Hehehe....Okay so Portland, so does this make Rudy officially angry? Battier for Rudy? That helps out both teams, Portland gets the Kobe-Stopper or the guy close to it. Portland gets another solid veteran. Plus it would make the Lakers-Portland series much more interesting. We get scoring and get younger again
There was already a thread for this. But why would they trade a 2 for a 3 when they already have Hedo starting and Outlaw , Webster and Batum on the bench.
Lakers got Artest Cleveland got Shaq Orlando got VC SA got RJ now Portland added Hedo Boston trying to get Sheed. I guess there goes your Top 6 Teams in the NBA just getting better.
The NBA sure will be fun to watch next year.....too bad for the Rockets, but I dont mind if we rebuild correctly....so far so good for us though
I don't really feel this helps them. Hedo really needs the ball to be effective and Roy will lose shots. I predict the Trailblazers will regret this in a few years similar to how New Orleans does with Peja.
apparently 5 years 50 million---blazersedge.com love this signing for the Blazers... gonna be an awesome team to watch next season!!!
lol, your still bringing the battier-to-portland trade scenarios now hedo just signed with them??? people LOL at u for that... wats the use for Battier now they have Hedo??? If they couldn't get Hedo then they might go after our No stats all star, but now Hedo is stuffing up the SF spot wats the use of Battier??? Brooks for Rudy???
I could see them going with a 4th quarter line up with Roy playing the point and Battier playing the 2. They are still not set at the pg position. Not sure how it would work out though.
People can lol all they want, I'll just lol at Portland if they think they can still beat the Lakers with the roster they have. What is the use for Battier? Besides he can play defense on guys like Carmelo, Manu, and Kobe? That's who the Blazers are going to have to deal with if they want to win a title. Hedo is a offensive playmaker, Battier plays a entirely different role on a team. A role that they have Batum playing and he can barely see the court.
you apparently missed the fact that acquiring hedo is the very factor that would make fernandez theoretically available due to his reported unhappiness. they also now have a glut of young talent at the wings in outlaw, webster, fernandez, and batum. it would be wise to package 2 of those for an upgrade in battier. if i'm portland, after watching the houston-LA series, i'm all over the phones trying to add shane to my team now that i'm ready to take the next step to play with the big boys. given the past discussions between the teams regarding a deal of this very nature, and the divergent directions the two clubs are heading in, battier to portland makes too much sense for both sides.
From what I saw of Outlaw I think he is starter quality in this league and have heard good things about Webster. Would agree about Batum though.
Go thing Hedo did not go to the Raptors. This is an open chance that Morey needed to trade TMac and fillers for Bosh. Get it done Morey.
actually, Hedo is going to take shots way from others, not roy. Plus, portland wants Hedo to get the ball, so Roy won't kill himself trying to create like he did against us. they should be ok because they only have two perimeter players like that, which isnt too much and their frontcourt players don't exactly need touches, just LAmarcus, that's your big 3 there which is perfect.
