Since Damian Lillard submitted a trade application to the Blazers executives, many fans on the Internet have been discussing where Li will go in the future. According to the news, although Xiao Li only wants to play for this year’s Eastern Championship and the legendary Heat; but the Blazers executives have no intention of compromising, and are not in a hurry to deal with it. What do I think about Xiao Li’s bragging, and what do I think Xiao Li’s final transaction package will look like? Let’s find out below.
There was a rumor that it was time for Xiao Li to leave, and it didn’t take a day or two. Xiao Li regards himself as loyal, so when Xiao Li sells me, everyone will zoom in and examine every word of Xiao Li’s previous interviews; as if Xiao Li was so loyal in the past, now he tears me up as much as he sells me. Satire.
But I don’t think so. If you carefully read every press conference of the management and re-examine the operations at the same time, you will find that GM Joe Cronin has not made a satisfactory move. Every time I talk about it, I say that we will actively look for veterans and immediate combat power. But in the end, he was prevaricating with words every time, and traded all outstanding immediate combat powers such as McCollum, Nance Jr, Payton II, and Hart.
https://www.nba.com/news/qa-blazers-interim-gm-joe-cronin-focused-on-big-picture-approach
(February 2022) Joe Cronin: “I don’t think we’re going to knock it all down. We’ve got too many good players, too many ways to get better without taking too much of a step back.”
What it did then: Trade Larry Nance Jr, CJ McCollum for Josh Hart, NAW, salary package
(January 2023) Joe Cronin: “You know, we try to build a team, but now this is not a Win-Now lineup, we haven’t invested all the chips. We discussed a lot with Xiao Li, about trust Where we’re headed, and about trusting Billups and what I’ve told him. We’re building, we really want to win, and the sooner the better. To do that, we’ve got to develop some players who can help us as quickly as possible. But some 19-year-olds People don’t get ready until they’re 23, and where are we then?”
Operation at the time: traded GP2 and Hart in exchange for Reddish, Thybulle, Knox, draft picks
(After the trading deadline in February 2023) Joe Cronin: “We are eager to put all our chips in, we can’t wait for that moment to happen, it just hasn’t happened yet.”
We often say that a player’s loyalty to the team comes from a contract jointly drawn up by labor and management. But in contrast, do the Blazers have the respect they deserve for our team’s prehistoric second superstar? Xiao Li has said that he wants to die in the Trail Blazers, and he also said that he is not interested in staying in the rebuilding team. To put it bluntly, the Blazers’ so many operations are basically forcing Xiao Li to leave Portland where he has been for 11 years. Therefore, Xiao Li had to leave in the end, and to some extent he was forced into the palace.
Of course, it is the management, not Damian Lillard, who has the right to speak, that ultimately decides where Labor will go. The Blazers also said that they would not cooperate with Xiao Li and would send Xiao Li to the team that could offer the most lucrative return. Even if you spend 11 years with the team, you can’t emotionally blackmail the team and force them to trade themselves to the Heat. But looking around at all the teams, the one that is most suitable for Xiao Li is the Heat who are only one breath away. Let’s take a look at my trading package!
I think Xiao Li will go to the Heat after all. The above remarks are just spreading the word, the purpose is to let the Heat give more. Without Adebayo and Butler, the Heat certainly don’t have the money to offer a reasonable package for Damian Lillard. But I also think that the key to the Heat’s success in the playoffs is Adebayo, the core of offense and defense, and Butler, the ceiling of the team. If you want to maximize Xiao Li’s chances of winning the championship, even though these two have the highest trading value, neither of them can be passive.
Fortunately, the Blazers don’t have to hit the championship right now. The Blazers have now found their own rebuilding core Scoot Henderson and Shaedon Sharpe, as well as a good Mesozoic veteran Jerami Grant. Therefore, the goal of the Blazers who traded away Damian Lillard should be to get as many future assets and expiring contracts as possible.
And why is it difficult for the Blazers and the Heat to directly reach a two-party deal? Apart from the draft picks a few years later, the Heat’s most valuable trader at this stage is Tyler Herro. But the Blazers’ rebuilding core Henderson and Sharpe are not only guards, even Simons on the bench is also a ball-handler who needs the ball to play. The backcourt strength we need to raise at this stage does not allow Herro to have enough room to play.
Therefore, the Blazers must not only consider the Heat’s compensation, but also find a home for Herro. In particular, many teams on the market already have excellent defenders, and teams that need to upgrade their backcourt holding points may not be able to afford the Blazers’ price. Looking around all the teams, I think the Nets are the team that relatively needs to upgrade the ball-holding point in the backcourt, and can also give the Trail Blazers the team they need. In addition to selling Lillard, the Blazers’ current goal will be to sell Nurkic, the bad contract in the formation.
2023-07-06 09:47:15
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