he wouldv’e completed our lineup and gave us a shot….

that trade stings so bad! Oh well Im sure we could have given them something better but I guess the Bobcats were too impatient to wait til Dec 15 damn! Cross our fingers for Dec 15 onwards. If we here the “we love our team” phrase again then it means we just missed a really big opportunity with that J Rich trade.

that trade stings so bad! Oh well Im sure we could have given them something better but I guess the Bobcats were too impatient to wait til Dec 15 damn! Cross our fingers for Dec 15 onwards. If we hear the whole "we love our team" phrase again then it means we just missed a really big opportunity with that J Rich trade.

And by ‘interesting’ I mean uh-oh. The famed “Mavs killer” is now on the Suns.

Josh + Stack for Joe Johnson! Do it Donnie! (We can only dream…)

Have you seen his contract? Too much money for the next two seasons. And Richardson is not basically Marion with a better jump shot. Marion can play great defense, while Richardson, not so much. The Bobcats did this, because they get 2 nice players for a few more years. The Bobcats know they are light years away from becoming a NBA champion, so why trade Richardson for basically Bass, who is a free agent this year, when you can get Bell for 2 years and Diaw for 3. It’s like in the MLB with teams like the A’s among other teams, they know that they are probably not going to be World Series contenders, but they need to fill up their stadiums, so they trade their good players for multiple lesser talented players, who are cheaper and have a few years on their contracts, so they can remain competitive every year and hope that their young players have breakout years at the same time, so they can be a World Series contender every so often. Same thing here, the Bobcats know they are not going to win the title, but they need to fill the arena and to do they need to be a competitive team.

hardly… this undoubtably favors phx, but its not a gasol/garnett/artest trade by any means. In fact, I think phx is walking on pretty thin ice in a couple of areas now after doing this trade, and is not any better/worse than the Mavs are right now.

Their front court is REALLY thin now… there is no legit back up PF behind Amare, Lopez (a rookie) backs up Snaq and will see much more time at the C position on back to backs and when he gets injured this year.

Jrich is great offensively, but hardly the defensive guy Bell was. If Mr. Pringles were still coaching, this team would flourish and be really scary. But with Marion and Bell gone now, they really are left with Barnes or the injury-prone Hill as being their best defender… does that really intimidate you as an opposing team? With Porter preaching defense and wanting to implement a slower paced offense, I dont see how Jrich fills that void on their roster.

Diaw/Bell hands down is a better deal than Stackhouse/Bass/George also… even though for charlotte it was still a bad deal. What you have to hope/wonder is what MJ/Brown has in store for that team over there. Is Wallace available, and if so how and where do we sign up?

Diaw has a horrible contract, arguably one of the 25 worst in the NBA for the performance he brings. The guy peaked in the season Amare was injured as a jack of all trades, and has not returned to that performance ever since. He was stuck on the bench in Phoenix and I didn’t think they would find a taker for him. He is a mix between a power forward and a small forward, not a position of great need in Charlotte (except if they want to trade away Wallace too?) who rather should have been looking for a better center (e.g. from the Clippers) in order to move Okafor back to power forward and back him up if needed. Okafor, Diaw, Wallace is a nice lineup, but far from amazing. Phoenix can adequately replace Diaw with Lopez and Amundson.

Bell is still a pretty good player with high defensive value and a very good outside shot to replace Richardson, but also rather on the downside of his career. According to the guy who broke the news on RealGM, he was very unhappy about the changes Terry Porter implemented in Phoenix and did everything short of demanding a trade. Yet I doubt he is happy that he landed in Charlotte either, since he should look to get on a championship contender for this part of his career a la Posey. Poor Mr. Singletary is a rookie NBA journeyman, and has already been thrown into trades by the Kings, Rockets, and now Suns ;-)
At best, that is a sideways move for the Bobcats to fill their thin roster, and I really can’t see how that makes them ready to reach the playoffs.

Compared to the core of the Suns and the players they gave away (26, 32), at 27 Richardson doesn’t make them older and is still a great athlete with a solid outside shot which could be especially valuable when playing off Shaq and Amare (and with Nash). Lots of open looks. Dudley is a nice young player that could be useful one day when Hill retires. I don’t understand why Charlotte threw him in, since he was a first round pick, still on his cheap rookie contract and the deal would have worked without him.

Phoenix most glaring hole is at backup point guard at the moment, since Dragic still needs a long time to develop while Nash could use a reduction in minutes. They will focus more on offense, and maybe that brings back an identity for them which they lacked so far in the season. I like that move for them.

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In other news, New Orleans today got their new backup PG in Antonio Daniels. The West just got tougher again.

25, 15, 26 in his last 3 games.