You know, considering how shitty that Frye and Diogu have been playing, I wonder why anybody even questions this move. Can he play any worse? Really? What is worse than an outside shooting PF who doesn't rebound and doesn't defend and doesn't hit his outside shots? Or an undersized PF who constantly looks bewildered out on the court even though he has been in the league several years? Seriously folks, could we really do any worse with Lee as a backup PF???
I don't know that (m)any here don't prefer Lee to Ike and Frye... but that doesn't mean that we're willing to give up a ton to get him. Personally? I am not willing to give up Bayless. RLEC would be a close call... I would actually probably be willing to do Frye + RLEC for Lee if the team is confident we can re-sign (and keep happy) David Lee. As a player, I prefer Gerald Wallace... but when Webster gets back I think that the Webster/Batum/Outlaw small forward combination is pretty promising, and Lee would be both a short-term and long-term improvement to this team in the big man rotation. Ed O.
Yea that is the thing. My hopes of Webster being back this year, with any semblence of physical conditioning intact, are pretty low right now.
"Though Webster has played sparingly in two games this season, he has shown in the past that he has a knack for scoring, a trait that Outlaw lacks." Hm. I like Webster more than Outlaw, but... hm. Ed O.
For Frye I have no qualms about getting Lee as a rental, my main fears are having to give up actual assets like Jerryd or Rudy for a rental player.
