Pistons Possibly Trying To Land T-MAC for Billups and T-Prince

I think from detroit's perspective they see what the C's did with KG and they feel like T-mac is capable of similar things. You put stucky hamilton mac and sheed, antonio, maxiell together and you feel like you can do the same.

 

Billups is coming off of a career year last year, was a much better player than T-Mac last year, and he shows know signs of declining (PG's of his mold tend to age well). We get Prince on top of that? Are you kidding me? Take it Morey, take it.

 

Agreed he needs discipline, look who is coach is. He needs some guidence but man what talent. Plus lets be realistic we are not going to get the Redds and the Artest without having to give up T-mac. Why not stick it out one more year tweak the starting line up a little and find a rotation of players that work consistenly. Re-build the bench with good role players? Make decisions on Novak, Brooks, Head, Woods, & B-Jax. Plus we hear all of this stuff about Billups being the PG we need, thats fine but you only hear Mcgrady going back the other way what are we going to do with Rafer, Brooks, B-Jax, Head, & Francis?

 

a pretty strong reasoning why Morey needs to take this deal..

 

you have to pull the trigger on this if dumars calls. both these guys have championship experience and step up in pressure situations.

billups
old/injured
if you are going to play the old/injured card for billups, just look at who we are trading him for...t-mac. enough said.
contract
in reality billups contract is pretty manageable. his last guaranteed year tops off at 13.5M. t-mac makes almost double that now.

keep i mind we still have prince locked in long term. and now have the luxury of bringing in rafer off the bench or packaging him for an upgrade at guard.

I am all over this

 

I would ask for Rip hamilton instead of prince. We lose too much scoring losing tmac.

 

I don't see the trade happening as proposed. TMac is a go-to guy, yes, something the Pistons won a title without 4 years ago but desperately need now; but I would guess you'd have more involved. Rafer, maybe, to split duties at the PG for Detroit, with us getting in return....whatever. Dice?

I don't know how much of these Detroit rumors are media speculation. The two teams do make natural trading partners, though, and if we had Prince and Battier (assuming we keep him) to defend the 2/3 spots....dayumn, sign me up.

 

i would do this trade, then follow it up with:

shane ---> barbosa

yao
scola
prince
barbosa
billups

with one more trade to clear up the logjam in the backcourt the roster would be balanced.

 

I can all but guarantee that ain't happening. The Rockets might be able to get Hamilton and Prince, but no way Hamilton and Billups.

 

your starting 5 is good, but what off your bench, its still gonna be the same crappy bench from this year. Our bench needs a bigger shakeup than our starting 5 except maybe for pg

 

Is Tmac+Batter+future first for Billups+Rip+Prince a pipe dream?

Pugs

Edit: If it works money wise....too lazy to check right now.

 

This is probably the first deal thrown out by the media that is actually fair, a far cry from that Ben Wallace and Ben Gordon nonsense regurgitated a few weeks back.

Pulling the trigger on this deal would be dependent upon what the market is for Battier and Bobby Jackson. If you could land a legit shooting guard, it's tempting. That enables you to put 5 offensive weapons together in the starting lineup without sacrificing Battier's defense (Prince is Battier minus the offensive ineptitude).

I would do this deal if you were able to turn around and trade for someone in the category of a Jason Richardson - an electrifying young perimeter player who is not quite an All-Star, but could be. Someone like a Josh Smith or maybe Travis Outlaw.

It would be interesting, I think.

 

helll no to this trade....i love billups game, but he is getting old...plus i think the starters for the pistons look good because they have unique chemistry with each other...if you split them up who knows what ull get. Remember, Billups was a mediocre player before going to the pistons. T-mac is too big of a talent to trade away for those two....

 

Hamilton maybe Billups no

 

Nobody who shoot less than .400 should be starting for any NBA team. Also I put a lot of the blame for those trademark rockets offensive droughts squarely on his shoulders.

The PG position is so critical to the success of a team that if you can get a player like Billups when you're struggling with that position I think you've got to pull the trigger.

 

thacabbage

With the Blazers having some interest in moving at least one Pick in the upcoming Draft, they have some room to Season a deal if needed. Not sure if the timeline for doing a major trade would make the Draft deadline.

 

Hmm...I'm intrigued...We need one more player to get Tracy's full value, IMHO...

 

We won't be struggling at PG, but now SG with this trade. We can't get ANYONE with the trade assets we have for another good shooting guard, so stop hoping we can.

I would do:

Hamilton, Billups, Prince

for

McGrady and Alston.

But at the same time, it would destroy all the chemistry we have, and I am pretty sure they don't like Yao.

 

Yes, but the question is, would you do this if it was really offered?