Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
The Kings blurb from the yahoo Power Rankings this morning:
Which may or may not be true. Which hardly comes as a surprise. And which could easily just be lumped into the general "Kings active in trade talks" thread. But give the relative specificity here, and given a 5 day break, I thought I'd waste some time teasing out every possible SF resolution around the NBA. because if we are looking this early in the season, you have to imagine that sooner or later we will pull the trigger on something. So, every major and not so major SF in the NBA and can we get them:
Place your bets:
Western Conference
POR Batum -- figure it would be impossible after their hot start
POR Wright -- we could do that. Wright I a three point shooter. I was surprised we did not make an offer to him this summer. But he's marginal at this point. Are we just looking to add depth to a rotation? Or find a solution?
GSW Igoudala -- obviously no way after this summer
GSW Barnes -- you have to also figure no way, but with the deep ties between the player and our management and their management, well you still have to figure no way but we might ask anyway
LAC Dudley -- until yesterday had been a disappointment so far, and wasn't that good to start with. Not clear he would solve anything, although you could try. But Clips are contenders, odds they would move him not high.
LAC Barnes -- you know what? I would be up for bringing the local boy home a 2nd time. 3 and D with the edge our coach wants. Call him a jerk if you want. But he's tough and he competes.
LAL I doubt we have any interest in pretending any of their blown up SGs are SFs for us either, but when Kobe comes back some may be available, and many can shoot.
PHX Tucker -- tough physical experienced (overseas) guy, and this year looks to have added a 3pt shot. You never know. He impressed in our games against them, and that was always enough for Geoff to go get a guy. Still, was always marginal before this season, and not clear what Phoenix would do without him.
UTH Hayward -- completely impossible, although at least now I hope the people who were saying no way would they consider swapping McLemore for him can see what a quality player he'll be
UTH Jefferson -- impossible to see how adding another washed up dude to our stable would help anything, but I think did play under Malone in Golden State.
DEN Chandler -- constantly hurt, more mediocre than people realize, and has some mutant baby thing poking out of the top of his jersey now after he blew his entire salary to get a full body of tats. But..he's a credible mediocrity at the positon, younger than you might think given how long he's been kicking about, and possibly available once Gallinari gets back.
DEN Gallinari -- speaking of which, presumably untouchable as anchor piece for Den
DEN Hamilton -- hard to imagine us looking at him as more than deep bench rotation material, but I guess is young and can hit a three
SAN -- I'm just going to blanket the entire Spurs group and say that they are all mediocre...except in San Antonio where they are great, and the Spurs well oiled machine seems unlikely to start tinkering unless they start losing. A lot.
DAL Marion -- maybe his last year, they are doing surprisingly well, and he would likely retire rather than come play for us. Call Vince a SF and that applies to him too.
DAL Crowder -- I have no idea what to make of him, and I'm not sure anybody else does either. Freaky and wildly up and down. Even if we were interested its hard to see us installing him as a starter, or indeed being sure he would beat out anybody. but suppose its not impossible he could be had if we really wanted him.
HOU Parsons -- untouchable
HOU Casspi -- how ironic would that be part 1? Has calmed back down to mere mediocrity, but I suppose its not impossible. Maybe we could send them back some of their twerp PFs, and they could send us back some of our scrub SFs. Everybody wins.
HOU Garcia -- how ironic would that be part 2? Be back to last year. But as a pure pure spot up shooter provides space for them and could for Cuz.
NOH Aminu -- they need to upgrade their SF, not lose the only one they have. And he can't shoot at all, A problem in trying to help Cuz, although I suppose we have already gone there with Mbah. Give us 48 min of defensive minded guys. Alternately maybe we should just combine Thornton and PPat and get back whatshisname to patch up the new hole we tore in our lineup at SG.
MEM Prince -- looks done, hard to see us being interested
MEM Miller -- IS done, again hard to see the interest at this stage. Prince/Miller/Pondexter > Gay. Hollinger at his best.
MIN Brewer -- would love to have him the way he's playing this year, presumably that is completely impossible
MIN Budinger -- hurt forever, and likely off playing beach volleyball with the ladies. Who knows. Certainly no major or immediate help.
MIN Williams -- of course rumored. Is he a SF? A PF? Or just a scrub? Might be worth finding out if we could figure a package that doesn't cripple what little we have going.
