MIA/ATL

mhfan3 · Post #1 » by **mhfan3** » Wed May 28, 2008 1:52 am

What do you think about a trade of marion for childress and bibby

HoopsGuru25 · Post #2 » by **HoopsGuru25** » Wed May 28, 2008 2:09 am

It's a pretty strange trade. Two huge expiring deals and a free agent. I'm not sure if there is incentive for either team to do it. Marion is the best player in the trade but seems like a bad fit for the Hawks since he is a forward(a position where we are full at)and needs a good pg to set him up.

evildallas · Post #3 » by **evildallas** » Wed May 28, 2008 2:31 am

HoopsGuru25 wrote:It's a pretty strange trade. Two huge expiring deals and a free agent. I'm not sure if there is incentive for either team to do it. Marion is the best player in the trade but seems like a bad fit for the Hawks since he is a forward(a position where we are full at)and needs a good pg to set him up.

Well said. Furthermore, Marion has been at his best as an athletic, undersized 4 (like Josh Smith). Sure he can play the 3, but he loses quite a bit of his mismatch positives at the position. His contract is expiring and he doesn't seem like the type to give a discount. If extended he'd be outrageously expensive as his physical traits slip with age. Add to all this, his bad clubhouse rep and I think I'd rate him as one of the worst trade targets outside of the New York 3 (Marbury, Randolph, and Curry are poison).

conleyorbust · Post #4 » by **conleyorbust** » Wed May 28, 2008 1:46 pm

I actually think he would be a solid fit as a 3 on our team. He is an amazing rebounder even at that position and he is a good perimeter and team defender. His offense would suffer quite a bit because he isn't great at creating for himself and we don't run many plays in the half court to take advantage of our players' athleticism off the ball but Marion is an OK shooter, he is Childress with a much quicker release. It wouldn't be as ideal a situation for him as the Suns but it wouldn't be as awful for him as the Heat.

Still though, it is a weird deal.