Official Not Worried by this trade topic. am i the only one?

[thruthefire]

I hope like hell Larry Brown didn't see that one and think it was TC like I did. If that's the basis for thinking he can dribble we're in major trouble!

[doc.end]

I was going thru some vids because of the other thread and found this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTLkD1SZjMY

TC caught it at the 3 pt line, faked out Crash, drove past him to the basket and then dunked it on Emeka. Mighty impressive!

You guys convinced me, this Chanler doesn't have a standing reach of Emeka Okafor

[CatNation]

well, DJ is familiar with Tyson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNr9I2XkEoA

[Takuya Kimura]

As far as I know nobody breaks down pick and roll stats, though DX does with college players.

I have no vendetta against Chandler... I don't even think he's a bad player. If he shows up and plays better than Emeka, I'll admit I'm wrong and that LB is a genius or whatever. But to do that, Chandler has to have by far his best season as a pro, after following up a bad, much-injured season, on a team that is less considerably less talented than the one he left. I think it's unlikely.

If Tyson opens up new offensive plays, why is it he gets the ball even less than Okafor does? Even if Chandler makes us a better P&R team because of his athleticism, he takes a major play off the table: pass it down low. It's not as if we ran that one a lot, but now it's gone, because Chandler is totally incapable of scoring with his back to the basket. No joke, HALF of his baskets are dunks or tip-ins. Another 15% are his worst-in-the-league caliber jump shot (.263... even Emeka's .366 dwarfs that).

We exaggerate to say that Okafor scores mainly off of o-boards... even this year, his fewest FGA yet, he got 3.4 orpg, and 9.4 att/gm. In his good year, Chandler got 4.1 o-boards per game, and shot 7.7 times... seriously, think about that... maybe 4, 4.5 times per game Chandler took a shot that was not directly the result of a missed shot. (Oh, and another tidbit I just noticed, Emeka gets fouled more often than Chandler does.)

In short, I think it's enormously more likely we see Chandler in the form he has had the rest of his career besides 07-08 (8-9ppg, good rebounding, OK shot blocking, very good defense) than some new +15ppg Chandler killing people off the P&R. The sad thing is, even if we get the 07-08 Chandler, he'd STILL be notably worse than Okafor.

No he's not.
Lets say it this way:
In the 2001 draft,the Wizards traded the 1st pick for the 32nd pick.Guess what you would feel if you're a Wiz fan at MSG?
And what you would feel as of now?I mean,it's Kwame Brown for Gilbert Arenas after all,but you should have gotten another allstar player or so.