a position to succeed in summer league, wait till you see him playing with a complete non shooting center against Nba defenses.
Bagleys game atm seems to be getting the ball in the move near the basket and finnishing once he has slight edge on his defender. If you want to utilize that correctly, you cant have a non shooting big man clogging the lane in the dunker spot. Bagley needs to be the player in the dunker spot.
If you want to make things easy for Bagley (and have an efficent offense), you need to have him setting screens to Fox with three shooters surrounding and either attack the switch or get the ball against traditional pick n roll coverage when he has leverage over his defender. Also running pick n pops with Fox&Giles while Bagley at the dunker spot trying to force Bagleys defender to help.
Bagley atm doesnt seem to be a guy you just throw the ball to and let him beat his man, force defence to help and create your whole offense around that. Having to operate with non shooting bigs and no room under the basket is just putting him in a bad position. To me it should be a no brainer to use him as the center on offense with a floor stretching 4. But again if you look how Joeger refused to change his system to support Fox's strengths, I'm a little afraid he will be mostly playing with KK and Willy while making things very hard for both him and Fox.
Bagleys game atm seems to be getting the ball in the move near the basket and finnishing once he has slight edge on his defender. If you want to utilize that correctly, you cant have a non shooting big man clogging the lane in the dunker spot. Bagley needs to be the player in the dunker spot.
If you want to make things easy for Bagley (and have an efficent offense), you need to have him setting screens to Fox with three shooters surrounding and either attack the switch or get the ball against traditional pick n roll coverage when he has leverage over his defender. Also running pick n pops with Fox&Giles while Bagley at the dunker spot trying to force Bagleys defender to help.
Bagley atm doesnt seem to be a guy you just throw the ball to and let him beat his man, force defence to help and create your whole offense around that. Having to operate with non shooting bigs and no room under the basket is just putting him in a bad position. To me it should be a no brainer to use him as the center on offense with a floor stretching 4. But again if you look how Joeger refused to change his system to support Fox's strengths, I'm a little afraid he will be mostly playing with KK and Willy while making things very hard for both him and Fox.
