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Latest Howard Trade Rumor – How Are We Affected?
Posted by: Chris on August 9th, 2012
The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of the Utah Jazz.So the latest Dwight Howard rumor is as follows, a four-team trade:
Orlando – OUT: Dwight Howard, IN: Pau Gasol, Arron Afflalo (+Picks/Cash)
Lakers – OUT: Pau Gasol, Andrew Bynum, IN: Dwight Howard, Al Harrington
Denver – OUT: Al Harrington, Arron Afflalo, IN: Andre Iguodala
Philadelphia – OUT: Andre Iguodala, IN: Andrew Bynum
So how would this affect the Jazz? Well, Denver gets a bit better, since they’re already a deep team and are trading two low-to-middle tier talents for one top-20 player. The Lakers get a lot worse, since Bynum + Gasol are >>>>>>>>> Howard + Harrington . The big winners are Orlando, who finally get what they want, and Philly, who are a legitimate title contender with Bynum instead of Iguodala, since he’s an improvement overall and such a better fit with the remainder of their personnel.
That said, this feels like both good and bad news for the Jazz. The Lakers certainly get quite a bit worse, but it’s not enough to eject them from the top 4 of the conference. Meanwhile the Nuggets, with whom we’re in more direct competition for the last few playoff slots, improve, and would likely have a better shot to beat out other contenders like us. So this lowers our chances of making the playoffs, but probably improves our chances of a deep playoff run, because it makes one of the top teams significantly more vulnerable to an upset. That’s a trade-off I’m okay with.
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I DO NOT want to see HOWARD and NASH together. Look at how much better Gortat (however you spell his name)played when he went to the suns. Nash made him 3 times better. I can only imagine what Nash will do with Dwight. All the while Kobe is resting while Nash is buzzing around finding open players or creating plays, and then when Nash is tired or the defense does good they pass back to Jobe with 7 seconds to do his one on one (he’s not doing as well with that stuff any more) but still a 4th quarter threat. Especially if he can rest more throughout the game. Kobe if rested will hurt you in the last 8 minutes of a game which is when you win typically. I don’t think the Lakers really get worse becasue howard is faster and more explosive than both Gasol and Bynum which will work out better for Nash.
I think the Lakers are going to be better than you think. They were competetive with a terrible Guard. As long as they switch up so Nash doesn’t have to gurd people like Parker and Westbrook they can avoid Nash’s weakness.
As for Denver? Iggy is a better player than Afflalo but Harrington did well for them as did Afflalo. Iggy’s contract is big so for the money I don’t see this being a slam dunk for Denver… it’s iffy, but Iggy is high energy explosive and runs so he would fit in well.
I don’t see bynum making the Sixers that much better. Thats just me.
Orlando does ok getting Gasol and Afflalo, so at least they are taking back longer contracts than others they could trade for.
I think the winner here is the Lakers. Thats just me though. Iggy doesn’t make Denver a champion, bynum doesn’t make the Sixers champions and Gasol has shown to be a flop under pressure and Afflalo is good but middle of the road. If the Lakers get Bynum he resigns or extends with them and they have their player for the future we have to contend againt so I don’t like that. I want Howard with us or to stay back east somehow.
So Philly is trading Iggy for a Center.. huh wonder who could have made that trade. Before we got Marvin cause guess what?? Iggy>>>> Marvin
Only thing is Iggy is 15 mill per year! Thats a big contract!
THe one thing about the Lakers getting Howard trade that I like is that I wont have to read “Lets trade for Iggy” posts.