ALL HAIL wrote:I feel you. And I definitely considered this before posting the idea but:
(1) I do feel Miami would bite at the chance to get Odom next to Wade again, this time with Shaq. They'd also LOVE to sport Farmar or Critt next to Wade as well. Riley as already gone on record saying that he should have signed an outside shooter this off season instead of being cheap. That being said, I think he could really use Radmanovic. Walton is a cheap throw in that they can use and Mihm is depth at center to replace Mourning.
I dont believe that MIA would bite on a deal that brought in LO and Vlad ( 20 million ) to go with Shaq and Wades (34 million) and even if they did that is not a championship team that further puts them playing catch up to the post Shaq era. I dont see any way they would further hurt themselves by adding - LO, Rad and Walton ( who is not a cheap throw in) and US losing farmar would hurt us.
(2) To your point about stripping the team when it is doing well, I say, every player (with the exception of Radman) that I propose shipping out can easily be replaced Critt for Farmar, Ariza for Walton, Haslem for Odom, Barron for Mihm, and Patterson/Coby Karl for Radman.
I disagree
I agree, you hate to trade five players when your team is in the hunt but we all know that we need to somehow INSURE that we will have the ability to improve.
This is not the only deal that will let us improve.
It sounds good to let stand pat and let Farmar and Walton and Critt and Ariza and Radman and Odom continue to improve but how high of ceiling to they really have?
never said we should stand pat, we just need to make deals that make sense and not make them just to make them. We have to consider salary cap, chemistry and both long term and short tem effects. Odom ( whom i like) is actually a good 3rd option with the emergence of Drew. My point is unless there is a deal out there we shouldnt just gamble and trade players to hope things go our way in the FA market. We have a great foundation and we need to build off that.
Walton will never be Artest.
Of course not.
Ariza is a long way away from being a versatile offensive player
we cant have the perfect player in everyone. He is a great help for us.
Farmar's production per minute is ridiculous and will only go down (however slight),
I guess we can pick apart every player on the squad..... but can we be sure that any player me might get will be as productive?
Critt has a lot of potential but no spot in the rotation (he is a big muscular PG but he isn't 6'5 more like 6'3 and can't be depended on to play 2 guard at a high level) and Radman is exactly what he is a shooter who will shoot 40 percent from the field and 40 percent from the arc. I won't say anything for Odom who win it's all said and done will be remembered as very good role player ... think Derrick McKey.
I am not opposed to trading anyone not named Kobe and Bynum but we cant expect to trade the players that have us on a 50+ season mark and expect to get back much better and a risk at that.