(03-15-2021, 03:44 PM)IamDougieFresh Wrote: Guys Dwight is terrible. He had one offensive skill and now he has one good achilles. There is no fit. The only thing Dwight overlaps is his seat on the bench.

(03-15-2021, 03:45 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: I was wondering where you went.

(03-15-2021, 02:37 PM)F Gump Wrote: One possibility to consider ...

Aminu has been incredibly bad offensively the entire time in ORL. So bad it makes him close to unplayable. And he's getting 10M this year and next.

It would probably be a lot of value for the Magic for a team to take him off their hands. And perhaps the Mavs wouldn't be afraid of taking him, since he was here before. (But, again, his offense is AWFUL. Beyond awful.)

So maybe there's a framework of a deal that STARTS like this:

Gordon - Aminu
Powell - Johnson

Is that close enough to open the door to negotiate from there? That feels like an opening idea or offer, maybe with a pick included, and then see if ORL is interested enough to talk further.

Maybe it goes nowhere. But maybe Mavs are asked to add DFS or Green or a pick. Maybe in return for that ask, ORL is asked to add something. Maybe Mavs try to get Ross in the deal instead of Aminu. Maybe Burke is added to the mix. Maybe ORL is eager to shuffle the deck in a big way. Maybe the Mavs aren't, but are enticed by the opportunity to add Gordon if the number of bodies is limited. Maybe maybe maybe ..but the key is finding a starting point to work from.

(03-15-2021, 03:51 PM)IamDougieFresh Wrote: Been busy.  

Saw some shit about Dwight and AG and had to pop in

(03-15-2021, 04:27 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: As you should.

Just wondering have you ever thought of the day when the Mavs don't have Powell on the team? Would your hater club cease to operate? Or would a new candidate fill its halls?

(03-15-2021, 02:54 PM)dirkfansince1998 Wrote: I phrased it badly. The offer was 2 1st round picks from the Blazers. Magic rejected it. Rockets traded RoCo.

(03-15-2021, 04:02 PM)Jason Terry Wrote: You could take this even a step further and they could drop all their bad contracts on us. 

AG/MCW/Ennis/Aminu

for 

Green/Terry/Powell/Johnson and two 2nds 

ORL does need to drop some salary. I could only see them doing something like this if the offers for Gordon are light in their eyes. This would save them $15 million next year and get them out of the tax this year

(03-15-2021, 04:57 PM)StepBackJay Wrote: Ya I am sure they regret that now lol

(03-15-2021, 06:37 PM)jesusshuttlesworth82 Wrote: Maybe we can trade for Khem Birch instead based on that quote above about how much better he is than Bamba.

(03-16-2021, 02:44 AM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: Good point.  I went back and looked and it isn't current either.  It is four weeks old.  Interesting to note that the author of the Gordon/Powell piece is Jake Fischer.  Where have we heard that name before?

I still don't get this from the Orlando perspective.  Would Powell be the first C off the bench ahead of Birch?  That isn't clear to me.  I get that Powell could play next to Vuc, but that job eventually belongs to Isaac and Okeke.  So, the need is temporary, yet Powell has two years remaining after this one.

Powell isn't a very good conduit to other Mav assets (like Green).  Expiring Johnson would be better.  To me Johnson and Green makes more sense than Powell and Green if I'm Orlando.  I do see the possibility of eating a year of Aminu as part of the price for Gordon.  But WCS would make more sense than Powell as a way for Orlando to offload Aminu.

I don't want Brunson as the outgoing in a deal for Gordon.  Just creates another hole and I'm not sure Gordon is good enough to warrant losing Brunson.

If Dallas was in conversation with Orlando this summer, it would have been someone plus 18 and 31.  I doubt that someone would have been Powell coming off of injury.  I totally get Powell being the outgoing from the Dallas perspective.  I'm just not buying it from the Orlando perspective.

(03-16-2021, 07:18 AM)HanspardShowerVoice Wrote: Just working with the trade machine, I don't see a lot of available avenues for the Portland to work a trade for Gordon's salary without shipping off comparable talent.