Hypothetical Situation

mnkinga23 · Post #1 » by **mnkinga23** » Sun May 3, 2009 11:49 pm

It's the offseason for the Thunder and a time for rampant speculation. Here is a hypothetical that I heard the other day and I thought that I would bring it to you all for your thoughts. If the Thunder won the lottery, would you trade the first pick in the draft and Russell Westbrook (along with filler to make the numbers work) for Chris Paul?

Post #2 » by **slick_watts** » Mon May 4, 2009 12:13 am

i'd trade the whole roster to get chris paul if it means he can play with durant.

TheUrbanZealot · Post #3 » by **TheUrbanZealot** » Mon May 4, 2009 2:00 am

hell yeah i'd do that trade are you kidding me? He's the best PG in the league!

Post #4 » by **wizkid27** » Mon May 4, 2009 2:15 am

I think I'd go for it. I don't think I'd trade everyone for Paul. But any two pieces (outside of Durant) for him, sure.

Here in OKC, there was some discussion over whether or not you'd trade Griffin for Paul straight. Even with all of the OU fans around here, it was pretty much unanimous that anyone would trade Blake for Paul.

mnkinga23 · Post #5 » by **mnkinga23** » Mon May 4, 2009 5:16 am

The reason that I brought it up was that if you look down the line you have questions about how much you can construct a roster around two players that are going to command max contracts (especially in OKC). The other reason would be if you believe that Russell Westbrook can be a good to elite point guard (and I'm in the Westbrook as a PG camp) would you rather have a top 7 pg in the league (kinda Westbrook's ceiling) a top five player in the NBA (Durant), a Scottie Pippen-esque sidekick (Green), and potentially an all star pf (Griffin); or the best pg, Durant, and Green. A better way to say it would be would you rather have 4 good to great players or 3 good to great players?

Clangus · Post #6 » by **Clangus** » Mon May 4, 2009 6:12 am

Personally I like the idea of 1 great player and 3 good players surrounding him better then 2 great players and a heap of role players.

But then you look at Boston and Portland.
Portland has 1 great player and 2-3 good players and tehy got bundled out of the first round quite easily.

Boston has 3 great players (2 at the moment) and they have a ring and a made it to the second round this year.

Its hard to say, but I really really like Westbrook, Green and Durant as a core.

big L · Post #7 » by **big L** » Mon May 4, 2009 1:10 pm

Absolutely make this trade!

Durantist · Post #8 » by **Durantist** » Mon May 4, 2009 8:31 pm

Chris Paul, Kevin Durant, and maybe a good signing of a solid big that could run the pick n roll...this is fantastic. O and might i add, KD gets about 2-3 easy baskets on the break, imagine having CP3 running it.

mcmokken · Post #9 » by **mcmokken** » Wed May 6, 2009 7:22 am

Paul and Durant together we would be amazing, and Presti is too smart a GM to not be able to surround them with good complementary players without breaking the bank. This is a no-brainer to me.