Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Warriors-Pacers trade

ESPN says:
Mike Dunleavy, Troy Murphy, Ike Diogu and some dude to the Pacers;
Al Harrington, Steven Jackson, Sarunas Jasikevicius and some dude to the Warriors.

I think I like this for both teams. The Warriors get a little more offense to go between Baron, J-Rich and Pietrus. And they're ditching three of their more high profile draft picks, but I think its best to cut bait on all three. They're not bad players but they don't serve what the Warriors need right now.

The Pacers gets inside presence and they ditch one high profile annoyance. O'neal is free to run wild now but to win they'll need more scoring. Are they in the Greg Oden/Kevin Durant sweepstakes? I can see the Pacers making another trade with these guys. Dunleavy was an overhyped college product and a waste of a #3 pick; that's not to say that he's a terrible player, he can handle the ball and hit jumpers, he can eat up useful minutes as a backup PG, I think, not sure if anyone would use him that way. Murphy is a tenacious inside presence but an inconsistent scorer and potentially injury-prone. Diogu is similar to Murphy but a little more offensive. Neither of them will score much with O'neal around. They don't need both, wouldn't be surprised to see them try to pick up a realiable SG or something.

I think the big winners are probably those Fantasy players with Jermaine O'neal, his numbers might take off.

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