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There were rumors right after the Peja/Ron trade that, quote; "the Pacers are trying very hard to obtain Mickael Pietrus from Golden State for Fred Jones." Obviously because he plays defense a lot like Ron.
Viewed unlikely at the time it's very unlikely now that Pietrus is starting ahead of Mike Dunleavy in the Warriors lineup. Plus the Warriors want a big man, not another guard.
One thing interesting is the Warriors have to make a deal today or lose the $5.2 million trade exception they got from New Jersey for Cliff Robinson. The exception expires at the close of business today. There are rumors that they are trying to trade Duneavy, but since he is in the first year of a new contract he is BYC, thus really hard to trade. The exception makes it easier to trade Duneavy, so if he is not traded today he probably won't be traded at all this year. The thought I got from this is if they don't trade Dunleavy today maybe they will consider trading Pietrus after all.
Obviously since we have Peja and Granger manning the small forward position we wouldn't be interested in using Pietrus there. Rather he would be taking Fred Jones backup guard position. (Which could make Jax expendable)
Personally, I don't see trading Fred at all, even if he is a restricted free agent at the end of the year. Fred is the only player we have that can really guard the Parker's and Wades of the NBA. Thus when Fred gets in foul trouble like he did against SAS, we really get hurt. So what we really need is to trade someone else for Pietrus, and thus have two guards capable of guarding people.
What the Warriors have wanted is a big man, so maybe we could trade Croshere to them. Most of us like everything about Cro except his contract, however he does seem to be odd man out the way the Pacers are playing now.
This works.
Outgoing
Austin Croshere
6-10 PF from Providence
8.7 ppg, 5.9 rpg, 1.2 apg in 25.4 minutes
Anthony Johnson
6-3 PG from Charleston
7.3 ppg, 2.2 rpg, 3.9 apg in 24.1 minutes
Incoming
Mickael Pietrus
6-6 SG from France (Foreign)
11.4 ppg, 3.4 rpg, 0.9 apg in 23.9 minutes
Derek Fisher
6-1 PG from Arkansas-Little Rock
11.7 ppg, 2.4 rpg, 3.1 apg in 27.9 minutes
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Blurb from Tribune columnist Sam Smith on Peja.
"It seems time the Bulls end the unending youth movements. Free agency? Peja Stojakovic seems likely to re-sign with Indiana, Ben Wallace with the Pistons and Jason Terry with Dallas. So who? Al Harrington? Nene? Vladimir Radmanovic? Wait until 2007? The Sonics desperately need financial relief. Trading them Gordon, who did his best playing against Western Conference teams last week, would almost replace Allen's scoring and could be a perimeter option along with Rashard Lewis."
That's good to hear! I agree with Sam, I really don't think Bird will let Peja get away.
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Playoff seedings have to be changed.
Right now the way the playoffs are set up, all six divisions winners have home court advantage in the first round. Since sixteen teams make the playoffs, eight from the Western Conference, and eight from the Eastern conference, it means the fourth place finisher in each conference will also get home court advantage in the first round.
For instance in the Western conference right now the standings look thus,
1 San Antonio........... 40-11
2 Phoenix................. 33-17
3 Denver.................. 28-25
4 Dallas................... 40-11
5 LA Clippers............ 30-19
6 NO/Oklahoma City... 28-23
7 Memphis................ 28-23
8 LA Lakers.............. 26-25
This is the way the playoffs are seeded.
[1] vs [8] with the winner facing the [4] vs [5] winner.
[2] vs [7] with the winner facing the [3] vs [6] winner.
That means if the playoffs started today the Spurs would play the Mavs in the 2ed round, provided both teams win. That's what happened to the Pacers and Pistons two years ago when the Pacers won 61 games, and the Pistons 54. No one else was even close, New Jersey being next with 47 wins.
A better way would be to seed the home teams according to record. Nothing else would change since the team with the best record has home court advantage the rest of the playoffs.
Thus instead of the traditional seedings the teams with the best records wouldn't meet until the conference finals.
[1] vs [8] with the winner facing the [3] vs [6] winner.
[2] vs [7] with the winner facing the [4] vs [5] winner.
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Too many after game threads
If you are like me you like to read and talk about the game afterwords. My problem is there are always several threads and basically the same things get covered. Sometimes you even have people coping and pasting something they said in another thread. So my suggestion is 'one after game thread."
It occurs to me that a lot of us like to read Peck's 'Odd thought's on the Game,' so I would make that an exception. Some of you might thing this not fair, but some people only read Peck's after game thread. I don't believe anybody else can make that claim.
What's everyone think?
