What the hell is Chris Wallace’s problem? What the crap is the point in trading for stackhouse to save cap space when YOU JUST BLEW ALL YOUR CAP SPACE ON RANDOLPH.
Not only that, but I’ve always hated the Mavs the most – more than the Spurs (who I begrudgingly, secretely respect) or the Lakers. Now what the hell am I supposed to do? Root against Shawn Marion? We can’t boo him, right? This is awful. I think it’s been said before, but a Nash-Richardson-Matrix-Stoudemire-Chandler lineup may have been the best we’ve had in the past ten years, if not ever.

But more importantly, in search engine speak is “nuts” really that vast of an improvement over “suck”?

Kerr needs to get on the phone with Chris Wallace and pawn off Jrich for Mayo or Gasol and whatever it takes to make salaries work since he’s so eager to be crazy.

But Kerr ain’t much better.

I think they get into a bunch of trades just because they want attention, and can’t get it on the court.

I’ll never forgive them for Pau Gasol → Lakers or for Iavaroni not intervening on the Suns behalf.

It seems harsh to go after the Grizzlies for drafting Thabeet, since 1) he hasn’t played a game, so there’s no reason to think he won’t be good 2) they had excellent reasons not to draft the other prospects at 2 i.e. Harden (plays the same position Mayo) and Rubio (was very upfront about not wanting to play in Memphis). So at this point, I don’t know that it makes much sense to call picking Thabeet a “waste.” Granted, he plays the same position as Gasol, but all the best prospects in this draft played the same positions as their best players i.e. SG (Mayo) PG (Conley) and C (Gasol). Also, Thabeet was never getting past 3, if Memphis didn’t draft him and if Sam Presti thinks you’re worth picking I trust you’re talented.

Also: about Randolph. I agree that’s he’s troublesome and I worry about the move mainly b/c I don’t know why anyone would want to expose their talented young core to his personality, but it really isn’t that large of a risk for the Grizzlies. He’s only costing them 7M of their substantial cap space. He is ridiculously more productive (i.e. 20 and 10 last year) than Quentin “39% from the field” Richardson, and, most importantly, he plays their position of greatest need: PF. So if you told me that for 7M dollars and a shooter who can’t shoot I could take a shot at a diva PF who averaged 20 and 10 last year, I’d probably take it too.

Last: this is the same with Marion. The Grizz aren’t making the playoffs next year. Dallas doesn’t have too many competitive years left considering the age of their core, so they’re not really competitors. Also, the Grizz moved Buckner’s 2yr/8M dollar contract and take Stackhouse + enough cash to pay his buyout back (i.e. Dallas is giving them the buyout money so they don’t have to pay Stackhouse a cent). So the move saves the Grizz 8M(!) dollars and, since Stackhouse’s contract is only 2M, clears another 2M in cap space.

So Wallace’s suck/nuts summer amounts to: costing his team 5M in real money/cap space this year and 13M in rm/cs next year for a 20/10 PF and acquiring the best C prospect in the draft.

Can’t say I agree. But, in general, I defend Wallace since I think he gets a pretty bad rap. I mean, he’s working with an exceptionally cheap owner and a bad market, but still has put together a very nice young core. I mean, right now, they have:

Rudy Gay
Mike Conley
O.J. Mayo
Marc Gasol
Hasheem Thabeet
Zach Randolph
Hakim Warrick
Darrell Arthur
Sam Young
Demarre Carroll
2 2010 first round picks.
~10M in cap space.

Right now, I’d rather have that roster/picks/cap space than the Suns roster/lack of picks/lack of cap space to be honest.

We have completely set ourselves up to have the single worst outcome possible for 2010. Every single team in the league has set themselves up to have a supporting cast to lure a 2010 FA. What have we done? Unless Amare gets an extension, I cant fathom any star player wanting to come here and play. It may be nice weather, it may be a fun and family-atmospheric franchise. But this is not going to be a winning team in the short future.

Dont get me wrong, I do really like the players we have. But I like them for the heart and hustle they put into the game. When matched up against other players and teams, we’re not lookin’ so hot.

Why is JRich still here?

This is so frustrating. Damn you Mark Cuban!
Kidd and Marion in the same team is kind of scary… everyone is getting better while we are just standing around watching.

It is obvious the FO has no idea. Look at the choice of coach in Porter, marion trade for shaq. Bell and DiWow for Jrich. Makes me scratch my head like a monkey.

I was originally thinking that Memphis was just having a fire-sale to lower the payroll to sell the team and let the new owner do what he wants. Randolph’s extra year, though … Unless that’s just setting up for next year’s salary dump, too.

It kind of feels like Memphis is the kid playing Monopoly that is throwing the game so he can go back to playing video games while everyone else dukes it out at the kitchen table. All the good Monopoly players knew to try to trade properties with that guy. Why can’t Kerr figure that one out?

Kerr and Sarver run this show, we all better get use to frustration.