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TheMatrix31 said:
There wont be need for a trade. Absolutely not. We resign Keon too, there's our big man. If we have Nash, Q, Marion, and Amare......there wont be any need for a center thats better than Keon anyways. Whoever suggested that trade for Shaq.......nope. We'll have the shooting we desperately needed (we needed it as much as a big man) by signing Nash and Q. And Amare, Matrix, and Keon will be enough to rebound the misses.
We dont need someone to stop Shaq, there isnt one who can. We need people to just collect rebounds, and clog up some space. Stoudemire, Marion, and Clark will get around 27, 28 rebounds a game. Richardson has potential to get 7 on his own. Add whoever else's rebounds and we'll be in shape. All we have to do is stop teams from getting second chance points. Thats the key to winning. Outrebounded on the offensive end? You're gonna lose.
There is no logjam at the guard position. We'll have Nash, Q, Johnson, Jacobsen, and Barbosa. Barbosa is learning how to play anyways, and Jacobsen doesnt even want to be a starter. That leaves Johnson. If Johnson accepts his role as an energy sixth man type, then we're set. He doesnt really have too much of an ego anyways.
This season immediately catapults us into the front bunch in the West if we get QRich. Still wont be as good as Minnesota, SA, Sacramento, or Dallas, but if LA loses out on Kobe or loses Shaq, then we should be in front of Houston at a 5th or 6th seed.
It will be interesting. Sign it Q, and hope the Clips dont match.
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I'm pretty confident that if they get Q, that someone will be traded and it will probably be Marion. You can't get enough minutes for 5 guy in 2 spots. Plus, do you really think Joe Johnson is going to head back to the bench after getting serious PT this season. I didn't think so either. He has the potential to be a big time player, given the right atmosphere and minutes. If Phoenix doesn't want to do that for him, he should request a trade and go turn himself into the next TMAC in the East somewhere. Now thats all speculation, because I don't really know of any big man in the East that Phoenix would actually want. Maybe a S&T for Dampier. Sort of a three team deal that would get Richardson out of Golden State to Chicago or something. I don't know, I've now started rambling. My apologies...

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