Here are some of my thoughts about the which teams should make a trade for the good of the team, but also for the good of the player, which is a little different slant.
Miami Heat: Pat Riley needs to get rid of Butler as pronto as he can. He should try for Bradely Beale.
The Phoenix Suns: For Bradley Beales sake, make the trade for Butler. Butler will give the Suns a heck of a good couple of seasons before he starts pouting again. In which case he'll be too old for anyone to take him seriously. Looks like Nuric is up for sale. How about the Lakers to spell Anthony?
The Lakers need a real point guard desperately. Van Vleet of the Rockets? Perhaps a pass first guy might be the best.
The Sacramento Kings. They need a more athleic Big back up center for Sabonis than Lem. Proba bly not likely but they migh want to consder going to the Rockets for Jabari Smith, Steven Adams and a first round draft choice for DeAron Fox.
Golden State Warriors: I'm back to believing that the Dubs could make a run if all their injured players come back healthy after All Star Break. However, if they could get Vucevic from the Bulls, he would really help, A big who can shoot the three, is a smart passer, and can compete with the Big Bigs like the Joker.
For the good of Markkaanen, the Jazz should trade him to a team competing for a championship. By the time he jazz can realistically via for higher than a playin, the Finish star wil be on he downside of his career. Not fair to him.
TWolves made a bad trade getting rid of Towns. Randle and Gobert viia for the same space on the court, and Rudy is an immovable object. It might be too late for a trade without disurpting the team more than it already has been disrupted. Naz Reed is by far the better fit. I'd take a chance and trade Randle now for Cam Johnson if the Nets would go for it and a first round pick.
I've been thinking about coaches lately. Doug Christie surprising me with the Kings. All the years Coach Kerr has made my life happier by creating great baskeball teams. Spoelstra of the Heat seems to have the kind of chops it takes to last so long - fair, tough and smart. Coaches make a big difference. I think Nick Nurse is a fine coach but is stuck by management between a rock and a hard place. Cleveland found a winning coach. I think back to all the great collegiate coaches. Ben Neff was my high school coach.at Lowell High in San Francisco. When I left high school I knew moe about how to play basketball than all the players that I would be playing with in college. The poem below has a lot to do with both the good and tthe bad. Which is reality when it comes to coaching. Consider Bobby Knight of Indiana.
Benny Neff
to you. I do not hold it against you
that you called me a sonovabitch and
that you questioned what I was good for
and that your anger wound up as spit in my face.
Those of us who could withstand your anger
learned how to play the game of basketball
so well that we carried it with us into college
and me into the pros. But I remember a boy
trying out for the team you frightened badly,
who ran and you chased him and he swung
up in to the standard and sat like a bird
perched above the hoop crying while you
threw basketballs at him, one after the other,
and the rest of us, thinking it was funny,
fed you the balls, throwing nice crisp
two-handed chest passes just the way
you taught us, fingers straight, thumbs down.
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