Although I’m not expecting any deal.

But great arguments and great points. Before I ‘saw the light’ with Yao, I honestly thought Houston should have chosen Caron Butler with the #1 pick. He was a tough guy, a competitor and a good looking guy from UConn, and I felt like he’d have excelled in an uptempo offense with Francis and Mobley. However, this is a good chance for Houston to get the 3rd best player from the Yao/Amare draft onto their roster.

The only problem is that Washington is a complete disaster, and you know they’re going to want to sluff off some bad deals on Houston WHILE also asking for the “goods” from us.

Let me say this, if the names “Aaron Brooks” or “Carl Landry” come up in conversation for a trade, WALK AWAY DARYL!

OUR RECORDE IS NOT GOING TO BE IMPACTED BY ONE PLAYER, FROM HERE TIL THE END OF THE SEASON, NOT SAYING THAT BAD BUT REALLY JUST KEEP SITTING, WAIT FOR THE SUMMER!!!!!!!!

The only concern I have is age Isnt Caron like 30? One of the problems this organazition has had is no youth. Yes we are making waves with Landry and Brooks, but Battier, Scola, Tmac, Cook and Anderson are 30 or older. The NBA is a young Mans game and we need a little more youth.

Many people complain about Caron’s defense. Trust me, if you get the guy to commit, he’s a really, really good defender. You won’t see it this season, because he’s playing for a team with no direction, and for a coach whose system he has yet to buy into. There’s no incentive to do anything but try and look good for other GM’s and not piss off teammates too much in the process. And knowing Caron, pissing off teammates or jeopardizing his chance to play is the last thing he wants to do.

He hasn’t played defense for five years. In fact, he’s playing better defense this year than in any other year. Watch how clueless he is off the ball.

But after seeing him play again against us I don’t think he would help anymore than what we have right now. I’d much rather have Joe Johnson & since he or Bosh will not be traded to Houston this year I say we have to just keep what we have & try to develop our future team (Brooks, Landry, Budinger). Why should we trade for Caron for just 2 years unless we use him as trade bait!? If not might as well keep the money & resign our EC’s we want to keep & PRAY Morey can pull off his best feat to date & snag JJ or CB in free agency which is almost impossible since we will have no money to do so. Morey won’t make a trade to make one we all know this & I guess Caron could help a lil but I don’t think I want to commit that money to him. I have to admit though IF the Warriors are still interested in trading Randolph I’d be looking to grab him! He’s cheap, young, tall & (hurt right now) but have Sleepy get his ass in the gym & bulk up & IF some way possible do a sign and trade for Bosh. We’d be BIG with Yao, Bosh & Randolph. I doubt this can happen now with Raps & Hawks winning in the east but Randolph I’d definitely try to get. We need a SG & PF but we also need height.

is in the players it will take to make it work. The only way for the Wizards to pull off their deal is to offer more salary than the Rockets can with just McGrady. Problem at that point, of the players we could deal, such as Scola or Lowry (Don’t want Scola included though), we come out at a push for a result that is arguably not worth it.

I like Feigen’s response to something I threw out there, it’s most likely going to have to be a three team deal. I kind of thought about a deal that would work for all three teams, meet the needs and still fit the bill. Problem is it comes out looking lopsided without some fantastic salesmanship form Morey.

Hou: Gets Haywood, Butler, Iguodala
Was: Dalembert, Cook, Kappono
Phi: McGrady, Foye, Taylor

Houston gets what they want, flexibility being able to move Battier of need be (I would hate to see him go but defensively we’d be all set with wings like Ariza and Iguodala) and some nominal salary relief with Haywood.

Washington gets salary relief via Kappono and Cook with Dalembert being a viable trade chip this summer/next summer and a serviceable center to pair with McGee/Blatche at the 4. This is where the salesmanship comes up as it’s the weakest link in this trade chain.

Philly gets salary relief in abundance between McGrady and Foye, gets two younger players in Foye and Taylor and if Foye does well, they can re up. Williams is more of a 2 guard in a one’s body, but they’d get three good 2/3’s to plug into that system and about 26 million off the books or so next season. I think the onus on this deal is the idea that Philly most likely won’t make playoff noise if they do make it, so why not tank and get a shot at Wall and be about 19mil under the cap (Barring a lowering, even if it lowers, they’re looking about 15-13 million).

Also, weird to make my first post after lurking on this site for a while, but figured I’d sign up as a one to one trade with Washington scares the hell out of me since the result is arguably nothing that would improve anything this season or next season besides creating more of an oversaturation at the 2/3 and forcing us to move Battier or the newly acquired Butler anyhow. Add that third team and I feel more comfortable with the deal. Though I’d still enjoy Dalembert as just a great back up for Yao next year (Grossly overpaid or not, he’s one hell of an insurance ticket).