Rank these guys as far as who you'd want most to least on our team: Eddy Curry, Ty Chandler, Kwame Brown, Nene, Chris Wilcox.
I'd put Nene at #1, but the other guys are really hard to rank.

Nene
Chandler
Curry (he would be my # 1 but no shot blocking and his rebounding and defense both suck)
Wilcox
Kwame

the best fit for this team right now is chandler b/c he boards and blocks shots.

potentially, the best all around player could be kwame.

the best offensive player is curry.

wilcox and nene will be serviceable but will probably not excel on either the defense or offensive side of the ball.

BUT all of them are better than what we have.

BUT i will not trade sweetney for any of them - sorry but i'd rather have the better player than looking for the right fit since i think that PF glut will be gone after 2 years max.

I think Curry's scoring would go up a little bit with a PG like Marbury, but I'm not sure it would go all the way up to 21. Why are you assuming that a good PG would substantially increase Curry's rebounding and shot-blocking?

Give me a center to play D, rebound, block shots and hit a 15ft jump shot so Sweetney can do his thing in the post.

give me the draft......the players we acquire from the draft will be very cheap

Curry and Kwame are tied for #1 on my list.

Curry- Lots of O with the hope of D and Reb.
Is the best offensive player of the bunch and has the skills and size to rebound and block shots. He could learn that, it would be a gamble, but Id rather gamble on him. What he already has is very difficult to learn, and he just has to get focused to rebound and block.
PLus he's the biggest, you can't teach size and I know what all of your wives and girlfriends tell you but in the NBA size matters ;)

Kwame- Lots of Potential solid O decent D and R, but could be the best.
Still unproven, but still with the greatest upside. A gamble yes, but there are no sure things anywhere as far as big men, Shaq and TDuncan aren't coming. He could be the best all around, with the most refined offensive game, and still be a solid defensive big. Even with only minor progress, he could be solid on both ends. An athletic 12 and 8 guy. He could almost fall into that with our team and 30 minutes a night.

These next guys are mostly rebounding and Defense guys and their skills can be had rather cheaply from guys like Gadzuric and Steven Hunter, which is why I put them below Kwame and Curry. If we were to get Kwame or Curry we could STILL get one of these types (defense and rebounds)of guys for the MLE.


Chandler- Mostly D and R, needs more
you pretty much know what you're getting with him. about 8 to 10 points and rebounds a game and some blocks and shot altering and intimidating in the post. He is a little more developed, all around, than Dalembert, which is why I put him 3rd, but still very far behind Kwame and Curry on the offensive end.

Dalembert- ^^Ditto with less O and less overall awareness. He has a better body than TC though.

Nene is a PF, and we have several better than him already. I would like to get him, but he isn't doing much blocking or rebounding at his size and with his 7-6 wingspan you would kind of expect more. His career high for rebounds is 13 which he has done 4 times in his three year career. That is totally unexceptable considering he isn't brilliant on the offensive end. I'll pass.

Wilcox
I don't know much about him except he is athletic and unpolished. I dont kno about his rebounding and shot blocking but I know he isn't really a center. If he comes cheaply sure.


[Edited by - Killa4luv on 03/09/2005 18:48:15]

Nene is the only proven one as far as I'm concerned. Just look at his numbers when Camby goes down. And no he is not mechanic at all. He is a younger Shaq like beast inside. All those others guys have been in the league for years. The only thing they've proven is how big a busts they are.

[Edited by - gunsnewing on 03/09/2005 18:56:58]

Well if you go down the chain of events, we now have Marbury instead of Nene. We traded Nene for McDyess, he never really played, then we traded him for Marbury. This is a separate issue, and you can't really say "we had a choice of Marbury or Nene", but let's say we had that choice today.

Would you rather have had Nene for these past 2-3 years or Marbury for the past 1?

In other words, which team do you think would have been better today.. the team that kept Nene, or the team that traded him (and eventually got Marbury because of it). As I said, I know this is hard, because we would probably have made some other moves, but if you could take back that trade, would you?

Edit: Keep in mind, Camby was in that deal too.

[Edited by - cazeek on 03/09/2005 22:00:42]

Posted by Bonn1997:

Not even close. Nene is nice young player with a lot of upside but Marbury already is a 20/9 star.

I agree.. but I'm sure many will say Marbury is a "loser", and with Nene, we would've had a nice big man to build around, without as many bad contracts as we have had (Penny, TT). Nene would be in his 3rd year as a starting center with virtually no backup, so his development would move more quickly.

However, I'd rather take this team and build around it than a team that had Nene and some other lower caliber players (than Marbury) as its core.

Trust me we'd be a lot better off with Nene and Camby. But then Layden might've still been here so in a way its great that he made that awful trade for Mcdyess