Lakers & Blazers Talking Trade

Lakers & Blazers Talking Trade

What’s going on everyone? So, the Los Angeles Lakers essentially have their roster unless they end up pulling off some type of trade. They are going to bring in Marcus Smart. They wave Shake Milton as well as Jordan Goodwin in order to sign Marcus Smart now, but the Lakers are still active in trade talks and there have been a lot of kind of just murmurss going around about the Portland Trailblazers, right? Lakers have been linked to Portland for over a year now, right? last offseason it was Robert Williams, it was Jeremy Grant. Uh was very heavily, but they just wanted too much for Jeremy Grant, which I’m glad, right? Cuz we could be stuck with this contract, especially with the new CBA. I like Jeremy Grant. If there’s talks about him potentially being bought out, if he gets bought out, then sign me up for Jeremy Grant. I don’t think personally, and I even said this in the video, um that hey, I don’t think he’s going to get bought out, at least this year, just because he still has technically three years if you bought him out because he has this year, next year, and then he has a player option, which you’d have to pay him out for that, too. So, I don’t think it Portland’s not in a rush, right, next season when guys start to needing to get paid and they’re going to start pay now, then I could see maybe Jeremy Grant getting bought out, but you never know, right? Stranger Things have happened. if they want to kind of get off of it. Jeremy Grant starts getting that itch and he’s like, “Dude, I don’t want to be the seventh guy on this team, especially on a Portland team that’s probably not going to be a playoff team, championship contender for sure.” But, you know, I I don’t know if they’re even going to be a playoff team. So, it’s like, if you’re going to do that, you might as well go to a team and be the seventh guy on a team that might win a championship, you know? So, if that could happen, then sure, sign me up for that. Other than that, I would stay away from trading for Jeremy Grant. So, who could the Lakers be targeting? Well, it’s Matis Dable and Robert Williams III, right? They’ve been linked to the Lakers pretty much all offseason. So, again, this isn’t anything crazy. Um, you would have to send out likely three guys. My guess is the Lakers want to clear some salary in that trade as well, right? So, it’ kind of be this like you get Matis Style, you get Robert Williams, you clear some salary space, you open up a roster spot. So, now the Lakers can bring in another guy. So, it wouldn’t be just Matis Styel and Robert Williams for say like uh uh Ruie, Gabe Vincent, and Dalton Connect, right? It wouldn’t be like something like that. It would be you’re getting Matis Style, Robert Williams, and you’re also bringing in, you know, DeAnthony Melton or Joshua Kogi or one of these guys or if somebody else gets bought out, right? Jeremy Grant ends up getting bought out. Maybe you go and get a Jeremy Grant. Um because Matis Dyel, between Matis Dyel and Robert Williams, you’re talking about $25 million that the Lakers would have to send out. Blazers do have cap space to absorb things. But here’s the thing, like if you’re going to send out Dalton Connect, right, it has to be justified, right? Doing something like a a Gabe Vincent and a cuz you could do theoretically just like Gabe Vincent for Matise Styel, but like that doesn’t make sense for the Blazers, right? Now, Robert Williams and Matis Dyel are two guys that make sense for the Blazers to get off of, right? Robert Williams would be like the fourth big on their on their roster cuz they’re going the youthful route. It’s why they got off of DeAndre Aton and you have Clean and you have Yane Henson who are like their two kind of center guys that they want to display and see this year, right? So, Robert Williams at best is probably your third option at the center position, right? Could even potentially be the fourth option depending on how things shake up. So, if you can get off of him, fine. So be it. Same thing with Matis Styel. They have so many young just guards and wings and stuff that you know, you know, I’m not saying that they couldn’t find a use for Matis Styel, especially with his defense and if his three-point shooting kind of continues, but Jeremy Grant might potentially even come off the bench. So, it’s like, you know, where does Matis Stybball fall in? So, for them, it’s like, okay, makes sense. Go with the young guys, lean into the youthfulness this season, and then next year when Dame comes back and all that, then we can kind of figure out what direction we want to go and how do we want to go about it. So, I get why Portland may be interested in unloading those two guys. Players that doesn’t really help them or affect them in any way, but it could help and affect the Lakers in a positive way. I mean, Robert Williams the third is exactly what this team needs. Give you some toughness, interior defense, right? Gives you just that bull in a china shop, excellent rebounder, shot blocker, all of those things, right? Problem is the guy can’t stay healthy guy. Like, you don’t know if he’s going to play 20 games for