MC84 said:
What I don't understand is if Amare is available, why wouldn't Sota just trade straight up for him? Ok, I understand he's only 2 years removed from his knee problem but he's just made All-NBA! And he's still young (not 25 until end of year).
I think it's win-win for both teams. The KG experience is unfortunately a failure for Minny so they get rid of his $20m contract and take back a player 6 years younger who could be more dominant (at least offensively) who's only on $12m over the next 5 years. Suns get the player that instantly makes them conference favourites.
BUT, as a Hawks fan, WHY ON EARTH WOULDN'T THOSE MUGS WHO RUN MY TEAM MAKE THIS TRADE?!?!?!?!
3rd pick - Al Horford. Might become half the player Amare is, but is smaller and wasn't the best player on his college team.
11th pick - Acie Law/Javaris Crittenton. Brilliant. So not only have we passed on Chris Paul, Deron Williams & Brandon Roy the past 2 drafts we'll take a player not fit to tie any of their laces this year and at the same time submarine a trade possibility that would have pushed us to the brink of Eastern Conference contender.
You can't tell me that those two combined are more valuable than Amare. A core trio of Amare/Joe Johnston/Josh Smith is an excellent start. Then you add Josh Childress, a solid player off the bench, Marvin Williams, who was injured a lot last year so stunted his development, Zaza Pachulia, a solid scoring centre (admittedly a terrible defender) and the Hawks have a solid YOUNG core. Then, we make a play for Chauncey in free agency. He's won a ring, Finals MVP, he's now going to be looking for his money. And he gets to lob alley-oops to Amare & Smith for the next 5 years and be the undisputed leader of the team. That team contends in the East. That's all I ask.
Of course I know the management of my team wouldn't be able to organise a root in a brothel at this point and it's killing me. I see a trade scenario like this reported and my hopes raise just a little. Then one of the bastards that own my team decide to play petty games against the others which only results in further damage to the supporter base (which I think consists of 3 chickens and a cow at this point. Oh, and me).
Then today I hear that we're possibly drafting Yi Jianlin. FFS, he hasn't even worked out for ANY team so how on Earth could the Hawks owners possibly think he'd be a better player than Horford or Conley (if we're keeping the picks), or a better fit for our team.
