Rudy Gay Traded to the Kings

[NovU]

Actually I don't even understand why the writer chose Monta Ellis as his example. He's peaked high and bottomed really low during his entire career so his reemergence wasn't really a surprising one. Ellis when he had team to his own constantly flirted with PER 18-19, and he's now duplicating that 19 season again within the system where he's allowed to use possession to his liking unlike with Jennings where he wanted to dictate middle of the floor while drawing little attention as a perimeter threat due to his poor outside shooting.

Now if Gay is to succeed, he probably needs to go Jordan Crawford and make an unseen transition to a different player at different role. But I agree with benji that it's not likely. Jordan Crawford at least shown he's a willing passer at times (I called this, he's going to start this season along with Sullinger and they'd excel) and his facilitating skills are far better than anyone on Celtics roster and JC is fully taking advantage of it. Having Bradley helps too because he's a dirty work player that'd do anything that JC wouldn't want to do. Gay is just in a different spot. How could he make a transition to a powerforward successfully when he now posts up against much bigger players and he doesn't have that kind of post game anyway. He's going to still turn to his face up game and take contested jumpers which wouldn't change jack. And try banning stats this time, Cousins will give you that death stare. It's still gotta be Cousins's team, Gay better not mess it up.

[NovU]

Ah fuck you Gay! Cousins only took 14 shots in his above avg minutes. Gay took ass whooping 20 in less playing time.

[_Steve_]

Ah fuck you Gay! Cousins only took 14 shots in his above avg minutes. Gay took ass whooping 20 in less playing time.

What did you expect?! No one, NO ONE, N O O N E takes shots away from Gay!

[NovU]

So what is the teams record after the trade?

[Andrew]

The Kings are 4-8 with Gay. The Raptors are 9-3 since the trade was made official.

[Phil89]

At the 10:50 mark it shows the Toronto players reacting to the trade. It's easy to forget sometimes that (most) NBA players are just regular people and trades can be tough on them and the team mates they leave behind.

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[shadowgrin]

They were affected because Gay took all the unfilled stat sheets to be used in games.

[rise]

Ah fuck you Gay! Cousins only took 14 shots in his above avg minutes. Gay took ass whooping 20 in less playing time.

What did you expect?! No one, NO ONE, N O O N E takes shots away from Gay!

You forgot Kobe Brickant. No one, NO ONE, N O O N E forgets Kobe Brickant!

[benji]

On the monte carlo simulations the Raptors have gone from like 36-46 to 46-36 since the trade.

[NovU]

The Raptors are 9-4 now since the Gay trade. 46-36 is not an overstatement.

BTW, do the Raptors really want to trade away Lowry? That'd be a big mistake. Lowry is freakin beasting now without Gay. I think the Raptors will come to sense and shut down any trade talks involving Lowry unless it's a super sexy deal like for Melo or Jordan Crawford.