Yeah and you make the Hawks an elite team with a Teague-Amare combo. very dumb. Im 100% opposed to trading Amare right now unless it was for Dwight or an extremely good package of young players like if we weere going to Denver someone. Amare is going to be a beast now that he has someone who can operate the P&R like Lin
as much as id love dwight howard were not getting him for stat or an extremely good package of young players at that. the SIXERS loaded with young talent offered us what Turner + picks for stat. The only way we would get anything useful for stat, is if Lin can make him look like the OLD stat we knew before the trade deadline. Nobody wants to touch his contract unless they see Stat as a final piece for them to contend or they simply want a Star in their city.
As for the hawks yes they would be an elite team, but right now were not even an elite team. Were a below 500 team you do whatever it takes to improve your team a trade for josh smith, hinrich not only makes us better but brings more ball movement and spreads the floor for us better melo/stat tandem does not work on consistent basis. Actually it rarely works at all ive never seen these two coexist vs Elite teams. what i have seen is ball hogging and alot of Iso. the stat/melo tandem shows some chemistry between the 2 at times when we play 5hitty teams.
maybe it was because of no PG who knows. but stats Lack of defense, rebounding, and passing also hurts us alot.
-Josh smith is what 26 years old, rebounds, defends, hustles, likes to run, shooting range extends to the 3 point line, less of a injury to worry about. he's exactly the kind of guy you want playing next to melo and chandler as well as a key player to our future in the long run he's only going to get better he's 26 in his prime. Stat is 29 or 30 i forget how old dude is but he looks like he's declining already.