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Posted this on the T&T Forum. What do y'all think?

Grizzlies trade: C Hasheem Thabeet| #25 Pick
Magic trade: C Marcin Gortat

Grizzlies:
Mayo| Brewer| Gay| Randolph| Gasol (Gortat)


Marcin Gortat

Gortat practice footage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spYm3PEsDFs

+ Gain high quality Center Marcin Gortat who would definitely garner more PT behind C Marc Gasol
+ Provides solid, dependable depth at the Center position w/ Gortat already being NBA ready
+ Makes the current Grizzlies more of a playoff contending team
+ Gives the Grizz a very solid asset on a very modest contract for a quality NBA Center
= Gortat still not a starter but receives more minutes than in Orlando
- Trading prospect C Hasheem Thabeet who could one day become a franchise C
- Trading the #25 Pick

Magic:
Nelson (Bledsoe)| Carter (Redick)| Lewis (Pietrus)| Bass (Anderson)| Howard (Thabeet)
Draft: PG Eric Bledsoe (w/ Grizzlies #25 Pick)


Hasheem Thabeet

Eric Bledsoe

+ Gain project/ prospect C Hasheem Thabeet who we could allow time to groom w/ limited PT behind Dwight Howard as well as practice/ working out w/ D12 should make Thabeet a force sooner than later
+ Draft PG Eric Bledsoe (if he falls to #25) to groom behind Jameer Nelson
+ Gain youth for a high quality Center
- Trading Gortat, we know exactly what he gives us

Deal?

Pass...as much as I like to crap on Thabeet he has a high ceiling and showed flashes of being a defensive anchor. The Grizzlies are apparently targeting Bledsoe so it wouldn't make sense to deal him. Gortat is a solid back up center-decent starter though.

amazing trade for the Magic, i really don't know why the Griz would ever want to do this. i mean if you draft a project with the #2 pick, why trade him away after one year?

no

It_Was_Typed wrote:Pass...as much as I like to crap on Thabeet he has a high ceiling and showed flashes of being a defensive anchor. The Grizzlies are apparently targeting Bledsoe so it wouldn't make sense to deal him. Gortat is a solid back up center-decent starter though.

You're not really dealing Eric Bledsoe, it's the 25th Pick that we'd be chancing that Bledsoe would still be around.

Just draft Avery Bradley w/ your #12 Pick. Problem solved.

Rejected it on T&T - rejected here as well. Another point not mentioned is that if Gortat isn't happy riding the pine as a sub in Orlando, what makes you think he'll suddenly be happy playing similar minutes behind Gasol?

I don't really see the appeal for the Grizz in this one.

The Grizz may not be oppossed to trading Thabeet, but it definetily will be for a game changer, meaning a starter. Clearly this was the case with the proposed Monta Ellis deal last season. Trading Thabeet plus the #25 for a backup center (which is not a need area this offseason) would get someone hungup on pretty quickly.

horrible trade for Memphis

Horrible.

Why would we ever do this trade? Do people see Gortat as a starter? I think he might be a borderline case given the lack of quality starting centers in the league, but he is most effective off the bench.

Yucky.