The poorer passing of Hinrich will be made up by the ball handling abilities of Roy. Hinrich & Roy is nice...not to mention if they play against a small line up, shifting Roy to SF and playing with a combination of Bayless, Rudy and Hinrich will give teams headaches.
About this rumor: Clearly this is mainly about cap space for the Bulls. They committed a lot of money to Hinrich as their PG of the future and now they have a NEW, far better and far cheaper (for now) PG of the future. Here Sergio seems like a throw-in. They don't really need a PG, even a backup. So why should Sergio be our throw-in? I guess he's the cheapest good player that we might give up. But I don't like that, precisely because he's shown that he can really energize the second unit. I'd much rather give up Bayless, quite frankly, because his strength is scoring for himself and we have that. Of course, so do the Bulls, with Ben Gordon. And actually, I think I'd most like to give up Steve Blake, since he's essentially pretty similar to Hinrich, albeit paid half as much. How about: Hinrich (with or without Simmons or Aaron Gray - it works either way) for Blake, Frye and Diogu The contracts of Channing and Ike expire at the same time Raef's does, and Blake's contract runs half the length of Hinrich's. This way we keep Raef's expiring contract AND Sergio. We're still taking on Hinrich's not-so-great contract, so it's a gamble that his last year was an aberration. I say we offer that and say take it or leave it, and I would be happy either way.
The Bulls aren't horrid. They are 5-5, or 1 game behind us. They have also played a very tough schedule. The same as us if Roy doesn;t make a miraculous shot against Houston by the way.
I meant to imply that Blake won't be on the team next year, not that he'd be the one traded. IIRC, we have a team option on his contract.
Yeah, but the difference is you don't see people on O-live ripping this site. I've been on both O-Live and BBF/S2, and I can say that until a group of people stopped posting there, O-Live was the better place to talk hoops.
The original poster on O-Live is definitely legit, so I would tend to believe there's some fire to this smoke. If the Blazers believe that Hinrich's decline over the last couple seasons is based more on a system change, I think this would be a great move for us. During his 3-4 year run of his best seasons, Hinrich averaged 17 pts and 7 asst per 40 minutes. Here's a list of point guards in the league averaging that THIS season. Chris Paul Baron Davis Steve Nash Dwyane Wade Chauncey Billups Devin Harris TJ Ford Tony Parker That's some pretty exclusive company...if he can return to form. And if we make the deal, I'm guessing it's because Pritchard believes he can and WILL return to form. People seem to think we can get somebody better in free agency this summer...but who's really out there? Not a lot of PG options that I can see.
Interesting. Okay, so IF that has anything to do with anything...the deal would have to be a 3 for 2 or 4 for 3 or whatever. Who else might they look to deal? Deng? Nocioni?
Well...it could be we're just showcasing Sergio lately, then do the trade. In the interim we'll have Blake and Jerryd man the point, which I'm relatively fine with. IIRC, Kirk has a kind of a shitty contract...but I really don't think we're going to be the huge Free Agent players many people expect us to be. Henrich gives us some good play at the point with some great bball IQ and outside shooting....i'm not 100% necessary we need him, but it wouldn't hurt But if Sergio thinks he'll get PT playing behind Derrick Freakin' Rose, he's got another thing coming to him. Maybe the trade would include Bayless or Outlaw and even perhaps us getting a Deng back or something....which would be pretty sweet.
I'm convinced that we're showcasing Sergio. As for El Mago, he would finish his contract with Chicago and likely return to Spain.
I don't understand your question. If they cleared a space, they'll be taking one more player back than they send out... if they send out Hinrich and Simmons, they'd take back three players. The question seems to be who they would get from the Blazers in addition to Sergio and Raef. Ed O.
