Comments on: WTF?: Indiana Pacers

By: angelo

angelo — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:14:09 +0000

WTF indeed! Here’s my analysis of the trade

http://www.nbaobsessed.com/2007/01/18/pacers-warriors-pull-off-eight-player-trade/

By: The Cavalier

The Cavalier — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 03:47:12 +0000

Less basketball analysis, more talk of Kwame vs Cake.

By: Boney

Boney — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 02:13:14 +0000

Charles Barkley said that Indiana is going to finish ahead of the Cavaliers, and that the Cavs need a PG and SG…

sounds exactly what I’ve been saying for almost a year.

By: Carlo

Carlo — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:40:07 +0000

So Harrington was good for Indi, hu?

I got ten bucks says the Pacers blow up the whole team after the season.

By: mercutioh

mercutioh — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:00:33 +0000

i’m smelling an all teen wolf strategy……Chris Kaman is still available right?

By: The Cavalier

The Cavalier — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:03:32 +0000

Yeah, but the Warriors are on my teams I don’t like and also try to avoid. I’ve also vowed to know less things in 2007.

By: fulminating

fulminating — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:35:13 +0000

sorry, but not knowing biedrins at C for GSW is a big whoops. the guy plays like an even more defensive minded kirilenko at 7′.

By: alon

alon — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:27:24 +0000

GSW fan checking in.

Here’s my initial reaction upon reading about this trade right here at Yay!

Believe me — the Warriors just unloaded a large pile of crap on the Pacers.

Dunleavey is just an awful all around basketball player. Bad shooter, ball handler, rebounder, defender. No instincts and no hussle. The guy just doesn’t belong, and I’m loving the Indiana people with their optimism. MDJ is pure crap (okay, he’s a good passer, but rarely shows it cause he can’t really dribble very effectively).

Murphy is slow and an overrated shooter. He recklessly crashes the boards, collects cheap rebounds and overall doesn’t have much of an offensive game (zero moves around the basket).

Ike is undersized and hasn’t shown a whole lot of touch in the few minutes he’s gotten the last two years. He can score around the basket in the same was Danny Fortson scores — kind of effective, kind of ugly to watch, and not very consistently. He’s a bad rebounder.

I haven’t quite come off this high to figure out who the W’s get back, but it doesn’t really matter. Okay, just checked — Al Harrington. I’m down with that. Haven’t followed Jackson’s schinanigans, but don’t really care right now.

And Biedrins is a legit center now, with tons of potential, at age of 20. W’s are going to go all the way in… I don’t know, maybe 2011?

By: alon

alon — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:26:53 +0000

GSW fan checking in.

Here’s my initial reaction upon reading about this trade right here at Yay!

Believe me — the Warriors just unloaded a large pile of crap on the Pacers.

Murphy is slow and an overrated shooter. He recklessly crashes the boards, collects cheap rebounds and overall doesn’t have much of an offensive game (zero moves around the basket).

And Biedrins is a legit center now, with tons of potential, at age of 20. W’s are going to go all the way in… I don’t know, maybe 2011?

By: Jack Cobra

Jack Cobra — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:07:40 +0000

Addition by subtraction for the Pacers. Just getting rid of Stephen Jax makes them better at the start. In the end they have a young Ike who plays hard when given minutes. While Murphy and Dunleavy, Jr. struggled with Golden State they may play better in an offense with more strict sets (much like their college programs). Plus, Murphy’s penchant for the outside will help offset O’Neal’s pounding of the rock inside. If Dunleavy can give them 14ppg and Murphy can give them 15-18ppg and 8-10rpg then Indy got a steal. The contracts aren’t bad because 1) they are young and 2) there are always teams that seem to want to trade no matter what the contract is.