Sport Chit Chat

The Oklahoma city yet-to-be-nameds (to be referred to as sonics for this articles’ purposes), Cleveland Cavaliers, and the Milwaukee Bucks came together in a six player, three team (duh) trade. Truth be told? This trade sucks for the most part with only Oklahoma getting a good deal, and heres why.

The Cavaliers are still going to be team Lebron. Sure Mo Williams can score, but he is a below average defender at best, on a team that wins with defence. Zydranus Ilglauskus isn’t that young nimble 7-footer he once was, and the poor perimeter defence Williams brings will show that. Another reason is that Mo Williams isn’t all that good. Players playing for bad teams often have inflated statistics, and Williams is no exception. Milwaukee was a shot-happy, couldn’t play defence to save their lives team. That pretty much fits Mo Williams to a tee. He’s not a traditional point guard, and the six assists will probably go down in Cleveland with the only other scorer being a create his own shot guy (Lebron). I think all this trade does that can be considered beneficial for Cleveland is getting rid of the useless and constantly pouting Damon Jones. I do like Joe Smith, and I think when Lebrons fed up with all of the lack of defence his team plays, he’ll miss the solid veteran presence of Smith. I smell Lebron becoming a Net when he finally can.

Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Milwaukee. What a tease, just when you think they’ve got the chance to be good, they go and have a season like last year. This trade got them a point guard whos never been above average and isn’t a scorer, but has potential as a distributor (aka a white Ramon Sessions, which is useless because they already have the real Ramon Sessions) who will fight for playing time with players like Tyron Lue and Damon Jomes. They also recieved Adrian Griffen, who will quite nicely keep the pine warm, and the ever pouting aforementioned Damon Jones. Basically they traded Mo Williams for three spare parts. Probably could have got more value for him, but they do get props for moving that godawful contract.

Lastly we come to the Sonics. I like this move for them for four reasons. One, Desmond Mason has that rare, bring you to your feet athleticisim that can garner some fans for a new team. Two, after drafting Russel Westbrook and keeping Earl Watson, they should be able to give Westbrook time to develop into the solid floor general he should become, without having to worry about finding time for a third, marginally good, sometimes slightly above average pointguard. Reason number three is the solid veteran presence Joe Smith brings to the court and the locker room. A young team like the Sonics needs to feed off of that and learn how to approach and respect the game, and Joe Smith is a guy who can lead by example. The final reason is the cap room that the Sonics get. In this day and age cap room is valuable, and even if they don’t spend the 26.4 million they have in free money (Chris Wilcox + Donyell Marshall + Desmond Mason + Joe Smith + Robert Swifts expiring contracts = 26.4 million) this year, who knows maybe they could make a serious run at someone like Lebron, Wade or Carmelo (any of those three with Durant would be a ridiculous team).

Anyways, thats my opinion on the situation. Peace out Sports fans.
-Zackdaddy