Lazy Saturday trade
by McCleak on Jun 5, 2010 4:14 PM CDT
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Since we don't have much to do these day but speculate on the draft, I thought I'd throw together a trade combining the two most persistent rumors, the GS trade and the Philly one:
http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=29wuvbh
Also relevant but not shown in this is that Minnesota gets the 2, and Philly gets the 6 and the 23.
Why the Wolves do it: They get to completely remake their team into a running squad. Randolph is a good uptempo defender and rebounder, and Azubuike can really shoot it from long range. You add in Turner + Cousins/Favors + any of the mid-range guys (Whiteside, Henry, Bradley, George), and you've got a solid set of proven and/or cheap youngsters to build yourself around. Additionally, you now have a size advantage (or at least a size not disadvantage) 4 of the 5 positions.
Why the Warriors do it: They get the two best players in the deal, and they shed the Maggette deal, which is going to be a shaky one at the end.
Why the 76ers does it: They get rid of a bunch of money, and still save face with a lottery pick. Gomes can be cut, saving on the luxury tax. Hollins contract ends next year, which is preferable to paying for four more years of Brand to Philly (they could also do something like send Hollins and the 23 to a team with cap room to save more money).
Anyway, this is thrown together in about five minutes, but yes? No?
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Al Jefferson
doesn’t strike me as a Nellie-ball sort of player, and the Dubs would have the same problem we do with them.
Love I could certainly see them wanting.
Philly swap a one bad deal for a less bad deal to drop from having Turner next to Iggy to having Johnson/Aminu in that boat or taking Cole Aldrich.
I think we are the only winners from the deal, but I’m having trouble warming to Randolph right now.
"I was trying to focus on breathing," Milicic said. "I was just focusing on breathing so I didn’t die."
Giving BOTH Love and Jefferson to the same team...
borders on unethical. How dare we just sluff our mess on some else.
by Stephen S. on Jun 5, 2010 5:30 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
Especially considering that it uses PER. Randolph and Brand are a slight downgrade from Love and Jefferson by that measure (apparently no one told PER that Brand died about a year and a half ago), but not nearly a big enough step down where adding Buike wouldn’t mitigate a lot of the problem by that measure. He’d instantly step in and be the best swingman on the team, filling a huge void.
In reality, that deal without the draft picks would look pretty awful for the Wolves, but I’m curious how PER came to that conclusion.
heart of a champion, will of the warrior.
Oh, it's terrible for the Wolves without the picks
But it’s the easiest way to show the trade, even though it doesn’t have the trade picks ability in there. Getting Randolph, Buike, Evans, and Cousins or Favors does a lot to both balance and upgrade the team overall. Hell, Brand’s not terrible player, he’d certainly be as the first big off the bench.
trade machine
says that trade gives us 18 less wins… so that leaves us at -3? or can we bottom out at 0…
Looks like Ellison is joining team to buy GS Warriors
What does this mean? Nelly is gone.
Just my opinion, but I’ve seen Ellison operate in the SW biz for quite awhile. He is not going to be a passive partner. And anyone with his chromosomes and focus on winning is going to want to swing his weight.
Quickest way to show who is boss is to dump Nelly. A coach who needs no GM or front office? Gonna be gone.
What that means for the draft or trades, I have no idea. But maybe the talk about Randolph trade was part of the post Nelly team just stirring up trouble and letting Nelly know he’s on a short tether.
Or maybe it was Nelly just trying to pull the chain of whoever is coming next — impossible to tell how serious that talk was.
But one thing for sure, Nelly is gone.
No Ellison fan
He makes Balmer and Jobs look like gentlemen. But it’s about time the bay area gets a decent team and he might just have the deep pockets and boldness to do that.
I just moved from the east bay and it was sad to see how poorly run that team is from top to bottom.
good comment...
to wit: ""He makes Balmer and Jobs look like gentlemen. ""
Good way to put it. Would Ellison have put up with McHale’s management style like Taylor did? No bleeping way.
And he won’t put up with Nelly either. He’ll probably relish canning him, but he’ll have a lieutenant do it because Larry won’t have the time.
Wow, this is gonna be the greatest draft season ever. What a chess game.
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