What if we had gotten James Harden from OKC?

tysho21 · Post #1 » by **tysho21** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 8:18 pm

how do you think this team would have been if we had gotten harden from OKC? Alot of people doubted Harden would produce in a starting role and obviously he has proven everyone wrong. do u think thunder would have considered a package of knight and stuckey? or anyone else on the roster beside drummond and monroe? if the deal had work out we had have a good core of harden,monroe and drummond plus enough capsace over the summer seeing that joe eventually traded prince for calderon

Scout Taron · Post #2 » by **Scout Taron** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 8:26 pm

No. The Rockets package was better than Stuckey/Knight

MrBigShot · Post #3 » by **MrBigShot** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 9:00 pm

They would hang up the phone. Harden is worth more than any player on our team, and any realistic offer we could have made would include Moose.

I admit i did not expect him to live up the max contract. He's actually exceeded it at this point, and become a legit star for his team.

DCintheD · Post #4 » by **DCintheD** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 9:38 pm

I would've traded them anyone but Drummond

ComboGuardCity · Post #5 » by **ComboGuardCity** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 11:51 pm

If this had been before the BG trade:

2013 unprotected First, Stuckey, Knight would have gotten the job done IMO.

Piston Pete · Post #6 » by **Piston Pete** » Sun Feb 24, 2013 3:19 am

Hopefully we get the next Harden-type player in McLemore or Shabazz via the draft....

HotelVitale · Post #7 » by **HotelVitale** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 3:44 pm

OKC got two firsts, both of which will be in the lottery, plus a prospect lots of teams were excited about, plus a guy who a was a consistent 20+ pt scorer and had PERs around 20 many seasons. That's a whole lot better than our near-worthless Stuckey, decent prospect Knight, and a late lotto first offer.
Edit: to be clear, not saying Lamb is a better prospect than Knight, just that Lamb wasn't just a throw-in and Knight holds a bit less value now than most pistons fans admit.

Post #8 » by **Snakebites** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 4:05 pm

I don't see any reason the Thunder would have considered such a deal.

You may not be terribly impressed with what they got, but what they got was considerably better than that package.

BadMofoPimp · Post #9 » by **BadMofoPimp** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 4:58 pm

If the Pistons had landed Harden to go with Monroe/Drummond, this team would be in the playoffs right now.

DetroitDon15 · Post #10 » by **DetroitDon15** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 5:31 pm

BadMofoPimp wrote:If the Pistons had landed Harden to go with Monroe/Drummond, this team would be in the playoffs right now.

The Thunder would have demanded Drummond in the deal most likely. I couldn't see the Pistons giving up two picks, Drummond, and possibly Gordon to make a deal work.

BadMofoPimp · Post #11 » by **BadMofoPimp** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 5:49 pm

DetroitDon15 wrote:
BadMofoPimp wrote:If the Pistons had landed Harden to go with Monroe/Drummond, this team would be in the playoffs right now.

The Thunder would have demanded Drummond in the deal most likely. I couldn't see the Pistons giving up two picks, Drummond, and possibly Gordon to make a deal work.

Actually, I would trade Drummond for Harden because Harden has proven to be a franchise player. He is really that good.

MrBigShot · Post #12 » by **MrBigShot** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 6:08 pm

BadMofoPimp wrote:
DetroitDon15 wrote:
BadMofoPimp wrote:If the Pistons had landed Harden to go with Monroe/Drummond, this team would be in the playoffs right now.

The Thunder would have demanded Drummond in the deal most likely. I couldn't see the Pistons giving up two picks, Drummond, and possibly Gordon to make a deal work.

Actually, I would trade Drummond for Harden because Harden has proven to be a franchise player. He is really that good.

2nd that. It isn't much of a debate really, but obviously that situation wont come up.

beau · Post #13 » by **beau** » Tue Feb 26, 2013 4:27 am

Can we please bring back the threads of all the people arguing that Stuckey was almost, or just as good as James Harden? I want a good laugh.