OT: Warriors Acquire Jordan Crawford, MarShon Brooks In Trade With Celtics, Heat

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  1. BrianFromWA

    BrianFromWA Editor in Chief Staff Member Editor in Chief

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    Ends up about 10M in real cash being saved.
     
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    I heard that if the first round pick is a lottery pick in either 2014 or 2015, it reverts to two second round picks thereafter - and given the 76ers at present, that is likely.
     
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    Boston takes on the second year of Anthony's contract and gets what may/may not be a first along with a second.

    Golden State gets two players for one.

    Miami gets less of a luxury tax bill.

    It is a win-win-win, but not anything earth shattering.
     
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    [/QUOTE]=yuyuza1;3226714]Defense? every player on the team says this is more about effort than personnel or strategy.
     
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    BlazerWookee UNTILT THE DAMN PINWHEEL!

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    RLEC-ish, no?
     
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    I'm a big believer in personnel NOT being a major factor in regards to how well or poorly a defense performs. I think good individual defenders factor in by taking a good defensive strategy and making it great through their individual efforts - but that's as far as individual defense can go. A team full of great individual defenders will be hopeless if they don't have a good scheme to work within.
    So with that said, I agree that personnel is not an issue, and that our poor defense is largely due to effort. But it's also due to Stotts' strategy. It's a poorly designed defense, made worse by poor effort to close the lanes to the basket. Some of it could be masked if we had a real "rim protector" of a C. Lopez is fine, but he doesn't have natural instinct to turn away players in the paint. Or we could get a defensive coach to design a defense for us and teach our current players how to rotate. I don't know which is easiest/quickest/most likely to happen, but I don't see either change being made this season.
     
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    actually, a lot more like the Deng trade, on a smaller scale
     
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    This may change the balance of power between the West and East. We will have to watch closely and see.
     
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    This.

    Love it for my Dubs though. The Toney Douglas expiriment was a bust. We badly needed another competent ballhandler/creator and someone who can run offense when Curry is off the floor. I don't know much about Crawford, but everything I read/see/hear makes him sound like Jarret Jack without a 3 pt shot. Even if he is inefficient, the team just needs ballhandlers/playmakers who can produce ANYTHING off the bench. Sounds like we got a solid bench player for Toney Douglas, which is a win.

    The W's contemplated waiving Brooks before deciding to keep him. At this point I wouldn't mind him as a 10th man that you can throw into the bench unit when they flounder. Should get plenty of burn for the Santa Cruz Warriors.
     
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    I wouldn't compare him to Jack at all. Crawford is a volume shooter who is a natural shoot first guy, but was playing a distributing role in Boston. Kinda reminds me of Nick Young a little bit.
     
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    BalancedMan That's out of context....

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    I think the Crawford/Young comparison is valid. I do like this for GSW, especially if Crawford continues to distribute. Brooks had a good rookie season and can be very effective kind of like how former GSW player Anthony Morrow used to be. With those two wings...I'm not saying it makes Thompson or Barnes expendable, but it does open them up to moving one of them for another piece if they choose to (I think that'd be dumb though).
     
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