2023-24 Team Developments: Trades / Free Agents / News / Rumors / Ideas

Wait …. once it’s out there Dame wants to be traded but only to Heat, and Heat won’t come up with satisfactory deal for Blazers, so they start looking at what other deals they might make instead …. how is that tampering on Bucks part? If anything, seems to me like it looks like the Heat maybe had tampered instead and then didn’t act in good faith with a decent offer?

 

Jrue is really good: he's so good that I'm not sure the Bucks will be that much better with a talent like Lillards.
Lillard was 2 in raptor and rapm among PGs last year: he's really good!.
Jrue was 7th and 8th in the same metric - he's not as impactful as lillard but he's also definitely a top tier PG who won't be played off the floor.

Russell was 44th and 11th in comparison and we all saw how he is played in the playoffs vs a proven player in Holiday who took out Booker mano mano in the FInals just 2 years ago.

Jrue and Reaves backcourt would be absolutely sensational IMO.

 

i don't think we can really move for him anyway because most of our salary was signed this summer. and that's ok.

he is the kind of player that were he to come available later in the year and we were struggling, we could actually get.

i'm curious to see who ponies up for him. he's a difference maker, but he's not young and probably wants an extension. seems like a high character guy. i'd love to get him and, as i think jsm said, do not want the clippers to get him.

if i were dallas, i'd offer a serious package for jrue. hardaway/holmes/josh green (who i think is going to be good)/1st.

 

I think they’re just trolling

 

jrue would be an awesome add just for his defense alone. i think he ends up in miami or philly though

 

Jrue's wheels will probably fall off in a year or two but man before them: Holiday/Reaves is maybe the best 2 way backcourt in the league
Beal/Booker - Jrue clamped down on Booker and are we sure Beal is better than Reaves?
Mitchell/Garland - I love Garland but that duo has defensive problems
Curry/Thompson - maybe just because of Curry but Jrue and Reaves are better than Thompson
Shai/Giddy - maybe but that's a young backcourt
Brown/White - Brown can't dribble and I refuse to believe Derrick White is better than either Jrue/Reeves
Morant/Bane - Lakers just beat them with DLo having a good game every other game

This a championship level backcourt even if you don't have AD/Lebron in the frontcourt!

 

If they get Jrue instead and maybe save a pick? Not horrible, IMO, but obviously hypothetical.

 

This 1000%. If it didn't crush our core, I'd take Jrue even for a season. This may be our last real shot with LBJ, and someone like Jrue makes us the best team in the league if it doesn't gut our real depth.

 

Oh. Yulp yulp

 

portland didn't want herro before, so it's a similar situation where miami would have to re-route him again for what portland wants. guess it could happen, but i'm also wondering if portland doesn't feel like helping miami at all right now. i wouldn't be if i were them.

anyway, i think people are underrating how big of a win it was for portland to simply not have to fold to riley. promise that guy was shocked.

 

if we want to throw everything at it before Lebron retires, we should definitely go for Jrue. He's a big difference-maker in defense and a solid 3rd scoring option.

I agree Dlo + Rui + pick sounds like it could work.