Should we trade Wallace?

[Natebishop3]

I'm just thinking with Roy gone and now Oden out, is this team good enough to actually do anything or should we move some of our older pieces and go for young talent? Aldridge isn't that old, but Wallace is 29. I love GWalls game and I think he is a great guy to have on the team, but at this point we are either a few significant pieces away from competing for a championship, or we need to go young and add some guys to develop.

Thoughts?

 

[magnifier661]

Yes if it lands us a superstar. Otherwise we are much better off with him IMO. The basketball gods owes us man. I'll take canny, Batum and Wallace for Turk and Howard please.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Semi-rebuild. It makes sense to deal him over Batum when you factor in the big age difference.

Wallace/Felton/Matthews package is attractive.

 

[magnifier661]

Semi-rebuild. It makes sense to deal him over Batum when you factor in the big age difference.

Wallace/Felton/Matthews package is attractive.

Put camby instead of Matthews and you can land a marquee player that wants out.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I like all of the players we currently have so I think we should immediately trade them before their careers are cut short by some injury or medical condition.

 

[RR7]

at this point, anybody but Aldridge is available, obviously, LMA available for abig upgrade. So sure, if you get a great offer for him, or a good one, go for it. I don't do it for a total rebuild package, at the risk of alienating Aldridge in his prime, and listening to demands of wanting to be traded in a year.

 

[SheedSoNasty]

Wallace has been a player that I have coveted for years. I'd like to see how he does with us for a full season. He is one tough SOB that plays all out for every possession. He's also a good guy. I say keep him.

However, if we start talking Howard or some other huge name (not Paul), you would be hard pressed to not include him.

 

[craigehlo]

I love Wallace, but we have too big a need for an established guard.

 

[Natebishop3]

It really sucks because I was psyched to add him, but it doesn't make sense to have him on this team at this point. I don't see Felton, Matthews, Wallace, Aldridge, Camby going all the way. Maybe Felton will surprise us, and maybe Batum can play shooting guard, but I think Camby is done. I don't know. I guess wait and see how things go in the first 20 games or so and decide if a deal needs to be made before the deadline?

 

[Natebishop3]

Why can't we deal Roy with the assurance that he will retire and clear the cap space off for a team? Do with Roy what Rasheed was willing to do for the Celts.

http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=bl7aaz3

Roy/Camby

for

Monta/Lee

Felton
Monta
Wallace
Aldridge
Lee

Man... looking at our roster is depressing. All of the young talent is gone. We have zero depth. This season does not look good.

 

[RR7]

another team can't get the benefit of a medical retirement, so we can't trade Roy to someone, and have him retire for them.

 

[craigehlo]

I'd get the rebuild going ASAP. Trade Wallace, Camby and Felton if there any suitors. Make a run at Anthony Davis.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Yes. Blow this shit up. Start over with a new GM, coach, medical staff. Get rid of this bad JujU

 

[Draco]

I'd rather keep Wallace for the season then get two late first round picks. We can re-evaluate the entire roster next offseason.

The Bobcats tried to trade Wallace last season and the two late picks was all he was worth; its quite unrealistic to expect more in return.

Roy played like crap last season and Oden didn't play a minute, yet we were still the 6th seed. I'm not ready to return to the Patternash dark ages of rebuilding yet. If we get one or two surprising additions in the next few years we could be close to a dark horse contender. I wouldn't throw away our roster yet, especially when rebuilding usually ends up with your prized draft picks jumping to larger markets anyways.

 

[Natebishop3]

Yes. Blow this shit up. Start over with a new GM, coach, medical staff. Get rid of this bad JujU

I agree. Maybe toss a new owner on that list too.

 

[Natebishop3]

I'd rather keep Wallace for the season then get two late first round picks. We can re-evaluate the entire roster next offseason.

The Bobcats tried to trade Wallace last season and the two late picks was all he was worth; its quite unrealistic to expect more in return.

I thought about that too. There might not be much of a market for him.

 

[RR7]

I'd get the rebuild going ASAP. Trade Wallace, Camby and Felton if there any suitors. Make a run at Anthony Davis.

Leaving a core of Wes, Batum and Aldridge just isn't bad enough to get top pick. You want Davis, you trade Aldridge.

 

[B-Roy]

Semi-rebuild. It makes sense to deal him over Batum when you factor in the big age difference.

Wallace/Felton/Matthews package is attractive.

If we can get a star and some crappy role players, I'd be all for it.

 

[craigehlo]

Leaving a core of Wes, Batum and Aldridge just isn't bad enough to get top pick. You want Davis, you trade Aldridge.

The team with the worst record never gets #1 it seems. You want to be in the #2-6 range.

 

[Mediocre Man]

The team with the worst record never gets #1 it seems. You want to be in the #2-6 range.

Top half of the lottery will get you a potential star this year

 

[craigehlo]

Top half of the lottery will get you a potential star this year

I hope that's the case. This is a mercifully short season to tank it if we want to rebuild.

 

[Mediocre Man]

I hope that's the case. This is a mercifully short season to tank it if we want to rebuild.

We are not bad enough to suck that bad, unfortunately. LOL we can't even suck right?

 

[craigehlo]

We are not bad enough to suck that bad

I have faith.

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

Sure as long as we dont get a bunch of potential young guys.

 

[RR7]

And really, with tanking, is there any doubt that we'd take Davis or Drummond, once in a whatever they'd be described as big men, and a wing(Barnes, I dunno, someone else) will just become the next big thing while Davis would have his unibrow all become ingrown hairs at once, killing him the second he signed with us.

 

[Nikolokolus]

Yes. Blow this shit up. Start over with a new GM, coach, medical staff. Get rid of this bad JujU

It might not hurt to hire a shaman or two either ... maybe a holy man from every religion on staff?

 

[Minstrel]

Blowing it up and tanking to get better someday in the future sounds a lot better on paper then it tends to pan out in practice. Even a team like Cleveland that "hit the jackpot" with that strategy...how long were they in the wilderness before LeBron James finally fell to them? Purposely reducing your talent for draft picks and cap space is usually a ticket to a decade of terrible basketball. Bottomed-out teams generally don't find blue chip free agents flocking to take their money and most top draft picks don't become franchise-changing stars.

I'd rather the team plays out the season with Aldridge, Wallace, Batum, Matthews and Felton, attempts to draft well and trade in an attempt to get better, rather than worse. I'm always open to the team trading any player on the roster...but with an eye to improving talent in the present or the future. Not with an eye to reduce total team talent.

 

[oldmangrouch]

The team doesn't NEED to trade Wallace, but they should be open to offers. Same for Felton and Camby - as expiring deals they might have *some* value. At this point, turning Camby into a late 1st round pick would be worth it.

 

[Nikolokolus]

If they could trade Wallace for a 1st round pick without lottery protections I can see the argument for it, but just razing the team to bare earth probably isn't going to do much unless they go out and acquire several first rounders that could theoretically be used to move up into the top 7 of what many consider a talent rich draft.

There's no clear road out of the current predicament.

 

[Ed O]

another team can't get the benefit of a medical retirement, so we can't trade Roy to someone, and have him retire for them.

Didn't the Knicks get the exception from Mobley's medical retirement after trading for him?

Ed O.