but he had some experience, and if you’re going to trade sergio trade him for a better choice, a bigger guard

What trade is the OP talking about can someone provide a link?

are a different story all together….more aggressive bball, more x’s and o’s they break a team down more. it’s different and these guys will learn in time.

dude thats a rookie. I think Portland fans need to learn that the playoffs are not the regular season. it’s WAAAAY different

we don’t extend nate?

Thats what Diogu is for. Deal him for a rental

like ours that could be a big benefit.

Jus’ kidding.

Yeah, Nate is a dynamic player who can do a LOT. An incredible athlete. And very tough. And, if he scores 40+ in a game, no one is surprised— he is capable of HUGE games, huge dunk, huge plays.

It’s just the inbetween games that worry me, plus his ballhoggery. As the backup SG, I’m fine with it, but as the backup PG, I worry— especially when you got Rudy and Travis who also need the ball to do what they do.

Bayles tries to pass to show he will pass, but Nate-Rob doesn’t concern himself with such niceties. He just shoots.

He is a much better player than Sergio, so player value in a vacuum alone, it’s a good deal. And maybe being on a better team with actual stakes that matter will change Nate-Rob’s game.

I still don’t know how I feel. I am not a Sergio booster, but I am conflicted.

Mortimer

that shav and sergio worked.

nm i guess i shoulda clicked your trade proposal…ehh i dont even think zeke would have made that trade.

Sergio could develop better offense. BUT—

Don’t you think his complete inability to hit an open jumper or make a layup makes him a POOR fit for D’Antoni ball, which relies on the PG to be an offensive threat?

Obviously Sergio’s passing would be dynamite for D’Antoni, but being able to hit the jumper sets it all up. If he plays major minutes, teams will just play off of him, defend for the pass.

It seems like he’d be a good fit, but I think an average playmaker like Duhon, but who can hit a shot, fits better than a GREAT playmaker like Sergio, who is a brick-tamland-meister.

I dunno.

Mortimer

would find that to be further confirmation of an anti-Rudy bias on the Blazers.

I would feel bad for Rudy and Sergio if this or another trade split them apart.

Trade not happening? Wow, amlmart , cbd, and kartemax are Los Hombres!

s/ I found some wildly stimulating discussion on Realgm\s

we should be open minded enough to realize that for as good as Tony Parker is…he is a bad defender as well and has a couple rings.

i dont think we’d ever see a deep 10-15 man rotation. nate, jerryd, and travis all need the ball to create for themselves. they are all perfectly capable of creating and scoring…but i just think if it came down to it we would have a more traditional substitution scheme rather than having 5 bench players on the court every game.

and he we weren’t even in the ballpark with our offer compared to what they gave him. well now i’m not sure if it was kp trying or if it was just BE talk.

Here is a variant on this deal

Nate for Sergio? There are unconfirmed reports out there that the Portland Trail Blazers have traded point guard Sergio Rodriguez to New York for point guard Nate Robinson. This was reported by 95.5 The Game in Portland – owned by Paul Allen, owner of the Blazers. HOOPSWORLD is checking contacts in Portland and New York and will update as needed.

UPDATE – an hour later: Sources from within both the Blazers and Knicks are calling this just talk and that there is no truth to this.

http://www.hoopsworld.com/Story.asp?story_id=11222

That’s kind of hard to define, right? We’re still in the business of winning basketball games… Nate’s roll in the fight was that he stood up for a teammate after a cheap shot, which isn’t nearly as bad as throwing an open handed punch and running away like Carmelo Anthony did.

You’re projecting that Nate wouldn’t defer to Brandon Roy, but there’s a news flash here – Brandon Roy has emerged as a top tier player in the NBA. Would Nate also refuse to defer to Lebron James? Kobe Bryant? I think Team USA showed (when everyone knew that Kobe was taking over the 4th quarter of the Gold Medal game) that, at some point, every player will defer if they think there’s a definitively better player on the court and this would be amplified by the fact that Nate-Rob and Roy are friends.

He would eat up cap space, yes, but in terms of pure scorers/play makers who can come off the bench, how many better players are out there than Nate Robinson? Sure there’s a few (Barbosa, Ginobili) but he’s young, quick, strong, and has a history with our best player. Also, it’s unlikely now that Miles is back on the cap, that we wait until this summer to make our big move. We just won’t have enough cap space to do so.

It’s more likely that all altercations with the roster from here on out are done with the trade and the draft…

he has an alpha dog tough guy personality which is good but doesn’t really fit our culture.

I’m interpreting this as more of a knock on our ‘culture’ than on Nate.