you, right? Like that’s the problem. That’s the risk with him. Uh Matis Dyel, he’s had some injury issues, right? There’s been questions of his career as far as shooting the basketball. He has looked much improved recently, but again, is that just kind of like an outlier or is that something that is the norm? Right? They’re two guys that are risky, but they fit exactly what the Lakers need. But that doesn’t mean the Lakers should go and overpay or, you know, give up some crazy package in order to acquire them. So, how do you kind of justify it? Well, again, if it’s like Gabe Vincent in Dalton Connect from Matise Styel, it’s probably not the best use of your asset in Dalton Connect, right? Like Lakers are very limited on the assets and the pieces that they have to trade, right? if you’re just kind of giving them for like not saying that you’re going to get, you know, Giannis or anything like that for adult and connect, but can you get kind of a more, you know, a higherend player or even somebody with some upside like like an IO Dumu, somebody like that? He’s 25, right? Still not a finished product. There’s there’s, you know, a lot of untapped there in the right role, right position, like something like that. I’m just using him as an example. Not saying it has to necessarily be him, but somebody like that, right? somebody that has a little more upside where Matis Dable is kind of who he is. You know what he is, you know what you expect from him, which is fine. It’s again, it’s exactly what the Lakers need. He’s got that wingspan, this the size, the length, versatility to defend one through three. He’s one of the better perimeter defenders in basketball. If he can kind of give you consistent three-point shooting, that helps a ton. So again, they’re two guys that make a ton of sense for the Lakers, but there’s some risks. Okay. Well, now is Robert Williams, Emtt Styel worth a, you know, a a Dalton Connect and then whatever other salary filler possibly, right? Cuz if if especially if Robert Williams can actually stay semihealthy, I’m not expecting him to play 82 games. But can he play 60 and be healthy come playoff time? Right now you’re talking, right? Because DeAndre Eaton, he’s going to miss some games. He’s going to miss some nights. to have a guy in a Robert Williams that can slot in and now play that role like that could do wonders for you. Um, you know, Matis Dable, same thing. So, again, if the Lakers can work out that package and then it also depends on what what those players are that you’re sending out, right? Cuz like I said, if it’s like a Rui Achimura, you’re not only losing Ruie and his production, but you’re losing, you know, Dalton Connect and then a Gabe Vincent as well. Now, if you could stack guys, right, then okay, sure. But then, like, what are those guys? Like the only other way to stack guys would be Jared Vanderbilt, Gabe Vincent, and then like a Maxi Cleba, right? And then maybe you’re throwing in a Daltton Connect. But then Blazers have to like get off of guys and move guys, right? Maybe they like Jared Vanderbilt, maybe you’re adding a third team, right? So like the only way that it kind of is justified and makes sense is you’d include a Rui Achimura, you’d include, you know, a Daltton Connect and you’d include like a Gabe Vincent, right? Now you cleared off that, you know, 33 million in salary for 25. You cleared off some salary space, you opened up some rosters, you’re bringing guys in. Blazers get stuff back. Maybe you’re throwing in a pick swap or something, but you know, Ruie is valuable, right? So, if I’m the Lakers, I wouldn’t do something like that, right? And then, you know, you’re you’re again, yes, you’re losing Ruie. Yes, Dalton Connect, right? As like a long-term upside guy, but he kind of seems checked out. I think you got to trade him at this point, right? Like the only guy you’re really losing that deal is Ruy Hachimura, right? And then you’re getting into Robert Williams and Matis Style that could really raise the ceiling for the Lakers. But then you’re also again clearing the salary space in order to bring in and sign another I mean you’d open up you know a roster spot right because you’re doing a three for two swap. So you open up another roster so you have now two open roster spots that you can bring in two guys and you have the money now in order to do that because you clear you know like 5 million off your books. So now if you’re the Lakers now you basically freed up the money to sign Marcus Smart. still have that, you know, seven, six million and some change to now go bring in say a, you know, uh, well, I don’t know how badly you’d need Al Horford at that point, but you can play Al Horford at the four. So maybe you go with Al Horford, right? Um, and like a DeAnthony Melton or you go Melton and Joshua Kogi and kind of really round out this roster. Now you got the depth and the versatility. The thing is though is like, okay, then what do you do at the three if you get rid of Ruie? That’s the problem, right? Like yes, you could saw it in a Matise Dybel, right? If you wanted to or like I said, if you bring in a Joshua Kogi, maybe go Joshua Kogi. Could you bring in an Al Horford? Would