Re: armstrong over hardaway...

[Shailendra Mishra <shailendra_mishra@yahoo.com>]

Thats a very peceptive observation and Googs being a base year
compensation player. His cap number for trading purposes will be
max(last years salary at minnesota, 1/3<last years salary>. Thus unless
Orlando is willing to take undesirables along with Googs that trade
won't happen. - Mishra


--- j.hironaka@unesco.org wrote:
> Hi Jess
> 
> The context under which the Orlando Sentinel raised
> the "Googs for Hardaway"
> scenario sounded (at least to me) to be a bit more
> like wishful thinking than
> fact-based. For one thing, shoudn't Googs have the
> same "base year" contract
> constraints that Antoine Walker has?
> 
> Although I still don't understand how that base year
> thing works, I think I
> understand the rationale: namely that teams ought to
> be "penalized" for making
> boneheaded FA signings. Arguably, the smart teams
> will come out ahead.
> 
> BTW, I honestly don't see how Orlando profits by
> adding Mercer/Anderson to the
> Nick Anderson/Darrell Armstrong guard rotation. They
> evidently project Mercer as
> a Sean Elliot type small forward. Plus the
> proverbial "addition by subtraction"
> thing.
> 
> >From the Celtics' perspective, I think it would be
> very hard to imagine any other
> scenario where we could move Kenny Anderson's 8
> million contract in exchange for
> a Dream Team/All Star calibre player in his early
> prime (if trading Kenny really
> is Pitino's aim).
> 
> I'm not saying I favor the trade. These are just
> morning coffee break
> observations.
> 
> 
> -----------
> DJessen33@aol.com wrote:
> 
> > Penny might prefer to play second banana as
> outlined in the Orlando Sentinel.
> > He might flourish with Walker taking all the
> spears. Walker also might be
> > able to motivate him. It would be Break City if
> they ever got the rebound
> > between Walker and Hardaway's ballhandling and
> throw in Dana's speed and
> > Pierce is no slouch also. However, this would
> force Walker to play the power
> > forward, at least starting. He could handle his
> own rebounding when he is in
> > shape but defensively he will get beat up by
> bigger 4's. This assumes Dana is
> > at the point so Hardaway can be at the two. It
> might be a good combination
> > between Penny's slashing and posting abilities
> mixed with Dana's sometimes
> > on-outside shot. As for the Googs thing, the Suns
> are going to start getting
> > a reputation of signing a free agent just to trade
> them. I don't know how a
> > All-Star veteran like Googs is going to feel about
> being traded after just
> > signing with a team 50 games ago. As for our
> trade, I like it better than
> > before. It is intriguing...
> 
> 
> 
> 

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