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Frankly this time next year I'm not sure if we'll have ANY pre-larry players...Hopefully he likes crash and no one offers enough for him...but whatever it takes to snag a home court advantage seed I'm all for.
Okafor no longer untouchable - Bonnell
http://blogs.charlotte.com/inside_th...touchable.html
Obtaining Diop might help that along. If we decide to go that route then Lopez would probably have been a better choice last draft...but since I don't have a time machine is it realisticaly feasible to pull a big out of the upcoming draft without winning the lottery?I'm not saying Okafor will be traded or even that it's likely. I'm saying with conviction he's no longer untouchable, despite a contract that averages about $12 million per season.
Have to say the last few games he has really disappointed me. It's like Howard totally shot his confidence in the first game after ASW and now he seems unsure of everything he does, esp. offensively.
Hope Resurrected: "I think I can bring an attitude to a team as far as, ‘All right, no matter what, we are not losing this game'." - Kemba Walker
"Its okay to be bad; just so long as you're bad ass." - Keetch
Frankly this time next year I'm not sure if we'll have ANY pre-larry players...Hopefully he likes crash and no one offers enough for him...but whatever it takes to snag a home court advantage seed I'm all for.
What to do, what to do...
pre-ray vs dj debate the biggest debate on this board was keep re-sign mek or trade him.
What do you think we would be looking for? A defensive minded/rebounding/shot blocking big or an offensive/rebounding/agile big?Originally Posted by spectre
Offensive/rebounding/agile big. You need both of those kinds of those players and Okafor is already the defensive/rebounding/shot blocking big. I would package 2-3 first rounders and Felton to get Griffin...Seriously he's that big of a deal for this team and it is time to roll the dice for a huge reward or failure.
The only Griffin we'd be getting is Peter Griffin...and we've already got one delusional fat man on our team
the only problem there is we will now have 2 undersized centers or 2 pf's whichever way you want to look at it. we need a true scoring 4 and a camby/chandler-like center. now, if they only grew on trees....
Pre Diop I would have probably said best available but leaning strongly towards a defender. Since we're stuck with the big guy though (and likely for a good while) I'd lean towards a offensive/rebounding type.
It'd be nice if Lex would make a huge leap this summer and we could get best available, but that's probably unrealistic.
How's the choices late lottery? You know I don't know squat about college.
Hope Resurrected: "I think I can bring an attitude to a team as far as, ‘All right, no matter what, we are not losing this game'." - Kemba Walker
"Its okay to be bad; just so long as you're bad ass." - Keetch
Dwight Howard is 6 foot 11 and 265 lbs and he's considered the best center in the NBA. Griffin is 6 foot 10 and 251 lbs...and like Howard he has the frame to add some big time muscle. So yeah, you were saying?
This team is SO unbalanced right now.
Lets assume that If we trade EO50, Diop should start at the 5 (got to get a return on his contract some how).
Boris really has to play the 4 because we have seen that he isn't as effective at the 3 - and besides, Crash plays the 3.
So would we draft someone like Thabeet when we already have a similar version of him on the roster already getting paid in Diop?
Or do we go with someone like Monroe who might be too like Diaw?
Who knows, maybe we'll end up trading EO50 to the Pistons for Iverson and Sheed.
What LB wants after all, LB gets.
Last edited by Slam; 02-25-2009 at 01:39 PM.
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