I am kind of on the fence. While I don't think we NEED NEED him, we do need a franchise player who can give this team an identity. We have a lot of borderline all stars with Brooks and Martin, but no superstar, other than Yao who can't seem to carry the Rockets for a full season. Giving us Bosh might not give us a tremendous stat difference but gives the team a lot of the intangibles a championship team needs.
Not just two here, either, two in his entire NBA career. We don't really know what Jordan Hill will become one way or another.
Bosh is the only FA superstar PF which is attainable to us but only through sign n trade...Amare is not feasible coz he doesn't want to be overshadowed by Yao's popularity.
Lowry, Ariza and Martin is not nothing else. We have seen how badly the Rockets have played with out Ariza and Lowry. Martin is a 25-30 pt scorer. This doesn't take into account, whoever the Rockets sign with the MLE or trade for. Remember the Rockets have lots of players and picks to trade like they did for Scola and Lowry.
Apparently, these teams can win without that "franchise player". Guy like Pierce, Garnett, Allen, Rasheed, and Billups can win titles without it. Having 2-3 important pieces can win titles.
As I said it, Garnett and Pierce can be considered as franchise players. The pistons are only exception. I don't think that can be repeated.
The Rockets have the best trade assets of Houston and New York. While the Knicks only have Curry(expiring) and Gallinari, after signing new free agents.
The pistons are what i see us becoming.And a pistons like team is the only team that i can see beat once again a all star team like LA.
If they go for 2 stars, they will have no assets. David Lee would take up the cap space in their sign and trade for 1 agent. The rest of the cap space would go to the 2nd free agent. After obtaining their top 2 free agents, they wouldl only have Gallinari and Curry. Same results.
I think they will sign one top free agent, and do s&t for another max player. NY is the biggest market. Money wouldn't be the problem. For example, if James is wiling to go to NY, Nike will offer him more money.
Bosh is exactly the same as Pierce and Garnett they didn't win **** before that trade. And Pierce is not even on the level of Bosh. KG was definitely a franchise players but Pierce was on his way out of Boston to be 2nd or 3rd fiddle to another franchise player somewhere else. His reputation actually went up a huge amount after KG and Allen got to Boston. Bosh right now is fighting the move to go somewhere and be 2nd fiddle to anyone he wants to be franchise. Bosh > Pierce in terms of franchise. Pistons were the exception because they got calls from Stern. Most teams made up like that get crushed by the refs. Detroit was made up of vets who had enough juice to at least get decent calls in the playoffs. Many of the dudes in Houston like Scola, Brooks, Hayes etc dont get anything near star calls. The only guys who get love from officials are Battier and Martin
In fact, Pierce and Garnett went to the conference finals before that trade. Bosh never passed the 1st round! More exactly, Bosh is exactly the same as Tmac. btw, I don't think Bosh is a better player than Pierce. Pierce will a hall of famer. But, I am not sure Bosh will be.
Pistons won because of D and being the most versatile deepest team in the nba.They over worked and overwhelmed a top heavy all star team in LA with no bench or depth.And as of right now LA is still a top heavy all star team in with no bench or depth.Looks like our team well be primed and ready next year to be the Pistons of 2010.
