Remind me what we got for Zach Randolph.

I forget.

He's an All Star now. What did we get in return? We must've gotten somebody good, right?

 

Sorry, but what is the point to this thread? I recommend giving this thread the cold shoulder.

 

This.

Silly kingspeed.

 

We got nothing.

KP dropped the ball on this one. And for the record, I thought this trade stunk at the time.

 

Channing Frye
Trade exp. ---> James Jones and Rudy Fernandez

Not one player panned out and the last of the three likely has seen his last days as a Blazer.

 

Instead of the usual $3M payment to get rid of someone, Pritchard paid $30M (Francis' salary). After giving away Frye instead of bundling him in a trade to get something like Whitsitt would have done, Frye had a higher A/TO ratio in the playoffs against us than Steve Nash.

As long as I'm talking about helping our playoff opponent--remember our 2nd-to last preseason cut, Jason Collins--Pritchard phoned around to find him a team to land on, and the Suns took him on Pritchard's recommendation. Against us in the postseason, Collins' stats are low, but he's filled in for 14 minutes per average game for 5 games, so he's good enough to give others a long rest against us so they can return from the bench and beat us.

 

Yeah, fuck KP for trying to help a good guy out....

 

You're confusing twins. We had Jason Collins but the Suns have Jarron Collins.

 

I was devastated by the trade at the time. I was thinking Shawn Marion, Richard Jefferson, Rashard Lewis, or at least Tayshaun Prince. I honestly thought our team was about to become Blake, Roy, Marion, Aldridge, Oden and I thought that team could contend almost immediately. But we didn't get Marion and Oden turned out to be a project. An injured project. Fuck me. Did Frye really drop 20/8 on us? Fuck.

 

I'm pretty sure it was Jarron.

 

This is very simple:

We got rid of one very bad headache.

 

You are correct.

http://valleyofthesuns.com/2009/10/26/suns-claim-center-jarron-collins/

 

He's a headache to his opponents. He did things in this league that haven't been done in over 30 years this season (65 & 42 in two nights) and his presence led the Grizzlies to a 16 game improvement in one season. And he made the All Star team.

You just can't let an impact player like that go for nothing. You have to get value. If you give up a perennial 20-10 player, you have to get something back in return. KP got NOTHING.

 

He was a headache to the Blazers, to the Knicks, and then to the Clippers. That it took him four teams in three years to finally realize he needed to change isn't a ringing endorsement, and I'm sure the Grizzlies improvement had nothing to do with another year for OJ Mayo, Rudy Gay and Mike Conley, Jr.

Impact players generally do not miss the playoffs for the majority of their careers.

 

We got into the playoffs and were able to add key players with the financial savings. I bet there would be no Dre Miller with ZBO still around, or Marcus Camby for that matter. So there you go.

 

Did you ever even watch this pile of shit play? The most empty, meaningless 20/10 guy in the history of basketball.

Great for your fantasy league, shitty for a real team.

There is a reason such a valuable player is now on his fourth team and it isn't because he is just so awesome no team can contain him.

He plays ZERO defense.
He is most definitely a ball hog.
He was playing for an extension this season so he tried not to be a total douche bag.
Just wait until some team extends this moron.

I was giddy when they sent Fat Randolph down the river and laughed my ass off at the fools who thought NY had gotten a steal.
No one in NY feels that way now.

Zach sucked. He was a lazy head case who didn't give a shit about anything but his own stat line in the box score. His trade was addition through subtraction.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.

 

I think we traded Zach for Mix and KS......

 

Portland got the best offer out there for a player that had worn out his welcome. Remember? Congrats to ZR for seeming to have kept his nose clean since (not that we would really know), but life doesn't exist in a vacuum... had he not bottomed out career wise maybe he's not enjoying a career year several seasons later?

If you want to look at the bright side of this for Portland, the club wouldn't have had the room under the cap to sign FA Miller this past offseason had they kept him and I'm certainly not missing his D

STOMP

 

Yes

 

Well this had to be KP's worst move. Just think about the championships he just GAVE New York. Clearly, this was worse than the "Gasol" Trade.

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