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Sports InsiderThe Trade That Got Everybody Talking
November 4th 2008 14:21
This has got to be so early but it surely is a great topic to talk about and analyze. Thanks to Detroit Pistons and the Denver Nuggets NBA bloggers now has more angles to look at as the season progresses and perhaps in the future off-seasons.
We mentioned in our last post that Detroit boss Joe Dumars had just placed his bet. Well, he just increased the pot money.
Firing Flip Saunders was not enough so he also had to rock his team's foundation to prove that he is serious about avoiding Piston stagnation for yet another year. Chauncey Billups, former NBA journeyman turned All-Star and NBA champion in Detroit, was traded together with veteran Antonio McDyess and second year reserve Cheikh Samb to Denver in exchange for Allen Iverson.
Billups is going back home to his native Colorado and McDyess is returning to the Nuggets, the team that drafted him out of college, for his third tour of duty in Mile High City. Talk about going full circle those two veterans have certainly done it with this deal.
As for A.I., it would really be interesting to see what happens when he arrives at MoTown. Let's hope that he fits in well enough just like when Rasheed Wallace arrived in '04 and that deal was a vital key in winning the NBA title in that same year.
Let's size up the impact that this blockbuster trade will have on the two teams involved:
Pistons: Allen Iverson, guard
In this point of Iverson's career, he can now play the point with much maturity because he has proven that he can also distribute the rock (in our opinion). Many observers believe otherwise though because he is such a natural scorer but we believe that his passing skill is just being overshadowed because of his ability to score.
We see Rodney Stuckey as the point guard of the future for the Pistons. This player is still young and has a couple more experience to rack up. Perhaps Iverson's purpose is to be his last tutor before he permanently occupies the point because A.I. will be a free agent after this season. The fact that Stuckey is being groomed as a franchise player makes Iverson's extended play with Detroit after this season very unlikely.
There's all this talk that Iverson is in Detroit for infusing excitement to Pistons basketball and for the team to be less predictable but the fact that Dumars is looking to free a huge salary cap room in 2010 to get either Lebron James or Chris Bosh is definitely true. This move is for the future of the team so those who think that the Pistons were screwed on this trade could be wrong in the long run.
As of this writing Detroit is 3-0. Let's see what's going to happen to Pistons' performance when A.I. plays with them and how the players will respond to him.
Nuggets: Chauncey Billups, guard; Antonio McDyess, forward; Cheikh Samb, center
No question. Billups will start at the soonest possible time in Denver. Here the Nuggets have the type of intelligent point guard that is so good at ball distribution and defense, not to mention his scoring capabilities. Remember George Karl talking about his squad to become better defensively? Oh yes. Mr. Big Shot is the Answer to that and perhaps become the teams leader on that side of the floor.
McDyess will be a pretty good back-up to Kenyon Martin and Samb could either be waived or retained but still in a reserve role.
Billups and McDyess brings a lot of winning aura with them and maybe they could get Carmelo Anthony and company to rise from being a "good-but-never-a-contender" type of team.
We mentioned in our last post that Detroit boss Joe Dumars had just placed his bet. Well, he just increased the pot money.
Firing Flip Saunders was not enough so he also had to rock his team's foundation to prove that he is serious about avoiding Piston stagnation for yet another year. Chauncey Billups, former NBA journeyman turned All-Star and NBA champion in Detroit, was traded together with veteran Antonio McDyess and second year reserve Cheikh Samb to Denver in exchange for Allen Iverson.
Billups is going back home to his native Colorado and McDyess is returning to the Nuggets, the team that drafted him out of college, for his third tour of duty in Mile High City. Talk about going full circle those two veterans have certainly done it with this deal.
As for A.I., it would really be interesting to see what happens when he arrives at MoTown. Let's hope that he fits in well enough just like when Rasheed Wallace arrived in '04 and that deal was a vital key in winning the NBA title in that same year.
Let's size up the impact that this blockbuster trade will have on the two teams involved:
Pistons: Allen Iverson, guard
A.I. wondering about how it's gonna be in MoTown.
In this point of Iverson's career, he can now play the point with much maturity because he has proven that he can also distribute the rock (in our opinion). Many observers believe otherwise though because he is such a natural scorer but we believe that his passing skill is just being overshadowed because of his ability to score.
We see Rodney Stuckey as the point guard of the future for the Pistons. This player is still young and has a couple more experience to rack up. Perhaps Iverson's purpose is to be his last tutor before he permanently occupies the point because A.I. will be a free agent after this season. The fact that Stuckey is being groomed as a franchise player makes Iverson's extended play with Detroit after this season very unlikely.
There's all this talk that Iverson is in Detroit for infusing excitement to Pistons basketball and for the team to be less predictable but the fact that Dumars is looking to free a huge salary cap room in 2010 to get either Lebron James or Chris Bosh is definitely true. This move is for the future of the team so those who think that the Pistons were screwed on this trade could be wrong in the long run.
As of this writing Detroit is 3-0. Let's see what's going to happen to Pistons' performance when A.I. plays with them and how the players will respond to him.
Nuggets: Chauncey Billups, guard; Antonio McDyess, forward; Cheikh Samb, center
Chauncey in '04 title win: Can he do it in Denver too?
No question. Billups will start at the soonest possible time in Denver. Here the Nuggets have the type of intelligent point guard that is so good at ball distribution and defense, not to mention his scoring capabilities. Remember George Karl talking about his squad to become better defensively? Oh yes. Mr. Big Shot is the Answer to that and perhaps become the teams leader on that side of the floor.
McDyess will be a pretty good back-up to Kenyon Martin and Samb could either be waived or retained but still in a reserve role.
Billups and McDyess brings a lot of winning aura with them and maybe they could get Carmelo Anthony and company to rise from being a "good-but-never-a-contender" type of team.
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