Steve Nash: Trade to Portland would be a "terrific situation"

That's a joke, right?

Nash isn't the "missing link" for this year. We're not a very talented team and replacing Batum with Nash doesn't make us much better- if at all.

 

Not for Batum but if we still have Batum and Aldridge, it definitely is IMO. People aren't looking at the big picture here. Nash is a proven leader and dealt from the perimeter. He would open so many things up for our offense. You think lob city with miller? Nash tosses lobs to perfection.

 

Keep LaMarcus, Nic, and Camby. Give them whatever else they want. We have to keep Camby to have any playoff success this season.

 

Yep. If you deal for Nash, you are in "win now" mindset. You can't really trade Camby, Aldridge, Wallace or Batum, because those are your four starters you hope to ride into the playoffs. At least without getting similar talent back, which isn't going to happen.

Nash for Felton/EWilliams/Smith [video]http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=89bv8pw[/video], assuming the Suns see a prize in Williams in his 20 PER (in 107 career NBA minutes).

If you throw in Childress or Frye, you pretty much have to toss in Matthews, which is similar money/similar contract, but more talent.

 

I agree. Camby will be very important to this franchise IMO.

 

We need an eight man rotation. I think that's the limit to nates sub style. If you give him too much talent, he will fuck it up!

 

Nash/Batum/Wallace/Aldridge/Camby
With Crawford/Childress(ugh)/Frye off the bench. Crawford plays 1/2. Childress 2/3, and Frye 4/5. Then you have Nolan, Kurt and Joel as longer depth.

That'd be, I think, trading Felton, Wes, Elliott, Babbitt, and Oden maybe?

 

Looks good! It would suck to see e will go, but of we need to "win now" then this would be our best opportunity.

Edit: Nash and Childress = Felton, Matthews and Babbitt or e will.

 

Nash comes here, Nate will somehow figure out how to make him produce the worst stats in his NBA career. I say NO to Nash. We need a new coach, first.

 

Patience my young padewa! Of Nate makes Nash look like shit, Nate will be fired. That's a guarantee.

 

Trading Williams and cap space for a chance to get to the second round is not a good business model. Nash improves us for sure, but not that much

 

Just say no to childress. Frye, warrick and nash instead.

 

Look how much of a difference cp3 made for clips. A superstar pg makes a big impact.

 

I'd prefer Dudley over both, but can see why they wouldn't.

 

I would much rather have frye than Childress.

 

Nash improves the Blazers a ton. The upgrade from Felton to Nash is massive. Felton is terrible (like, barely NBA-caliber) and Nash is playing extremely well.

I'm not that big of a believer in cap space (stars rarely switch teams in free agency and, when they do, it's usually to a significantly larger market than Portland), so I'd definitely be willing to bring in Nash if all it cost was Williams and cap space. A team of Nash, Batum, Wallace, Aldridge and Camby has solid potential to reach the Western Conference Finals and a dark horse chance to reach the Finals, as the Western Conference is far from great. Nash would improve the offense by leaps and bounds and his defensive weakness would be mitigated a lot by having four good to great defenders in the other starters.

 

What about shannon brown?

 

All that said, extrapolating idle discussion from Nash about being open to a trade and Portland being a good situation into "Portland now has a legitimate chance to trade for Nash without giving up either of their best two players" is a real stretch.

 

A team of Nash, Wallace, Batum, Aldridge and Camby? Are we getting Nash for free? I don't think Nash alone helps us enough. I know I am in the minority however.

 

sure, but he's an expiring. No compelling reason for PHX to move him, I wouldn't think.