Ducksplatt wrote:Dagger made this comment on a different thread:Bargnani is not the C they are looking for because they have Kevin Love, but Bargnani has good trade value and shouldn't be sold short. His skillset would work on several teams that lack frontcourt offence, they just have to pair him with a defensive oriented help defender. Watching OKC struggle last night to score, I thought the combination of Perkins, Collison and Ibaka - any two of those three on the court at the same time - is part of the reason teams are able to blanket their perimetre guys. If they could send in a scoring big like Bargnani, even as a sixth man type, they'd be able to open up more room for their perimeter scorers.
It got me thinking that maybe OKC would be a good trading partner. I wasn't able to get a straight trade so I had to use the TPE in two separate trades:
Trade #1
To Toronto
Nate Robinson (1 year, 4.5 million) - TPE
Cole Aldrich ($2.2 million next year - options up until 2015) - TPE
Royal Ivey (1 year, 1.2 million) or BJ Mullins (pretty much the same). - TPE
Trade #2
To OKC
Bargs for cap space
Reason for Toronto - get a young C who could grow with the team. Shed salary. Ivey can be a 3rd PG (or cut) and Robinson could be used as an expiring.
Reason for OKC - Get some offense in the front court.
Mind you - Raps are giving up on a former #1 AND have to give away most of Bosh's TPE - but it is an opportunity to start fresh with a young asset in Aldrich.
Well Dagger was quick to blow off Bargnani for JJ Redick + Ryan Anderson so I dunno about that one. Apparently Bargnani should net us a starter.














