i'm sure if we traded oden for the clippers #1, roy for the thunder's, aldridge for the bobcats', & rudy for the t-wolves' it would give us a reasonably good shot at getting rubio.
I don't know. If we could unload Lafrentz, with a combination of Frye, Sergio, Bayless, Webster, and/or our #1 to a team that at the trade deadline is looking like they'll be picking Top 5, we might be in a position to grab him. It's obviously a risky move. Something to talk about though. I don't care for any of the available point guards in the NBA. Ricky is EXACTLY the type of point guard this team needs. Anyone know of any other talented freshman point guards in college that we should be watching?
Hm. Portland drafted both Roy and Aldridge in the same draft. Ricky Rubio is more desired possibly than either of Portland's selections that year, but most would have agreed, before the 2006 Draft, it was a "pipedream" to get the #2 and #6 draft picks. Yet, we did. In 2007, most NBA fans would have said it was a "pipedream" to win the lottery and select Greg Oden and move into the 24th draft slot to select Rudy Fernandez. Yet, we did. Before the 2008 NBA Draft, again most fans would have screamed it was a "pipedream" for Jerryd Bayless and Nic Batum to drop down to positions that we could move up to nab them. Yet, we did. So, it's conceivable that a team that doesn't have as great of a need at point guard could win the first, second, or third draft pick and deal that to Portland.
How often do young (i.e. HS age) point guard phenoms pan out? I'm thinking of the Telfair's at one end of the extreme and the Stockton's at the other... All of the top PG's I can think of, there wasn't much buzz around them until they were 19 or 20, sometimes older. The Kenny Anderson types are somewhere in the middle, with solid but overall disappointing careers. Rubio looks good (from what little I've seen), but good for a young guy... I would be pretty nervous mortgaging the team's future by trading a bunch of known commodities to get him.
no most fans would not have said those things were pipe dreams. they would have said the odds were against it, but certainly not impossible. nobody knew who batum was before the draft lol, and it was almost a given that we would be trading up for bayless, augustine, or westbrook. only if we want to give up one of our top 4 players.
I like Rubio. I think he will be awesome. Unfortunately, he is a like a rich man's Sergio. He won't really fit here just like Sergio doesn't. Rubio will be good, but not good enough to complete rethink your teams strategy just for him. We do need a better ball distributor in the starting line-up. His name is Rudy.
I actually think most people knew who Batum was, he was afterall being projected to be picked in the top 13 for a while, much of the time by Portland. Simply getting Bayless with our 13th pick and Jack? I think all of us would have agreed that was a pipe dream.
I may be in teh minority, but there is only one ball to go around right now. A PG with the skillset of someone like Blake is best... can play on and off the ball, but better D. If we want a playmaker at PG (outside of Roy and Rudy...) we have Sergio on the bench. I think we are fine, tbh. Considering the what we'd have to give up to get Rubio. Err... and we have Bayless.
