playing for the Spanish National team and for Toronto.
He will fit very well with our team because:
1.- Calderon will carry the ball to feed Roy in better situations, like going out of a block. Roy won´t start the team offense but look for advantage to start his offensive play.
2.- Calderon is a terrific three pointer threat when his defender tries a double team defense in the low post. So LMA and Oden will have one on one plays. That´s a part of Chris Bosh success in those situations, as he himself has explained.
3.- He isn´t a good defender but a weak one, but if our TO are seriously reduced we can take this one for another. A better inside defense (Toronto is not good in this) will help a lot too.
4.- He is a great teammate and a very good person.
If Calderon comes to Portland Sergio will be gone. Calderon can play 40 minutes per game all season if needed.

The poor defense bothers me. Our bigs are going to get a lot of fouls plugging up that hole.

But the upside is everything else we want in a PG – distributing, 3 pt shooting, etc.

Only Travis and the #13? My apologies to Annthefan, but yes.

I have uncovered the truth of this posting and I now realize what the true purpose was…

Mr. parkinglotj, you are not going to swindle our emotions so seemlessly, not with this type of effort at least.

Calderon for 13th pick, AND OUTLAW!? (why not 13th pick, and next years #1 w/ notoutlaw?)
hmmm…. Your trickery is high.

CHAOS TME:
if parkinglotj is manipulated using logic than the last letter represents the individual and the following sequence of letters backwards would explain the name of that individual.
so
tolgnikrap is the puzzle, and what I get is…
tolgnik = talking
rap = Raptors
Then there is that remaining letter J… Jose Calderon? Which would obviously mean that parkinglotj equates to “Talking Raptors Jose”...

No Thank You!
(tolgnikrap could also mean that Travis Outlaw looks good! – Knicks/Raptors 09’)

Please put the kibosh on this idea. Outlaw is untouchable.

but there is no way this is happening. There are VERY few untradeable players in this league as long as they can still play (and even if they can’t), and Ford is not one of them. Thinking of teams who need point guards, just off the top of my head:

-Ford to Cleveland for Joe Smith and Delonte West
-Ford to Indiana for Marquis Daniels and Travis Diener
-Ford to Miami for Udonis Haslem (if they pick Beasley)
-Ford to Minnesota for Buckner, Madsen, and Corey Brewer
-Ford to New York for Malik Rose and Nate Robinson
-Ford to Orlando for Jameer Nelson and JJ Redick
-Ford to Seattle for Donyell Marshall and Damien Wilkins

Those folks in Toronto are not stupid. They can see Calderon is the better player and the better fit for their team. They will keep him and trade the other one—for very little in return if they have to.

I wonder how the Raps would feel about a straight-up Spanish trade: Calderon for Rudy. To make the numbers work we could include some combination of Jack, Jones, Sergio, and cash (plus draft picks).

Could Rudy then theoretically be offered by Toronto more than the $1 million we can afford to pay him? Instead of Sergio, Rudy’s new Spanish-speaking buddies would be Jorge Garbajosa and Carlos Delfino.

If Rudy is not part of our picture, that’d open the door for us to draft Westbrook - our future defensive stopper and new backup to B. Roy! I haven’t given much thought as to the logistics of how this sequence of events could happen - it might require a third team to be involved for us to move up in the draft—but it doesn’t seem too farfetched. Who knows, Westbrook might drop down to the 13th pick as it is…man, I’d like to see that. Can you imagine:

Calderon / Blake
Roy / Westbrook
Webster / Outlaw
Aldridge / Frye
Oden / Pryzbilla

Just dreamin’.

....................but I would still find a way to make it happen.

What’s the one thing that ALL the top playoff teams have? A first rate PG.

Calderón is one…

Toronto has two; one has to go.

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I’d prefer that the Blazers go for a quick, defensive oriented PG. The model I’d use is Rajon Rondo. He was the 22nd pick of the 2006 draft. Obviously, he’s having a pretty good year for the Celtics. He’s certainly not a star or a great shooter, but he plays good defense and doesn’t turn the ball over much. The Blazers big three are a little different than the Celtics big three, but I think the Blazers can afford to put a role player in that spot…. AND, it can be done with the 13th pick in the draft or perhaps the 9th or tenth. Westbrook and Collinson might fit that mold.

They do not have a great defensive Pg in Parker, but they are able to componsate because they have Tim Duncan

No Way I would give up Travis and a first for Calderon.

Travis creates so many mismatches as the “star” or our second unit and showed so much game this year. Remember all those games where he had 20+ points? Outlaw is exciting and his energy (when he is ON, or mentally IN the game) is key to the Blazers success as his scoring often starts the momentum of scoring runs or his ability is what keeps our scoring momentum going during the NBA’s long season and playoff series.

Calderson is a great offensive talent, seemingly as effective as Devin Harris on offense, but not as good as defense. Filling the role of “great guard defender” is absolutely a need for Portland, more so than offensive skill. Heck, Jarrett Jack has considerable scoring skill and decent defense. Jack is much sloppier with handling the ball, but his defense is better than Calderon’s. It’s kind of a push since Calderon is not a complete upgrade over what we have.

We are still at least one year away from being a contender, and still one of the youngest teams in the league; this may be the last time for a while that the Blazers have a lottery pick (13th or better?). I still feel the Blazers best decision would be to draft our lottery selection. Bring in Rudy and Oden, the rookie, use the three second rounders (33,34 & 54) to manuever to get the top player or players KP wants. Either use all three 2nds to move up with the first, or use all the 2nds to draft Euro prospects that can gain experience in Europe.

Our teams experience with Rudy and Oden in the lineup will give KP a better idea of what we will need to do in free agency and the 2010 draft.

kp said he doesnt like to wait in an interview recently, its going down this summer!!

Since Rudy is going to be everything advertised, our three guard rotation would be Calderon, Fernandez and Roy, with Blake taking Sergio’s minute(s). I would not complain about the offense of that rotation, but their defense is liable to be offensive. However, if we are able to plug up the middle effectively, it might not hurt as badly. I’d rather be beat with teams scoring jumpshots at will than layups. Still, good defense from every position matters, especially in the playoffs.

But minutes is a big deal. Sergio wanted to be used more often, and this situation would make him used even less. I think Blake is okay with an end-of- bench role, but will Jack be? Maybe, maybe not. This is also my argument for keeping Frye, Przybilla and even Jones. All are reasonable players who are willing to be backups, and that’s harder than one would think to get. Pritchard has to take all of this into account this off-season, and try to get the best he can out of the pieces he has, whether that means keeping them or trading them.

Not even Bruce Bowen in a Phoenix jersey could stop him. But I get your point, we could very likely get torched by Parker, CP3, D-Will on any given night with Calderon’s matador defense.

But Calderon can and will increase everyone elses production, even Roy’s, to a significant degree that i think arguably will win us more ball games than his defense will lose games.