DatDude2

I've watched Mike Miller pass up wide open shots just to create for others. Pietrus and Barnes help our team defensively without a doubt but if I'm a gm and I can bring in a 6'8 ballhandler that doesn't need to jack up shots ti leave a mark on the game then I do it. We could easily sign miller to create for the 2nd unit and have pietrus guard the best wing guy. Miller to me only makes us better and creates problems. And we'd have another guy to fill in if a wing player goes down

I'd love to have both players next bc they would add much need depth. We all know Mac aint playing 82 games just like we know pietrus and nelson and carter won't. Miller is playmaker and we could use him at point forward in the second unit if we went big with any combo of pietrus redick or t-mac. Pietrus would always guard the best wing player just like barnes does for the 1st string

Id like to see us draft Vasquez and Butler. Vasquez can be used at the 1 and some 2 if we lose JJ and butler to me is matt barnes all over again. If we draft butler we could let barnes go and pay JJ if barnes is askin more than what we can afford. Lucas would be nice but that foot injury is something that will take a while to recover from

I'd love to see us get a guy like Raymar Morgan from michigan st or Da'Sean Butler from WV. Both have excellent size and strength to play on the wing and could be in replacements for pietrus or barnes. Both guys could be picked up easily where we are predicted to pick

All jokes aside Drew Gooden talent wise is what we need at the 4 spot. He is 6'10 can post has a nice mid range jumper and can play some 5 against the smaller 5's in the east. If he would come for part of the mle it would be a plus for us and we could move Gortat if need be plus besides Gortat and Howard we really dont have any length in the post

I wouldnt mind having Bruce Bowen for the strech run i think not playing all yr might have recharged his battery.

quote: Originally posted by Darrell_Armstrong:I'm a huge Stan supporter, but it seems that our team is extremely prone to giving up career nights to one player. Wade (always), David West the other night, etc. Is this an unwillingness to double team? Poor one-on-one defense? Anyone noticed this trend and have any ideas? To me its a lack of Defensive minded players outside of Barnes. When Barnes goes to the bench there is no one else that will play D first besides JJ. I think in the offseason we should get Mike Miller move Barnes to the bench

quote: Originally posted by Darrell_Armstrong:I just don't see the positives that others do with Bass. When they go to a zone, he is not effective because he doesn't have the range of Anderson. As a one on one player, the ball goes in to him and rarely comes back out. And as a rebounder and defender, well he's not especially adept at either one. I was someone who thought he was a huge addition this offseason, but I honestly don't think it's just a lack of playing time. It's a bad fit. I think stan should run a different offense with the second unit. Having bass floating around on the perimeter really hurts our second chance shots and makes bass look lost and useless

quote: Originally posted by Darrell_Armstrong:An update on how I feel about Brandon Bass. He's more of a chucker than Ryan Anderson. He is a terrible defender. Dwight's second foul is on him. He just has to settle down and get adjusted to playing and not look over his shoulder thinking he will get benched

Glad to see Bass and not Anderson but hopefully that rushed shot doesnt hurt him

quote: Originally posted by Darthmagic: quote: Originally posted by DatDude2:I live VA I've seen Mike play alot this yr and the guy would be awesome here bc he makes the extra pass and move while in a offense like we have and we'd have that turk type dude in the SL that would allow jameer to be jameer. +1 Like it or not we need a play maker in the SL. Three guys come to mind. Andre Igoudala, Mike Miller and Tayshaun Prince. Out of the three which one do you think would help the most? I'd have to take Mike Miller just bc out of 3 he is by far the best passer. I'd try and work a deal where they would buy out Miller so he'd come here and use some of the TPE on for some of the other salary they wanna cut just to fill the holes on our roster. If crittenton wasn't a retard put him with miller and we'd be in the money

I live VA I've seen Mike play alot this yr and the guy would be awesome here bc he makes the extra pass and move while in a offense like we have and we'd have that turk type dude in the SL that would allow jameer to be jameer.

quote: Originally posted by PEC:So lets say this went down, what would the Magic do (god forbid) if Nelson got hurt again. Under the scenario you are all talking about Williams would be the Magic's only pg. Plus with the TPE gone no way do the Magic get a good pg to either backup Williams or start. I remember Otis saying that he is holding on to the TPE in the case of injury so that the Magic can replace a needed player. Tossing that out of the window just does not make sense. But like someone already posted this what forums like this are all about. Floating dreams even if they don't make sense. Our TPE is 6mil and Thomas makes 4 mil so we still have 2mil left plus the 2mil TPE from the bulls for johnson. Thats a combined 4mil to find a 3rd pg but the question is can you combine TPE's bc if so then i think 4mil or less is great for a 3rd pg.

quote: Originally posted by TheRevTy:He looked pretty good tonight running the high post, making passes and jump shots. Almost seemed like an audition. And no AJ in a blowout is curious. I really hope we can get this guy bc Anderson got 15mins and scored 4pts. We need more scoring up front besides Lewis and Howard

quote: Originally posted by emory889: quote: Originally posted by DatDude2:I think we should stockpile as much talent as we can bc Lewis is 30 MP and Barnes are 28-29 and Jwill is 34. We all know we're stuck with Lewis til the end so with all the depth we have up front lewis would be able to stay productive and if he does get hurt its no big deal bc we have 3 guys that could step in and play. Anderson is only 21 so he has plenty of yrs ahead of him so saying that he is player that needs mins is a strecth at the moment to me. If we could get Thomas for a tpe and get a tpe back for johnson that would mean we would still have a tpe amount of 4mil to find a 3 string player to develop. Indiana has a stockpile of pgs so I could see us going after Price or Head I don't disagree with the premise of stockpiling talent but you have to remember that Thomas is an expiring contract. So, in order to "stockpile him", Otis will have to make a long term committment to him this summer. Thats very true. I'd like to see what we could do against LA bc in the finals we didnt have anyone to defend Odom. With Howard Gortat Anderson Lewis Thomas and Bass upfront we'd be able to throw so many looks at LA or any other contender