The Batum tracker thread

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/1...t-boston-celtics-dallas-mavericks-trade-talks

 

You could play Rondo with Monta the same way you can play Rondo with Lillard - Damian is bigger than Monta too.

But with Wes due for a huge payday this has no chance.

 

Why not play Matthews at 3 then? Trade em Batum

 

Rondo is horrible in a lot of ways. I would move him to a third team though.

 

You gotta be fucking kidding me.

 

Is he okay

 

Should we have a Crabbe tracker as well? The kid has a future but he is no were near ready to take over for Batum.

 

Jeff Green. I would do the trade right now. Put together two deals with the Celts that send us Green and Brandan Wright.

 

What is the proposed deal?

 

Just something I threw out earlier today.

CJ/Robinson/draft pick for Brandan Wright.

Batum for Green/filler.

 

Sure why not? Crabbe doesn't have the expectations batum has. Crabbe had a bad game for sure, basically every game batum has played so far has been trrrible. As a multiple year vet making 12 million a year that's unacceptable. Crabbe being in his first year getting actual playing time, games like this are to be expected

 

You add someone like green, that's going to do more to take away from Lillard than Batum does, since been needs shots to be worthwhile. Yet you comment how we need to move Batum so Lillard can have the ball more.

 

When Batum has a shit shooting day he chips in 5 rbs and 5 asts with it. When Crabbe has a shit shooting day there is nothing else across the board either. As I said, he is young. He will get there but he isn't even close to read to step in as a Batum replacement yet.

 

I'd would prefer Green over Wright if I had to choose but that is way too much for Wright who is an expiring and will be a UFA next summer

 

Watching batum play is horrendous. Sure he is chipping in a couple rebounds and assists, great. But I'm not a fan of our team payinga guy top money to suck. He doesn't even look like he cares in the game. His defense has dropped off dramatically this year too.

Crabbe had a shit game sure. But again, that's too be expected. Maybe if we benched batum and started crabbe it would light a fire under batums ass. I hate the fact that batum looks horrendous this year, but it is what it is and he deserves the criticism

 

I'd have to find it again, but saw a stat recently that showed Batum had improved on defense this year.

 

Watching the games tells a different story. Batum is getting torched. Kyle Anderson and Andrew Wiggins have both made him look foolish.

 

"Watching the games" always seems like a sure fire way to just confirm ones own bias, when you're only looking for the negative, you can probably pull up a few plays a game to whine about.

 

And you can pretty much find whatever stats you want to support your argument. As in, Portland is a better team without batum because we have a better winning percentage when he doesn't play.

I'm an accountant, love stats and numbers, but it's quite easy to manipulate stats to go along with whatever crusade you're trying to present.

As I've said, it pains me to see batum playing so bad, but it's the truth and he deserves criticism for it. Batum looks lost on both ends of the floor this year

 

But if we acted as quickly as you like, we would have had Monroe and singler instead of Aldridge right now