2023-10-01 18:29:46
Who is the most improved player on the Trail Blazers in the 2023 season? I don’t think it’s Sharpe, or Grant, but Joe Cronin, the manager.
According to Woj, the Trail Blazers finalized the Jrue Holiday trade: sending him to the Celtics in exchange for Robert Williams, Malcolm Brogdon, a 2024 Warriors first-round pick and a 2029 Celtics unprotected first-round pick. right.Among them, the Warriors’ restriction in the first round is to protect the top 4 picks, which is expected to have a high probability of being fulfilled this season.
Jrue is good, but the rebuilding Trail Blazers won’t use it / ripcity.com
Trading perpetual motion machine
The players who were included in the package due to the previous Lillard trade have all reported to their new teams. However, the Trail Blazers only saw the news that DeAndre Ayton joined the team with great fanfare, but there was no news regarding Jrue Holiday. The team’s current attitude is self-evident: Jrue will be the next main dish of the Trail Blazers’ trade. Sure enough, in just a few days, the team quickly negotiated the deal.The Trail Blazers traded Jrue Holiday from a power in the East to another.
The newly acquired Malcolm Brogdon, considering his age, has already dominated the position, which will not match the timeline of the Trail Blazers. If nothing happens, he will be the next target to be put on the shelf by the Trail Blazers. On the contrary, Robert Williams’ situation is more interesting. In recent years, the game has been inconsistent and there are concerns regarding injuries (the knee is the most PTSD among Trail Blazers fans), but Williams has three years left on his contract and is only 26 years old. In addition, his amazing defensive and intimidation resistance in the penalty area is very rare in the league. It is also the type that the Trail Blazers have been in urgent need of on the defensive end, and it complements Ayton.If the offensive end configuration and positioning can be figured out, the Trail Blazers will be able to increase the intensity of the penalty area in one go.
However, it may be too early to talk regarding the Blazers’ first move on the books – the Blazers are expected to continue to quickly send out the newly acquired Brogdon and continue to promote the next transaction.Considering that Brogdon’s salary this season is also a certain amount of 22.5M, the player who needs to achieve salary parity may also be a not cheap player… Maybe it can promote the transaction all the way and turn it into a perpetual motion machine?
Accumulate assets quickly
Who is the most improved player on the Trail Blazers in the 2023 season? I would say Joe Cronin, the general manager.The compensation he received for these transactions makes it difficult to think of him as being made by the same person as the CJ McCollum trade that was his first trade two years ago. In these transactions, Cronin not only achieved cumulative assets, which were first-round draft picks. The players brought back are not purely for the purpose of reaching high-priced contracts with equal salary, but players with high combat effectiveness who have proven themselves. And these players all have a clear role positioning: Jrue Holiday’s ball-handling and locking attributes; Ayton’s excellent physical condition; Brogdon’s high efficiency and excellent basketball IQ; Williams’ top-level help and intimidation resistance. These players not only have fighting ability, but most of them are at the forefront or even top players in their fields of expertise in the league. This makes it much easier for pioneers to find a trading partner, and can create a competitive situation among multiple players, which in turn creates more favorable trading conditions.
After deciding to part ways with Lillard, the Trail Blazers immediately entered a complete rebuilding mode. It also means that, in addition to players who are sure to be cultivated by the team for a long time such as Scoot Henderson & Shaedon Sharpe,There is no one among today’s pioneers who cannot be sold. Even Jerami Grant and Matisse Thybulle, who just renewed their contracts in the off-season, are not impossible to be sold before the trade deadline following passing the trade restriction period stipulated by the league for new signings.
In just two years, Joe Cronin has almost completely renovated the Trail Blazers lineup. Except for Anfernee Simons, everyone else joined the team following last season. The Trailblazer has a new look following its massive investment in trading. Just like Sam Presti and his Thunder,The Trail Blazers’ rebuilding process is faster than everyone imagined: in these two transactions, the Trail Blazers received 3 first-rounders and two young players. Moreover, it is still in the present continuous tense.
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