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by Zaron5551 on Aug 1, 2009 4:30 PM PDT Comment 25 comments

Trade Machine Ling

This is my proposed consolidation trade. It involves three teams the Bobcats, Rockets and Blazers.

Blazers:

Out:

Outlaw

Webster

Bayless

In:

Gerald Wallace

Brent Barry

Bobcats:

Out:

Gerald Wallace

In:

Rockets:

Out:

Tracy McGrady

Brent Barry

In:

Nazr Mohammed

Boris Diaw

Raja Bell

Martell Webster

Why This Trade Should Happen:

For the Blazers: Consolidates young talent into a single superior starter and a expiring veteran.

For the Bobcats: Money. T-Mac is a giant expiring contract. The save money plus they get two young quality players.

For the Rockets: Bigs. They get a decent big man plus another quality forward. They also add Raja Bell to fill Ron Artest spot.

Why This Trade Won't Happen:

For the Blazers: Pritchard seems unwilling to give up young talent, especially Bayless.

For the Bobcats: They trade away almost they're entire starting line-up for an unproven player, a career back up and a washed up superstar.

For the Rockets: They probably want more for T-Mac and don't really have a need for Boris Diaw

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Rec for making this a trade drawer

Portland makes out well in this trade. Rockets get a lot of question marks, and Morey doesn’t seem to be a dice player. And who ever knows what Larry Brown is thinking.

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by T Darkstar on Aug 1, 2009 4:38 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

This is more realistic than most trades I see on this site.

I actually could see a deal like this happening.

by tcwoods on Aug 1, 2009 4:45 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Larry Brown likes Gerald Wallace...a lot

and Martell has “negative” trade value until he’s back on the court in NBA action

I could see a deal like this sometime next winter, probably not for Crash, though

When reached 39 years of following Portland basketball you have, be as passionate of the Trail Blazers you will not!

by two4larue on Aug 1, 2009 4:46 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I just threw him in there to get rid of him. I think that trade would be fair for the Rockets without him.

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by Zaron5551 on Aug 1, 2009 5:29 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

"I have no response to that" --Angelica Graynamore

Joe versus the Volcano

When reached 39 years of following Portland basketball you have, be as passionate of the Trail Blazers you will not!

by two4larue on Aug 1, 2009 6:23 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

so do I

by StocktonNEP on Aug 2, 2009 2:10 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

He was pretty critical of him last season. He seems to hate everyone he finds on the roster when he takes a new job and has a "grass is always greener on the other side" approach to team building. Who is left from when he took over?

Wallace, Augustin, …?

Combined with an owner trying to find a buyer, the Bobcats are indeed high up on my list of teams trying to save money in deals more than trying to win anything.

"I'm addicted to polo y'all...respect my fresh" - Travis25Outlaw

by Norsktroll on Aug 2, 2009 2:13 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

you're not going to make me go back find the article, are you?

it’s probably been over a month since I read this, but the gyst of it was that Brown loves everything about Wallace’s intangibles and it will take a “blow his socks off” kind of offer to pry Crash away from Charlotte

Bedgers can keep putting proposals up here, but (just like with Hinrich) it doesn’t mean “their guy” is one inch closer to being acquired by Portland

When reached 39 years of following Portland basketball you have, be as passionate of the Trail Blazers you will not!

by two4larue on Aug 2, 2009 4:45 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

My favorite thing about this post

Is that the downsides for each team were already listed. I think it’d be great for us but is unlikely to happen. It might happen if we gave up Batum instead of Webster, just as a guess.

You can measure skill and talent with your eyes, but productivity is shown through statistics.

by austinpwnz on Aug 1, 2009 5:49 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

That was a nice touch.

Shows that some thought went into this, not just “let’s see if trade machine will let me do this.”

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by T Darkstar on Aug 1, 2009 8:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Rec!

For the title, the pros & the reasons it won’t happen. Nice work!!

