Clippers Acquire Radmanovic

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Los Angeles Clippers Vice President of Basketball Operations Elgin Baylor announced today that the team has acquired forward Vladimir Radmanovic from the Seattle SuperSonics in exchange for forward Chris Wilcox.

?Vladimir gives us versatility and he fits very well into our system,? Baylor said. ?He?s agile and he runs the floor well. We see him playing multiple positions and his outside shooting will stretch the defense and be a big positive for our inside players.?

Radmanovic, in his fifth NBA season, has career averages of 10.1 points and 4.5 rebounds per game. The 6?10? Radmanovic is averaging 9.3 points, 4.0 rebounds, 1.5 assists and 23.2 minutes per game this season. He set a new career-high with 30 points at New York on January 8, 2006 and is shooting a career-best .887 from the free throw line this season.

Originally selected by Seattle with the 12th overall pick in the 2001 NBA Draft, Radmanovic has 11 games of playoff experience and helped lead Seattle to a 50-32 record last season, which was tops in the Northwest Division.

Wilcox averaged 6.5 points and 3.8 rebounds per game in three plus seasons with the Clippers after being selected by the team with the eighth overall selection in the 2002 NBA Draft. Wilcox is averaging 4.5 points and 3.6 rebounds per game this season, after averaging 7.9 points and 4.2 rebounds per game in 2004-05. Wilcox enjoyed his best NBA season in 2003-04, when he averaged career-highs of 8.6 points and 4.7 rebounds per game.
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link: http://www.nba.com/clippers/news/radmanovic_060214.html

 

Wilcox is not coming back next season, their were not plans to re-sign him. While Vlad is not great, he's like a glorified Casey Jacobsen, he brings some SF length, and outside shooting.

So either way, both guys are only there for one year anyways. If Vlad plays good, we can possibly sign him for a smaller contract [especially since the idiot turned down $42 million] as a shooter/scorer off the bench.

Wilcox is a nice player, he's athletic and all, but has the basketball IQ of a pea pod. He's not the smarters guy out there, and while he can score and rebound, he's horrible defensively, and not a shot blocker at all. I'm not going to say this is the best we could've gotten, but it's not that bad.

 

Well, I'm not really too big a Clippers fan, but it seems way too early to mess with the team's success. I know Wilcox wasn't too big a part of the team, and Vlad won't change things that much...but when they're having such a great year, why would you change things up already? I guess it just seems pointless to me.

 

It does seem to be a bit of a 'soccer' trade.

Maybe one of the players will thrive in their new environment, and it will probably make Seattle a little more balanced.

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting shapecity:</div><div class="quote_post">Bad trade for the Clippers. They no longer have anyone to backup Brand or Kaman in the post. Radman doesn't bring anything to this team except shooting, and the Clippers already have plenty of shooters and scorers. Plus he's an unrestricted free agent.

Why trade Wilcox for a one year rental?</div>

Exactly my thinking...now, the Clips have no depth at forward, and Vlad's gonna leave at the end of the year anyway because the Clips wont have the money that he wants...

 

I like this trade i think the Clips were looking for a shakeup to the team.

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Exactly my thinking...now, the Clips have no depth at forward, and Vlad's gonna leave at the end of the year anyway because the Clips wont have the money that he wants...</div>
We were not planning on re-signing Wilcox either.


<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The chemistry issues are a great point also. Radman was disruptive in Seattle because he wanted to be a starter. What if he brings this act to LA? Or what if his agent puts pressure on LA about Radman's contract situation?</div>
This is the thing, we don't need Vlad. If he causes problems, he will sit on the bench, he's not going to cause any chemistry problems with the position he has on the team. Also this is the Clippers we're talking about, his agent putting pressure to sign means nothing.

 

You may not "need" Vlad as such, but if you get him firing on the perimeter, that could be the difference between making the second round of the playoffs and peetering out towards the end of the season and getting bumped in the first round.

For a team that has two outstanding low post players, pre-trade your only consistent outside threat was Cat Mobley. Cassell can get hot here and there, as can McCarty, but adding Vlad fills a glaring weakness.

 

You don't need to tell me, I was happy with the trade. Like I said, if he causes problems, we don't need him to succeed, so he's not going to affect the team like shape is saying.

I doubt we get past the first round anyways since if we stay at 5th we'll get either Dallas or San Antonio.

 

It's not relative to the move in any way. The problem lately has been lack of defensive intensity, which is something Wilcox did not provide for us in any way. Q-Ross being out has actually been the difference, we were 1-2 just before we moved Wilcox, but one loss was to the Pistons. Ross went out in the Chicago game, and since then it's been terrible, the team has gone 0-3.

The team is already tired enough because their were a lot of games in February, 9 games in 15 days, and with Q.Ross out, it was another hit at our depth. It's not just Ross, but a lot of factors, mainly it's because of fatigue, and also because of lack of depth. In the last 30 days we've had 18 games, though the team had been winning, they've been tired for the last 5-7 games. Mobley said it himself that he's exhuasted.

Unless you seriously belive Wilcox's barely 11 MPG in February, and 3.6 PPG and 2 RPG is the difference in if the Clippers win or lose. He played more than 13 mins twice in the 7 games in February.

The rest will be good for the team, and getting Maggette and Zelly back will help. Maggette will help a lot because of the offensive load he takes away from Cassell and Mobley in the backcourt, and even Radmonovic because he's a guy that can be a scoring spark once in a while.