Rondo Trade: C Bags Asked For Randle (6)

I think it really comes down to the last bit. According to Ramona Shelburne, Ainge demanded our Top 5 pick if/when we get it back. Well then why would he trade with Dallas when THAT pick is likely to be in the 20 range just like Houston's? Because Ainge didn't want to help out the Lakers.

 

Welp, Tyson and Dirk have to play 40+ mpg now. Lol.

It'll be interesting to see how Rondo fits into that team though. He won't be able to dominate the ball as much, but Carlisle is the type of coach to work with his players to enhance the players' strengths.

 

I don't know. How do Rondo and Ellis fit together? I think in the short-term it'll be really rocky. Rondo is a different cat and could have a hard time fitting into that locker room. Long-term they project well, but short-term they look a little rough.

 

I'm glad Rondo is not coming this way. Although it was really tough to miss out on an almost always injured PG that can't shoot and is a worse FT shooter than Shaq.

 

That's well and good man, but what's the alternative now? The FA market is quickly drying and the Lakers seem intent on not adding smaller pieces in the rebuild process. Like others have been saying Dallas tried that at first and after striking out on Deron Williams, they moved in a different direction with Monta Ellis. We need to skip this summer's strikeouts and move on now. Trade Nash for Stephenson/2nd Rounder or something. Charlotte wants him out and nobody wants to take him. What's the worst that could happen if we trade for him? I'd take the chance at this point.

 

IF we get the pick back? That makes no sense. If we agreed to that, we'd simply do eveything we could to not get that pick back and then they don't get it. With Rondo here I don't think we would have been bottom 5 anymore, so I really don't get that.

 

Updated list of players we won't be signing this summer:
Rajon Rondo
LeBron James
Kevin Love
Marc Gasol

 

I think realistically every one of these names should be crossed off. LeBron isn't going anywhere, Love will stay if they go deep in the playoffs, and Gasol and the Grizz look ready for a finals run if healthy. Why any of the players we want would leave their title contending teams to play with Kobe in his final season and then be part of a REAL rebuild, is beyond me.

 

mavs fans right now

 

That's why Rondo ends up being one of our last hopes and Ainge screwed us. Rondo was one of the only free agents on a bad team (and therefore more likely to leave his team). Now we're looking at hoping/praying LeBron and Love leave Cleveland? Or LaMarcus leaves Portland? That's very unlikely to happen.

Time to move on though. We've got to start talking young assets. Guys like Monroe and Stephenson and Dragic if we've got a shot at him. There was a slim chance you could convince Durant to leave Oklahoma with Rondo and presumably Kobe and Randle. There's even less likelihood now with little hope in Free Agency. It's time to move on to the younger crowd and embrace the rebuild properly. There's literally been conspiracy to keep the Lakers down and it worked. We need to rebuild.

 

I'm off the Monroe train, rather have Hill at his price than Monroe for max, but I'm in board with everything else you said. The home run in the offseason thing isn't happening anymore, time to move to a new way of operating. Never thought I'd want Cuban to be the owner of my team, ugh, but they're doing it the right way.

 

Dragic, Swag, Durant, Randle, Gasol.

 

Monroe's value is absolutely tanking right now. He won't get the max anymore, no way. Not as a bench player on a terrible team. He's looking at 10 million a year or so tops at this point.