Marc Stein: Monroe not on the market

[momed11]

It amazes me that people want to trade Monroe, but then I realize the closest to a good center younger people (I feel old saying this) have seen is an old Tim Duncan, Dwight Howard, and Pau Gasol and grew up with small ball.

Keep one thing in mind, bigs are a premium. Always have been. Only three players I would consider trading Monroe for and it's Paul George, LeBron, and Durant. Why trade a young big who puts up double doubles? For what? Average players? The options are meh. There's a reason Miami signed Chris Andersen and Greg Oden, they'd be happy to take Monroe. A lot of teams would be.

The one problem with this team though, is mentality.

Not anthony davis? ... Tbh theres a lot of players i would trade moose for. We wont get them (or fair value) back regardless.

[The Penguin]

1) I fail to see why starting Drummond-Monroe-Smith then pulling whoever the matchup dictates at the first dead ball isn't the plan. It's not rocket science, that allows for Monroe and Smith to both be "starters" but allows us to primarily play two at a time. On our roster we should have two of Drummond-Monroe-Smith in the game at the same time and we can get all 3 30+ minutes of burn with minimal overlap.

2) I really hope we don't sell Monroe for 50 cents on the dollar and that's exactly the deal we'd be looking at. Allow Drummond-Monroe some feeling out time as twin towers before we just punt. Monroe's value will likely not be worse two years from now.

3) Jerebko & Bynum are the two guys we've gotta dump. Moving them for an expiring would allow us to have cap room to sign a solid FA if we play with Monroe's restricted status correctly. Then again a smart GM would have seen that opportunity last summer and not signed Bynum to a two year deal.