Shaq traded to the Cavs

[The Messenger]

lol all the people over-analyzing the trade. It was basically expiring garbage and expiring garbage for Shaq. How can it be a bad trade for the Cavs? They got rid of a mediocre big (Big Ben) who's game resembles more of Melvin Ely's now than it does the old Ben Wallace, and a spot-up shooter in Pavlovic who hasn't been shit the last two years (and only had one semi-decent year to begin with).... for Shaq who was an All-Star last year, is a much need post presence, and is now the only other guy on the Cavs who can command a double-team every time he touches the ball.

ALSO... ALL OF THE PLAYERS INVOLVED HAVE EXPIRING CONTRACTS SO PLEASE STOP BRINGING IT UP. (talking to the people justifying the trade by saying "well we got an expiring")

 

[FirstTimer]

lol all the people over-analyzing the trade. It was basically expiring garbage and expiring garbage for Shaq. How can it be a bad trade for the Cavs? They got rid of a mediocre big (Big Ben) who's game resembles more of Melvin Ely's now than it does the old Ben Wallace, and a spot-up shooter in Pavlovic who hasn't been shit the last two years (and only had one semi-decent year to begin with).... for Shaq who was an All-Star last year, is a much need post presence, and is now the only other guy on the Cavs who can command a double-team every time he touches the ball.

ALSO... ALL OF THE PLAYERS INVOLVED HAVE EXPIRING CONTRACTS SO PLEASE STOP BRINGING IT UP. (talking to the people justifying the trade by saying "well we got an expiring")

Thank you for the bolded.

Second, I don't think it was a bad trade per say for the Cavs. Just doesn't really fill the need IMO to get them past Orlando. They still don't have the wings/atheltic bigs to match up with Shard and Turk so it will be interesting to see what they do in the draft and FA to address that. Sure Shaq is nice to have but I still think they need to make a move or two more in order to have a more complete team

 

[BossMyShiiUp24]

Turk will resign with the magic he isn't going anywhere. I hope Magic use the hack-a-shaq like they did to Howard to show how stupid this trade is lol. They needed a player like Shawn Marion. Someone who can defend an athletic big man. outside Lebron no one on that team can guard an athletic big man. This trade only spells trouble.

 

[ralaw]

Wallace is washed up and couldn't stop anyone after he came back from the broken leg.

Where did Sasha win championships? Was it in the European D League?

I like the trade. They get cap room next year and an inside presence this year. Shaq can get them easy points in the post. Z and AV can't do this - Z is a pretty much only a jump shooter now and AV can't do shit offensively other than dunk. He's also a big body who can be a stopper against post players who sit in low blocks and overpower people but have no game outside of that (I'm talking to you, Dwight Howard).

Just my take on it.

I don't really care for the deal, but I have to admit that it more than likely is the best they could do. They had to do something big without absolutely destroying the team and they accomplished that, because its basically the same team with Shaq. At this point Shaq is an improvement over anything Wallace and Sasha combined have to offer. However, I don't think its enough to get over the Magic, who basically exposed their perimeter defenders and a motivated Celtics team with a healthy KG. IMO, they still need to figure out a way to get another wing defender who has the ability to score a bit. Before this trade I saw the Cavs as being the 3rd best team in the east and I still see that after.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Wallace and Pavlovic are garbage. Cleveland had nearly $23M tied up in scrubs...Wallace, Pavlovic, and Wally World (love him to death, but he is washed up like a dead fish).

They take two of them and turn them into Shaq who can defend and get his versus Howard (19/11 in their game last year).

That is an epic win for Cleveland. Even in his advanced age, Shaq is a top 3 center (top 2 with Yao out for some length of time).

Cleveland now no longer has to play the collapse defense to guard Howard and can focus on perimeter D, which would have negated the PnR during the Magic series.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Cavs still need to get long athletic players for the wing. IMO Shaq wasn't the best option here. ESPN reported they also had a back up trade with the Hornets ready for Tyson Chandler if the Shaw stuff fell through. IMO Chandler fit the need better for the Cavs than Shaq.

They are supposedly looking at Matt Barnes with the exception.

 

[FirstTimer]

Hopefully someone like Casspi will fall to them in the draft.

I know the Bulls like him a lot at 26

 

[FirstTimer]

They are supposedly looking at Matt Barnes with the exception.

That'd be a nice move.

 

[JTRaines92]

They are now the team to beat. I can see this now. Next yours NBA Finals slogan thing will be Kobe vs Shaq.

 

[The Messenger]

Hopefully someone like Casspi will fall to them in the draft.

And I thought Sasha's contract had one more year on it, The Messenger. I didn't mean to offend your delicate sensibilities.

OMG CAPS LOCK MEANS HE IS AN ANGRY MAN!!!!

I put the caps lock because it seems everyone was overlooking it and the same stupid replies were coming up with "Well at least we got an expiring" and stupid shit like that.

 

[ralaw]

They are now the team to beat. I can see this now. Next yours NBA Finals slogan thing will be Kobe vs Shaq.

Pfff, LeBron won't be overshadowed by anyone.

 

[Mogriffjr]

Wallace and Pavlovic are garbage. Cleveland had nearly $23M tied up in scrubs...Wallace, Pavlovic, and Wally World (love him to death, but he is washed up like a dead fish).

They take two of them and turn them into Shaq who can defend and get his versus Howard (19/11 in their game last year).

That is an epic win for Cleveland. Even in his advanced age, Shaq is a top 3 center (top 2 with Yao out for some length of time).

Cleveland now no longer has to play the collapse defense to guard Howard and can focus on perimeter D, which would have negated the PnR during the Magic series.

except the knack on Shaq is he is a poor PnR defender...

 

[Sean]

atleast LeBron will be a better team mate then Ben Stein

getting tired of all those commercials