I don't think the Blazers would trade LaMarcus for Amare, especially considering the Blazers have the leverage here. Not only that, I think it's a bit telling that the Suns are rumored to be talking to teams about trading Amare.
that's what my guess would be here, and now the suns have let out that this package was being "discussed" to see if they can get better offers than they've been receiving.
Like I said in another thread the Suns couldn't do any better IMO with LMA, Bayless and LaFrenz for Amare. I would think Phx would jump all over that if we offered that trade and they are serious about trading Amare. The article also talks about Freeland and I hope they at least replace Bayless with Freeland if we are trading for Amare. By the way the trade doesn't work with Bayless unless Phx includes another player. A trade of LMA, Freeland and LaFrenz does work though.
Looking at their roster Robin Lopez is the only young player that intrigues me. LMA/Raef seems like more than enough but Bayless + Freeland seems a bit much.
It reduces crediblity for me because he is making a statment to rationalize why the Blazers want this, and he is wrong in his facts and which shoots down his rationale. The Blazers could be a major palyer in the free agent market. If he would say something like the Blazers don't want to let Raef's contract expire because although that gives them cap space, there is no one to get thid summer so they are making a play for Amare . . . that would be differnet as it shows he knows what he is talking about, Instead he is trying to explain why the Blazers are intersted in this, but his analysis is all worng . . . I don't think he know waht he is talking about.
I just don't think that replacing Aldridge with Stoudemire is the answer. Stoudemire doesn't play defense the way Aldridge does. Our problems are on defense and not offense, right?
I don't think it's EVER ridiculous to be offered a trade of a couple of young players for an all-NBA player. Stoudemire is an incredible player, people. He's probably going to be a in the HoF someday. He doesn't turn 27 until November, and the best years of his career are probably ahead of him. Is he a perfect player? Heck, no. But is he a dominant one? Yes. Might Aldridge get there someday? No question, he might. The odds are, though, that he will not. I'm not eager to give up Aldridge for anyone, let alone Aldridge and Bayless, but I don't think that we should ignore what kind of player and asset we're talking about here in Stoudemire. Ed O.
Do you think he's making it up from scratch in an effort to have a popular blog entry at 10:00 PM on a Tuesday night? REALLY? His logic is fine, but he overextended it. Miles not coming off the cap DOES restrict our ability to make a splash in the FA market without cutting key assets free. Ed O.
From a talent perspective, this may be reasonable. Concerns to me would be Stoudemire's down year this year and the supposed attitude issues. Also I had hoped to fleece the Suns, not trade equal value, so that would be disappointing. Overall, though, the team may very well be better for it. Hard to know if this is credible, though.
I don't see how this could be true. Amare is certainly a special player, but Amare+Greg doesn't seem like nearly as good a fit as LaMarcus+Greg. barfo
I don't know where these guys get their trade rumors . . . I would hope he isn't making it up out of thin air . . . but again where do all these trade rumors come from. I really don't think his logic is fine. His whole idea of why Blazers are making this offer is because they can't be players in the free agent market. That line just made me tune out . . . but I get you reading past that as a an overstatement and giving the writer crediblity. It's funny because that one paragraph made the rumor more believeble to you and less believeable to me.
amare is definitely a very good player but i don't consider him to be incredible or dominant outside of playing with nash in d'antoni's system.
i don't see how it could be true unless there's some serious extension signing going on first, which is very unlikely.
If Amare doesn't like Porter's system . . . wait till he gets a taste of Nate's system and Blake running the fast break.
This trade might make more sense if they add Steve Nash on their side and we add Diogu and Frye (to balance the salaries) on our side.
