Comments on: NBA 3 Way Deal Good For Most

By: David Crockett

David Crockett — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:20:09 +0000

I’ll put up a Raps thread for the second half. But I have some grading to do. See you guys later.

By: Ken "The Animal" Bannister

Ken "The Animal" Bannister — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:50:31 +0000

I think the Euraptors lead the league in white men with truly ugly balding hairdos (Brezec and Nesterovic)

By: oboogie

oboogie — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:38:42 +0000

nate lookin solid thru 1st quarter

By: Ben R

Ben R — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:58:33 +0000

jon – I did not know it was NJ but at least its still close to home.

As for the rotation I was thinking PG from the draft, Smith, Nate and then trade Crawford because his value is at an all time high.

But either way Smith would give us our first high scoring, high efficiency SG in years.

By: jon abbey

jon abbey — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:47:04 +0000

he’s actually from NJ, but I agree with the rest. a 3 guard rotation of Crawford, Smith and a PG from the draft would look a lot better than what we’ve had this year.

By: Ben R

Ben R — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:45:20 +0000

Spider Cider – The fact that his TS% and points per 36 are so high makes alot of poor scoring games very unlikely. To maintain his very high TS% and output of over 20 points per 36 means he would have to greatly exceed that every time he has a bad game to maintain those averages.

I think his scoring output is inconsistant because his minutes are inconsistant. His output per minute seems pretty solid. I could be wrong but it is very hard to be that efficient if you are routinely having bad games.

By: Ben R

Ben R — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:38:54 +0000

Artie – I like the ode especially thesection:

“Where’s Chandler”, “where’s Balkman”, “where’s Morris “ I wondered
“Why Curry”, “why Randolph”….Isiah has blundered .

Great stuff.

As for the draft I think I like Bayless more than Mayo. Bayless is younger, scoring more (with more efficiency) and has more assists with less turnovers. His defense has looked good as well, not quite as much defensive upside as Mayo though.

Overall for me it goes Rose, Bayless, Mayo, Augustin. I think at least one and maybe two of those players will be availiable in the 6-8 range which is probably as bad as our pick will end up.

If we get lucky and win the lottery I would try and trade the #1 and get one of the young point guards and another asset instead of taking Beasley who does not fill a need and is a bad defender.

Our two best players play the 3 and 4, the last thing we need is another 3/4 in Beasley.

As for Smith I think Denver is going to let him walk, his minutes are down and they were shopping him as an expiring during the trade deadline.

He is a low risk/high reward type signing. If he gets his attitude straightened out he is an all-star type SG if he does not then we simply get rid of him. I would do a three year contract which I think would be in both our and his best interests because if he plays well he will be due for a huge payout in three years and if he does not play well we can cut our losses, at the same time alot of our other big contracts expire.

He is from NY and if we can guarantee the starting job I think he would be interested.

By: Spider Cider

Spider Cider — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:34:30 +0000

Ben R: Is it not possible to be very good, but also inconsistent? I haven’t looked at Smith’s standard deviation in terms of per game scoring, but going strictly from memory (which is admittedly spotty), I seem to recall Smith being the type of player who fluctuates rather wildly between incredible scoring outputs and below average scoring outputs. Maybe I’m wrong here, but this is the impression I have from watching him play and checking out box scores. Either way, I’m still far from convinced that Smith is a good player.

By: Ray

Ray — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:41:00 +0000

Artie that was a damn long ode you wrote there. I was looking at Rose yesterday and he did remind me a lot of Marbury. He can see the floor if he wants to but kids want to shine when thegy get to the NBA. I dont see him getting many assists at the next level. I just think Mayo has more upside b/c of size and defensive ability. If USC makes it to the madness and they have a good showing what everyone says about Mayo will be different. Its just a matter of time. One person who does not impress is Chase Budinger who looks like the next Mike Dunleavy. He can shoot but cant create his own shot. I think Curry will be gone before next season and I see us keeping Zach for some reason. Hey, he can score and rebound with the best of them. Without curry in the paint there is more of a flow to things because Zach does pass better than Curry. They have to cut his time down when he holds the ball in the blocks. Maybe make him go into his move faster. Id take Bayless over Augustin….DJ seems to short for the next level and unless he has crazy NAte athleticism it just wont translate. It all depends where we draft at and whose available. PG is a must.

By: Frank

Frank — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:20:39 +0000

“i think curry should ride the bench untill someone smacks his and tells him he make millions each year and all you have to do is attempt!! to block some shots, attempt to rebound and attempt to box somebody out! he is the center on the ny knicks he dosnt have any skills he cant even catch the ball come on now. if i was on his team i would probably fall asleep each night too. give lee center he will probably get beat every time but atleast he will learn from his mistakes unlike others how many times are you gonna get caught with your pants down before you get a grip!”

I agree completely. I think what Curry needs to do is get away from all his off-season workouts and start from scratch. Don’t know what qualifies Mark Aguirre to be the guru for the New York bigs, but clearly he is not effective. Curry needs to go to Pete Newell’s big man camp, break down all his fundamentals again, and learn how to play basketball. Look at the amazing progress Bynum made — I think I read something about how he made a tremendous improvement just during that camp.

Knowing Curry and his laziness though, he’ll probably refuse to go, thinking that he’s too big a star to go.