Trade Thread #8: All Gordon things come to an End

[return2glory]

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Good for him. He is awful

He was supposed to revolutionize defense and ended up sucking on defense. You never know until you ee them in the league

I remember being one of the few here that didn’t like his game during the draft when he came out that year.

Lot of people loved his game. I never got that. I watched him a lot in college and he was not a basketball player to me nor did it seem like he liked the game. He was just tall and could run around. Like Ryan Hollins. No basketball skills.

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Could Langford and Robert Williams get us Larry Nance Jr from CLE? (We'd have to include some combo of Semi/Green/Edwards to match $)

Kemba / Teague / Pritchard
Brown / Smart
Tatum / Nesmith
Nance / Grant
Theis / Thomson (or switch them)

Fill in the last 4 spots with vet min and whatever is left of the Semi/Green/Edwards trio after trade.

But why?

[return2glory]

Seems like Ainge is going to roll the dice with TT, Theis, Rob Williams and Tacko as his bigs.

I want to see Tacko play. Hope he continues to work on his game along with the Timelord.

[Celts17Pride]

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[leper-con]

Taco is unplayable in the modern NBA.

[Celts17Pride]

Pretty quiet for the Celtics. Ainge probably working on a 4 team trade were he gets the TPE for Hayward and 3 second round picks

[31to6]

Taco is unplayable in the modern NBA.

True because on defense on the playoffs he’s giving up 288 points/48 minutes on sidelines inbounds plays

[Bill Lumbergh]

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[Celts17Pride]

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[The_Ghost_of_JB]

I think Jordan is just going to end up cutting Batum, which, like Smitty said, means the hornets will ultimately be paying Hayward 40 million a year.

[Darth Celtic]

Seems like Ainge is going to roll the dice with TT, Theis, Rob Williams and Tacko as his bigs.

I want to see Tacko play. Hope he continues to work on his game along with the Timelord.

always thought tacko was 4 years away from being a rotational player. He stops penatration but will never show on the pick and roll. teams with multiple 3pt shooters will kill him just like Kanter.

You can see that with real coaching at the NBA level, he might some day be a good backup center.

[djFan71]

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How does Danny not get in on deals like this?!?!?! Fire Ainge!

[Roddy]

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Zhaire Smith was supposed to be the next big thing according to 76ers fans...........

[Darth Celtic]

Taco is unplayable in the modern NBA.

nah, matchup dependent. Against teams with good 3pt shooting, and 1 player who can penetrate on pick and roll he can't really play. Just Like Kanter, but at least he can stop the penatration. He just can't stop the 3pt shot from the big.

Unlike Kanter he can protect the paint.

[Darth Celtic]

I think Jordan is just going to end up cutting Batum, which, like Smitty said, means the hornets will ultimately be paying Hayward 40 million a year.

always the most likely, but we gave them solid last year, no reason to not take a 2nd to give us the TPE.

[Darth Celtic]

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Zhaire Smith was supposed to be the next big thing according to 76ers fans...........

they drafted some dude who's mom was working for the team, then traded him for smith on draft day, lol

[Darthlukey]

Taco is unplayable in the modern NBA.

True because on defense on the playoffs he’s giving up 288 points/48 minutes on sidelines inbounds plays

Fall really is only useful for the NBAs equivalent of a special team. Perhaps he improves to the point where you play him like boban, but that is just about his ceiling

[BostonCouchGM]

Wait, Nesmith has better playmaking ability and handle than Jaylen Brown now?

No. He shoots

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The couchgm guy wants to move Brown from SG to SF because of Brown's playmaking and handle deficiences so I thought the implication was that the SG would thus have better playmaking ability and handle.

currently Jaylen is a stand in the corner and shoot wide open C & S threes and transition scorer only, dependent on others getting him the ball. That's literally what Nesmith and SGs like Redick, Klay, Green excel at too. Typically, the better SGs have that ability but also can initiate the offense and attack defenses off the dribble (Wade, Booker, Kobe, MJ, Beal, Mitchell) unlike Jaylen due to his poor handle. Wait, are homers actually tryin to claim Jaylen doesn't have an atrocious handle that prevents him from doing this? lmao. Is it some slight wanting Jaylen to move to the 3? What a touchy sensitive bunch his defenders are.

I'm not confident Nesmith can do all those extra things but I am confident he can do exactly what Jaylen does in our offense and has the physical profile and athleticism to approximate his defense. So, while my moronic haters like to make it out as if I've said something controversial, it's anything but. That said, I think Nesmith moves without the ball and is a better shooter than Jaylen so he'll be an upgrade in that respect. But I'm not sure he has Jaylen's post up game or transition game nor on the ball defense. But when you lose Hayward you have to plug in players where they can replace that production. I like Smart off the bench. I don't know why suggesting Nesmith, who is an excellent prospect, should start is rustling Jimmies

[Celts17Pride]

I think Jordan is just going to end up cutting Batum, which, like Smitty said, means the hornets will ultimately be paying Hayward 40 million a year.

Charlotte doesn’t want to do that. Waiving Batum and stretching him (which they have to do) means it eats up $9.0 million per year for 3 years in cap space. Be patient