LeBron play the three at that point? I mean, he’s he’s a four at this stage of his career because you need him to defend the quicker, twitchier, more athletic threes. It’s why he played the four even when Anthony Davis is gone and everything like still playing the four, right? Like, so I just I don’t know if LeBron would be willing to do that. But if he is, then maybe you go that route. Bring in Horford, bring somebody like that in. It’s just my problem is like I I like Matis Styel a ton. But is he the answer as your starting three? Maybe it’s Jared Vanderbilt, right? Maybe you’re having Jared Vanderbilt be your starting three. Um or Jake Loravia, right? So Jake Loravia is a better defensive player than Ruie Hachimura, right? Uh the question is just the offense, right? Now Jake Laavia was averaging 18 a game with Sacramento before. So, can he kind of be that scorer and shooter? And I mean, he was a B+ rated defender last season, right? Well, one of the big things he said he’s worked on all off seasonason is his defense. So, can he actually be that that steady defensive player for the Lakers, right? Like at the end of the day, you you need some defense in that starting. If if the Lakers believe Jake Loravia can kind of fill in that Ruie Hachimura role, which he is a more natural three, then it becomes more justifiable to do something like that. And then you have Matis Dable, Jared Vanderbelt off the bench as kind of like those defensive like assignment guys. Um hopefully they can knock down some threes. And then you still have, you know, Marcus Smart like I said, maybe bring in a DeAnthony Melton or something like that at that point. And you kind of run smart. Melton, you have um you know Ad Theoro could play the three or the four. Jared Vanderbilt could play the three or the four. You got Matis Style play two or the three, right? You start getting some flex, some versatility in that regards and you have kind of your starting unit and stuff. So I don’t know to me I it just depends on the path to get there with Dable and Robert Williams the third. It’s just it’s tough like because again I I would love to get a Matis Styel and a Robert Williams the third but is that again is that the best use of your assets in Ruy Hachimura and a um you know obviously the defensive pieces right Lakers need more defense than they need offense but Ruy’s been really good for them and he’s one of the few guys that has shown up in the playoffs for them right so you’re giving up that guy to land Matis Dable and Robert Williams third, which again, if they’re healthy and they can provide and play that role, then yes, beautiful, but there’s a lot of risk with that when you already know what you’re getting with Ru Hamura and then you’re adding in Dalton Connect like the Gabe Vincent doesn’t really matter because you got Marcus Smart now. So, you’re replacing that and you can bring in a DA Anthony Melton or a Gary Payton the second or whatever, right? There’s there’s you can easily replace the Gabe Vincent. So, the Gabe Vincent thing, not worried about, right? It’s everything else. It’s it’s Dalton Connect and Rui Hajimro because again the only other way that that makes sense is you’re stacking guys, right? So now you’re doing like a four for two swap which maybe the Blazers would be willing to do that if you throw in an extra second or something because they’re like hey at least we’re getting assets for them and we can figure it out and they do have some roster spots, right? So if you can if you can do the stack route where you’re doing like Vando because you’re getting off of his long-term money so like if you’re doing like Vando I don’t want to lose Vando but it’s like would you rather lose Vando or Ru? I think you can get more for Ruie than you can Vando. So I’d rather keep Ruie and then look to maybe trade him later on down the line. So if you could do something like Vando um yeah like Vando, Gabe Vincent and like Maxi Cleba, right? Plus a Dalton connect and like a second or like a second in a pick swap, right? And you’re clearing salary and then maybe you’re bringing in another kind of like Audin guy for them that you know that they’re willing to kind of throw in. you’re doing like a four for three swap clearing like 5 million off your books and it’s a win-win. If you could do something like that, then sure, I would do that. But other than that, if it’s like Ruie Connect and all this stuff, I just I’d probably stay away personally. But let me know your thoughts and opinions down in the comments. That being said, if you haven’t liked this video, hit that like button. Helps me a lot enjoy these types of videos and I truly appreciate it. Not subscribe channel, hit that subscribe button, turn on the bell notifications. Appreciate you. I’ll see you in the next one. Thank you.

Lakers still need to upgrade the roster and the Portland Trailblazers may have the answer to Lakers Nation issues. Lakers News is going around that the Blazers and Lakers are talking a Lakers Trade to bring in a few players and clear salary. Lakers Trade for a Matisse Thybulle and Robert Williams is who the Lakers are linked too.

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