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Al Harrington Traded To The Pacers (Dead... Now Alive again)

Postby nets4life on Fri Jul 21, 2006 1:42 pm

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Postby Lakers08 on Fri Jul 21, 2006 1:45 pm

Nice move by the Pacers...


Al for Stephen again!!!!!
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Postby Jing on Fri Jul 21, 2006 1:45 pm

fuck.... back to indiana... nice.
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Postby nets4life on Fri Jul 21, 2006 1:47 pm

i still dont see how it will work, will they start JO at centre and hav al at PF? or have him at SF, or off the bench?
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Postby Goldenstatewarrior on Fri Jul 21, 2006 3:13 pm

Wow. I wanted my Warriors to get him so that they can make a serious run for the playoffs next year. I guess we need to find someone else then. :?
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Postby Dro on Fri Jul 21, 2006 3:30 pm

I like this trade for both teams. The Pacers are trying to stay among the elite in the East.

The Hawks had a logjam at the SF-PF position...they still do, but not as much now. Players who play the 3 or 4:

Marvin Williams
Josh Childress
Josh Smith
Shelden Williams

The Hawks have some tough decisions to make. If they start Shelden Williams at PF, I'd expect either Marvin or Josh Smith to get the SF spot, with Zaza Pachulia starting at 5.

Or, they could go with S. Williams at the 5, Marvin and Josh holding down the 4 and 3, and Joe Johnson playing eiter of the Guard spots. They're going to have a hell of a lot of inexperienced players, no matter which lineup they choose.

Which makes me even happier that the Suns have their first rounder this year :D Greg Oden...here we come? :D
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Postby nets4life on Fri Jul 21, 2006 3:39 pm

Which makes me even happier that the Suns have their first rounder this year Greg Oden...here we come?


If the suns do end up with Oden it would not be cool. Oden, Stoudamire, Diaw, Marion, Nash ??? UNFAIR :evil:
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Postby Dro on Fri Jul 21, 2006 3:44 pm

nets4life wrote:
Which makes me even happier that the Suns have their first rounder this year Greg Oden...here we come?


If the suns do end up with Oden it would not be cool. Oden, Stoudamire, Diaw, Marion, Nash ??? UNFAIR :evil:


Hehe..well, a few things would have to happen for the Suns to actually end up with Oden.

The Atlanta pick is Top 3 protected, meaning that if Atlanta ends up with a Top 3 pick, Phoenix does not have the rights to it this year. Atlants needs to be 4 or higher for Phoenix to have the pick. And we all know Oden will go first...so Phoenix would have to package players or picks to trade up. Phoenix also has their own first and Cleveland's first next year.

But now I'm going off topic..
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Postby Indy on Fri Jul 21, 2006 3:49 pm

I really hope we didn't give up David Harrison. I'm dying to see who we gave up.
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Postby Dro on Fri Jul 21, 2006 3:54 pm

Indy wrote:I really hope we didn't give up David Harrison. I'm dying to see who we gave up.


Knowing the Hawks, they probably accepted a couple of second round picks and a couple million in trade exception.
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Postby BZ on Fri Jul 21, 2006 4:23 pm

Damn... wanted the Rockets to get him... somehow, some way. It'd be a nice replacement for Howard, who's getting too old. (N)
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Postby ThaLiveKing on Fri Jul 21, 2006 4:30 pm

OH YEAH!! I wanna know who we traded!! It could be a point guard to back up Claxton
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Postby _marsal on Fri Jul 21, 2006 5:02 pm

I'm hoping either Jamaal/Johnson/Jackson/Foster/Pollard...
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Postby Matt on Fri Jul 21, 2006 5:08 pm

Harrington is a perfect example of a young player with plenty of potential who needed playing time to develop and could afford to learn through his mistakes.

