Gerald Green??

[Arby's Roast Beef]

Some players games are best suited to winning teams. Take Boris Diaw, when he was with the Hawks he barely sniffed the court, so he was easy to include in the Joe Johnson trade to the Suns. Then he became an overnight starter for a team challenging for a championship. And he didn't even have the physical gifts that a Green would bring.

Therein lies the conundrum. Diaw and Green are completely different players; coming into the draft, Diaw was considered a fundamentally sound versatile passing long-armed defensive glue guy. Green is your prototypical lottery pick potential jaw dropping freak athlete with skills relating to ballhandling and shooting. In other words, Diaw was a ready contributor with NBA skills, and Green was just raw clay with superstar potential; one's middle ground, one's high risk high reward. Diaw just didn't fit Atlanta because he was a putrid offensive player there, and in a team lacking scoring they certainly needed it; however, he was already an NBA-type defender and passer, two intangible type skills valued at this level, and thus really showed his true stripes with the Suns. Green, however, tantalizes you with potential but is arguably even more inconsistent than Garcia, takes jumpers over slashes, is unreceptive to coaching, and shows all the signs of failure that is not uncommon of athletes of his breed. Diaw never had those problems at all.

 

[AriesMar27]

green would be cool if we didnt have so many players at his position... though i would gladly trade garcia for him... we wouldnt really lose anything.... i like garcia but green is a freak of nature athlete... we dont have any of those on this team... the closest one would be jones... we dont need jones or douby and i would hope that we wouldnt trade artest for another sg/sf.... if artest decides to walk after this season then id be down for picking up green... though that would make it hard to resign beno...

gerald wallace was the same type of player that green is and he turned out okay....

 

[beb0p]

Green has world of potential. He's still young, he can be better than Salmons, Garcia, and maybe even Martin in a few years. Not saying he will.

We don't need him but we should get him if he's cheap making him a high reward/low risk guy. He's worth a second round pick and/or our bad contracts but probably no more though.

But I highly doubt he wants to come here for the same reason that Gerald Wallace didn't want to stay here.

 

[VF21]

Gerald Wallace DID want to stay. He was drafted by the Bobcats and had no say whatsoever in the matter. After the fact he may have made comments but he was NOT in a hurry to leave the Kings...

As far as Green and his potential go, maybe they'd take Ron off our hands for him. Ron Artest for Green and a future pick would work for me.

 

[Kingster]

Let me see. One person said he was 21 yr's old, and another said he was 22 yr's old, and you said he was the only player younger than Hawes, who happens to be 19 yr's old. So that makes him 18 yr's old. So which is it. Im confused. This is one talented guy. Not only can he jump over tall buildings, and shoot the three while doing it, he can also change his age. I'm also impressed.

A quote from V. Lombardi ( I think ) " Potential means, you haven't done anything yet"...

Potential is exactly what we should trade for. That's when you have the oportunity to get a bargain. If the potential is realized, you have no chance to get him.

 

[beb0p]

Gerald Wallace DID want to stay. He was drafted by the Bobcats and had no say whatsoever in the matter. After the fact he may have made comments but he was NOT in a hurry to leave the Kings...

I don't want to get off topic but GW sure did made comments after the fact that he couldn't wait to leave Sactown. But if you chose to ignore that, that's just fine with me.

As far as Green and his potential go, maybe they'd take Ron off our hands for him. Ron Artest for Green and a future pick would work for me.

Me too. Though I don't see Minni taking Ron or anyone we have to offer...

 

[VF21]

I don't want to get off topic but GW sure did made comments after the fact that he couldn't wait to leave Sactown. But if you chose to ignore that, that's just fine with me.

I'm not ignoring anything. What Wallace said after the fact was quite possibly partially hurt feelings as much as anything else. Before he was exposed to the draft the only real problem with him was questions and rumors about his work ethic. And those quite possibly were why he was left for Charlotte to claim.

I never said he didn't grumble; I just meant he only did so after his name was put on the "available for draft" list...

 

[beb0p]

I'm not ignoring anything. What Wallace said after the fact was quite possibly partially hurt feelings as much as anything else. Before he was exposed to the draft the only real problem with him was questions and rumors about his work ethic. And those quite possibly were why he was left for Charlotte to claim.

I never said he didn't grumble; I just meant he only did so after his name was put on the "available for draft" list...

Not entirely true. GW's agent had urged the front office to give his client more PT or trade him at least a yr before he was exposed to the expansion draft.

But "possibly" his agent was only blowing hot air. And "possibly" GW said what he said only because he loves Sacramento so much. And "possibly" I'll be the next multi-million lottery winner. I hope you're right, and I'm rich.

 

[GeraldWallace#3]

I hear Gerald Green is asking to be traded