I found it interesting to see that a guy who is at around 10 per (Singler) was considered a good player.
He's a good player, but in terms of what he can actually do on the court, he's not LMA. If he's the best player the Blazers get back in a trade along with some scrubs, well, that's a dumb idea to me.
5 years of youth and a lesser player. How does losing a team's best player for an unproven guy who plays a different position make the team better next season? That's the purpose of this thread, right?
According to PER and usage rate, is Monroe really a lesser player? You get cap room and depth as well.
Yes and some. Monroe will never be as good as Aldridge. We get pissed at the d we lack; just wait when these scraps come to pdx. There is a reason that Detroit are a bottom feeder with their talent.
and I'm not sure 10 million in capspace helps Portland as much as others do. Not that the player on the Pistons is a bum, far from it, but it's not necessarily the best they could do.
Well hickson has a better per than batum. Shall we trade batum too? Lets get the other Lopez for batum cause Lopez has a better per
According to coaches and players around the league, LMA is an All-Star, and should have been one 3 years in a row now. Based on PER, Hickson is a better player than Kevin Love. What does cap room do this summer? Who exactly do you bring in as a FA who is going to be a 20/9 player who is the #1 focus of the opposing defense? Thomas Robinson? Haha
I talked about a Monroe for Aldridge swap in a thread earlier and got a similar response but it's still a close to realistic trade scenario that I think benefits us with getting close talent and a big chunk of extra space this offseason. Advanced stats have them very close, PER, WS, O and D Rating, they're obviously very different players in terms of style and what areas of the game they impact but a deal that's realistic in terms of talent that could open up a bunch of cap room is very far from 'The worst trade proposal ever' or just about one posters dislike for a certain player. The scenario I see making us an obviously better team next year and going forward is a mid season trade of: http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=accmxpq Offseason let Hickson walk and renounce all the scrubs (Nolan, Price, Babbitt, Maggette etc), leaving us with ~25mil for cap space. Sign Millsap to a 4 year ~45mil deal starting at about 10.5mil. Then address the bench with Jarrett Jack and Carl Landry for deals around 3 years 19mil each starting close to 7mil and decending to give them a little more than the MLE for more incentive to sign away from GSW. Lillard/Wes/Batum/Millsap/Monroe with a Jack/Singler/Landry/Leonard bench imho puts us in a better position next year than keeping Aldridge and trying to fill our needs at starting center and off the bench with only ~13 million in cap space.
Aldridge for Monroe would be great too. Almost identical stats, Monroe's a way better defender, and is 5 years younger. Not a hard decision for me at all.
I think there are 30 NBA coaches(including Monroe's) that would rather have LA as their starting PF instead if Monroe my friend.
I'll go a step further and would say that if the Pistons hired Monroe as a player/coach....... Monroe would start LA as well!
And I think there are 30 NBA coaches and GMs who would rather have Monroe at C than LMA. We wouldn't be trading for Monroe to play him at PF. One of our two biggest weaknesses is C - this trade would address that and then some.
