How to have a Hibbert

Bricklayer

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From the annals of overreaction...

Memphis apparently just lost Darrel Arthur to a torn achilles. I am in a mood to overreact after watching Hickson and Thompson suck it up and our defense get shredded again. Meanwhile our GM may have been permanetly brain damaged by his early exposure to Pete Carril's Princeton high post passing big man offense while in college, and should be introduced at Kings games to the tunes of Glory Days. So...voila:

Sac out:
Thompson
Hickson

Sac IN:
Hibbert

Mem OUT:
Mayo

Mem IN:
Hickson

Ind IN:
Thompson
Mayo

Ind OUT:
Hibbert

Sprinkle in minor contracts to make numbers work as needed, but all guys are oin their rookie deals.

Indiana of course would be the holdup. They have been after Mayo for a year now, but may be slightly reluctant to trade their big shotblocking center. Oddly it seems that the entire rest of the league values those guys and doesn't like to give them away. Anyway, despite being slow and too finessey at times, Hibert is of course the unique entity who can both make Geoff wet with passing ability, and clog the lane at 7'2". Of course since its his last year on his rookie deal, at the end of it we will STILL have to pay a shotblocking center $10mil+, but details. Shortens our rotations, gives us two good defenders in our three bigs. let's us Twin Towers or mighty mite according to need. Fewer guys to have to try to pay. And you get a shotblocking center that even Geoff can see the value of, if only because the guy is smart and can pass and ran Geoff's beloved high school...oops, I mean college offense at G-Town. Downside is that all those 6'9" to 6'11" atheltic guys are now history and Cousins' choices to throw lobs to are now a lumbering giant and a shooting guard sized PF. And of course Cousins now is firmly a PF and has to chase those guys around the perimeter -- the Daly advantage was that he could do that stuff and saved Cousins from bad matchups.
 
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Mayo for Hickson?

I don't even think Memphis would do Xavier Henry for Hickson, which is what I thought about posting earlier.
 
Mayo for Hickson?

I don't even think Memphis would do Xavier Henry for Hickson, which is what I thought about posting earlier.

yes, but then again you have been a little confused about Hickson's abilities ever since his arrival so that's not a surprise.

2010-11 numbers:

Hickson 13.8pts (.457) 8.7reb 1.1ast 0.6stl 0.7blk 2.2TO
Thomps _8.8pts (.507) 6.1reb 1.2ast 0.4stl 0.6blk 1.3TO
OJMayo 11.3pts (.407) 2.4reb 2.0ast 1.0stl 0.4blk 1.4TO
Hibbert- 12.7pts (.461) 7.5reb 2.0ast 0.4stl 1.8blk 2.3TO
 
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I'd do it. But knowing Petrie, he's probably trying to find a way to get Bargnani from Tor.

This would make sense. I like Hibbert, but he's no Daly. Can't guard 4's away from the basket. Which leaves Cousins chasing Dirk/Amare/Griffin types.
 
I wouldn't call that overreaction. i'd call it a no-brainer. I'd trade JT and Hickson for Hibbert anytime without even having to think twice about it. I don't have much hope left for JT at this point so the way i see it it's basically Hibbert for Hickson straight up.
 
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I don't see Indiana doing that just yet, but you never know. They may need a bit more.

I don't love the Hibbert fit with Cousins either, but I would do it based on talent alone. On offense it would work, but I'd still worry about defense with those two. Neither guy is as mobile as you would like for PF .. and like you said Hibbert can look extremely slow at times. He had a pretty good defensive track record at Gtown, but I haven't noticed that translate as well as I had hoped. The shotlocking numbers are there, but I certainly don't consider him a defensive big or a guy players won't drive the lane on in fear of getting blocked ( like Dally, Chandler, Howard .. )

But on a team with our depth, I'd take just about any 2 for 1 were we end up with the best guy. I'd take Hibbert for Hickson and Thompson, no doubt about it.
 
First, I'd do it. Now, I don't know why the Pacers would do it. They just signed David West. They already have Jeff Foster, Tyler Hansbrough, and Jeff Pendergast. So they don't really need a Thompson or a Hickson, which ever one you wanted to send their way. So they'd have to love O.J. Mayo an awful lot to esentially give up Hibbert for him. I don't see it happening, but hey my man, if you can pull it off, I'm on board.
 
i don't like it. because then we are a sprained ankle or bruised hip away from Whiteside being our big off the bench. trade one or couple one with Whiteside. but you don't trade both Id prefer to keep JT. So the guy had a bad preseason game. Either way this is all a knee jerk reaction to a preseason game. If all starters start and play tuesday and the result is the same and JT and hickson actually get to play their desired roles and they suck it up again then we can talk.
 
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id say our best bet for a shotblocker would be sighn dalembert or somebody really needs to get with Whiteside and teach him something.
 
That's actually not a bad deal. With the West acquisition, I think the Pacers would want to have Hibbert to hide West's deficiencies though. I think both other teams do it. Memphis has lost Darrell Arthur for the year I think, so they could use another big for their rotation. Somebody contact Petrie
 
Our GM's and Maloofs' reaction when they are presented with opportunity of getting a big time shot blocker on their team...

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