My favorite teams are the Blazers and any team that is playing the Lakers.

by OCBlazerFan1 on Aug 1, 2009 6:04 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

ESPN Trade Machine

Although the Bobcats would never do this…..

http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=l6he5m

ESPN Trade Machine says its successful.

by KevinMac90 on Aug 1, 2009 9:58 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

could anyone see this happening?

http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=lceopl

by Blogaholic on Aug 2, 2009 12:30 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Yuck, a dream for Rockets fans

"I'm addicted to polo y'all...respect my fresh" - Travis25Outlaw

by Norsktroll on Aug 2, 2009 2:14 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

what about...

Outlaw and Rudy for Battier?

i want Battier! lol

by Blogaholic on Aug 2, 2009 3:14 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I don't. If we change the SF spot, I want a stats star and not a no-stats star with a PER of 10. And definitely not at such a price.

"I'm addicted to polo y'all...respect my fresh" - Travis25Outlaw

by Norsktroll on Aug 2, 2009 11:02 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Or at least a no-stats star whose no-stats starhood will continue for a few years...

Battier is a proven winner in the NBA, but I worry about defensive specialists on the wrong side of 30.

That’s one reason I think the best move of the season for Blazers fans (maybe not for next year, but for the four years after that) was the Artest signing. The Lakers could’ve had Ariza at 24 years old for the same price – and Ariza is a better defender already who doesn’t need shots to give max effort.

Artest’s defensive skills are declining (much more quickly than Battier’s, by the way – wonder who takes better care of his body?) and replacing Ariza with Artest will make the Lakers MUCH more vulnerable to being overtaken by Portland next year and especially the four years after that.

Q: Is Greg favoring his knee?
Frye: He favors dunking on your head, that's what he favors.

by KP Corleone on Aug 2, 2009 6:43 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'd like it if it wasn't brent barry

G wallace would be a tremendous pick up but i think another point or power forward forward would be better, maybe houston puts up chuck hayes or joey dorsey and we give them outlaw instead of webster

by StocktonNEP on Aug 2, 2009 2:09 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

portland needs dorsey

as much as i need AIDS

fire nate before its too late

by pipgras on Aug 2, 2009 10:30 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

lol

Well said

Man, with this outfield, need to get rid of that Rasmus guy. :)

by Taskmaster on Aug 2, 2009 2:04 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

the Blazers need someone "like" Dorsey

who’s been in the league longer and (hopefully) been to the playoffs a bunch of times

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by two4larue on Aug 2, 2009 4:48 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

i would rather have

big baby, hermann (his hands are huge what time wouldnt want him), lee (very super unlikely, but so is dorsey), is jermain oneal still a fa?, powe, udoka, marvin williams,….

fire nate before its too late

by pipgras on Aug 2, 2009 7:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Jermaine's in Miami, making 23 mil

Udoka and Wiliams are SFs, my target is a 4/5

Someone like Ronny Turiaf or Jeff Foster, but we’re probably looking at December at the earliest re: a deal for either of those guys…depending on how their teams are playing and how Webster’s foot is doing

When reached 39 years of following Portland basketball you have, be as passionate of the Trail Blazers you will not!

by two4larue on Aug 2, 2009 7:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Dorsey may hold a grudge against Greg, and vice versa...

In the elite eight of the NCAA tourney, Dorsey grabbed a few headlines before the game by calling Oden overrated.

Turned out to be one of the best games of the seasons for OSU fans. Greg absolutely decimated Dorsey – who finished with something like 2 points and 3 rebounds. Greg had something like 20 and 14.

Everyone knew it was going to be a nice game when Dorsey was so intimidated by Greg on like the third play that, instead of getting a post look thrown back in his face, he just threw the ball straight up at the last minute – literally like 25 feet straight up into the air. It was phenomenal. One of the best games of Greg’s college career.

Q: Is Greg favoring his knee?
Frye: He favors dunking on your head, that's what he favors.

by KP Corleone on Aug 2, 2009 6:37 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Well if you can't beat Greg, join him?

Dorsey would be a decent complemetary backup to LMA, but if you put Joey alongside Greg or Joel I’d be concerned about their lack of outside shooting which would invite the opposing team to double team the other 3 Blazer players

When reached 39 years of following Portland basketball you have, be as passionate of the Trail Blazers you will not!

by two4larue on Aug 2, 2009 7:52 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs