Reports / Speculation: Schroder linked Chicago, Milwaukee

[td450]

For Bulls:

Schroder and Bruno for Ayo and Troy Brown. Saves us $1.5 mil, we find a taker for Dozier and we’re under the tax.

They won’t do it but it’s nice to dream.

For Bucks:

Hill makes $1.5 less than Schroder. Donte, Pat C, and Grayson are all in the compatible range to Schroder but would require us to add draft capital so I don’t see them making much sense for us.

Why would Bulls give up Dosunmu?

He's now looking like a top 5 rookie this year.

Chicago did a couple of things this year that are good lessons for the C's.

A "good" starter (Lonzo Ball) can make a huge difference if they really fit a team's needs.

And its easy to start thinking there is no hope after a series of mediocre drafts, but every once in a while a really high quality player is just there to take later in the draft. Dosunmu is starting to look like he might be a better starter than Ball was earlier in the year. Like a lot of teams, we could have tried to move up and get him. Really good teams often get at least one guy like this for almost nothing.

[Roy H.]

According to Steve Bulpett of Heavy.com, the Los Angeles Lakers "were offering a couple of second-round picks and some minimum contracts [for Schroeder]"

That's interesting to me.  If true, couldn't we have done the following:

BOS receives:  Theis, one #2

HOU receives:  Freedom, Bruno, minimum contracts from LAL, one #2

LAL received:  Schroeder

Heck, maybe there was a way to sell HOU on the minimum contracts and still keeping both #2s.

[todd_days_41]

I’d much rather have the picks and LAL bench players than Theis.

[Celtics2021]

According to Steve Bulpett of Heavy.com, the Los Angeles Lakers "were offering a couple of second-round picks and some minimum contracts [for Schroeder]"

That's interesting to me.  If true, couldn't we have done the following:

BOS receives:  Theis, one #2

HOU receives:  Freedom, Bruno, minimum contracts from LAL

LAL received:  Schroeder

... or, maybe Houston prefers to save money and prefers the minimum deals, so we keep both #2s.

It would depend how many minimum contracts LA wanted to send and if Houston had room for them all without waiving players they were interested in keeping.

Also, perhaps Houston wants to keep Schröder.  They could have sent Schröder to LA for the seconds themselves, but didn’t.

[jambr380]

According to Steve Bulpett of Heavy.com, the Los Angeles Lakers "were offering a couple of second-round picks and some minimum contracts [for Schroeder]"

That's interesting to me.  If true, couldn't we have done the following:

BOS receives:  Theis, one #2

HOU receives:  Freedom, Bruno, minimum contracts from LAL

LAL received:  Schroeder

... or, maybe Houston prefers to save money and prefers the minimum deals, so we keep both #2s.

It's interesting that there was truly an offer - 2 2nds, too. It was widely assumed this was done as a salary dump move for HOU (3 years of Theis) and the contracts we sent them didn't matter. I came to the same conclusion as you after the trade went down. I assumed somebody was at least willing to send a 2nd and we could have done a 3-way deal and collected that 2nd.

It does appear that since the Rockets actually 'needed' Schroder's physical to go through that they might have an interest in keeping him. At the very least, it's a good opportunity for Schroder to pad his stats, but still a bit surprising that they may not buy him out. If they do, the Cs may have just run out of time since this was the last deal before the deadline. Missed opportunity, for sure, though, since we are little light on 2nds moving forward.

[bowlingwarnie]

or, we had no interest whatsoever in helping the Los Angeles Lakers

[Moranis]

According to Steve Bulpett of Heavy.com, the Los Angeles Lakers "were offering a couple of second-round picks and some minimum contracts [for Schroeder]"

That's interesting to me.  If true, couldn't we have done the following:

BOS receives:  Theis, one #2

HOU receives:  Freedom, Bruno, minimum contracts from LAL

LAL received:  Schroeder

... or, maybe Houston prefers to save money and prefers the minimum deals, so we keep both #2s.

I wonder which minimum contracts they were offering.  They have a few guys that would have looked nice here. 

[slamtheking]

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