There were rumors right after the Peja/Ron trade that, quote; "the Pacers are trying very hard to obtain Mickael Pietrus from Golden State for Fred Jones." Obviously because he plays defense a lot like Ron.
Viewed unlikely at the time it's very unlikely now that Pietrus is starting ahead of Mike Dunleavy in the Warriors lineup. Plus the Warriors want a big man, not another guard.
One thing interesting is the Warriors have to make a deal today or lose the $5.2 million trade exception they got from New Jersey for Cliff Robinson. The exception expires at the close of business today. There are rumors that they are trying to trade Duneavy, but since he is in the first year of a new contract he is BYC, thus really hard to trade. The exception makes it easier to trade Duneavy, so if he is not traded today he probably won't be traded at all this year. The thought I got from this is if they don't trade Dunleavy today maybe they will consider trading Pietrus after all.
Obviously since we have Peja and Granger manning the small forward position we wouldn't be interested in using Pietrus there. Rather he would be taking Fred Jones backup guard position. (Which could make Jax expendable)
Personally, I don't see trading Fred at all, even if he is a restricted free agent at the end of the year. Fred is the only player we have that can really guard the Parker's and Wades of the NBA. Thus when Fred gets in foul trouble like he did against SAS, we really get hurt. So what we really need is to trade someone else for Pietrus, and thus have two guards capable of guarding people.
What the Warriors have wanted is a big man, so maybe we could trade Croshere to them. Most of us like everything about Cro except his contract, however he does seem to be odd man out the way the Pacers are playing now.
This works.
Outgoing
Austin Croshere
6-10 PF from Providence
8.7 ppg, 5.9 rpg, 1.2 apg in 25.4 minutes
Anthony Johnson
6-3 PG from Charleston
7.3 ppg, 2.2 rpg, 3.9 apg in 24.1 minutes
Incoming
Mickael Pietrus
6-6 SG from France (Foreign)
11.4 ppg, 3.4 rpg, 0.9 apg in 23.9 minutes
Derek Fisher
6-1 PG from Arkansas-Little Rock
11.7 ppg, 2.4 rpg, 3.1 apg in 27.9 minutes
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Blurb from Tribune columnist Sam Smith on Peja.
"It seems time the Bulls end the unending youth movements. Free agency? Peja Stojakovic seems likely to re-sign with Indiana, Ben Wallace with the Pistons and Jason Terry with Dallas. So who? Al Harrington? Nene? Vladimir Radmanovic? Wait until 2007? The Sonics desperately need financial relief. Trading them Gordon, who did his best playing against Western Conference teams last week, would almost replace Allen's scoring and could be a perimeter option along with Rashard Lewis."
That's good to hear! I agree with Sam, I really don't think Bird will let Peja get away.
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Playoff seedings have to be changed.
Right now the way the playoffs are set up, all six divisions winners have home court advantage in the first round. Since sixteen teams make the playoffs, eight from the Western Conference, and eight from the Eastern conference, it means the fourth place finisher in each conference will also get home court advantage in the first round.
For instance in the Western conference right now the standings look thus,
1 San Antonio........... 40-11
2 Phoenix................. 33-17
3 Denver.................. 28-25
4 Dallas................... 40-11
5 LA Clippers............ 30-19
6 NO/Oklahoma City... 28-23
7 Memphis................ 28-23
8 LA Lakers.............. 26-25
This is the way the playoffs are seeded.
[1] vs [8] with the winner facing the [4] vs [5] winner.
[2] vs [7] with the winner facing the [3] vs [6] winner.
That means if the playoffs started today the Spurs would play the Mavs in the 2ed round, provided both teams win. That's what happened to the Pacers and Pistons two years ago when the Pacers won 61 games, and the Pistons 54. No one else was even close, New Jersey being next with 47 wins.
A better way would be to seed the home teams according to record. Nothing else would change since the team with the best record has home court advantage the rest of the playoffs.
Thus instead of the traditional seedings the teams with the best records wouldn't meet until the conference finals.
[1] vs [8] with the winner facing the [3] vs [6] winner.
[2] vs [7] with the winner facing the [4] vs [5] winner.
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Too many after game threads
If you are like me you like to read and talk about the game afterwords. My problem is there are always several threads and basically the same things get covered. Sometimes you even have people coping and pasting something they said in another thread. So my suggestion is 'one after game thread."
It occurs to me that a lot of us like to read Peck's 'Odd thought's on the Game,' so I would make that an exception. Some of you might thing this not fair, but some people only read Peck's after game thread. I don't believe anybody else can make that claim.
What's everyone think?
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