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Felton and Okafor for Smith, Law and Zaza.

very fair and interesting, but I don't think crash and J.Smith can be on the same team, they are too similar in my opinion.

Would be a good combo at SF-PF.

Interesting indeed. But it makes me suspicious as to why would a Hawks fan propose this trade to us? I liked Law in college, but haven't watched him in the pros. I read that he was struggling. As for Smith, hmmm very intriguing player. That first game he played against us this season, he was swatting everything in site and probably would have had 10 blocks if not for spraining his ankle. (I think it was his ankle) I don't watch the Hawks enough to say whether Smith deserves that big financial commitment it will take to resign him. Plus he has no loyalty here so he could bolt to a team with cap room.

As SamBone said, he and Crash would sort of be redundant and probably would be an odd mix. Like Randolph and Curry in NY. As much as I can't stand Mek and Felton right now, taking on an Atlanta Hawks player does make me nervous.

FCNATL85 wrote:Would be a good combo at SF-PF.

Why do you not want to make a commitment to Smith? What pisses you off the most about him? I'm curious.

We need to improve our team at PG and C.

two options:

either move talent, including at the position with Law and Zaza but Smith (2nd best asset) is the bulk of the deal.
Al or Mek can play PF-C and one of them can play Smoothe position at PF.
By getting Felton, we get a push for the playoff NOW versus a player of tomorrow....greta player but we just need more NOW.Both needs adressed.

or explode the nucleus and improve at both guard positions, including trading JJ (our best asset). That would mean 2 trades:
1) JJ+ Salim for Felton and richardson
2) Zaza+ AJ for Rush and Foster

I personnally think that Smith is overated by ATL because he isflashy and a city favorite. Anyway, we will have to move one of the two in order to improve the team.

Um no?

Isn't Smith said to have some serious attitude problems?

Smith is well liked by most fans in Atl, some don't like him. He has sort of emerged as the spokesman for the team since Joe isn't much of a talker. Most Atl fans don't want to trade him because he is young and highly productive (stat sheet, not just highlights). That being said, those that do want to trade him have their reasons.

As far as the parity of this deal goes, what is wrong with Mek this season? I'd say a 22 year old stat stuffer like Josh would be decent value for last year's vintage of Okafor but this season he has been pretty average. He was a 3 year college player right? Did he top out? Felton?