NBA 2010-2011 Season - Page 96

On February 24 2011 23:32 KOFgokuon wrote:
to save mad money
that's basically it

On February 25 2011 06:32 BalliSLife wrote:
Thunder NBA champs?

On February 25 2011 06:34 cLutZ wrote:


A healthy Perkins could really negate the Laker's size, but they would not matchup well with the Heat if that happened...

Hard to say.

On February 25 2011 06:34 Holcan wrote:
luke was just another big baby, smart, outside shot, but to beefy and to short to get to the rim, blocked most of the time, Erden had potential, and i liked him, but Ainge drafts considerable well, so I have faith he will find another of his talent level with the 2nd. edit: especially since this 2nd will pretty much be a 1st.

Perkins for Nenad and Green, well this is a bit of a different scenario, what i like is that green has good perimeter defense on the pick and roll, and his ability to guard smaller players like threes, my problem is that he doesnt board, at all. Has to be their guy behind KG, and probably wont have good synergy beside KG, unless they decided to do a huge lineup of shaq, kg, green, pierce, allen/rondo, but i highly doubt this will happen.

Nate isnt very good, good hype factor, bad decisions on the ball, and with delonte back the pressure is already taken off rondo, get him gone while his stock is high, from this perspective its a good move by ainge.

From OKCs pov, they got 1 of the two things they needed, defensive stopping power on the inside. Now if they can get a low post threat they might be a real dangerous team, even more so than before. Nates outside shooting will most likely get him benched over the hot hand of Eric Maynor, who also makes better decisions with the ball.

Edit: the more i think of it, the more i think its better for Boston, they lost a lot from Perkins injury this year, his ability to hedge out on pick and rolls was a huge liability, now that they have green who is particularly good at that i can see dannys idea behind the trade.

On February 25 2011 06:43 Ace wrote:


Perkins was an elite level defender. Let's not hold a freak injury against him as we all know what he's capable of.

This trade is a huge blow for the Celtics because we'll need a big body to replace that defense. The Celtics needed a backup SF but not at the cost of our arguably top tier defender in the paint. Celtics don't win without Perkins. Period.

Celtics now have Shaq and Jermaine O'Neal as the starting Centers. Not bad but also not great. We went from having a major advantage (killing teams in the paint) to now being at best adequate.