(03-15-2021, 02:47 PM)omahen Wrote: I think that is good thinking. Problem I see, Powell would be totally redundant in Orlando at center behind Vuch, Birch and Bamba. Unless you try to play him at PF. Exchanging Aminu for Powell also doesn't bring cap relief. How about this?:
Johnson+WCS+Green+draft compensation for Gordon+Aminu
I don't like that idea for the Mavs all that much - just don't think there's enough fit of money and minutes. But more importantly, the report specifically mentioned Powell, so if we want to figure what a discussion might look like, we'd better not erase him from going the other way.
The explicit pieces of the offer are Gordon, and Powell. And obviously a lot of blanks to fill in.
Maybe ORL responded the same way you did, and that ended that. In which case, there's nothing to figure out anyhow. But maybe not.
As far as Powell's fit, he has fit alongside Kleber in Dallas. Why couldn't that translate to ORL and playing with Vucevic? I think that has to be the core of the thinking.