Why did we trade this guy for Bayless again? Might have been our answer at SF. Kid can play. I mean would you trade bayless for this guy now? 100% yes. I mean the Pacers pritch slapped us on this one. Jack and Rush FOR BAYLESS???? Are you kidding me? All we got was a kid who cant play PG and has no jumper lol. They got a very solid backup PG and possibly a starter. Awful trade by pritchard.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz......................, Oh, was that mixum again? ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz......................... OK, OK, but seriously, sometime trades work out and sometimes they don't. Overall, he has a good track record.
One is in a situation where they get playing time, the other is not. The other thing being thatif you have been paying attention this year, Bayless actually improved his jumper. Lastly, who was Brandon Rush going to get playing time over? Roy? Rudy? He is a SG. Get over it.
1. rush is a chucking SG with no minutes available here. 2. bayless is more athletic and given the opportunity can still easily be the better player. rush played about 5x much last year. 3. jack had no future here, and was so valuable to the pacers that they let him walk for nothing : ) in hindsight we should have taken anthony randolph, but rush for bayless trade was a no brainer.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZzzZZZzzzzzzZZzzz Come on MIXUM. You are better than this thread. I thought you changed up your style and actually made decent posts now. Guess not.
Ha! MIXUM getting worked up over pre-season basketball, hilarious. As for the assertion that somehow we shouldn't have traded Rush, you do realize MIXUM that he plays shooting guard (and only moonlights as a small forward). Where exactly would he be getting PT on this roster?
Come on DC--you can't really be surprised. I saw this post coming a mile away, as soon as Rush was identified in Nate's other thread as having the line of the night. I didn't figure he'd make it an entirely new thread, but it does fit his MO.
heres my point.... would you trade bayless for jack and rush? cause thats what we did. maybe we wouldnt cause of our depth but i bet you about 28 other teams would in a heartbeat. and sorry... i think bayless sucks
For the Blazers? Or as a basketball player in general? The former I can understand (though I don't necessarily agree). The latter is plain wrong.
Yeah the pacers are gonna be great this year... So you would trade bayless for rush right now? Silly.
Rush is about the same size as Webster... why don't you think he could be a SF? yup... but that was my lonely stance prior to the draft. A Bigs rotation of Greg LA and Randolph would have been incredible STOMP
I'd say there's a good chance that Rush would have been our starting SF last season. I don't think that he is better than Batum by any means, but I think itis possible he would have been given more of an opportunity to win the job. I'm happy the way things worked out, however. Much prefer Batum as our SF than Rush, and I still have hope for Bayless.
Grabbing Jason Thompson would have been a really nice acquisition as well that draft, seeing as he would be able to backup both the PF and C positions for us. Would have also been a nice rotation up front of Oden, Aldridge, and Thompson between the two positions.
the guy has a good game, and we get this? man, this is going to be a long ass season on these boards...
are you saying you'd prefer a Bigs rotation with Greg and LA rounded out by Thompson rather then Randolph? here are stats links from their rookie year... Jason...13.9 PER Anthony...16.9 PER STOMP
Here is my point. Sometimes when Nate McMillan is your team's coach, in order for you to get him to stop playing somebody named Jarrett Jack, you have to literally trade them off the team to get it done. It's the same deal now with Steve Blake. The only way Nate will quit starting that dude is if we trade him.
