Cavs are ready to listen to trade offers for Love? (Love prefers Blazers?)

[StepBackJay]

In conclusion, player we look for:

1) Rim running (at least as Powell)
2) Setting screens (at least as Powell)
3) Defense (far better than Powell, stronger in the paint against bigs and better rebounder)

Who is that player? Can anyone suggest who that might be to trade for?

On the defensive side, he also has to be able to switch on perimeter. I basically see Capella as a player that fits this description. Haven't seen Favors enough to be able to judge. I am not into TT

Capella is guarding 5s most of the time although Houston does do a lot of switches. Also Houston is not going to trade with Dallas anyway so it's moot. I like TT along with some other names of guys that could be easy to get and will make an impact. Our bigs rotation is pretty thin to say the least. An injury to Powell or KP for any length of time would have us doing a lot of DFS, Jackson as a small ball 4 to eat up minutes.

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I mentioned trading for Love in a different thread last week. The issue brought up besides fit, was salary match. If we don't include Hardaway in the trade it would take adding too many players to match salary. With roster numbers in such becoming an issue for Cleveland with so many incoming.

That was last week when Hardaway was on his hot streak, and most of us were probably rethinking the idea of trading THJ.  I wanted to trade Powell, Lee and pieces for Love so we could just replace Powell on the team with Love. He offers better shooting and better rebounding then Powell.

But now that a few more games have gone by, THJ has regressed back to his original form. And Powell is starting to look more like they guy they extended.  I'm a little more optimistic then others on Love's fit here. I can see him fitting in nicely by sliding into that starting spot of Powell's. He offers more than Powell in every role we are asking him to fill. Besides the rim running, Love is a better shooter, better rebounder, stronger post defender.

At this point I'd rather include THJ in the trade and slide Powell to the bench. That makes our bench stronger. But if we don't receive someone else in return like Clarkson then i'm assuming Curry, Wright, or Brunson slides back into the starting lineup. Which would open up bench minutes for none other than Rick's favorite NBA player, JJB.

I don't think Love is a match on either side. Cavs want at least one premium pick or multiple picks and/or a young prospect. In my view Portland can give some picks and a young player to make that deal. Love is kind of redundant with KP on offense. Anyways he's a good player but I think a team like Portland is going to be much more interested in a deal for Love.