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... because I offered this up on the Trade board and nobody made a sound.

The deal is Josh Smith and Willie Green to the Nets for Brook Lopez, Anthony Morrow and Jordan Farmar. The link is http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachi ... Id=7wmnzxz[/quote]

Nets can still sign Dwight Howard but are better structured to attract him while we have a really good starting 5 and a team that finally makes sense. Josh Smith is at least as good as Lopez, who'll have to go, anyway, if they can sign DH.

Morrow is better defensively at SG than Green (while still a good outside shooter), Farmar is a good, cheap backup to Teague and Lopez ... needs no justification.

So, what's wrong with this offer?

Anyway, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!


...and goodnight.

Nets will try to trade for Dwight, and Brook Lopez is a bigger asset than Josh Smith. If they fail to make the trade and Dwight signs as a FA, they can move Lopez AFTER for the same deal.

Doubt Morrow would be moved, since Dwight named him and Deron Williams as 2 of the 5 players he'd want to play with.

lastly, there's no reason the Nets HAVE to move Lopez. They've been wanting to move him to the four offensively, and would be fine running out the twin towers.

Ronito wrote:Nets will try to trade for Dwight, and Brook Lopez is a bigger asset than Josh Smith. If they fail to make the trade and Dwight signs as a FA, they can move Lopez AFTER for the same deal.

Doubt Morrow would be moved, since Dwight named him and Deron Williams as 2 of the 5 players he'd want to play with.

lastly, there's no reason the Nets HAVE to move Lopez. They've been wanting to move him to the four offensively, and would be fine running out the twin towers.

You bring in Josh Smith to help boost your team for Dwight. You bring in a players best friend and now he has even incentive to come to NJ.

Ronito wrote:lastly, there's no reason the Nets HAVE to move Lopez. They've been wanting to move him to the four offensively, and would be fine running out the twin towers.

You do realize that the story of the tortoise and the hare is just a fable, don't you? In real life, the tortoise is way too slow to defend the PF slot.

I do not think anybody who has seen Josh play lately wants him for his team.
Bad selectioned shots (shots that never get into the hole are specially bad selectioned), lack of concentration when shooting FTs, losing balls because he dribbles up the court ignoring JJ and Teague... well, an array of reasons to not want him on your team.

Then, why getting a center, if we EVER get a ball inside the paint. Would it change with López here? I do not think so.

Years80HAWKS wrote:Then, why getting a center, if we EVER get a ball inside the paint. Would it change with López here? I do not think so.

My first thought was to just point to the the last 7 years. However, looking at your post #s, I'll answer seriously by reminding you that
1) We don't have a true Center.
2) Al Horford plays better against PFs and is getting - more and more so - beaten up by Centers.
3) We would turn into a team with a true Center, a true PF, a true SF, a true SG and ... Jeff Teague (but we have hopes that he learns the position). That would mean we could exploit any opposing team's weakness(es) while be more solid, defensively, ourselves.