One Win = No Trade Drawer???? 12/18/09

What we win one game and the endless amount of trade drawers and trade posts suddenly stop?  Don't get my wrong it was a great win last night but there are still some weaknesses on the Blazers team.  Most notably as was pointed out by the great (and angry) Sir Charles himself is the lack of a deep post scoring threat.  Let's face it folks, LMA is a good player but it is painfully obvious that the guy would rather fade away than get to the hoop.  The up and under worked well for him last night but he went away from it for no real reason that was apparent to me.  So my proposed trade to get the trade discussion started on this slow Friday afternoon is this.  Trade LMA, Steve Blake, and Travis Outlaw to Toronto for Chris Bosh.

Why the Blazers do it: The Blazers badly need a reliable low post presence.  Oden is coming along fine but to have him be the only player on the team that can score near the bucket is the definition of putting all your eggs in one basket.  I won't call Oden a fragile basket but we are really not sure what kind of a basket we have right now (sorry for the metaphor).  Blake is expendable if Bayless can find consistency as Rudy has many of the same skills which Blake possesses.  If we were to lose LMA it would be nice to keep Outlaw as a stretch 4 but I wasn't sure if there was another way to work the trade and getting rid of both Miller and Blake seems risky.  The risk in this whole trade is would Bosh sign up with Portland.  We would have the Bird rights and I believe (not sure on this) be able to offer him more than other teams.  One question I am not sure of is how Oden and Bosh would fit together on the court together? 

Why Toronto doe is: Besides Euros no one wants to play in Toronto the taxes there are bad I hear.  Toronto cannot be very confident in Bosh staying based on the play so far.  If they got LMA he would be stuck there for 4 years.  Outlaw and Blake would come off the books and might help them over the summer to save some money or sign a free agent.  Although I really don't know much about their financial situation.

Anyway I am not trying to throw LMA under the bus.  He is a great young player and I am sure his post game will continue to improve.  I was just throwing out an idea to get some discussion going.  Please don't hate on me if this post makes me look like a complete fool.  I really like Bosh's game and think he is more physical than LMA which would be huge come playoff time.  I don't think Bosh would get dominated (okay that might be a slight stretch, sorry LMA) by Scola in the playoffs.  Let me know if this works and what your thoughts are.  Also I am curious about the usual trades involving either Miller or Blake.  Any and all ideas are fun to discuss.