NBA Off-Season

[jilbagh]

Amare Stoudamire is a FA next year...Villanueva is too raw, and wont be fundamentaly sound in the NBA, even if he stays the full 4 years in college.

I'd rather get Luke Schenser from Georgia Tech.

There's no reason to think about the future or to plan it, would you have planned 3 years ago that Lamar Odom would be a Laker?

Let's stick to 2004-05, and talk about June.

[loseyourname]

I'm hearing rumors that the Lakers might sign Eddie Griffin for the veteran's minimum.

[jilbagh]

i'd like to see that...he's a good back to jason kidd...if that can go thru. i can't stress how pissed and dissapointed i am that they traded away gary and rick, draft pick cash for a back up PG, a 3rd stringer...at least they got a promising big man to come off the bench...

i think payton, fox, george, butler, cook, the draft pick....put any of those componants in a package for j kidd...remember, we only need to come within 15% of his 15 mill salary

but now looks like Atkins 5, George 5.4, Cook 2.3, cash or draft pick for J Kidd will do fine for me....thoughts?

[dstyle]

You can't package Atkins until December 15 I think, there's some sort of rule taht says you can trade him, but not in a package deal. I might be mistaken, but I think that's how it goes. I'd rather keep Banks, and just press the whole game, maybe trade a few players for a big man.

[jilbagh]

yeah i forgot if it's 60 or 80 days. Banks has some promise but is known to be erratic, we definitly don't need that right now. Another problem with trading butler and george is you fall into your depth chart of having only Lamar and Luke at the 3...but imagine the passing of a line up if the lakers acquire Jason Kidd {Kidd, Kobe, Odom, Malone, Divac} The ball will never touch the floor, even if you sub in Walton too...fairytales can come true...

[loseyourname]

There is a 60 day waiting period for trading players that were just acquired. I think Banks is a good pick-up just for his defense. We finally have a guy that won't let Troy Hudson and Mike Bibby go for 35 a game on us. As long as you don't let Banks handle the ball too much (which shouldn't be too much trouble considering all of the ballhandlers they have - Walton, Kobe, Lamar, Vlade, Karl?), he should be fine. He'll take a couple of years to develop, but he's already one of the best defensive guards out there.

[dstyle]

I'd want to keep rush, hes the only shooter on the team, but everyone else sure get rid of them. Never liked George.

[jilbagh]

Rush is a great young player, on and off the court. Real professional, great work ethic. Luke Walton is sort of the same. I like how they can model the way a pro athlete should conduct himself in.

Speaking of pure shooters, Wesley Person is still a free agent I believe...

[loseyourname]

The Heat signed Wesley Person, I believe.

[jilbagh]

damn that just happened...he's gonna average 15 points a game for sure