Posted by TMS:
nyny, i'm a little confused... u were dead set against trading the #6 to move down to #16 & unload Zach's much bigger contract, & yet you're proposing a deal where in essence we'd be taking ON longterm contracts of less talented players and moving down to #15 in the process, on top of giving up a talented young player like Nate in the deal... where's the logic?
I think you are pretty down on Diaw and Barbosa... they are both very talented players. In fact, I am of the belief that the suns destroyed Atlanta in the Joe Johnson trade based upon Diaw's performance. My belief is that we can get Diaw and Barbosa for Marbury's expiring contract (we would need to include something like Balkman and take back Raja Bell's expiring contract) but I think we could get it done without giving up our draft pick.
I also think we could pawn off Curry to Sacramento with Nate Robinson for Ron Artest via sign and trade or for his expiring.
Randolph is tough to get rid of, but I don't want to sell low. I would like to test him out in the East at Center. In the D'antoni offense, with less stress on Defense, his deficiencies might be lessened. Besides, based upon current valuation of his trade (that is one based solely upon contract value, his value can only go up as we pay him more). He is still relatively young and talented. There is no reason to sell low but for the negative stigmas attached to his Jailblazer days.
I would also see if we could move Crawford for Josh Howard. Dallas might bite to be rid of Howard's troubles. I am not down on Crawford, but I kind of want to turn over the roster.
I would use the MLE, the LLE and our draft pick to pick up a backup pg, C and tweener. Ideally, Mayo would be the backup PG/SG (for teh purposes below, I would hope he falls to us, but I would use Chandler as a trading piece to move up). I like Childress with the MLE. I like Chris Andersen with the LLE.
Mayo/Barbosa
Howard/Mayo
Artest/Childress
Diaw/Lee
Randolph/Andersen
Bench: Chandler,(?) Jeffries, Collins, James, Bell, Morris
I would love to hit the court with this team in 2008/2009
[Edited by - ewingsglass on 06-18-2008 10:40 PM]