To slow and not as good a shooter as advertised

It is sad that Nelson won’t create a semblance of a “real” lineup where SF’s don’t have to play PF’s and there is a ‘real’ rotation where players know their roles. A few days ago Harrington was commenting on how much better it was last year during the playoff run, when everyone knew their role, when they would play, etc. Basically the mad scientist Nelson has gotten even more stubborn with his experiments including adding a lumbering and out of shape Webber to take valuable minutes from an already fragile team psyche. Frankly it is getting old, probably the way Baron and Jax’s legs feel with barely half the season under their belts. Downright stupid IMHO.

There seems to be only three scenarios which make sense: use MP and POB’s expiring contracts plus the TPE to get someone really good and a keeper, thereby jeapordizing the resources to sign both Beans and Monta next year; bundle POB and MP and ship them out as expiring contracts and get a better role player who also has an expiring contract; or, just let those two guys linger and create the equivelant of a mid-cap exception dollar amount to use next year for a good player or to help pay Beans and Monta.

In any of these cases, the ball is clearly in management’s court and that sucks for the players; but what else is new in the NBA (at least sometimes)? Time is obviously running out for the first two scenarious.

Would you guys trade Al Harrington + Pietrus for Ben Gordon + Chris Duhon + Tyrus Thomas? I would!

The only worry is re-signing Gordon though, who thinks he is worth $10M+ per year, while not performing as well as he has been the last couple of years.

yes, i now love monta’s game.

Davis, how can this guys wake up in the last five minutes, drive, dish, hit 3′s and rest of the game, doesn’t do any of that. Kobe plays like Kobe all game, that is an All Star. Do you think Kobe cares the Lakers are up by 15 so I will coast and just bail for a 3 point shot, even though I can drive and finish.

Baron will never be in that league, because he only plays at that level a few minutes a night. Monta plays the same way all game. He drives and finishes all game, he rebounds all game.

I would really practice the 3 point shooting in the offseason if I am Monta and come back with maybe 3 to 4 three point shot attempts a game, but stay with the game he has. He is so efficient and gone to the next level. He will do well in the playoffs, people need to remember his age and he came from high school and in his 3rd year. Last year was his first in the playoffs.

If all 3 could play to their strengths and do what needs to be done, this team will and can do something. But its all 3 of them.