Who'd make us most regret trading him?
Posted: Sat Jan 5, 2008 10:58 am
Yi's an easy answer because he's still so early in his NBA development.
Mo could kill us with a few buzzer-beaters.
Bogut seems like an obvious choice, "What if he becomes 20-15-5 right after that?" But I'd like to call him out. Will he ever go hard to the rack more than a few times a week? What's up with his game anyway? He's been solid on defense but there's only one other guy on the team pulling down 5+ rebounds a game and Andrew just can't seem to keep it together for very long.
If we traded him and played against him, our center at that time might not score a ton, but he would probably pull down some boards and collect 2-10 blocks or so.
I say Michael would make us regret a trade the most by far, maybe even over Yi and his potential. Whatever he does and doesn't bring to the game every night, he's our best and most talented player by far, and it'd be tough to bring in more talent or even a brighter future by trading him.
Sometimes we have weird values of our own vs. others' players, and if some guy named Mike Schredd out of Oklahoma State were on another team with the exact same game, a lot of us would have respect for what he brings. Our offense blows and he can score at will almost any night. If we think we're in a black hole now, I'd hate to see what trading Mike for expirings or anything less than more talent would do. He's far from the biggest problem, his contract isn't a bad value at all, and it wouldn't foster a winning environment all by itself.
Other than Michael, this thread could be called, "Who's being misused the worst?" I guess that means Michael's the only one good enough to let his game shine through regularly in spite of what might be poor game-planning, although he could definitely use more coaching too.
CV has played himself down to a footnote here but given the quality of our roster and the fact that he seems to be the odd man out anyway, I'll include him. I could see another coach using him to his strengths and getting rebounding and a little more efficent scoring from him, why didn't we do that? Bobby's in because his time here is beginning to seem truly cursed so far, and we never really got to see him yet. I left Sessions out because he's such an unknown and it seems so unlikely he could be traded.
I don't think anyone else could give us any big regrets, outside maybe lucking into a huge play in a big spot, like Gadz giving a two-shot foul with 0.3 seconds left when we need a 3-pointer to send us to the Finals or something.
What do you think? I think I have an idea about that but we'll see.
Mo could kill us with a few buzzer-beaters.
Bogut seems like an obvious choice, "What if he becomes 20-15-5 right after that?" But I'd like to call him out. Will he ever go hard to the rack more than a few times a week? What's up with his game anyway? He's been solid on defense but there's only one other guy on the team pulling down 5+ rebounds a game and Andrew just can't seem to keep it together for very long.
If we traded him and played against him, our center at that time might not score a ton, but he would probably pull down some boards and collect 2-10 blocks or so.
I say Michael would make us regret a trade the most by far, maybe even over Yi and his potential. Whatever he does and doesn't bring to the game every night, he's our best and most talented player by far, and it'd be tough to bring in more talent or even a brighter future by trading him.
Sometimes we have weird values of our own vs. others' players, and if some guy named Mike Schredd out of Oklahoma State were on another team with the exact same game, a lot of us would have respect for what he brings. Our offense blows and he can score at will almost any night. If we think we're in a black hole now, I'd hate to see what trading Mike for expirings or anything less than more talent would do. He's far from the biggest problem, his contract isn't a bad value at all, and it wouldn't foster a winning environment all by itself.
Other than Michael, this thread could be called, "Who's being misused the worst?" I guess that means Michael's the only one good enough to let his game shine through regularly in spite of what might be poor game-planning, although he could definitely use more coaching too.
CV has played himself down to a footnote here but given the quality of our roster and the fact that he seems to be the odd man out anyway, I'll include him. I could see another coach using him to his strengths and getting rebounding and a little more efficent scoring from him, why didn't we do that? Bobby's in because his time here is beginning to seem truly cursed so far, and we never really got to see him yet. I left Sessions out because he's such an unknown and it seems so unlikely he could be traded.
I don't think anyone else could give us any big regrets, outside maybe lucking into a huge play in a big spot, like Gadz giving a two-shot foul with 0.3 seconds left when we need a 3-pointer to send us to the Finals or something.
What do you think? I think I have an idea about that but we'll see.
