faster this thread dies, the better....
Sincerely don't understand the hostility towards this trade idea.
Is it some attachment to Jeff Green? He doesn't even crack the NBA's top 100 players and he's stuck on the book at 9 mil a season for the next 3 years.
Some bizarre attachment to Courtney Lee?
You'd have a hard enough time trading both of those guys for an expiring contract... let alone get a solid prospect like Biyombo for them. If any team turned down this trade, it would be the Bobcats.
Does BB crack the NBA's top 100 players?
The problem with this trade is that right now, with Rajon Rondo out, Jeff Green is our leading scorer and arguably our best player, as well as our best defensive swingman.
If you added BB to this team, there is no possible way he will be anything close to our best player. In fact I am not even certain that he would crack the starting lineup above Bass and Sullinger. He would make a nice bench duo with Humphries though, but do you really give up your best scorer and (arguably) best player for a nice bench player? No.
Biyombo is a pretty decent player with good upside, but on a team that lacks offense as badly as we do there is no way I'd trade Green out unless I'm getting an equally good offensive player back in return...otherwise we will quickly drop to the WORST offensive team in the entire league.
Green is shooting over 40% from three this year, as are AB and Crawford. Out of those three guys Green is arguably the biggest threat from three, especially in the clutch. He has the hight to shoot the three over opposing players, which neither Crawford nor Bradley are gifted with. Trade Green for Biyombo and we lose one of those shooters, which means defense can collapse on Bradley (who is still a bit inconsistent from three) and Crawford (who often has some of the worst shot selection on earth).
Another reason why this is bad. We have Bass, Sully, Humphies who are all natural Power Forwards. Sully and Bass are getting big minutes, so Hump (despite playing very well) isn't getting as many minutes as he probably deserves. At center we have Fav, Olynyk and again Sully.
1) If we do this trade, which of our bigs has minutes taken away so that Biyombo can play significant minutes? Bass - who has been playing so well this year? Sully, who is up there with Green as arguably the best player on the team? Hump, who has been great off the bench and already doesn't get enough playing time? Olynyk, a promising Rookie with good potential who needs minutes to develop? If I had to take minutes from one of these guys it would be Bass, but he has been so solid this year and is such a hard worker onboth ends of the floor that it's hard to take him out.
2) If we do this trade, who starts at SF? Courtney Lee, the 6'5" guy who doesn't have much size even for a SG? Wallace, the guy who has been woefully woeful all season long? Brooks or Bogans, neither of whom can even crack the rotation?
Jeff Green is a better player right now than Biyombo, and he's also a player who better suits our needs right now. If we trade him out then we are trading him for a guy who is not as good and doesn't suit our needs, purely in the name of potential (which he may never realise).
Green right now is so much better than Biyombo it's not even funny...