The whole "earn PT in practice" speach coaches give is generally bullshit.
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Postby Gameboy on Fri Jul 21, 2006 7:12 pm

I guess it invloves Foster/Johnson for Harrington.
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Postby CERVANTES on Fri Jul 21, 2006 7:37 pm

Johnson won't be traded, I think. Carlisle loves him. I'm sure it will be one of their PG's, mostly Saras or Jamaal.
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Postby cklitsie on Fri Jul 21, 2006 8:59 pm

Dro wrote:And we all know Oden will go first...
Most probably.. yes. But which year? :wink:
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Postby nets4life on Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:12 pm

CK wrote:
Dro wrote:And we all know Oden will go first...
Most probably.. yes. But which year? :wink:


If Oden pulls off a Tim Duncan he's stupid, i mean 1 year in college should be enough. Ohio State probably will win the NCAA tournament so there would be no need to stay longer. (Go UNC!) Go to the NBA earn the big bucks, do all the endorsments etc.
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Postby kinokong on Fri Jul 21, 2006 10:32 pm

lol... what's so stupid about earning a degree? sure ur losing millions but its not like he'll become poor if he stays 2-3 years at college
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Postby Mayerhendrix on Fri Jul 21, 2006 11:47 pm

CERVANTES wrote:Johnson won't be traded, I think. Carlisle loves him. I'm sure it will be one of their PG's, mostly Saras or Jamaal.


Johnson sort of broke out as a player during the playoffs. He torched NJ when JO was crying foul.
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Postby cklitsie on Fri Jul 21, 2006 11:58 pm

nets4life wrote:If Oden pulls off a Tim Duncan he's stupid, i mean 1 year in college should be enough. Ohio State probably will win the NCAA tournament so there would be no need to stay longer. (Go UNC!) Go to the NBA earn the big bucks, do all the endorsments etc.
I don't believe Ohio St. will win the tourney in 06 already and Greg Oden seems like the traditional kind of guy that would finish up college.
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Postby BlueHornet on Sat Jul 22, 2006 12:38 am

CK wrote:
nets4life wrote:If Oden pulls off a Tim Duncan he's stupid, i mean 1 year in college should be enough. Ohio State probably will win the NCAA tournament so there would be no need to stay longer. (Go UNC!) Go to the NBA earn the big bucks, do all the endorsments etc.
I don't believe Ohio St. will win the tourney in 06 already and Greg Oden seems like the traditional kind of guy that would finish up college.


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Postby maes on Sat Jul 22, 2006 12:57 am

nets4life wrote:i still dont see how it will work, will they start JO at centre and hav al at PF? or have him at SF, or off the bench?


I think he wants to be a SF...he's really worked on his smallball game, and made a dramatic improvement in his 3 point game last season...a few games ATL won the game based on his & JJ's outside shooting. I'm guessing he' played the 4 mostly because of the logjam of SF's on the Hawks.

I'd guess their frontcourt goes Foster/JON/Harrington...maybe Harrington relieves JON and Granger slides into the 3 or something. They also have Daniels who can play the 3...lots of options on that team.

I'm interested to read Indy's analysis of how this impacts the team.
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Postby Indy on Sat Jul 22, 2006 1:09 am

From what I've been reading, it looks like this trade will be the TE plus cash, and that's all. If that's the case I'm thrilled. It means we still have all our tradable peices to go after 2 more players. However, this trade really weakens us post defensively. Al is actually a good post defender, but we still need a banger next to Jermaine, and we still have all of our trading pieces to get Jamaal Magloire. If we can get a frontline of Al/JO/Magloire, then I have no problem bringing Granger off the bench for one more year because he'll be able to play at the 2 when we play a bigger lineup, the 3 most of the time as a straight up backup to Al, and the 4 when we go small. I'm starting to get excited. :D
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Postby Its_asdf on Sat Jul 22, 2006 1:18 am

Ironic that a player that whined about not getting playing time in Indiana is now returning to the same team with more depth at the SF position.
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