chairman

Not much love for Mo Williams in this Milwaukee article:

"So let's get to it with a little unsolicited off-season personnel advice for the new guy.

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Buy a link hereKeepers: Andrew Bogut, Yi Jianlian and Ramon Sessions.

One of the things that got overlooked in this lost season was Bogut's improvement. You might be able to name one, maybe two big men in the East you'd rather have. Bogut is a piece to build around.

The results from Yi's injury-marred rookie season were mixed at best. He has to get stronger and you'd rather see him play small forward. If the Bucks get lucky in the lottery with Michael Beasley, a position switch could be accommodated. Yi's potential and international marketability make him a definite keeper.

Sessions, who has developed into a nice backup point guard, will become an important piece as the backcourt is sorted out.

Should be traded: Mo Williams or Michael Redd.

The Bucks can't go on with this backcourt. Too much money and too little payoff for a team that must change its perimeter-based character.

Williams, who is not a point guard, should be gone if the Bucks can jump up to draft Derrick Rose or Jerryd Bayless as the starter. But good luck in moving Williams, though, as the Bucks gave him a six-year, $51 million contract last year to keep him around.

And as a maximum-contract player, Redd cannot carry a team as a one-dimensional shooter. The Bucks owe him $51 million over the next three years, so they need to extract his value while they can, especially if O.J. Mayo is there in the draft. This is where Hammond not being afraid to make an unpopular trade might pay off."

meru

No it isn't. Blake is fine as our starter for Oden Year One (not counting redshirt year). Biggest need for the Blazers is health for GO.

I would be okay with this being a pretty boring offseason. We could trade our draft picks for future considerations, slot Rudy into Miles's space and I'd be happy. Let any trades happen at the deadline next year when we see how Rudy and Oden work with what we already have.

(If we don't trade our picks, and we don't move up in the lottery, I can see us taking foreign players again - perhaps Nicolas Batum and Serge Ibaka and somebody else, and let them stay oversees awhile. If that happens, I say revive my idea of having Paul Allen buy a Euro-team and stock it with Koponen, Freeland and all the rest (hell, even Marcelo Nicola and Frederich Kammerichs for old-time's sake).)

BlazerFan22

No I think this offseason is the time we get our PG or the future and Jack is not the Blazers PG of the future. Blake maybe the back up PG of the future. As for I don't know how to play defence Sergio goes I'm not even sure he fits the team.

BlazerFan22

I don't think Harris is that untouchable. Jack, Jones and our 1st round draft pick for Harris?

nikolokolus

What are you basing that assumption on?

Why would NJ go to all that trouble to trade Kidd for a young stud PG like Harris if they didn't intend to keep him ... especially considering that he played pretty well for them down the stretch.

Yega1979

I never thought I'd say this, but I'm getting really tired of slow-*** Steve Blake. I used to really like him, but he runs the team like an old grandpa. Sergio knows how to get guys easy looks, and Jack plays with alot of heart, but all Blake does is hit his open 3 pointers.

I hope we get Sergio or Jack more playing time over Blake if we don't get a better PG soon.

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nikolokolus

If we could only put the three into some kind of Frankenpointguarderizer, where a machine takes the best part of each player's game and combines them into one we'd be set. Sergio's passing, Jack's fire and ability to drive, and Blake's A/TO ratio ... in that case I guess we'd have Deron Williams?

B-Roy

I'll get working on a machine to do that.