Comments on: Trade Down

By: zgreat

zgreat — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 02:36:09 +0000

Rather then trade down, let’s keep it and resign Boykins.

By: EJ

EJ — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:16:03 +0000

Blog Question:

If the Lakers pull something off for KG, how much better are they really? Minus Odom, Bynum and possibly Walton the rest of the roster is full of scrubs (Vujacic, Smush, Kwame, Evans, Vlad) and a few good bench guys (Cook, Farmar, Turiaf). I’m not even sure they can get a player with their mid-level that would pose a threat as a #3 option. You can’t even really liken it to Jordan’s Bulls because there are no Steve Kerrs, Ron Harpers, Rodmans, or 3-headed Monsters (Longley, Wennington, Perdue). Granted KG is a GREAT player, but losing Odom AND Bynum AND maybe Walton is a huge loss. Does a line up of Farmar, Kobe, Evans, KG, and Mihm compete with the the Suns or Spurs? After that starting 5, you basically have nothing coming off the bench. What are your thoughts, Marcus?

By: dareedle

dareedle — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:48:50 +0000

There are two intriguing players that should be available late 1st round, early second round. Fesenko is a solid center that can be developed in Europe like Kosta. A player that can help the Warriors now and should be available late 1st round is Nick Fazekas who is the best big man shooter in the draft. Remember the last time the Warriors passed on a top college rebounder … ya that Milsap kid. The power forward combo (Harrington the black hole, no rebounding PF but physical play, and the scoring/rebounding machine in Fazekas both provide Nellie ball perimeter offense but contrasting defense and offensive styles.) It sure beats developing another post player (Dampier, Biedrins, Foyle, O’byrant, Diogu)

By: zgreat

zgreat — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:50:24 +0000

I wouldn’t consider trading down until the very last minute. Sometimes weird things happen in the draft and a player that everyone expected to go a lot earlier is still available at 18.

Plus, I think guys like Jason Smith or even Tiago Splitter would probably be available and would probably be a lot more useful then Josh Powell in the long run.

By: EJ

EJ — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:37:33 +0000

Worst case scenario: I’d actually trade out of the draft entirely. Maybe send our 2 second rounders to a team thats likely lottery bound next year, like Atlanta or Philly for cash and their #1 in 2008 or 2009. With BD likely to opt out at the end of the year, having 2 picks in the first round next year could get us immediate help or leverage to pull off a big move. We could then use our number #18 this year to trade for a future 1st rounder and cash. That way we don’t break up the ‘playoff core’ and in a couple years we won’t have major cap issues.