Trade Idea: T-mac & Swift for Jermaine O'neal & Stephen Jackson

Seems nobody realize S Jax is a cancer in disguise. That's why Spurs let him go for nothing. The guy took way too many shots and is a terrible rebounder + a real TO machine.(1:1 Ast/TO ratio for a guard??)

 

Let's trade YOU to the Pacers forum.

 

you forgot to mention he helped the spurs win a championship and I've never seen anyone use assist to turnover ratio to evaluate a shooting guard.

I really don't get this ballhog stuff. 2 turnovers a game doesn't exactly make you a turnover machine.

 

Spurs really don't miss him. Pacers fans want him traded. Will Purdue helped Bulls to get more than one championship, but he's still a scrub.

It's not that much a strech to call #21 Tos per game in NBA a TO machine. Look at Rox players, only Tmac, Yao and Alston have similar number of TOs. Tmac and Alston are primary ball handlers and they both have much higher assists. Yao gets a lot touches in the post where it's a lot easy to turn the ball over because of double teams and less space to operate etc, yet we all agree Yao's TOs are too high. Then what's the excuese for Jax?

I think Ast/To ratio is also important for shooting guard. When the TOs are high, that means two things: 1. The guy has a lot touches or handles ball a lot. 2. The guy doen'st handle ball a lot, he's simply is a TO machine. If it's case 1, then Jax's assists numbers don't justify for TOs as a guard. he's a ballhog. If it's case 2, then Jax is a TO machine.

So you can see, Jax is either a ballhog or a TO machine or both.

Then look at rebouding. It's hard to believe Jax averages fewer rebounds than Alston, but it' true. I don't know if anybody else in NBA as tall as or taller than him has a lower rebouding rate.

For his career, Jax shot less than 42% with 33% spt shooting percentage. In other words, a SG who can't shoot. Yet he took 0.4shots/per minute shrough his career, slightly higher than Yao's career average so far.

Pacers fans want Jax out for two more things: He took too many bad shots and he can't hit open shots. Does that sound familiar?

 

idiot reply.

 

O'Neal has been one of the most injury-prone star players in the league the past three years.

I would do it only if the Rockets know that McGrady won't recover health-wise, but the trade wouldn't help us all that much, it would be a wash, IMO.

 

Well it you WAIT on his back, you are risking losing his value as of now, that is a huge risk. Once you find out that he DOES have a bad back everyone will know as well. Then his value won’t even get the offer being contemplated by pelbeaini.

 

A Yao and Jermaine front-court would NOT work, IMO. JO needs the ball to be effective, isn't that great a passer, and shoots a low-percentage. Defensively, he'd probably be good, but offensively, I think those 2 would really limit each other.