There are alot of ways to think about the RJ trade. One way is: The Nets felt they needed to trade either RJ or Vince to create cap room and acquire some youth. They chose to keep Vince. I always liked RJ, but he was overpaid in relation to his contributions. Vince is not overpaid. You never know what will happen. An injury to Paul Pierce would make the Celtics beatable. I don't see the value in totally giving up because you think you can't compete. The Nets are just one player away from being an elite team. So were the Lakers last year, and they were handed Pau Gasol. Who knows what will happen? Maybe they will be able to acquire Gerald Wallace or someone like that on the cheap. They unexpectedly came away with Vince Carter for essentially nothing. Maybe some team would agree to take Sean/Boone, a couple of picks, plus salary filler (Hassell/Swift/Simmons) for a true star SF or PF.
does anybody know if vince has a no trade clause in his contract, or does he get to decide on which team he gets traded to? I know his contract was signed pretty fast when he re-uped, but most superstar vets have certain clauses in them.
Vince also gets to play PG for half the game right now. If he was traded and used as a secondary threat, he wouldn't be as involved in the offense. He really relishes setting up his teammates. I think it is a pain in the neck for opposing defenses how Devin and Vince are constantly switching roles.
RJ gave up his defense, and he is not that effective like Devin Harris. After many seasons, it proves that Vince and RJ can't cooperate to a better level, specifically Vince and Devin jell so well more than Vince and RJ. and RJ doesn't have the same leadership as Vince. and Vince brings more fans to the court than RJ. That's why they decided to deal RJ instead of Vince. The most important is that Vince is better than RJ in basketball.
You can't gauge the chances of a VC trade, because Kiki and Rod are only going to trade Vince if they can hose the other team for a diamond in the rough like they did with the Kidd trade.
It also seems as if Coach Frank knew all along how he would structure the offense around Devin. Or Devin plus Vince, if you prefer. The most important two other elements would be inside scoring (which Brook is doing an adequate job at so far), and perimeter shooting. Neither of which RJ really helps at. And, as people noticed, his defense had started to suffer, and is probably little better than Simmons' at this point. We've all talked about this before, but the Nets' core of Devin-Vince-Brook, plus their primary bench guys of Keyon, Jarvis Hayes, Najera, Boone, Ryan is a pretty good start to a good team. They just need better forwards. I'm willing to give Yi some slack for a few months in deference to my friend Ghoti. If they could somehow improve on Simmons without giving up anyone in that core, they'd be pretty solid.
If we read the article by Dave D carefully, it said if the Nets would like to trade Vince, it must be for a young potential player. OK, maybe the league is filled with young potential players, but the teams that own those players are rebuilding, how the hell the rebuilding team would like to trade their potential player for Vince ? That's nonsense. It's not like that Mavs are struggling to win a title, so they decided to trade their young player for a declining all-time star pg, who just makes the USA better, and maybe that point made Cuban believe Jason Kidd is the answer. The Nets need Vince, and they also can't find a suitable team to trade Vince. Stop talking about trading Vince to Cavs for wally, that is the worst trade idea on the planet ever, and that would make the Cavs to win more games and even close to the Title, LeBron then won't go. Without Vince, this team is just a sub team, and in 2010, there is no big name player would like to join this team, wake up! We already have the cap space !
