jivelikenice wrote:nate33 wrote:jivelikenice wrote:Probably just speculation on what could transpire if things don't improve. I do think an Asik for Gortat trade makes sense, but only if we get another asset in return. You can argue who the better player is but Asik's balloon payment next year is not easy to swallow. This trade gives them a viable replacement for Asik who is also an expiring.
I'd do it straight up. Don't need an asset in return. That balloon payment is in real money, but not in cap dollars so it doesn't hurt us from a team-building perspective. Also, Asik is 2.5 years younger than Gortat, and he's an iron man who has never missed a game.
Asik is a dominant rebounder who would let us get away with playing small ball. Nene backs him up at center and plays some PF alongside him. The rest of the PF minutes would go to Ariza and Porter. No more Ernie's Kids in the lineup.
I tend to agree. The roster is flawed fundamentally of because Nene's insistence to play the 4. If you play him there, you need another big which leads to the spacing issues. If we ever really want to play small ball w/o sacrifcing rebounding, we need a guy like Asik. If this doesn't turn around in the near future the only focus the Fo should have the rest of the year is moving Nene. Until he is moved there will always be a conflict in terms of how we should play and what we could do based on personnel.
Well, lets see what things look like with Webster starting and the Wizards running more more pick and roll on offense. It wasn't just Wall I saw doing it. I saw Beal do a pick n roll bounce pass last game. I also saw Webster do it once as well. I think a starting line up with Webster in it could be very smooth, balanced, team oriented. ala what SA does.
Wall, Beal, Webster, Nene, Gortat should be an effective line up. Temple, Glen and Ves should be an effective defensive minded bench to integrate with those players as you rest them one or two at a time. And the bench should get better once you add Otto to it and even better when you add Trevor A back to it. Some combination of Webster, Trevor A and Otto should produce your S4 line ups, not using AH on a regular basis.
What they are missing off the bench is a Blair, Boris Diaw type. If they can find a way to do that vs Kevin S (unless head removed from ass), I think the roster actually looks pretty damn good. Specially with Maynor and AH on the extended bench. Biggest problem I see has to do with Randy, not the roster. He turned to AH and Maynor who should be end of the bench, not core rotation and he removed Webster ( their emotional leader) from the starting line up. Get your young energy defenders out there, scrap and run. And get Webster back in the starting line up. Things will look much better.
This teams roster doesn't suck. They just haven't found their grove yet with the right line ups and rotations. They don't have Otto and they probably need to move Kevin S and Singleton for a Blair like PF/C bench player. That's why I was interesting in Cartwright or Osby in the draft. Sully would look really good coming off our bench.
Kevin S, Singleton, Booker are assets I would use to get Sully or DeJuan Blair or something similar.
