pickaxe wrote:I guess that's pretty much a theme with me and proposed trades: does what we give up basically relinquish any chemistry and momentum we've built up.....does it revert back to pre-Melo mediocrity?
I'd just like to ride out this mojo wave as long as possible so long as we can still make smaller trades and improve.
Yes, we do need to leap into the unknown when we rebuild a team, and yes we need to have faith but that was a long-ass road this team has walked down to get to the status it holds today. Long-ass road. Instantly better does not always mean makes it to playoffs.
This currently built team not only had youth and talent: it had a mission to best the players they were traded for and fulfill crazy expectations. The players that left for the Knicks were at an elite level in the sense of consecutive playoff 'visits' and always getting 48+ wins each of those times.
Players that replace these players currently on the roster will not have that same mission to better who they replace. The ones on this roster almost NEED to accomplish something before the trade desk goes wild.
You see JR......he had pretty good success when on that confidence train in Denver. Even Karl himself enjoyed greater success as a coach than he would have had with Milwaukee.
It's a certain unsaid thing.....but mojo can build up due to a number of unrepeatable circumstances, and it can die thinking it's just automatic by plugging new players in there. Love is wonderful but what are we talking about?:
Nate/Foye/Chandler/Love/McGee ???
Just don't see it.
I agree I would not trade Gallo or Lawson for him, I would also do my best to hold onto Mozgov, but I would trade Chandler, faried, and a combination of bench guys and picks. Personally I believe that Lawson and when healthy gallinari are each better than any player outside of Love on the Twolves.
While giving up Faried and Chandler with the picks does not look like a huge offer, the fact is I look at the package that the Jazz got for Williams, and think it is pretty comparable. while Faried does not have the upside that it was believed Favors had at the time, he is a very productive young big, Chandler is enough to make up that difference. Maybe you add in Hamilton to make up the difference between the Nets pick that year and the better of the Nuggets/Knicks pick this year. Add in the 2016 pick which has the option to swap with the Knicks a year after all their contracts expire, give them Miller and Randolph while taking back someone like Brewer or Budinger and you have a comparable if not slightly better package than what the jazz got for Williams. Is it enough?
that would leave a roster of
Lawson/ Robinson
Foye/ Fournier
(gallo)/ Budinger/ Q. Miller
Love/ Hickson/ Arthur
mozgov/ McGee/ Arthur
Give the team the rest of this year, even if they take a step back than you are okay, as you want gallo to get back as close to healthy as he will be, and than make your run next year.
the only reason I do it, is that I think that Love is actually the perfect fit for the Nuggets when all are healthy. he can go into the post and has outside range but is not a guy who needs the ball in his hands constantly, giving Lawson and Gallo the opportunity to create for him and still get their shots. Defense would be a problem at PF but no worse than it is now with Hickson and faried playing so many minutes.
Next summer you sign a 3rd PG and a 3rd center and you should be a damn good team.
