Comments on: The question of Tracy McGrady’s future might start coming up more when the trade deadline passes

By: Fennis

Fennis — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 05:30:01 +0000

The team is steadily approaching the most important trade deadline in several years. Dumars should look trade any player on the roster that he doesn’t envision on a championship roster in two to three years. I don’t think T-Mac passes that test. Yes, we’ve all enjoyed the better brand of basketball displayed over the past few weeks due to T-Mac’s return to glory (return to competence?), but the fandom needs to bite the bullet and endure an ugly second half in the interest of long-term goals. My fear is that Dumars will be tempted to keep the status quo to make the best possible impression with his new bosses.

By: acdctime

acdctime — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 02:28:17 +0000

Any PG would have had the same effect? lol. Not many PG’s beside Rondo, Paul, Nash and maybe 3 or 4 have better court vision or passing skills of McGrady’s

By: detroitpcb

detroitpcb — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:43:02 +0000

well, we don’t have a point guard on the roster other than T-Mac – so they either need to trade for one, draft one, or resign T-Mac. It is obvious that ever since they moved Stuckey off the ball, the team has played better. It is also obvious to anyone with a brain that Will Bynum is no point guard – he is a scoring guard in a small body………so

who is going to play the point next year? Remember, along with T-Mac, Prince might also be gone and he runs the point in the half court about 20% of the time.

By: Patrick Hayes

Patrick Hayes — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:06:06 +0000

Philly’s contending for the playoffs, so I’d bet they wouldn’t do that trade. And Brand has actually played pretty well for them, while their young guy, Speights, has had a pretty bad season, so yeah, Brand’s contract sucks and Philly would probably still like to shed it, but he might actually be building some value that could yield more than just a salary dump trade.
And I think if Philly were willing to deal Iggy, they would get much more in return considering he’d help just about any contender right now, even if he is a tad overpaid.

By: ds

ds — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:00:21 +0000

A bit off topic, but I’ve been wondering about a trade – and wanted to know what people think. How about Tay + (RIP or BG) for Andre Iguodala and Elton Brand? Who would need to sweeten their side?
I know the team would need to be sold before the Pistons could add that kind of Salary. But AI would seem to be a great fit for Detroit, and Brand is not a good contract, but would be a much better match for Detroit than RIP.
I’m curious what people think.

By: Patrick Hayes

Patrick Hayes — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:15:26 +0000

Those scenarios seem a little far-fetched.
First, if T-Mac is traded, and I’m not sure they will shop him that hard, Gibson is probably out of the range of young player they could acquire for him. Gibson is a proven rotation caliber big man on any team. Plus he’s young and cheap. McGrady is a rental player, and an old one at that. Giving up Gibson for a guy who may not sign, even if Chicago wanted to sign him long-term, would be an incredibly short-sighted move for a team that looks like it could contend for a while with the youth of its core.
McGrady could maybe fetch a low first round pick or maybe a player on a rookie contract who has fallen out of favor or is considered more of a project player. He wouldn’t yield someone like Gibson.
And as far as Brooks for Stuckey? How does that help? They both are shoot-first PGs. They are both guys who will likely command extensions at far greater numbers than they are probably worth.

By: Laser

Laser — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:03:17 +0000

thanks.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 20:54:07 +0000

I’d like to see Joe D try to pry Taj Gibson from Chicago for TMac. Sure, Gibson is great insurance for Chicago when Boozer or Noah is out. But when those are healthy, between them and Kurt Thomas, Gibson really gets squeezed. Then maybe we could get Brooks for Stuckey. And if we could straight up swap Gordon for Butler, the roster would really be looking up. Alternatively, we could give Prince for Butler and force Dallas to also take Maxiell for Stevenson in the process. These are a lot of moves which each only offer a little upside. But I think getting any of them done would be doable and have positive repercussions down the road.

By: jgk281

jgk281 — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 20:29:15 +0000

The Pistons have some srious finncial problem to sort out. Unless they find a better PG, it would inexcusable to ot bring McGrady back. However, if they want to add any players of impact in FA, I’m not sure they can afford to re-sign Stuckey and McGrady.

But they can’t just bring back this same wretched team with no additions again next year.

They have to change something. Unfortunately, their best players are the ones that need extensions, and their worst players are occupying all the cap space.

Rip, Gordon, CV, Bynum, and Maxiell all need to go by next year, and if Joe can’t move at least 1-2 of them, then he needs to go, and they can find someone else who can move them.

Of this roster, Monroe, Daye, Jerebko, Stuckey, and McGrady are the only players that should be back again next year. Everybody else should be used to acquire talent to add to that group. If Joe cant do that, then he needs to go. The whole ownership excuse is kind of weak because Joe got himself into this mess with all these bad contracts. Just because the ownership situation is preventing him from getting out of it doesn’t detract all blame from him.

Its unfortunate for Joe that he might not get the chance to correct these mistakes this time around like he has done on his previous mistakes, but thats too bad. If he hadn’t created this mess, there would be no “ownership situation” holding back trades/FA.

You dont just fill your roster with bad, long-term contracts thinking you can trade your way out of it later, because something might come up preventing it, and now he’s screwed.

By: Talented Mr_Cobb

Talented Mr_Cobb — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 19:25:00 +0000

There are only two teams that come to mind that I feel need Tracy to solidify their title chances or at least give them an additional ” weapon “: The Chicago Bulls & Los Angelas Lakers. They were interested last summer but didn’t think he was healthy physically and willing mentally to accept a bench role. Chicago needs him more than the Lakers because they’re ” shooting guard by committee ” is horrible. They hae 3 players who combine average 11 pts per game. That’s not going to be enough to get past Boston, Atlanta, Miami, and even New York. Tracy to me would be the perfect compliment to Derek Rose because he can run the point and allow Rose to play off the ball and not worry about having to do everything for the Bulls. They could resign Tracy to the MLE for 2yrs and he will be even better next yr because he will finally be able to focus on basketball related activities this summer instead of having to worry about rehabing his knee. I would like to see Tracy playing with the Heat because again, he would allow Lebron & Wade to play off the ball. But I don’t see that happening til maybe in the offseason, once they realize that they need more than Chalmers, Arroyo, Eddie House, James Jones, and Haslem as a supporting cast.