My crazy idea to fix the Pacers

[Midcoasted]

Trade TJ and Murphy WITH Granger! This will get us the most value and the best returns for the future. I wouldnt care if we traded for draft picks and young players. It would HELP our team IMMENSELY.

Just think about it for a minute. We suck with Granger, and we suck without him. We need to get the most value out of him now before sucking so bad injures him even more. Sure it has to be after he is healthy again, but we should be working a trade if we ever want to be good in the future.

Why trade our best player? Because we NEED the value. We are a team riddled with mediocrity. Never getting top draft picks is the reason. Just think we could probably net a couple first round picks and a PF we desperately need. Hopefully we loose enough games to get a lottery pick, a solid mid range first round pick, and a top pick in the second round. With guys like Rush Hibbert Hansboro and Price and D Jones, we are actually building towards a team that can compete!

I'm not crazy! I really think it would work! There is a ton of value we could gain from a trade and a team really may want to get into the 2011 FA market and make a move for it now, and you get Granger as the best sweetener ever. It's only a year and a half away. Fan support is at an all time low. It would not hurt the fan support trading Granger. The only supporters left are the dieharders, us. Several of us are about to walk away because of Ford and Murphy. I wouldnt walk away if we had to use Granger as bait to trade them because I believe in the Pacers first over any player.

Oh and of course you HAVE to fire O'Brien!

[jeffg-body]

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I am warming up to this idea, but who would we go after in this trade scenario?

[Infinite MAN_force]

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No.

[Midcoasted]

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I am warming up to this idea, but who would we go after in this trade scenario?

First round draft picks! Hopefully we suck bad enough to get lottery picks the next couple of years. In this scenario we could draft 2 lottery picks, 2 other first rounders, and 2 top of the 2nd round picks to go along with Rush Hibbert Hansboro and maybe Price and D. Jones.

Price is looking like the best second round pick we ever made IMO.

[Thesterovic]

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I'd trade Granger before his knees blow out. There, I said it. Now I feel extremely condemned. I love Granger, but he's more of a good offensive weapon like Ben Gordon or a Gilbert Arenas than a game changer like Melo or Brandon Roy.

[Midcoasted]

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I am warming up to this idea, but who would we go after in this trade scenario?

And who knows, maybe we suck, and we get a trade off with a team that sucks one or both of those years, and we get FOUR lottery picks and 2 top of the 2nds, and our caproom allows us to add a quality veteran FA that will want to join on with all this young talent and be the leader of the future.

In this best case scenario we could be competing for a title in three years.

[Midcoasted]

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I'd trade Granger before his knees blow out. There, I said it. Now I feel extremely condemned. I love Granger, but he's more of a good offensive weapon like Ben Gordon or a Gilbert Arenas than a game changer like Melo or Brandon Roy.

I mean with the way he has to overcompensate for being the best player on a loosing team, he could be risking injury. He is having to do too much and play too hard. He has noone around him to keep teams from attacking him. He would benefit immensely on many other teams.

[Jay@Section12]

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Price is looking like the best second round pick we ever made IMO.

Huh?

[PaceBalls]

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You don't just trade Danny for draft picks... you trade him if you get an elite player in return. The only way I see that happening is if we can land one of the really great players in the league while exorcising ourselves of TJ and Murph. Danny is just too good to give up on, unless it is a no brainer.

guys who I would consider, Horford from Atlanta, but not just him, another good player with him. Brandon Roy and Steve Blake, DWilliams, Chris Paul.. that calibre

[Thesterovic]

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Huh?

Antonio Davis much?

[Jay@Section12]

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Antonio Davis much?

Even Fred Hoiberg, Greg Dreiling and Kenny Williams would like to have a conversation with Midcoasted about this statement.

[BlueNGold]

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If the Pacers could get an elite PG...or the perfect PF to fit next to Hibbert, that might be a good enough reason.

[Midcoasted]

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Antonio Davis much?

Well I blew it out of context. I said it blindly emphasizing that he seems to be the best PG we have right now.

[Midcoasted]

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Even Fred Hoiberg, Greg Dreiling and Kenny Williams would like to have a conversation with Midcoasted about this statement.

Davis is obviously a great player, the other three, no.

[Midcoasted]

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If the Pacers could get an elite PG...or the perfect PF to fit next to Hibbert, that might be a good enough reason.

Mo Williams and Illgauskas lol

Think of the open 3s Murphy would get from Lebron collapsing the defense and TJ and Granger couldnt dominate the ball like they do here because Lebron would punk them. The Cavs could probably win a title with Granger. Just like Jordan needed Pippen. You also add one of the top 5 fastest players with the ball in the league in Ford to go alongside Lebron as well. But obviosuly we would be getting low round draft picks but maybe we win the lottery and get a #1 2nd rounder.