Green is looking good lately.
I still would have preferred keeping Perk, having a better shot at the 2011 title, and then moving Perk for a trade exception (and possibly a pick). We could have cashed that exception in for David West.
Still curious about what a better shot at 2011 implies. I just don't see it.
Firstly, Perk was clearly a different man in those playoffs with Oklahoma. The only reason the "better shot" myth continues was because Krstic, to add insult to injury to our bad luck, also got hurt as we got closer to the playoffs. What made this significant is that moving Perk was also a health related consideration, Krstic was a healthy big and should've been more dependable in that facet.
Regardless, the bemoaning of the loss of Perk because we were missing a rim protector to stop LeBron is simply an absurd idea in my opinion, mainly because Perk really hasn't been that guy since his injury, and the truth is in the pudding whenever LeBron has played with Oklahoma, despite they also having one of the more dominant defenders in the league at the moment with Ibaka. And this is coming from a person that gives more credit to Perk for our defense against LeBron in his Cleveland days, than the myth of James Posey.
And lost in all of this was how much Green helped against the Knicks, particularly with the defense he played with Carmelo, that for some reason no one cares to give him credit for. He was easily the best Carmelo defender we had that year. He wasn't a good defender on LeBron back then though, but he had a fairly productive performance in the minutes that Doc played him against the Heat (53.8% from the floor, for 8.4 points a game in 21 minutes of play).
More than missing Perk against the Heat to have a better shot at a championship, we were missing Tony Allen for better perimeter defense, and I think the addition of Bradley and Lee and the impact they've had against Miami shows this.