Interim GM Joe Cronin knows that his every decision will be decisive for his future at the Blazers, and two months after his appointment, he struck a first blow by sending two holders, Norman Powell and Robert Covington to the Clippers, to recover Eric Bledsoe , Justise Winslow, Keon Johnson and a second round of Draft. It’s not a trade that will save the Blazers’ season, and Cronin opens up about the choice
“Flexibility in payroll” is it justified in the Washington Post. ” The opportunity to clean up our accounts a bit, and simply create new opportunities for the coming week, and then for Draft and free agency. Powell is obviously a very good player, who has had some very good times here. We will regret it. It was just a question of moving this money to other positions. It was the motivation. To balance the workforce. “
When Cronin brings up the idea of ”moving that money”, it’s essentially to free himself from Powell’s four-year contract to anticipate the next “free agency” and take care of Anfernee Simons, the new nugget of the franchise. . ” It’s clearly part of our core. We wanted to create a track for him here“.
A runway, and even a boulevard, even if there are always Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum on the rear positions. But until when ?
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Damian Lillard | 29 | 36.4 | 40.2 | 32.4 | 87.8 | 0.4 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 7.3 | 2.9 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 1.3 | 24.0 |
| Cj Mccollum | 34 | 35.4 | 44.0 | 40.1 | 69.7 | 0.9 | 3.3 | 4.3 | 4.5 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 2.2 | 20.7 |
| Norman Powell | 40 | 33.3 | 45.6 | 40.6 | 80.3 | 0.4 | 2.9 | 3.3 | 2.0 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 2.3 | 18.6 |
| Anfernee Simons | 46 | 28.4 | 43.8 | 39.6 | 89.9 | 0.4 | 2.2 | 2.7 | 3.7 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 2.0 | 15.7 |
| Jusuf Nurkic | 49 | 27.7 | 54.3 | 24.5 | 68.6 | 2.8 | 7.9 | 10.7 | 2.7 | 2.5 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 3.4 | 14.6 |
| Nassir Little | 42 | 25.9 | 46.0 | 33.1 | 73.4 | 1.4 | 4.2 | 5.6 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 2.0 | 9.8 |
| Ben McLemore | 35 | 17.4 | 40.9 | 40.1 | 76.9 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.5 | 8.8 |
| Robert Covington | 48 | 29.8 | 38.1 | 34.3 | 83.3 | 0.9 | 4.9 | 5.7 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 2.8 | 7.6 |
| Larry Nance, Jr. | 37 | 23.2 | 51.5 | 30.6 | 65.3 | 1.6 | 4.1 | 5.6 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 1.8 | 6.9 |
| Dennis Smith | 33 | 17.0 | 41.8 | 22.2 | 66.7 | 0.5 | 1.8 | 2.4 | 3.3 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 1.4 | 5.6 |
| Reggie Perry | 2 | 20.4 | 44.4 | 50.0 | 100.0 | 1.0 | 2.5 | 3.5 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 5.5 |
| Cody Zeller | 27 | 13.1 | 56.7 | 0.0 | 77.6 | 1.9 | 2.8 | 4.6 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 2.1 | 5.2 |
| Cameron McGriff | 3 | 15.3 | 35.7 | 33.3 | 100.0 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 5.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 2.3 | 4.7 |
| Trendon Watford | 26 | 11.0 | 57.1 | 0.0 | 66.7 | 0.7 | 2.0 | 2.8 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 1.3 | 4.0 |
| brandon williams | 2 | 5.9 | 66.7 | 0.0 | 57.1 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 |
| Cj Elleby | 28 | 11.2 | 43.3 | 31.8 | 83.3 | 0.6 | 1.5 | 2.2 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 3.8 |
| Tony Snell | 36 | 13.6 | 34.6 | 29.5 | 100.0 | 0.3 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 2.1 |
| Greg Brown III | 21 | 5.0 | 46.2 | 0.0 | 46.2 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 2.0 |
| Keljin Blevins | 9 | 5.2 | 35.7 | 40.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 1.6 |
| Jarron Cumberland | 3 | 4.1 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.7 |
