He's a beast on defense. This isn't like Juwan Howard crippling the Rockets when he came over with TMac. This is one of the best two-way players in the league in his freakin prime.
On teh Rockets he has a lot less opportunity to be inefficient than on the current version of the Hawks.
If Atlanta is indeed interested in both Asik and Lin then there is a massive double sign and trade in the works. Asik/Lin/Trob is over $20 million in outgoing salary. Only need around $4-5 million more to be able to execute a double sign and trade for both Dwight and Jsmith and stay above the cap. Royce, Greg Smith, James Anderson, and Tim Ohlbrecht would be another $4.3 million. Throw in Garcia in a sign and trade and you've got enough salary to sign and trade for both Dwight and Josh Smith while retaining both TJones and DMO. Jus say'n.
We already have a younger Josh Smith in Terrance Jones. Please no. I'd like to give Howard/Asik a chance and then trade Asik before the deadline if it doesn't work out. I think it would work especially in the post season. Look at the top teams in the West: Spurs: Duncan/Splitter OKC: Perkins/Ibaka/Colisson Memphis: Gasol/Randolph Clippers: Jordan/Griffin Our Dwight/Asik combo could give all those front courts fits. Sure there may be some games where Asik can't guard a stretch 4, but that's why you have a guy like T-Jones or you could go small with Parsons at the 4.
Not exactly, he gets rebounds like a muda. His scoring will reduce and his shot attempts will go down because Harden and Howard will dominate the ball but his rebounding numbers could even get better. The price he demands is contingent on who we keep in the sign and trade. Montejunas is the teams pet project so he's not going anywhere, so its down to Jones and G. Money. I'm torn
Lin is gone said at the beginning of the season don't get too attached im no loh ir none of that I just simply try to think how morey would approach the situation if you have a way to upgrade the team do it even if its cash cow n overall nice guy jlin
really don't know how we'd get smith without moving asik and lin, but assuming we do.. i disagree with we'd have offensive issues. lin has shown that he can be a very effective distributor when he is asked to be, especially when it comes to getting easy baskets for the bigs. i'm not worried about that at all. and defensively, he'd be fine funneling players into howard and smith. however, with smith, howard, harden, and parsons on the floor, having lin out there is sort of a waste. i'd much rather have him come in as a sixth man to make sure we have good offensive production from the bench. you won't be needing lin's offensive talent in the starting lineup with this group.
but if we're just paying him to get rebounds and play defense in the post, we already got a guy who is better than him at that, younger than him, makes less money, and can play center when Dwight, inevitably, gets a back ache and starts missing games.
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The main problem I have with smith is that his biggest weakness, shooting, is a huge liability in an offense that is tailored to be an in-and-out offense. Whether or not Howard will be the feature of the offense, it is clear that we will be shooting inside the paint, or outside the 3 pt line. Unless his post up game is spectacular (which I'm not sure, can someone shed some light on this?), he might be crippling our offensive scheme as 2 players in our starting lineup cannot shoot 3s.
I'm thinking though that Dwight probably wants him and Morey really has no other choice but to try to get him. Rather have a big 3 with him than just Harden. We won't be bad enough for Jabari / Wiggins and maybe only a shot at Aldridge next year.
Moving him to a 6th man role if they aren't going to move him makes sense I do agree. Its just going to depend on how fast they still want to play, and how much they are going to feature post play with shooting on the perimeter.
If these moves do materialize, I like Daryl Morey's chances of putting the pieces back in place to get a competitive and complete team. Harden, Dwight, Chandler, and Josh Smith make a formidable enviable foursome... Asik, Lin, Montijunas, Jones, Beverly, Smith, etc. are all good solid average to above average players for their respective roles. Josh Smith would defend one side of the basket and Dwight would defend the other side. I would venture to say if these moves do pan out, the Rocket overtake the Thunder as the favorite team coming out of the Western Conference.
