Golden State lands Jordan Crawford, MarShon Brooks from Boston

If I'm Minny, I'd pressure for Harrison Barnes as well and include Kevin Martin.

Rubio/Shved
Klay/Barea/Shabazz
Barnes/Brewer/Budinger
Lee/Mbah a Moute
Pekovic/Turiaf

You can't deny Klay's defensive ability and Barnes will be a very special player.

Honestly, the dropoff should be minimal and Adleman could definitely work with this group.


Needless to say, you create a scary GSW squad (but I'm not sure it addresses weaknesses)

Spoiler

Curry/Crawford
Martin/Bazemore/MarShon
Iggy/Green
Love/Speights
Bogut/Ezeli/O'Neal

 

How does a player shooting 41%/31% going to help the Warriors coming off the bench, especially when you consider his defense is poor?

 

Oh, c'mon. What possible assets does Morey have to dangle in front of other teams? I mean aside from that 7-foot center who's sitting at home doing nothing.

 

Douglas to Heat!!!

 

The Warriors is going full "screw defense, gonna out-3pt, out-score you anyways" mode.

 

Getting a 31% three point shooter doesn't seem to be a smart way to go about it.

 

Tommy Heinshon said there is no way Parsons could hang with Marshon in the telecast. LOL.

 

I'm not a big fan of either Brooks or Crawford. GSW is good and will still be good, but I don't think this trade helps them very much.

 

Agreed. Rebuilding through the draft is pretty well a proven strategy of failure. It very rarely ever works for anyone.

Miami gave up the picks in order to give themselves a better shot at Lebron et al, and also saved themselves a stack of cash in the current season. If they've saved $2.6m in salary this year, it makes a massive difference on the lux tax front, and all that money they would otherwise have spent, they can dedicate to their 'big 3' next season.
I'm not exactly sure how to calculate the amounts, but it would be $5m savings this year, and something like $12m next year? And that's JUST from dumping Anthony isn't it?

 

Dude we have top 2 points on drive guard in the league on this team...

 

Errr, Pacers, Spurs, OKC, GSW, the Blazers, need I go on?

 

The myriad of possible suitors "probably" needs to include a place Love's reps will agree to sign long term. That will be a large factor in any deal that may or may not eventuate with 'sota.

Asik = perfect tank piece. He's "hurt", can't play. Give up assets that might win a game or three or have your good player getting ready for latter season/next year? Sounds a perfect plan to me.

 

Not sure, remind me - - how much faster/quicker/more effective was Boston's rebuild thru the draft when they 'traded that philosophy' for JShuttleworth and the Big Ticket?

How much faster has the Rockets' pursuit of a championship gone since 'trading all in' for Harden (and thus signing Dwight)?

 

Did I just read that right, did you just say building through the draft isn't a proven strategy? That's one of the worst calls I have seen on CF's for a while.


Building though the draft is one of the easiest ways to find a superstar in a superstar driven league. Can you please name all the teams who haven't built through the draft that are in contention today? (Miami, rockets, CP3 to clippers) compared to all the other teams who actually built through the draft (Indiana, spurs, okc, Portland).

The last couple of draft classes have been superstar week, however with all the talk of the next couple drafts having solid prospects one would think that's the easiest way to get the next LBJ

 

The gent may shoot better as the 3rd or 4th option than as the 1st. His looks may just improve.

 

2014 first round draft pick from Philadelphia
Philadelphia's 1st round pick to Miami protected for selections 1-14 in 2014 or 1-14 in 2015; if Philadelphia has not conveyed a 1st round pick to Miami by 2015, then Philadelphia will instead convey its 2015 2nd round pick and 2016 2nd round pick to Miami [Miami-Philadelphia, 6/28/2012]



So basically, Boston got three second rounders for Crawford and Brooks + they need to take on Joel Anthony's salary. Not great, but not so bad either.

 

It's a superstar driven league, their are not many accounts of teams trading away superstar players unless pressured to.

However being that superstar driven league, the draft Is always the easiest place to build a team period. Finding superstars in trades involves some level of luck

 

The reality is that this trade does not really help Golden State. This was really a garbage in and garbage out deal.

Toney Douglas is the best defender in this trade, and probably the best player. Having said that, he is seldom being used and has had a terrible season offensively.

Jordan Crawford is the classic example of a bad/high volume player putting up numbers on a bad team. He does not defend well, he does not shoot 3's well, he does not shoot well from the floor and does not go to the line. He can create a little bit, but not enough to account for all his deficiencies.

MarShon Brooks is not a good basketball player. He fell out of the rotation in NJ and in BOS. He plays selfish, and is terrible at protecting the basketball. He has potential as a volume scorer, but that is not what GS needs. He does not shoot the 3 ball well and simply does not defend. He is destined to follow Ronald Murray over seas.

I keep reading about how posters are mad Morey did not trade for Brooks and Crawford. However, do you think that either would get rotation minutes? I do not. So why trade for mediocre to bad NBA players?

 

IIRC, he went on a stretch of games in his rookie season where he was hitting something like 70% of his 3s.

 

that is a good trade for GSW and the Heat.