Seems like there're a lot. Zach Randolph (damn his eyes) Jarrett Jack Dante Cunningham Patty Mills (and Jeff Ayres) Jerryd Bayless Who else? Who's playing particularly well?
Gerald Wallace Martell Webster James Jones Do Brandon Rush and Joey Doresy count? We drafted them, although they never played for us.
Could we beat this team in our present condition? We never should have made any changes. C Gerald Wallace Jeff Ayres F Zach Randolph Dante Cunningham Luke Babbitt James Jones Martell Webster G Patty Mills Jamal Crawford Jarrett Jack Raymond Felton Jerryd Bayless
...Withey hasn't played yet. DRAFTED HIM Omer Asik Joey Dorsey COULDA HAD HIM Kelly Olynyk Harison Fuckin Barnes TRIED TO GET HIM Paul Millsap Spencer Hawes Hedo Turkoglu PORTLAND GUY Mike Dunleavy Terrence Jones Terrence Ross WE ALREADY OWN HIM Chandler Parsons
Monty Williams (NO) - former Trail Blazer Asst Coach. Kaleb Canales (DAL) - former Trail Blazer Asst Coach & Interim Head Coach.
Given that neither Gerald Wallace nor Martell Webster have yet to play a minute in the post season, it makes me feel better about some of the guys that "got away". I mean, if you can't get off the bench in a crappy Eastern Conference playoff series, your'e pretty much useless at this point in your career. The only guys I'd actually want back on our roster, at their current skill/production level are Zach and Patty. And, I'd only take Zach if LaMarcus was willing to play more minutes at center. We traded Zach the day we drafted Oden, so the plan was Oden and Aldridge were our C and PF OTF. Seemed reasonable at the time. Of course, in hindsight, we would have been much better off drafing Durant and grooming LaMarcus as our COTF playing beside Zach at PF. We actually did that, started Aldridge at the 5 and Zach at the 4, for about a month during Aldridge's rookie year, (after Przybilla got injured and we stopped "showcasing" Jamal Magloire) and Aldridge put up some huge numbers. So, it could have worked, but who knew Oden would be one of the biggest busts in NBA history... BNM