dangermouse wrote:Ruzious wrote:dangermouse wrote:That deal was friggin terrible for the Hornets. I cant believe someone would actually think it was good. They were taking on the Rockets and Lakers trash and giving up their superstar. Wheres the salary relief? Wheres the picks/prospects? If i was a Hornets fan i would have been outraged.
It was even more of a Laker-rape than the original Pau trade. At least the Grizz got Marc back in that deal, who granted many didnt think much of at the time, but he was a damn good C prospect who has now proved his worth.
The only other way the Lakers could have raped them any further would be if they left them alone in a hotel room in Colorado with Kobe Bryant, a six pack of champagne and a looped track of Patty Smyth's "Sometime's Love Just Ain't Enough".
People keep posting "OMG now CP3 will NEVA BE TRADERED!!!"
How about if the Lakers offered, you know, a good package? Lets start with Bynum + multiple picks, some of their younger players, take back or find a team for Okafor?
Young player(s)/Picks/Salary relief <--- I would say, when trading away a star player, a team would want back at least 2/3 of those.
That Lakers offer had NONE of those.
End rant.
DM, if the trade went through, the Hornets got several fairly valuable assets that they could have traded and essentially converted to several draft choices that they NEEDED. As things are, they might get NOTHING... for Paul, and they'll likely be an embarrasment to the NBA and turn away a franchise of fans.
"People keep posting "OMG now CP3 will NEVA BE TRADERED!!!""
Cripes DM. That's because it might be true. Ohh carrots!
Now Dan Gilbert can be happy that another small market team gets to suffer the same fate his Cavs did. And he does it under the guise of saying he's trying to protect them. Talk about a hypocrite.
They wouldnt have got much. Look on the trade board here and see the heated discussion over Pau, most wouldnt even trade Blatche for him. Only a select few teams would want someone like Scola at 8mil for the next 4 years, and i doubt they would be willing to give up much.
And whos going to want a depressed Lamar Odom after this?
It may be good managing to stockpile talent, but not if that talent is over the hill and being paid too much, with no guarantee that anyone wants them anyway.
Id rather take the sure thing, young players, picks, expirings... Let LAL do the groundwork finding other teams to take on the crap.
And can someone explain how Chris Paul can not be traded now? Not even if a better offer is put on the table (which is oviously the reason it was nixed)?
I'm not even going to go into the rumours on the Celtics board regarding CP3/his agency apparently saying he wouldnt turn up to camp if traded to Boston. If there is any truth to that though, that throws this whole thing into a new light and I lose more respect for him than I did for Deron. He'd be below LeBron, and thats bad...
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If i was a Rockets fan i would be pretty miffed though, as their offseason moves were hinging on this trade. Gasol/Nene would have been a pretty good front line, definitely better than what they may be stuck rolling with come season opener.
Are you serious - Read the trade board as evidence? And about Gasol - who didn't even go to the Hornets in the deal? Obviously they could get draft picks and/or young players for Martin, Odom, and Scola. There should be demand for those guys around the trade deadline. You only need 1 or 2 teams to have an interest. And if for some reason they couldn't, they'd at least have some decent NBA players to field a team. Now, they have a completely unmotivated Paul on rent and have probably lost their fan base. And you really think that's the best solution?
