I think he will. He will always LOOK to make moves to make the team better. But he won't make moves just to keep a couple of players happy. Because again it is a never ending cycle.
This reminds me of an idea I had. If you could always just trade with someone but get the better of the deal, even if only slightly you could end up with something good. Using a car analogy like I often do, trade a Pinto for a Tempo. Then a Tempo for a Taurus. Taurus for Impala. Impala for Grand Marquis. Grand Marquis for Maxima. And so on and so forth, eventually KP could turn these guys into something better.
come game 7 in 2000, PIP was severely limited with a finger injury on his shooting hand. As faded past his prime as he was, up till game 6 he was flat incredible. But then he suffered an injury and that can happen to anyone in any game. I would agree that star power affected Sabas's series though. 3 fouls in 2 minutes of play in the 4th quarter (two for being elbowed in the face and neck) speak to LA*'s star power superiority. Portland might stand a little chance of countering that star power now if Greg develops because he should be able to move product nationally but I suspect LA* will always have the upper hand there STOMP
I am baffled by a couple of posters contention in this thread that our minutes cruch, too many young players wanting to play problems are NOT currently a problem and there is no reason to 1) worry about it and 2) start preparing to do anything about it. Let the season ride they say. We have team first players, and the "culture" of the team will out. Let KP fix it next summer they say. First, didn't they notice that it IS A PROBLEM ALREADY? Sergio made a trade demand. Folks, that is just the tiny tip of the freakin iceberg. Second, several of our players are pumpkins. Trade them this season or the contract situation makes them less valuable, in some instances zero. You can't wait any more for a good consolidation trade. To get good value for traded players you need to showcase them. We can't showcase all the available guys at once. If you let the season ride, the players who lose out the minutes battle, will fetch a fraction of their potential worth in an off-season consolidation trade. So, tell me, how is KP going to make a consolidation trade next summer where he takes players that didn't get burn on our team and have poor contract situations and turn several of those guys into one really great player? Answer: He probably can't. We will just end up with the same type of players from some other team. Musical players. Similar players, different faces. Or end up with a long in the tooth vet. Or a future pick. Knowing KP he might end up on the sweet side when it is all done, but you can't expect him to take several players that will have low value this summer and turn it into a quality prime vet. Won't happen.
Baloney. First of all, Sergio didn't demand anything, his agent did. Did Sergio want to play more? Yes, and guess what? He is. As far as "tip of the iceberg" goes...HUH? There has been nothing voiced by any other player. We don't need to break up the cohesion of this team by acquiring some mythical "quality vet."
Baloney back at ya. Sergio's agent is his AGENT. Look up the word. Unless Sergio fired that agent and completely renounced his actions - the actions of the agent have been on behalf of Sergio and his best interests. I am surprised you are so uninformed about this typical professional sports behavior. And Sergio playing more means what? Maybe he is being showcased. Maybe he is being placated. If he is being showcased, that only goes to show that my long-held postition on this subject (too many decent young players to handle) is correct, and the team by delaying the inevitable, are having to deal with a PROBLEM. If he is being placated, then this action undermines the coach, cracks at the foundation of the team "culture" of sacrifice and will do nothing but encourage similar behavior from other players.
Yeah, and what happens when the next guy down the bench (Bayless?) realizes that having his agent complain publicly will get him more playing time, just like Sergio? Nate didn't put a very convincing spin on the coincidental timing of Sergio getting more PT...
You mean, like you can't trade Marc Gasol, Javaris Crittendon (young, low value players not getting burn), Kwame Brown (exp. contract) and future picks for Pau Gasol (All-Star, quality prime vet)? Really?
We won't have the RLEC this summer. Has to be trade during the season before the deadline. Pumkins people. Pumpkins.
i would like to see 2 consolidation trades, involving raef/webster/frye//blake/ike/#1 netting us upgrades at the sf AND pg. hinrich and GWallace please. but if we let raef expire, i think we will make a run at marvin williams.
Who are you talking about? You want to trade Bayless? Because as far as i can see he is the only player not getting "BURN". The other is IKE and Ike ain't going to bring you what you want no matter how much he plays. When Webster comes back yes he will take sombody's minutes (Probably Frye's) but Frye has already gotten enough minutes for GM's to know what he is all about. So who do you want to trade that is not getting (or won't be getting) any burn? Personally i do not want to trade Bayless
I agree with statement 1A, mostly with statement 1B, and not at all with 1C. If all we get is Hinrich and Wallace for all that (some would say "crap"), then I'll have lost a little faith in KP. If you look at all of the "magic" things KP has done, it's been mostly in the realm of players we haven't seen much of before. He knew Roy was going to be better than Telfair. He knew Rudy would be so amazing that it would be worth giving up Z-bo. He had LMA over Thomas and AmMo. He targeted Batum and Sergio. He pulled Kopo and Freeland with 6M cash. But most of us in here could break down the pros and cons of Hinrich and Wallace, because we see them a lot on TV, playing against the players they'd be playing with everyday (as opposed to, say, my feelings about Blake Griffin, b/c I haven't seen him play pros yet). He also has a much better sense of how desperate owners and GMs are about lux tax situations, like what exactly Sarver needs to sell a draft pick, or how much Raef is actually worth around the league (which is actually a heckuva lot). I haven't seen many deals of KP's where he's found how much guys have left in the tank (like Kidd or Nash, for instance). He has found "breakout guys" (James Jones, Ime Udoka), which is why I wouldn't be surprised if we targeted Sessions or Marvin. I think he's capable of the "splash trade", but hasn't had the opportunity (due to injuries) or is watching the price rise as we get closer to the deadline. Long story short...I think we end up with breakout studs, aging guys who have something left, or unknown guys who blow up. Not known entities who are just "solid"...not for our valuable "scraps". Salinger out.
So where is the problem dude? Cause I don't see one? I haven't heard of anyone else complaining. I don't know if Sergio is being "placated" or not, but the fact he's getting more minutes is warranted. I don't think any of the other players have a problem with that. I'm surprised that you don't recognize the special chemistry this team has. This is not something you see often.
