Sacramento-Portland Trade

[Aenadin]

Heres an idea

Sacramento Trades

Brad Miller
John Salmons
Bobby Brown
2nd round pick (if they want the houston 1st rounder)

Portland Trades
Raef Lafrentz
Jerryd Bayless
Channing Frye

Kings Line up

Bayless/Beno/Jackson
Martin/Douby
Garcia/Greene
Thompson/Moore
Hawes/Frye

Portland line up

Roy/Rodriguez/Brown
Fernandez/Webster
Salmons/Outlaw
Aldridge/Miller
Oden/Pryzbilla

THERE IS A BIG BIG dip in our numbers but since we are rebuilding and what portland needs right now is some vet presence we give them that needed veteran presence.. brad can play from the bench or sub for oden if he goes down knowing his health concerns... salmons will alleviate roy from offensive struggles and brown seems to be a good prospect

on our side we get bayless the point guard we oh so covet and is unhappy in portland... we get a bigman like frye and an expiring in raef... now when his contract expires i suggest we play for a wing man use the draft picks next year to get something to fill the gaps and i think were decent enough

Portland right now is at the 5 position in the west with 17-10 imagine with a vet presence plus the numbers miller and salmons contribute...

 

[KingsCitizen]

This is giving too much to just get Bayless, who is nothing but potential as of this time. Charlotte's offer is way much better than this.

And Portland ain't gonna do this. Why get a highly paid Center just be a back-up? Or actually just a third stringer coz Priz plays way better defense and rebounding than Miller. And why get another highly paid Starter that can't play from the bench just to be buried further into their bench coz Rudy is more more exciting than him?

I'd still go for a Charlotte/Chicago/Miami offer for just giving Miller.

 

[Aenadin]

you start salmons at the SF... well miller is much MUCH more useful than raef... and definitely offers more than pryz on the offensive side... and the things he does facilitating the offense on the 5 and he plays much better on the 4

plus he can mentor aldridge and oden on passing as big men...

 

[Arby's Roast Beef]

I'm not particularly fond of Bayless; I know many perceived him as a steal for Portland at #13, but look where he is now--not even getting any minutes for a young-laden Portland team, and that's a problem in having too much depth. I thought he was utterly one-dimensional in scoring in college, and although he has an array of different moves and is extremely skilled in essentially scoring in every which way, his defense and all-around game leave lots to be desired. We have a player of that prototype in Quincy Douby, and look where he is now. I think Bayless will be much better than Douby, but seeing Douby in our team makes me not want players of his mold anymore. We need a real point guard, not a player trying to masquerade as one. If we're getting Bayless as a scorer (which we have too many of in our wing positions), we're getting him for the wrong reasons.

 

[captain bill]

We give up two of our best players AND a second round pick for an unproven rookie PG? We could draft a better prospect than him with our 1st next year and hold on to Salmons. This trade is just hemorrhaging talent while not getting much of anything in return.

Portland would probably do this because hey, why not take Salmons for free and add a former all-star to be a third string Center? But really it doesn't do all that much for them, certainly not enough to justify us giving them a pick (really it should be the other way around).

I'm not sure Brad is the right guy to be mentoring Oden anyways... completely different games.


We could get far more value for what we trade than what is returned in this scenario

 

[BibbyFAN10]

This will NEVER happen. Miller would be useless in Portland. Plus lets not forget when we look at the Blazers line-up Roy doesn't start at PG, Steve Blake does. Also, Batum plays significent minutes in their rotation. The combo of Salmons, Roy, Rudy, Martell, Outlaw, and Batum would be a log jam in the 2/3 spot.

 

[Uncia03]

Portland would definitely benefit from obtaining Salmons in the short term. It would really depend on what they consider their 'window' to compete at an elite level, and if they felt that Salmons as a veteran presence would help them in their pursuit of a title. It's a bit harder of a sell as Salmons has never really won anything, but you could probably make a good argument that Salmons is worth what they'd give up.
As far as the trade itself, I'd go with Salmons and Houston's 1st for Bayless and Frye. I wouldn't want to give up any more than that.
Then I'd rather see Brad traded for Gerald Wallace, or as a second option in a package to pick up one of the young Chicago big men, rather than include him in a package with Portland.

 

[Aenadin]

I didnt mean that brad would mentor oden on how to be a brad like player.. but he can learn from passing and a little bit of shooting as his second option on offense... oden will not be athletic forever and if you want to stay long in the league you better have some set of skills to fall back on...

if both big men are able to utilize the passing then they have that passing game the old kings had..

on taking bayless... we suffer yes but the goal here is rebuilding and rebuilding focuses on these 2 things

1. Young guys getting more PT
2. Young guys getting chemistry and confidence

Bayless can try and learn running the point here... his frustrations of not getting PT can be alleviated here... im not saying he is a pure PG but we have a set of players that can facilitate the offense with their passing.. Cisco, Hawes, and JT you build on these four.. you have a system that will not require the point to have heavy ball handling duties...