IMO, the Wiz have a couple too many young players to really fit in their rotation. They'd do well to maybe cash a couple of them in on a higher quality, more experienced player.
Hughes, Haywood, Knight, and Laettner for Rasheed Wallace and Vlad Stepania?
1- Arenas, Blake
2- Stackhouse, Dixon
3- Wallace, Hayes
4- Thomas, Jeffries
5- Kwame, Stepania
Bench: Butler, Braggs
IR: Whitney
In the longer run, we re-sign Sheed, we slide him to the 4 as Hayes and Jeffries show themselves capable of running the 3 full time. That would move Etan back as the primary backup behind Kwame and Sheed.
In the Off-season, we could look for a more experienced backup PG and C as first priorities, and I think we'd be in pretty good shape.
Would this trade be remotely interesting to the Blazers? I would be if I were them. Reportedly the offers they're getting aren't too hot for Rasheed. Antwan Jamison is nice, but do they really want to take on Tariq Abdul-Wahad's contract? I doubt it. A move like this would let them keep their cap flexibility and at the same time give them two young players that could really help them in Hughes and Haywood. As a short-term proposition it doesn't hurt much either since they've got no PG behind Damon Stoudamire and no real SG besides the always injured Derek Anderson. They get a new lineup of:
1- Damon, Knight
2- Hughes, Anderson
3- Miles, Woods
4- Randolph, Laettner
5- Davis, Haywood
Not great, I freely admit, but they aren't great now. But they will have a bunch of good young players and Damon and Laetter will both come off the books at the same time (not this summer but the next), a time when a player like Tracy McGrady may be a FA.
Hughes, Haywood, Knight, and Laettner for Rasheed Wallace and Vlad Stepania?
1- Arenas, Blake
2- Stackhouse, Dixon
3- Wallace, Hayes
4- Thomas, Jeffries
5- Kwame, Stepania
Bench: Butler, Braggs
IR: Whitney
In the longer run, we re-sign Sheed, we slide him to the 4 as Hayes and Jeffries show themselves capable of running the 3 full time. That would move Etan back as the primary backup behind Kwame and Sheed.
In the Off-season, we could look for a more experienced backup PG and C as first priorities, and I think we'd be in pretty good shape.
Would this trade be remotely interesting to the Blazers? I would be if I were them. Reportedly the offers they're getting aren't too hot for Rasheed. Antwan Jamison is nice, but do they really want to take on Tariq Abdul-Wahad's contract? I doubt it. A move like this would let them keep their cap flexibility and at the same time give them two young players that could really help them in Hughes and Haywood. As a short-term proposition it doesn't hurt much either since they've got no PG behind Damon Stoudamire and no real SG besides the always injured Derek Anderson. They get a new lineup of:
1- Damon, Knight
2- Hughes, Anderson
3- Miles, Woods
4- Randolph, Laettner
5- Davis, Haywood
Not great, I freely admit, but they aren't great now. But they will have a bunch of good young players and Damon and Laetter will both come off the books at the same time (not this summer but the next), a time when a player like Tracy McGrady may be a FA.