Indy wrote:I'm really starting to want Magloire, if we can get Magloire and Al with some combonation of AJ/Tinsley/Jackson/Foster and the newly acquired trade exemption, we'll be in good shape.
Who do you want to play the point, Sarunas and Marquis? When you trade them away you have simply no depth at the PG and have to aquire another PG. Also if me being Indiana fan I wouldn't like the idea of giving Jeff Foster away, because he is the best rebounder on this team.
I would go after Al Harrington and forget about Magloire. Magloire is overrated in my opinion. His all-star presence some years ago came only because the East lacked good front-court players. This has changed the last two seasons, the East gets tougher and tougher. Of course he works hard and is one of the elite rebounders in the league. But if you have Harrison (promising youngster), Foster (rebound-machine), O'Neal (self explaining) and perhaps Al Harrington I think the front-court is fine. And the fact that Danny Granger is also capable of playing PF sometimes I think Magloire would be useless.
Also look at the stats:
http://www.hoopsstats.com/basketball/fantasy/nba/milwaukee-bucks/players/jamaal-magloire/profile/06/16/232
Won 26, lost 46 matchups. Against top 10 Centers he is even worse, winning only 25% of his matchups. The year before, where he was injured was quite similar. Won 6, lost 13 matchups. Against top 10 centers he won 2, lost 6 matchups. In his All-star year of course he was better, winning 50 of his 82 matchups. Needless to say that this mustn't mean all and I don't like to use stats to justify something. But here I think it makes some sense.
If he plays C, he gets problems in the East by B. Wallace, Shaq, Ilgauskas, JO (assuming he plays Center for Indiana), Bogut (assuming he gets stronger in the Off-season and that's quite sure), Chris Bosh (should Rasho not be the starting man for the Raps), Dalembert (when healthy and accepted by Philly's coach) and Nenad Krstic. In my opinion all these guys are better than him. So what would help Indiana acquiring him? At the PF it doesn't look quite better. Villanueva is listed higher than him, Chris Bosh is better when playing PF, Webber is old and has changed his style but can more than only compete with him, a healthy Channing Frye can kick his ass, Sheed can bomb threes on him, Okafor is stronger, Dwight Howard - do I have to explain this, Antawn Jamison is also a big matchup problem for him.
And when you look at the names posted above, you'll see that in the year of his All-star appearance most of them weren't ready for the nba, played in college or the East. So comeone, don't trade for this guy...
THE ONLY REASON I WOULD TRADE FOR HIM is because he is an FA as far as I know after 2006/2007. Perhaps one could include him in a another nice trade-package. But out of sportive view I wouldn't make the deal you proposed. Although Indy should get rid of some shitty players...
Man, their are so much weird posts and trade proposals...