Which may or may not be true. Which hardly comes as a surprise. And which could easily just be lumped into the general "Kings active in trade talks" thread. But give the relative specificity here, and given a 5 day break, I thought I'd waste some time teasing out every possible SF resolution around the NBA. because if we are looking this early in the season, you have to imagine that sooner or later we will pull the trigger on something. So, every major and not so major SF in the NBA and can we get them:
Place your bets:
Western Conference
POR Batum -- figure it would be impossible after their hot start
POR Wright -- we could do that. Wright I a three point shooter. I was surprised we did not make an offer to him this summer. But he's marginal at this point. Are we just looking to add depth to a rotation? Or find a solution?
GSW Igoudala -- obviously no way after this summer
GSW Barnes -- you have to also figure no way, but with the deep ties between the player and our management and their management, well you still have to figure no way but we might ask anyway
LAC Dudley -- until yesterday had been a disappointment so far, and wasn't that good to start with. Not clear he would solve anything, although you could try. But Clips are contenders, odds they would move him not high.
LAC Barnes -- you know what? I would be up for bringing the local boy home a 2nd time. 3 and D with the edge our coach wants. Call him a jerk if you want. But he's tough and he competes.
LAL I doubt we have any interest in pretending any of their blown up SGs are SFs for us either, but when Kobe comes back some may be available, and many can shoot.
PHX Tucker -- tough physical experienced (overseas) guy, and this year looks to have added a 3pt shot. You never know. He impressed in our games against them, and that was always enough for Geoff to go get a guy. Still, was always marginal before this season, and not clear what Phoenix would do without him.
UTH Hayward -- completely impossible, although at least now I hope the people who were saying no way would they consider swapping McLemore for him can see what a quality player he'll be
UTH Jefferson -- impossible to see how adding another washed up dude to our stable would help anything, but I think did play under Malone in Golden State.
DEN Chandler -- constantly hurt, more mediocre than people realize, and has some mutant baby thing poking out of the top of his jersey now after he blew his entire salary to get a full body of tats. But..he's a credible mediocrity at the positon, younger than you might think given how long he's been kicking about, and possibly available once Gallinari gets back.
DEN Gallinari -- speaking of which, presumably untouchable as anchor piece for Den
DEN Hamilton -- hard to imagine us looking at him as more than deep bench rotation material, but I guess is young and can hit a three
SAN -- I'm just going to blanket the entire Spurs group and say that they are all mediocre...except in San Antonio where they are great, and the Spurs well oiled machine seems unlikely to start tinkering unless they start losing. A lot.
DAL Marion -- maybe his last year, they are doing surprisingly well, and he would likely retire rather than come play for us. Call Vince a SF and that applies to him too.
DAL Crowder -- I have no idea what to make of him, and I'm not sure anybody else does either. Freaky and wildly up and down. Even if we were interested its hard to see us installing him as a starter, or indeed being sure he would beat out anybody. but suppose its not impossible he could be had if we really wanted him.
HOU Parsons -- untouchable
HOU Casspi -- how ironic would that be part 1? Has calmed back down to mere mediocrity, but I suppose its not impossible. Maybe we could send them back some of their twerp PFs, and they could send us back some of our scrub SFs. Everybody wins.
HOU Garcia -- how ironic would that be part 2? Be back to last year. But as a pure pure spot up shooter provides space for them and could for Cuz.
NOH Aminu -- they need to upgrade their SF, not lose the only one they have. And he can't shoot at all, A problem in trying to help Cuz, although I suppose we have already gone there with Mbah. Give us 48 min of defensive minded guys. Alternately maybe we should just combine Thornton and PPat and get back whatshisname to patch up the new hole we tore in our lineup at SG.
MEM Prince -- looks done, hard to see us being interested
MEM Miller -- IS done, again hard to see the interest at this stage. Prince/Miller/Pondexter > Gay. Hollinger at his best.
MIN Brewer -- would love to have him the way he's playing this year, presumably that is completely impossible
MIN Budinger -- hurt forever, and likely off playing beach volleyball with the ladies. Who knows. Certainly no major or immediate help.
MIN Williams -- of course rumored. Is he a SF? A PF? Or just a scrub? Might be worth finding out if we could figure a package that doesn't cripple what little we have going.
