Wolves Turn Down a deal including Shane Battier and Aaron Brooks.
by Tony_O on Jun 29, 2009 12:03 PM CDT
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How high is Kahn on Rubio to turn down this deal?..i would take this without thinking
Ricky Rubio was reportedly in Minnesota this weekend to meet with Wolves GM David Kahn, whose decision to draft the Spanish guard is looking better by the minute.
Mitch Lawrence in Sunday's Daily News reported that the Wolves turned down a deal with the Houston Rockets that would have resulted in Aaron Brooks and Shane Battier headed to Minnesota for Rubio.
If the Wolves are receiving those types of offers—Brooks and Battier were starters on a playoff team - do the Knicks really have much of a chance to get Rubio? Donnie Walsh is offering Wilson Chandler but that's not going to get it down. Walsh originally offered Chandler to Washington to get the fifth pick last week.
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/knicks/2009/06/knicks-dont-have-knack-to-land.html#ixzz0Jq6fLmRj&D
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This news makes me happy mainly because it’s external validation from a quality organization that there’s no way in hell the Wolves should trade Rubio. It’s not a great offer, but it’s a lot for Houston to give up for an 18 year old.
David Kahn selects an 18 year old phenom with the #5 pick. History repeats itself, isn’t that right, Mr. McHale.
Yep.
I think it demostrates:
1. How determined Kahn is to keep Rubio
2. How high the bar is set for a trade. Is it unrealistically high? Maybe, but then we have the old game of “he has not NBA form, how can you ask so much” vs “why do you want him then? Doing us a favour?”
While Brooks and Battier are both solid players- they don't fit at all.
Battier would be 32 by the time the Wolves could be any good where as a Brooks/Flynn backcourt would have clear Defensive issues. This makes the Wolves better next year- which really doesn’t say much for a 24 win team. The potential upside isn’t all that great though.
What this shows...
is that Washington was stupid to trade #5 before seeing who was available. Think the Wizards would prefer Brooks and Battier to Foye and Miller, when they’re trying to win now?
Actually...
I’m not sure Wiz would rather have Battier and Brooks. Arenas needs the ball in his hands so that limits Brooks’ effectiveness. And Battier isn’t going to replace Butler or Jamison in starting line-up.
In Foye and Miller, Wiz get one guaranteed started (I suspect Miller) and a scoring sparkplug off the bench (Foye), who can play two positions.
I actually think Miller and Foye will have very solid seasons for the Wiz and some in MN (Sid Hartman) will try and criticize Kahn for the trade (especially if Rubio stays in Spain). However, there is no way I’d undo that trade now.
by TWolvesFanInLA on Jun 30, 2009 1:33 PM CDT up reply actions
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