Trade Al Now... By JagSgang76 Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 6:19 pm I've been looking at the recent upheaval around the league which is setting the table for whatever deal BK might make. We have NYK having a roster bulging with expensive and inefficiant players and a GM and coach trying very hard to fix it. You have BOS trying to shuffle the deck in order to get a winning product on the court. You have GS with too many big contracts. DEN is shopping for any pieces to help them in the playoff run. ORL is having issues winning and has thought about moving Francis. There is simply a host of possibilties. The one problem is the lack of compatibility between all those teams and what ATL really needs. Harrington would be the perfect piece for any team wanting to bolster their lineup for the playoffs, but no one is willing to give ATL want he is worth. It might also be a matter of they are not capable of giving what he's worth because that would take away from other aspects of their team that make them competitive. We basically have two options: wait for a trade that gives us what Al's really worth or work out a S&T in the offseason. The real question is what is Al's value. My opinion is he's an excellent starting SF/PF who is one of the better low post scorers in the league and can shoot from outside making him very valuable offensively. He's not fantastic where defense or rebounding is concerned, but I think come playoff time he'd bring the complete package. I think he would be ideal to come off the bench and dominate anyone's alternates. The other aspect of his value is his contract which carries with it Early Bird rights. That means whatever team owns the rights to him can sign him to a much larger/longer contract than any other team. That means he is a perfect candidate for a S&T where an auction could be held to see who is willing to give up the most in a trade for the rights to sign him to the larger contract. There are few players with his youth and talent (not to mention experience) who will be better than him this offseason, so he is going to get a lot of attention. Now, from BK's perspective, I don't think he really wants to resign him for the amount of money that he will be offered. He might try to get him to sign for a discount, but I think Al is smart enough to not take it. That leaves him with the original two options. If he trades Al, he absolutely must get more value for him than with a S&T. The reason is not only would the team he is traded to get the benefit of his services for the remainder of the season and playoffs, but they will receive significant cap room and potentially quite a nice return on a S&T. This is why he has set the bar so high for anyone wanting to trade for him. (IMO, Watson and Nene for Al is a joke, especially considering all the teams making major changes.) BK probably realizes that because of this higher price tag now most teams are not going to want to give up so much at this time. That leaves only the S&T option. I think we could get a very nice prize with all the changes going on around the league. Some teams are going to seriously start rethinking the makeup of their teams and try to find the best building blocks they can to fix things. BK will basically get to pick and choose the right deal for his team, all the while threatening to resign Al because we will have the cap to do it. I think he is playing it smart, allowing teams to think about what it would take to get Al now, but all the while looking towards an ideal situation for him to improve his team with a top draft pick and a huge card to play that could put the finishing touches on his rebuilding project (years early if you ask me). 原文轉載 http://www.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=474416 --

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