CDR is about to be traded to the Milwaukee Bucks for the bargain basement price of just a second round pick, the two teams are just haggling over which second-round pick in what year will come back to New Jersey, according to Yahoo’s Adrian Wojnarowski, who broke the trade.
This is another sign that the Nets are set to draft Syracuse’s Wesley Johnson with the No. 3 pick and were trying to avoid any controversy or glut of talent out on the wing.
Then in eight days the Nets are going to target Utah power forward Carlos Boozer in free agency, according to ESPN’s Marc Stein.
Despite the gaudy salary, Maggette does what he’d always advertised: he scores the ball in prolific fashion, and does so as efficiently as almost anyone else. The price may be steep, but you’re getting something for those dollars.
His defense is worse than circumspect: he’s a big minus on that end, which figures to draw concern from Bucks coach Scott Skiles, who won’t hesitate to bench someone giving less than their all on defense. Optimists would argue Skiles will be able to milk some effort out of Maggette on that end, but seeing is believing, and we haven’t seen defense from Maggette in years.
via Warriors Trade Corey Maggette to Milwaukee for Gadzuric, Bell — NBA FanHouse.
Seems like only months ago they were drafting Joe Alexander, trying to pick up the pieces, trying desperately to convince anyone there was a plan in place. They looked like this.
Now, they’ve formed into some sort of impossibly complex fusion machine that runs on defense and exhausts awesomeness. It’s a bizarre world when hip slogans are being made of the Bucks, and then they make a series of moves that don’t necessarily screw it all up, but somehow just confuse me. Because now they seem like this:
Maggette AND CDR to go along with Delfino AND Moute (who does spend some time at the 3, though mostly at the 4)? What?
Here’s one for you to wrap your wee brain around.
Brandon Jennings-Michael Redd-Corey Maggette-Ersan Ilyasova-Andrew Bogut.
What? Not weird enough? Try this one.
Ridnour-CDR-Maggette-Mbah a Moute- Bogut
Or, maybe you were thinking…
Jennings-Redd-CDR-Ilyasova-Bogut
AND I HAVEN’T EVEN TOUCHED THE WEIRD FAUXHAWKNESS OF CARLOS DELFINO!
But yet, here we are. Brought to the brink of madness by Hammond, unleashed. Before we look at what the Bucks are looking to do in terms of draft night trades (COUGH*GOODBYECARLOS*COUGH), can we all take a second and realize that Scott Skiles will be coaching Chris Douglas-Roberts? Scott Skiles. This man.
Is coaching, this guy:
Yeah, this guy.
If CDR is going to make this work it’s going to take a dramatic change for him to a defensive stopper. He has to be Mbah a Moute-light. All that one-on-one explosiveness has to be translated to awareness. He’d better enter a no-mind state and just do whatever it is that Skiles tells him. If not, well, look at what happened to Carlos Delfino, the poor bastard.
Maggette is such a mixed bag. He was a Warrior and a Clipper. That pretty much sums it up, no? He was a high-usage, low-defense, low-return Warrior and Clipper. If anything teaches you that a guy is probably overvalued, it’s that. What happens if they do manage to re-ink Salmons? You have to ditch Redd for a quarter on the dollar, right? You can’t possibly go that deep in the tax with this unit, as much upside as they may have. I will say that bringing in two ISO players on a team that passes the ball really well and needs guys that are willing to step up and absorb a possession is key. CDR doesn’t do it effectively or efficiently, but there is hope that with Skiles he could get there. And Jenning is going to create enough Maggette corner threes to challenge some franchise records. The Bucks have gone from having no offense to being offensively versatile at nearly every possession. Also, I want to see two-on-two’s with Ridnour-Ilyasova and Maggette-Kurt Thomas. And I want it on YouTube, set to House music.
