Isiah's plan is to develop Frye, N-Rob, Lee, Sweetney, Ariza, etc. and then package some of them for a dominant player, like Miami did to get Shaq, unless Frye becomes a dominant front court player. It could take two years to do that. Consequently, there really is no point talking about trading any of them now.

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Posted by Rich:

Isiah's plan is to develop Frye, N-Rob, Lee, Sweetney, Ariza, etc. and then package some of them for a dominant player, like Miami did to get Shaq, unless Frye becomes a dominant front court player. It could take two years to do that. Consequently, there really is no point talking about trading any of them now.

He didn't have to take much time to develop Lampe, Vujanic, and Frank Williams. If Isiah combine young players with any upside, draft picks, and expiring contracts, he can get another outstanding player. Hopefully he can pick the young players that look likely to be busts and choose those to package like he did in the Marbury trade.

Top tier front court players are more difficult to obtain than Marbury was, and require more assets, but I would never take another player with Marbury's horrible contract.

Posted by Bonn1997:

Posted by Rich:

Posted by Bonn1997:

Posted by Rich:

Isiah's plan is to develop Frye, N-Rob, Lee, Sweetney, Ariza, etc. and then package some of them for a dominant player, like Miami did to get Shaq, unless Frye becomes a dominant front court player. It could take two years to do that. Consequently, there really is no point talking about trading any of them now.

He didn't have to take much time to develop Lampe, Vujanic, and Frank Williams. If Isiah combine young players with any upside, draft picks, and expiring contracts, he can get another outstanding player. Hopefully he can pick the young players that look likely to be busts and choose those to package like he did in the Marbury trade.

Top tier front court players are more difficult to obtain than Marbury was, and require more assets, but I would never take another player with Marbury's horrible contract.

I don't know about that. Usually PGs and Cs are the hardest to get. (I'm counting the 7' PFs like Duncan, Garnett as Cs.) I think you could get a star like Elton Brand for less than it took to get Marbury (considering that at the time Lampe and Vujanic were considered outstanding prospects).

I doubt it, although even if you're right, as much as I would love to have him, he isn't good enough to help the current team win any championships, which is all I care about.

Eventually they're gonna give up on the idea of building around Brand. They've been paying him max dollars to be a lottery team for too many consecutive years. The reason they'd rather keep Wilcox than Brand is their salaries. The Clippers are a cheap organization--too cheap to re-sign the most improved player of last season to a salary slightly above the MLE, too cheap to keep a promising young guard (Q) in the organization for a little above the MLE. I wouldn't be surprised if TT, Sweetney, and either Nate OR Frye were enough to get him. (Obviously if eithe Nate or Frye looks like a star in the making, you don't trade him.) Then you let Larry Brown coach a lineup of Marbury, Crawford, Richardson, Brand, and Jerome James.