Posted by BRIGGS:

there are variables in the trade that make it appealing including acquiring swift at 24 years old. With a combination of Sweetney and Swift, all we would need to do is compliment the two with another 6-10-+athletic player out of the draft to go along with Jake T and another vet and quickly WE would have a very young athletic power frontcourt with a nice combination of everything. [we couldve used mihm or doleac desperatly as a depth man at C]

Bonzi Wells is a much much better defender than TT and puts up the same numbers both in r+scoring BUT he is the key with his ending contract to get us that high pick where we could swipe an athletic big. I like Ariza as the future of our SF position+ it would be easy to find a solid player with the MLE at SF.


earl Watson gives us a real back up PG, one we dont really have right now--right now the back up is moochie or hardaway and IMHO thats not good enough. watson is up and coming hes a scrapper and plays vicious D.

Jake Tsakalidis is a 7'2" stiff imho...i'm not interested in adding him to this roster at all.

like i said, it would be nice to add Swift, but not if i have to give up TT, Nazr & KT to do it.

Bonzi is a good defender, but he's undersized for a SF...TT is a better scorer in the post & is a better fit for this roster as they are currently constructed imo...the point about Bonzi's contract is fair though...i agree, you could use him as a trade chip to get yourself a high draft pick, in which case i might like this idea.

& in your deal, it was Troy Bell coming over...i don't know where Earl Watson came from, unless you added him to the deal in another post that i missed.

Posted by fishmike:

Mostly I'm not ready to give up on TT just yet. He did was he was asked to do in Mil and that team was very good every year despite of guys (the big 3) coming and going.

This year he was asked to get stronger and to be prepared to play in the post more. So he's spent the offseason boxing and building upper body strength. At 27 years old he is very much at the crossroads of his career. Worse case scenario is next year you have a versatile 6'10 player with superior athleticism in his walk year. Best case scenario is you have a proven clutch performer hitting big shots at the end of games and causing matchup problems left and right.