Honestly, I don't think McGrady for Billups and Prince is going to make the team better. It will solve the point guard problem but Billups is too old to build a team around alongside Yao. And Prince is only an average player. I think TMac is an underrated playmaker and still draws double teams for the role players to get open shots. Chauncey doesn't do that, and he has maybe a year or two left of quality play left before he becomes washed-up.
It's not a proper time to trade tmac,who is still worthy of being called superstar .But we centernly need a big deal ,in which we have to trade one star except tmac.tmac had led rockets to the 22streak ,he hadn't missed any one of the 22 games.Then ,whom should morey trade is yao.yao is a player that pay more attention to championship than dollars.Unfortunately ,we can't help him achieve this goal. So we should set yao free,trade him to spurs which had won 4 ships during the past ten years.In return ,we recieve Manu and Bowen.Manu solve our pg problem to some degree ,at least he can act as tmac's backup,after all we can hardly find another backup better than this year's best sixth roster.Nevertheless ,bowen can take the place of battier so we can trade battier for a more aggressive guy like artest.More importantly to yao ,the spurs will be gonna win the ship again with the best in-paint rosters ,yao and tim. You may consider me crazy,but i still insist that morey should trade yao.
McGrady's shooting percentage was so low because he shot sub-40% from Feb. on thanks to injury; he never has shot that poorly in his career before.... If anything, the first fourth of last season should be a clear indicator of exactly how dominant McGrady still is when he's healthy. Wekko and KevC are known McGrady bashers so it's useless attempting to reason with them. They'll just regurgitate the same inane argument regardless of the amount of times you've countered it. We all watched McGrady last season - it should be blatantly obvious to any non-hater that he still is an elite player.
why do people forget how he played at the beggining of the season he averaged 32.2 points before injury, sure he has regressed a little but thats because he practically had to do everything in orlando while kobe had shaq to help him thats why kobe is dominant now
He still has value believe it or not. As his contract gets shorter expect to see better numbers. I would not be suprised to see him in his 04-05 form atleast 25ppg. Then the next year could rise back up to 27-28ppg. T-Mac has value he is very capable of putting up those kind of numbers as he has proven this even in the playoffs. As for his risk of trading him in concerend to Detroit for longer contracts, i'll pass. Billups is older - less value- longer contract. Prince - long contract his value will stay the same regardless if he gets any worst as his contract goes into a end, but one thing is for sure dont expect to see him get better either.
A known T-Mac basher? HAHAHA. I don't think I've said a single negative thing about T-Mac before this thread. I'm a big fan of him starting from the Orlando days but I'm a bigger Rockets fan and I think Billups would be better for us than T-Mac.
15 and 11 is not really "big #s." stockton did that on the regular (if not better) and never got an MVP. winning got him that MVP. and the things nash did was not seen in stats (making his teammates better). that's why he won it more than anything. shaq was 2nd that year in the voting and his stats was only 20 and 11, not his best statistical year. making your teammates better, something that tmac can do.
go ask any coach, GM, and player right now who's better and they'll say it's deron 99% of them. i can guarantee you that.
you must be smoking if you think billups would be better for us than tmac. unless you get wade, paul, deron, kobe, or lebron, nobody makes us better UNLESS you get 2-3 players. billups ALONE? put down the pipe.
if i am Dumars, I would perfer to get a younger and brighter future guy than T-mac. I dont know if they have the chance to land Josh Smith via a sign-trade, if they do, I think it will change the dynamic of their team.
I don't think anyone's really crazy enough to think that. I'd guess he's assuming we'd be getting another player along with Billups for T-Mac (which we would be). I don't think I could resist Billups + Hamilton for T-Mac if it was offered.
he's been saying billups is a top 3 PG and a top 15 player. i assume from his comment that billups alone would be better, from the standards he has set for billups. my response was to that. but yes, billups + hamilton, i would too pull the switch. you solve 2 positions, put rafer on the bench for depth. i'm fine with trading yao/tmac just to see if something good can happen (only if the trade is fairly fair).
I really do like the idea of Rafer finally being a backup, like he was meant to be. Then if we signed Evans or Barry, all of a sudden we have a bench of Rafer/Barry/Greene/Landry/Deke. Nice. Very nice. Trading Yao though? I just don't see it. I can't think how we could possibly get fair value for the best center in the league, excluding possibly Dwight Howard, who is completely unattainable. To me, we need to keep Yao unless someone decides to completely trade the farm for him.
amare? dwight? bosh + calderon? yao's value is very high b/c his salary is not that high and he brings the revenue. for us, we have shown we can play really well without him and he's injured too damn much. if i can get amare straight up for him, i do it without hesitation. amare in adelman's system? with tmac? it's a wrap.
Ohhh yeah... remember how good Peja looked in Sac? That's how good Hamilton would look here, espeically with smart guys like Scola, Battier and Yao to free him off picks. And Billups is that big, sure-shot point guard we've been wanting for Yao forever now. That's all a team with a dominant center needs out of a point guard: great shooting, decent size and defense. God knows Billups can provide all that.
Amare? Hell no. Don't want him. Dwight? Orlando would laugh. Calderon and Bosh? I suppose so, but I still doubt Toronto would do that.
Prince and Battier in the same lineup? Anyone who knows me knows I looooooove my defense, but Battier and Prince in the same lineup? Seriously? Would we ever score?
Pistons want to/can move Billups because they want Stuckey to start. And if the Pistons ever offered Billups/Hamilton for Tmac, I'd gladly take that offer.
