Thread: The Lakers Make a Trade.....
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Old 11-20-2007, 06:02 PM   #24 (permalink)
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Re: The Lakers Make a Trade.....
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Originally Posted by JNice View Post
I'm not sure what the hell some of you people are saying. Ariza is a good young player. IMO this was a dumb move for Orlando. Neither Cook nor Evans has a lot of long-term value for Orlando. This was total shortsightedness.

Ariza was out of place on the new Orlando team because he can't shoot the 3 and I guess SVG wasn't a big fan. But Ariza is an excellent slasher/finisher and a top notch offensive rebounder. Pretty good defender as well. And at the end of last season he showed bigtime improvement in his mid-range shot.

This move is kind of baffling. Ariza is only 21/22 yrs old.
Ariza can opt out after this season, and certainly will, so we'd lose him anyway. He doesn't fit the team as well. We pretty much gave up a guy that couldn't get off our bench for two players that will get off our bench.
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