Posted by Bonn1997:
Posted by Ray15:
What about Marbury, TT for Odom, Caron Butler, B Grant. The lakers get a solid point and take pressure off Kobe while getting cap relief for B Grant. We can go ahead and take Felton or D Williams because I think both these guys will be monster pgs in the leauge and they will be the best player on the board when we pick (if they're still available). Most importantly, we get better defensively. Grab a guy like Earl Watson and we'll be very solid.
Deron Williams/Watson
Crawford/Butler
Odom/Ariza
Your proposal's at least a little more realistic. You have to be smoking some serous stuff to think that Isiah would or should trade Marbury for some players who haven't even been NBA starters like the initial trade on this thread. I think a lot of people confused Isiah's statement about Marbury not being untouchable for a statement about him intending or trying to trade Marbury. It's a huge difference.
To be honest with you, I think we need to trade Marbury. The deal Briggs offered isn't the best but we do get much younger and better defensively on the perimeter. You can't win in this league without defense and in order to get us those guys we're going to have to trade our best player. Look at the Bulls -- that is a team that is so solid everywhere. Hinrich, Duhon, and Gordon are all giving them incredible minutes and doing the little things like playing defense, rebounding the ball, and getting on loose balls.
It's not a coincidence that these 3 guys stayed in school for a while and more importantly won in school (all have been to the final 4). Look at the other guys who stayed in school and led their team -- Wade, Josh Howard, Richard Jefferson, even guys like Dan Dickau, Boozer, Battier, Okafor. All these guys are so solid on both sides of the ball and it's in college where they learn these fundamentals. Outside of the superstars like Lebron, KG, JONeal, Kobe there have been so many high school busts (I can think of about 10 or 15 right off the bat).
This is why I want to draft Deron Williams or Raymond Felton with the 8 pick. Now if Gerald Green is available I'll take him because he can be very very special. With our late first round pick I would think about Julius Hodge. Does he not have Josh Howard written all over him? He can do everything -- ballhandeling, passing, defense, getting to the rim. I'd also want to buy a mid first rounder to nab a guy like Channing Frye who looks like a poor mans Camby. I'd also look to trade up in the second round using our late second rounder and maybe a future second rounder to nab a guy like Daniel Ewing or Nate Robinson.
If we trade Marbury for some young, gritty guards (even the dallas package where we take back Daniels and Harris), buy a first rounder using TT and come out of the draft with
Deron Williams, Channing Frye, Julius Hodge, and Nate Robinson we would be in fabulous position. Williams is a lockdown defender who shut down everybody except Felton all throughout the tournament. In order to make roster space for all these guys I'll cut/buy our Houston, Penny, Sundov, and all the other scrubs we got on our squad.
Deron Williams/Harris/Robinson
Crawford/Daniels/Deron Williams
Daniels/Ariza/Hodge
That backcourt is the best defensively in the league and it still has the firepower to put up points. We would have won the majority of our close games this year if only we could have guarded people.
4/25/2005 3:08 PM
