Care to say why they'd trade a second year guy they essentially traded Ray Allen for who's putting up 17 and 7? And for what?
Or maybe they can use their eventual top 5 pick (or the other first rounder they'll have) to take one, and just make Jeff Green the supersub on a team sorely lacking depth. Or just move him to SF and Durant back to SG.
Durant works much better as a SF. This production spiked when he moved there. He's a SF through and through.
Fair enough, but that doesn't justify trading Green unless they get a hell of a return package. Green is going to be damn good. I doubt the Blazers trade LMA for him, so that probably settles it on the Portland front.
I'm all out of hope. I used all of mine up preparing for the trade deadline. I just don't see us doing anything that great. Sure the draft will be Pwn3d by KP again. But that won't help us much next season. I think the whole put the icing on the cake talk is a lot easier said than done. I don't think it's gonna happen. What we've got is what we've got. Hopefully time and the draft will provide.
Why would we trade Bayless for the vets? Obviously KP was dead-set against trading any of our "Super-6" at the deadline and declined all trades involving them, even for a 26 year old Gerald Wallace! I don't see Bayless or Batum being traded, and I don't think Rudy will be traded either, but I think he'd be the most likely as he will probably be a backup in PDX for his days here. Anyway, as for the summer of '09... I really wouldn't mind going into next year with the lineup of... Blake | Bayless Roy | Rudy Batum | Webster Aldridge | Outlaw Oden | Przybilla Because again, they will all improve and develop more chemistry together which, imo, will add up to possibly a borderline 60-win team next year (maybe around 58). I think our team taking it to the next level heavily depends on Oden, Batum and Bayless emerging as very solid players their sophomore season. I also wouldn't mind bringing in some vets at the SF and backup PF, but I really like Blake at the PG (IDK why I like him so much). Those would involve trading Webster (which i'm not against) and Outlaw (which i'd prefer not to do).
