I headed over to Storytellers salary cap site to try and get a better grasp on the situation the Blazers will be facing this summer.  I was curious how the team options for Steve Blake and Travis Outlaw would come into play with the amount of cap space.  Here are the numbers:

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As much as I love debating our 3rd string pg situation, I found myself pondering something different today.   So, I figured I would throw it out for the community to discuss.  We all know the blazers big 3 consists of Roy, Aldridge, and Oden.  So imagine that you are KP and for some crazy reason, you had to choose two of those players to keep.  Who would you let loose? 

Option 1: Let Roy go…

Roy has been our best player in his first two seasons, but he has shaky knees and a (so far) incurable heal injury.  In the nba, good big men are a rare asset and we have two of them that can’t be let go.  The addition of Rudy and Roy will cover up the scoring and leadership void that letting Roy go would leave…

Option 2: Let Oden go…

Oden has appeared to be injury prone in his early basketball career and we have a pretty dang good center in Joel Pryzbilla.  Oden has also been underwhelming everytime us PTB fans have seen him play for our team. Letting Oden go will open up minutes for Frye and possibly even give Steven Hill an opportunity…

Option 3: Let Aldridge go…

Aldridge has had a very nice start to his young career, but he tends to be more of a perimeter-oriented pf, which is replaceable.  Frye is sort of a poor man’s Aldridge with just as sweet of a shooting touch and Outlaw also played well at the pf spot last season.  They should be able to fill the scoring void that Aldridge would leave…

Now, I know everyone will want to say don't let any of them go!  But that defeats the purpose.  Personally, I can't make up my mind...

B-roy at his all star party

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I figured I better start a junk drawer so TiH has a good place to get all of the off topic out of him. I was checking out youtube and found a video of Chuck Hayes that is pretty funny, but also kind of sad.  Also, the one of Charles Barkley's golf swing is an instant classic for anyone familiar with the game.  What I think is funny, is that they are both equally bad, and they sort of resemble each other.   Other than that, I really don't have much else to say at the moment...

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Jason Quick was on primetime and had some juicy tidbits about what the blazers are trying to do.  Isaac Ropp recapped what Quick said on his blog:

"Jason Quick, Oregonian:
Blazers in serious talks with 4 teams about trading out of the #13 pick
The four teams: Phoenix, NY Knicks, Toronto, New Jersey
Players targeted: Barbosa, Malik Rose or David Lee?, TJ Ford, Devin Harris
Offer on the table from one of the above or another East team
The deal involves the #13 and a Blazers reserve for an unnamed veteran
Potential exists for the Blazers to trade down targeting Brandon Rush @ #21
The players garnering the most interest: Frye, Webster & Outlaw
The players garnering very little interest: Rodriguez, Jack
Significant news: Nate has decided to play Travis Outlaw exclusively at SF
McMillan also committed to more Brandon Roy at PG
No word from James Jones on his player option"

Link:   http://1080thefan.com/Daily-Blog/2312225

There is a lot of good info in there.  Quick also said that Paul Allen commented that the proposed trade was "intriguing".  I wonder who it could be for???

Nate saying that Travis is going to be primarily a small forward is also sort of interesting.  That must mean they plan on keeping Frye?  How does that effect Jones and Martell?

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