Should we trade Peja Poll.
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As of this moment I am riding the Peja/Bobby for Odom bandwagon.
Sure we may be giving up a little to much, but this helps us.
-Peja doesn't want to be here.
-Bobby is an aging, injury plauged point guard who want to be a starter before his career is up.
-Odom is a good rebounder, a good defender, a low post presence, and with him our offense would be better, IMO. Now we have Bibby and Cat on the outside. Miller going midrange, Webber going middle/inside, and Odom banging around down low. Maybe not "better" but more spread out. And I like that idea.
Bibby/House
Cat/Evans/Martin
Odom/Barnes
Webber/Songaila
Miller/O-Tag
I'm down with that.
Sure we may be giving up a little to much, but this helps us.
-Peja doesn't want to be here.
-Bobby is an aging, injury plauged point guard who want to be a starter before his career is up.
-Odom is a good rebounder, a good defender, a low post presence, and with him our offense would be better, IMO. Now we have Bibby and Cat on the outside. Miller going midrange, Webber going middle/inside, and Odom banging around down low. Maybe not "better" but more spread out. And I like that idea.
Bibby/House
Cat/Evans/Martin
Odom/Barnes
Webber/Songaila
Miller/O-Tag
I'm down with that.
I think everything sounds decent with the proposed trade except for House as backup. It is true that he has played better than expected, but there is no question that the Kings suffer when he is on the court and Bibby is on the bench. I'm still one of those people still holding out hope that B-Jax will make a miraculous recovery and play well in the playoffs. Call me a dreamer but its a helluva lot better than relying on House in crunch time.
83 votes in and pretty interesting results. Even though a lot of you want Peja to be traded I'm pleasantly surprised at his support #'s too. I don't think anybody's right or wrong in their opinion at this point, the last part of the season and the playoffs will decide that. I'm not sure why some people were so scared of this poll, it was just a guage to see if people thought Peja needed to be dealt for the Kings to make a run. Many people have said absolutely yes to this question and many people have said absolutely no, I just put it to a vote. Again my point (as I described in the first post) was not whether Petrie should make a deal for Peja if a good one comes along, but whether he should "actively" seek to deal him before the deadline.(as opposed to after the season). I'm not sure why some people couldn't get the question or took offense to it, but oh well... a few more days and the speculation will be over... Thank God!!!
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Whats funny is I've been told the same thing by others(Mods even) about private polls too. They said it makes people less accountable if it's private and you'll get a lot of trolls. But hey you can definately see some intelligent long standing members on both sides of this one. I also thought making it public would get less responses but its counting up faster than my Webber one from a few weeks ago (which was private). I'm not even going to comment on the turning down sex take.
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I'm not big on peja but i wouldn't trade him based on his performance of the last few weeks. He's been dealing with severe(sp) pain and trying to play through it(something he should be applauded for). I'd feel hypocritical saying trade peja for that, when I felt people were being unfair for doing that to webber last year(who's been having a great year considering the surgery he had).
I was all for shaking up the roster a little because some of us hate to admit it we weren't headed in the right direction. So the Christie/Mobley trade came about and i thought that would be enough. It seems we still have to address our rebounding. We have already raised the bar on offense with Mobley so we can afford to lose 8 to 10 points if need be. But we have to get rebounding. Peja is basically not hardcore enough to battle for rebounds, He has his moments but we need consistancy. before the season started i was looking at Artest, AK, Odom, and Pierce. Yes it was in that order. The first would have been awesom and certainly a favorite for a championship but it didn't happen and Now i don't know if anybody wants Artest but me. AK is a stat machine. He may get 9 blocks and 8 steals with 14 rebounds and 12 points. Or he may get 20 points 10 rebounds with 4 or 5 assist and still have 2 or 3 steals and blocks. Odom can score more that AK and has better rebounding abilites but not the defense. Pierce eh.
Face it KingsFans some major sould seraching has to go on for us to win a championshipt with this team right now. We just don't have the toughness right now. I hope it comes with this unit but, If a trade is what is needed i am all for it.
Face it KingsFans some major sould seraching has to go on for us to win a championshipt with this team right now. We just don't have the toughness right now. I hope it comes with this unit but, If a trade is what is needed i am all for it.
Entity - WHAT good would it do to trade for Artest now when he cannot play until next year?
If you're talking about breaking up the team after the year is over, then it might be worth revisiting the Artest subject although it makes me want to scream. If you're talking about getting someone NOW to get us to that next level BEFORE the playoffs, then you cannot be talking about Artest.
What people aren't realizing IMHO is that it takes a while for a team to adjust to a new starting player. Cuttino had only one practice with this team since his arrival and NONE with ALL of the other starters. That's huge. Peja is able to get rebounds. I've seen him do it. Hopefully, if he's healed physically he'll go after more of them. Yes, we do have some areas we definitely need to focus on but I do not think we're out of the picture quite yet.
Having said all that, I still trust Geoff Petrie to make the right decisions. It's in his hands.
62 hours, 52 minutes and counting...
If you're talking about breaking up the team after the year is over, then it might be worth revisiting the Artest subject although it makes me want to scream. If you're talking about getting someone NOW to get us to that next level BEFORE the playoffs, then you cannot be talking about Artest.
What people aren't realizing IMHO is that it takes a while for a team to adjust to a new starting player. Cuttino had only one practice with this team since his arrival and NONE with ALL of the other starters. That's huge. Peja is able to get rebounds. I've seen him do it. Hopefully, if he's healed physically he'll go after more of them. Yes, we do have some areas we definitely need to focus on but I do not think we're out of the picture quite yet.
Having said all that, I still trust Geoff Petrie to make the right decisions. It's in his hands.
62 hours, 52 minutes and counting...
KingKong said:
Nothing like getting a much needed blowout either to boost your confidence going into the second half of the season, even if it is the lowly Hawks. 
Now as far as changing any trade scenarios...well...
Bricklayer said:
Now as far as changing any trade scenarios...well...
I realize that the trade rumors will probably continue even after the trade deadline. However, I'd like to think that they can stop.
Its getting dangerous to come in here.
Some of the inane ramblings that I've seen here the last few days have almost driven me to repeatedly bang my head on the desk -- both out of frustration and a belief that I would understand them better if I dislodged a few IQ points.
I believe that the right thing to do is let GP decide who should be traded or not and me, personally, I will support any player that wears the Kings uniform as long as they wear it. We should not trade anyone an try to win it all with who we got (unless GP decides otherwise). Any Kings player is a Kings player and has my support 100%.
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Kind of hard to say. The main reason why he's not doing good this year aside from injuries is that Webber is getting the ball a lot more. We've seen what he can do with his near MVP performance last season.
The only problem is, who do you give him to? Jazz? Him and Kirilenko will be lethal. Pacers? We'd be giving them an ideal replacement for Miller.
The only problem is, who do you give him to? Jazz? Him and Kirilenko will be lethal. Pacers? We'd be giving them an ideal replacement for Miller.