I would trade Luis Scola, Courtney Lee, J. Jeffries and Brad Miller in exchange for Andrew Bynum and Ron Artest. I would...
Why are the stupidest questions always repeated? Yes, please give me the guy with no knees who doesn't fill a stat sheet over the proven stud who never gets injured and whose game is not remotely predicated on athleticism so he can play forever with minimal decline. Genius. /sarcasm.
Starting line up: Bynum Patterson Artest Martin Lowry Unit #2 Hill Hayes Battier C. Budinger/T. Williams Brooks/I. Smith Now we are tougher in general and better on defense.
The reason why Bynum is kind of an afterthought over there, and they still win despite his consistent injuries, is because of the roster he backs up. We don't come close and our team would hinge on his health each year (with those familiar false, painfully dashed hopes each season) like we did with Yao. No thanks. We can draft a healthy young center, trade for one, (or maybe stumble on a serviceable guy in the D league) or now that Yao's contract is coming off the books try to acquire one through free agency in the next couple years. Scola has his weakness, but he is still never misses a game and is a double double just about every game. Unless we could get Odom for Scola plus something else, no thanks.
Without going out on a limb here, IMO trading a rotation player to achieve a bigger cast of crutch players is not be the best band-aid in the box. We need stars but not cartoon stars over player heads.
All these threads just remind me that good seven footers don't just grow on trees. Would love to have a 38 year old deke. =( depressing.
For a healthy Bynum, I'd probably do the deal only to get younger. But Bynum is almost never healthy and he is not a superstar level player that can drastically affect a team. Scola is still the better player when healthy.
I knew this would be coming once I saw what was on NBA.com home page yesterday. I too thought "how might we get in on it?" Don't see it happenin'
i think that we should not go for bynum and wait till offseason to sign kendrick perkins. Yeah Bynum is better than perkins offensively but he would need the ball to much in our system so perkins would be the better fit because he doesnt demand the ball. And perkins is more of a shot blocker than bynum plus perkins has that mean look on his face all the time.plus he is from beumont.
The thing is if Bynum was healthy for a majority of his career this wouldnt even be a topic for discussion.... thus a injury pron Bynum=Scola.....its crazy but think of how dominate he would be and his overall development as a center has been hindered due to his injuries... He is head and shoulders better than Scola and thus would not be a equal trade........So i say yes....we can get another starting PF (Landry/PAT).............IT IS WRITTEN
Hell No! Not only is Bynum injury prone but it sounds like we're trying to help the lakers - "give them a push for the post season", wtf!
He may not have the pretty moves Yao has, but in the same role he'd put up similar averages, maybe even a bit higher. If we're rebuilding, then i think it's worth considering very carefully. If possible, you'd have to evalute Bynum's knees first though. However, i don't see why LA would want Scola to have him sit behind gasol and play 20 mins. They need their center.
