Portland (Most likely) won't trade for a ball dominating guard

If Nash goes into FA next year (team option I think and the MSP boys said that there is evidence to think that it may happen) then I would love to sign him as a FA. I think it would be awesome. Give him 2 years and a Team Option for 3... he would be great w/ Bayless. If we are going to do that, then we shouldn't pick up Blake's option though.

He would also do great at mentoring Sergio.

 

I wouldn't mind having Nash, but their Richardson move implies to me that they're trying to get one last push while Shaq's there to get a ring with that core of Nash/Shaq/Richardson, and then give everything over to Amare and whoever else is still around/whoever they can get at that point. They made a move to compete, and I doubt they'll just get rid of Nash for Raef/Outlaw/Sergio/whoever you think would be involved.

 

Yeah I highly doubt we could obtain Nash ina trade. It would have to be this off-season. I def. agree w/ LameR that they are making one last push.

 

Give me Jason Terry. Too bad the Mavericks aren't tanking it anymore.

 

At the same time, name one good deal that Steve Kerr has made since he got there. I have a firm belief that when a bad GM is in power, you try to make as many deals as possible before they are fired in order to acquire their key talent.

 

Kerr may not be a very inspired GM, but is unlikely to be crazy. Acquiring J-Rich, a win-now move, would hardly fit trading Nash for prospects. He clearly wants to win now...trading Nash would end that, making his two biggest moves (acquiring Shaq and Richardson) useless. Not that they were necessarily good moves, but I doubt he wants to render them completely useless.

 

At the same time, how many bad GM's do you think that wanted to render their team useless? Probably none. I am just saying, if they are there, and cutting deals, and there are players you would want, keep the phone line open. Because the main problem with most of the bad GM's, is they aren't patient, and will lose patience, and cut a bad deal.

 

Interesting comment considering Bayless is a ball dominating guard.

 

Give the Bulls Raef Lafrentz and the war chest of all your prospects stored overseas and we can call it a day.

 

Chris Paul is a ball dominating guard, and he looked damned good next to Roy in the All Star game last year. That was probably the best looking duo on either squad.

Anyway, at some point Nate is going to have to shake up the lineup a little more. The obvious move is to bench Batum, who is playing the worst of our starting 5. However, then you have to move Outlaw into the lineup, and he doesn't fit. Or you wait until Webster is back and ready to start, which at this rate could be February.

What other move could Nate do to shake things up a little? Start Przybilla? Yuck. Joel is better, but if Oden's head wasn't on right now, imagine what benching him will do. Nate needs to have faith that Oden will gain his confidence, timing and stamina, and let his future franchise center play through this.

Aldridge and Roy MUST start.

So that leaves Blake. If we continue to play pretty crappy for 3 or 4 more games, I bet we see Nate shake things up in a big way by benching Blake and moving Rodriguez into the starting position.

And there you go, we start the ball dominating guard we won't trade for.

 

OK. So the Suns are in 'win now' mode and would not be likely to give up Nash. Makes perfect sense. The thing is, they aren't going to win it this year with that team. So...after the season...I would not discount the possibility of KP recruiting Nash to run our team -- IF that is something KP decided to do.

This is fun! I love being a Blazers fan.

 

The Bulls would be lucky to get LaFrentz straight up for Hinrich. I have faith Pritchard will get Portland a much better player than Hinrich with LaFrentz contract.

 

Really?


When Hinrich was in a system like the one Nate runs he was a guy who was thought of as one of the best young PG's in the league.


I'm not saying he can get back there, but it's not like we are talking about some D league player here. When healthy Hinrich probably becomes our second best guard as soon as he passes a physical.

 

I like Sergio w/ the 2nd unit, but his inability to shoot when Roy gets him wide open 3s (like Blake) and his inability to play off the ball just wouldn't work in the starting unit w/ LMA and Roy ,imo.

I REALLY like Sergio for Oden though. And while he plays well w/ Rudy... very well... I think Rudy would eventually play better w/o him because it would allow him to turn into the playmaker rather than a shooter/alley oop reciever.

Yeah, brother! That is what I was saying. Totally agree.

 

I don't think he was ever considered one of the best young point guards. That would put him with Paul, Williams, Harris, and Calderon. He's never even come close to approaching that level. And nobody cares what he did 3-5 years ago. He hasn't done squat for two seasons now. On top of that he's got a huge contract. His trade value is just slightly higher than Marbury.

 

Hinrich was on the all defensive first team I believe (might have been second), and was part of a great young Bulls core that won 49 games. He was considered one of the best young guards in the league 2 years ago. But he never deserved that title, I agree. Ben Gordon was massively underrated. Gordon was the key reason the Bulls returned to form as a playoff team, but he never got credit for it, Kirk Hinrich got the bulk of the credit for that, even though it was undeserved.

And besides that, I put Luol Deng in that first post. Luol Deng for Raef Lafrentz and Portland's war chest. Luol Deng's name just kind of disappeared from the post, similar to how Luol disappears during the fourth quarter of every game.

 

i dont personally want my balls dominated, yall can have fun with that.