Ed Dantes wrote:Th3rd wrote:i agree you need a guy who can bang with the best of them, but you also need a guy who will be able to bang with the best of them for the next 10 years
shaq will not be in the league for the next 10 years and is in fact on his way out. he can make them a better team in the regular season, but shaq will be worn out come playoff time and will not be the player they need him to be
Three questions:
#1) Where are you going to find a player who can 'bang with the best of them' for the next 10 years?
#2) Why not acquire Shaq and play him on a reduced schedule (say, sit until February) and have him not as worn down come playoff time?
#3) If you are surrendering dead weight for a chance to win a title, don't you have to do that, and worry about 10 years much, much later?
#1)You aren't going to find a guy, and that includes Shaq, simply because a lot of guys are soft and the best of them are few
#2)That could very well work, though you still have to look at him being out of shape and as you can see from his time in Phoenix a run and gun offense is not Shaq and will never be Shaq
#3)You also have to look, does Shaq=Automatic Title or does Shaq=Contention for 2 years while he eats up money, and if it is the 2nd one then why not get 2 or 3 guys on free agency who can play Cleveland style ball and will be around for more then 2 years and yes they may not all be Shaq in his prime, but Shaq now is not Shaq in his prime. So the option is get a fat contract for an aging center or get 3 guys who are role players and still young and will be around when it matters
4/28/2009 R.I.P. Jeff Taylor
ToTheLeft wrote:because accepting anything less than the best is, as Vanilla Ice would say, a felony
BJWilliams wrote:I think highly of the guy just because he is more of a man than most of you jackwagons
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