I would be EXTREMELY dissapointed if Rudy tried to pull that crap. That's worse than drafting Mirsad Turkcan and Bryce Drew ahead of the local favorite. Wasting the valuable trade exception to move up 2 spots in the draft...the only people worth trading up for will be taken in the Top 3. Makes no sense to me. However, now that I think about it, if a deal goes down, it would be something like this. The trade scenarios we have thrown around just aren't realistic. The fact of the matter is that we just don't have the firepower to land a Top-3 pick. Orlando's offer of #5+#10+Maggette puts our best possible offer to shame (probably Cato+Thomas+#9+Drew). Sorry for the pessimism guys, but what can we really do? ------------------ "I wanna eat his children."
Hey, #7 could get us: <OL>[*] Prysbilla: If Chicago takes Mihm, Prysbilla could drop to #7. Portland has offered Jermaine Oneal for Prysbilla. I'd do that deal, if they'd do it with us, even though it wouldn't put Oneal with Tmac and Thomas. We could send Hawkins to Portland in the deal. That would solve our Power Forward problem. I would consider him a better pick than Moiso. Oneal and Cato could be pretty good together. [*] Johnson: If we don't move up, we have a good chance of losing Johnson to Cleveland, even though he has refused to visit there. [*] Miles: Not very probable, but a possibility he drops to #7. If LAC takes Fizer, Chicago takes Mihm, and Orlando finds out that they are getting Duncan and Hill or Tmac, they won't need Miles. Atlanta wants to win now, so they might pass on him too. He could actually fall to #7, but not if Chicago still has the pick. We'd have to trade for the pick beforehand. And of course, there is no way, he'd go past Cleveland. [*] Fizer: If LAC picks Miles or trades their #3 to someone who picks Miles, Fizer could actually drop to this pick. [*] Mihm: If Chicago takes Miles, Mihm could fall to #7. Even if we didn't want him, he'd be great trade bait. For instance, if LAC took Fiser at #3, they might want to do Kandi/#18 for Hawkins/Drew/#7. [*] Trade: We could then trade down for 2 later picks to someone else, such as Orlando. At that point, if we traded our future pick and the #7 to Orlando, they might prefer to get the pick available at #7, and give us their #10 and #13. This is a good pick to use in trade for all sorts of situations. [/list=a] Let's say we did the #18 to LAC for Drew. We could pick up Carrawell for our SF. We'd end up with Oneal or Kandi and Carrawell from this draft, meeting 2 of our frontcourt needs. ------------------ the more I know, the more I know I don't know...
First ot all, what in the world would Hawkins do with us? Another SG is the last thing we want. so he'd be trading bate for sure. Second, trading the 4.4 exception just to go two picks higher is not a very smart move. The exception is too valuable to give up this way. Either the Rockets move to the top 4 or forget about it. ------------------ Dream's Team!
I am not a big fan of the deal, but we HAVE to use the exception this year, or it expires. I would listen to all offers. Now if they are offering number 4...... DaDakota ------------------
Interestingly enough, Johnathon Feigen said this morning that rather than Hawkins and the 7th pick, the deal would move the Rockets in the opposite direction. It would have been a 3-way trade with Houston sending out their #9 and receiving Hawkins, the Bulls #24 and another player from the 3rd team. The Rockets would have then immediately cut Hawkins, with the thinking that next summer they wouldn't have that lottery pick's guaranteed contract, and would be a major player in the FA market. Feigen said he didn't know who the 3rd player would have been, but obviously he wasn't good enough as the Rockets pulled the plug on the offer. How disappointing would that have been? Suck for a year just to trade your lottery pick away and clear more cap space. The fans at the Aerial Theater would have made picking Horry over Harold Miner look like nothing. ------------------ "I wanna eat his children." [This message has been edited by thacabbage (edited June 28, 2000).]
