MIN/LAL

[Klomp]

Craig Smith for Jordan Farmar

Why for Us?
This trade does two things for us. First, it gets rid of an undersized PF, since we have a couple too many. Second, it upgrades our PG talent and our depth. Farmar instantly becomes our starting point guard.

Why for Them?
Farmar has been a benchwarmer lately with the good play of Shannon Brown. One of the Lakers' biggest flaws is that they have no interior toughness, and that they are a finesse team. Smith instantly brings toughness to the backup PF position.


Thoughts?

[theGreatRC]

Seems fair for both teams, although I can see why LAL might not think so.

[Krapinsky]

Farmar isn't much of an improvement over Brown and Telfair so I say no.

[shrink]

I'd be OK with that. I'd prefer this to be a draft night trade, to make sure we haven't addressed our PG needs in the draft. I think Farmar has potential, so maybe a move would help him.

[Klomp]

Farmar isn't much of an improvement over Brown and Telfair so I say no.

Wow really? Last year, he averaged 9 pts 3 ast in 20 mins. This yr, Telfair averaged 10/4 in 28 minutes. So Telfair needed an additional 8 mins to avg one more pt and ast.

Farmar would automatically be our starter. He has good size (6'2"), plays solid defense, and can do THIS and THIS

[theGreatRC]

If we can get Hinrich and Farmar, i'm loving our PG depth.

Hinrich/Farmar/Telfair

[southern wolf]

I couldn't bring myself to do it. I love the way Cookie plays, and he's incredibly efficient when he's on the court. But if we manage to snatch Griffin, it would work out perfectly.

[Krapinsky]

I've watched him all year and he's been very disappointing.

[revprodeji]

yea, Farmer does nothing for me.

[collin_k41]

I agree with shrink that this would be a good draft night trade if we don't get a PG. I'm pretty sure we will, especially at #18, but you never know. I'd rather have Hinrich as a player but not as a contract.

[the_bruce]

Laker fan was fishing on the trade board for the #29 + Farmer. I think with a signed #29 + farmer for cookie they save ~.5m with lux added and get a more productive player. If you coupled this with shrinks hinirch cap trade with telefair subbed in I think thats a very solid lineup for next year.

[Esohny]

While he's not what I'd want in a long-term starter, I'd much rather have Farmar playing major minutes than Telfair. They're both below average scorers, but I like Farmar's size and defense and I don't see his distribution as being that much worse than Telfair.

[Devilzsidewalk]

Laker fan was fishing on the trade board for the #29 + Farmer. I think with a signed #29 + farmer for cookie they save ~.5m with lux added and get a more productive player. If you coupled this with shrinks hinirch cap trade with telefair subbed in I think thats a very solid lineup for next year.

they were probably thinking they'd get a top 10 pick since Farmar is a great prospect and the #29 is just as good as a mid lotto anyways since this draft is the weakest of any draft in NBA history ever ever and all the players outside of the top 2 are going to be 5th round draft picks in the NBDL and the rest will be beaten to death for wasting our time typing up scouting reports on their sorriness