Re: Would you trade LaMarcus for Amare That's sort of how I feel too. No matter who gets traded, there's going to be one segment of fans who will be all, "OHHH NO! why did you trade so and so?" Probably not Shavlik or Ike or Raef, but the rest of the guys, I'd miss a little bit. While I'll always root for the Blazers to win, I'd love to see it done with this group. None of them are unlikeable, some of them may suck time to time, but I don't hate any of them. Oh well. As for LMA for Amare? Hell no.
Re: Would you trade LaMarcus for Amare Amare = No, as in: No defense; No understanding of TEAM. I'm so glad we didn't draft him. He is fool's gold.
Re: Would you trade LaMarcus for Amare He's one of my favorite players in the league and i wouldn't do it.
Re: Would you trade LaMarcus for Amare also blech (and not because Steve Nash is devoid of talent, it's because he's devoid of health)
Amare for LMA and RLEC? http://phoenix.fanster.com/2009/02/05/sunsblazers-deal-in-the-works/ Take it for what its worth.
Re: Amare for LMA and RLEC? Is this a blog? Or a real source? Oh, and they call Rudy a point guard....uh...what?
Re: Amare for LMA and RLEC? It's a blog... Take it with a grain of salt. I mean, imagine if Mixum had a blog...
Re: Amare for LMA and RLEC? I love LMA and realize that LMA's game fits with a dominant center moreso than Amare. But amare is amare. He is a superstar powerforward and everyone on here who denies that needs to take their Blazers beer goggles off. He would bring that attitude to our team that we love in Bayless. The "F you, I'm going to beat the S out of you, get the F out of my way" attitude. Also, having a PF who dominates in the post like Amare might actually make things easier for Oden by taking some pressure off of him.
Re: Would you trade LaMarcus for Amare Am I the only one that wonders why people keep suggesting that you can MOVE a player who's been played exclusively at PF and Center for their entire career to the SF position? Granted, NBA players are the world's best athletes, but there is a gap in ability out there. Do you think that LMA or Amare have enough lateral quickness to stop the average SF from making a cut to the basket? Do you think they have enough shooting that they can spread the floor and not get all bunched up underneath. This isn't like football, where you can convert a LB to a DE or a Safety to a LB. This is basketball. A few years ago Detroit used an effective lineup of R.Wallace/Okur/B.Wallace. But that was because they were playing a zone defense and Rasheed and Okur can light it up from behind the 3-point line. LMA and Amare cannot. The easiest "transition" is a SG to slide to SF (or reverse) or perhaps PF sliding to C (or reverse, but not as effectively). That's the truth of the matter. There are a lot of players, the "Tweeners" who live without a true position. Guys like Al Harrington, Travis Outlaw, Thaddeus Young, or even Shawn Marion. The thing is that all of those guys can shoot the outside shot and are capable of defending SF's, and a bit undersized (or underweight) against a lot of PF's in the league. I see this argument time and time again and it gets really annoying. So please stop it.
You know, that's a hell of a lot of salary to take on but....I kind of like it. I don't know.....offensively, we'd be amazing, defensively, we would still stink, but hey, JRich's D can't be any worse than Outlaw's....
