cellar-door wrote:Curmudgeon wrote:Tyson Chandler for Zeller and a first round pick. Defense, defense defense.
Terrible defenders like Okafor, Kanter and Monroe make absolutely no sense.
Trading a 1st round pick and losing max cap space for an in decline 34 year old Chandler with 3 years left on his deal doesn't either.
If they make a move the most logical one if Bogut or Noel.
Monroe is a mediocre defender. Okafor and Kanter are bad defenders, but young. They'd be long-term investments, with a bet on their ability to improve. I think Okafor has enough talent that he can, unless being benched in Philly crushes his confidence and work ethic.
We're not getting Bogut, and I think Barnes is showing signs he can live up to some of his hype in Dallas. Plus, we'd have to give up a 1st, or more, and it's not worth it just to get a marginal upgrade who won't make us a contender.
Noel, sure. I'm all in on Nerlens. But he's been injury prone, he has maturity issues, he's a solid but not great rebounder, and his defensive impact is potentially elite, but not consistent. Can't shoot, can't score, can't pass or catch the ball, can roll a little.
I think we could game around Monroe's bad pick and roll defense with him in the middle, and his rebounding and offensive skill would be a boost. He's basically a better boarding, better scoring, less defensively reliable Amir Johnson.
Kanter has major flaws- defensive awareness and mobility, passing- but he's a beast in the paint.
We're looking pretty much entirely at flawed solutions, the question is which flaws we want to take on, and what we have to give up.
