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Cavs 07-08 Season Thread

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This is a good deal for the Cavs, in the short and long term. This year, it adds 2 solid shooters to the team in West and Sczerbiak and some toughness inside with Wallace (however old he may be, I'd like to think he could be a solid cog on a playoff team still). West has good size and can play the point, allowing Boobie to play some off-guard, which would be a nice look for them. Smith is also still a productive player.

Long term, the Cavs currently have about 22 million in expiring contracts for next year with it being the last year for Gooden, Marshall, Damon Jones, and Snow. This deal replaces Gooden and Marshall with Joe Smith and Sczerbiak, who make roughly the same and have contracts that expire at the same time.

All in all, a solid trade for the Cavs if it goes through.
 
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Cleveland gets:
Wally Szczerbiak & Delonte West fron Seattle, and Ben Wallace, Joe Smith, and a future 2nd rounder from Chicago

Chicago gets:
Drew Gooden, Larry Hughes, Cedric Simmons, Shannon Brown

Seattle gets:
Ira Newble, Donyell Marshall, and Ardien Griffin (was on the Bulls)

ESPN - Sources: Cavs get Wallace from Bulls, Szczerbiak from Sonics - NBA

edit - Changed Dwight to Drew Gooden - looks like I picked the wrong week to quit snorting coke!
 
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I like it. Especially the fact that they didn't mortgage the future. I like West in the deal much better than Duhon. West is a good defender from the point.
Joe Smith is playing well for the Bulls this year.

The big question is how will this affect Wallace?
 
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Good game last night, we needed a win.

As far as trades, as long as we keep Z, God, and Boobie, I'm fine with it, but if any one of those 3 are thrown around, lets not. Boobie is still an up and coming player, and if he gets time to develop with TWO stars he can become a 3rd star, such as a Ray Allen, or Paul Pierce, with their 3 point abilities, similar to the Gib.
 
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BB73;1097888; said:
Cleveland gets:
Wally Szczerbiak & Delonte West fron Seattle, and Ben Wallace, Joe Smith, and a future 2nd rounder from Chicago

Chicago gets:
Dwight Gooden, Larry Hughes, Cedric Simmons, Shannon Brown

Seattle gets:
Ira Newble, Donyell Marshall, and Ardien Griffin (was on the Bulls)

ESPN - Sources: Cavs get Wallace from Bulls, Szczerbiak from Sonics - NBA
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Well, I guess if the Mavs can trade a retired player in Keith Van Horn, the Cavs should be able to trade Dwight Gooden. :lol:
 
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The only piece I don't particularly care for is Wallace, though it seems to be a fair tradeoff to finally dump Hughes. I like Wally, Smith has played well this season and West is a good young PG. Wallace can at least fill Andy's role until he comes back and will bring some championship experience. All in all, I guess I'm happy with it.
 
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Brutus1;1097890; said:
I like it. Especially the fact that they didn't mortgage the future. I like West in the deal much better than Duhon. West is a good defender from the point.
Joe Smith is playing well for the Bulls this year.

The big question is how will this affect Wallace?
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Joe Smith really is the nice hidden piece of this puzzle. He will come off the bench with Andy to give breathers to Z & Wallace.

How will it affect Wallace? I think he will be happy. With LeBron he can see himself as a championship contender again and how many dump off pass dunks will he average per game with Lebron? Also he should give us an added defensive precence that Gooden could only dream about.

You shift Gooden's points to the bench cuz Joe Smith can score coming from the bench.

The question is our backcourt? Who are our starters? West at PG? Wally at SG? Gibson is hurt so who the heck plays back there?

When Sasha & Gibson are back healthy that will help out, but it will be interesting the first few games.
 
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I'm not going to miss seeing Gooden and that Arab beard,

The bottom line is moneywise they'll still be in great shape with expirings and contracts next year and the year after.
 
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Brutus1;1097907; said:
My guess would be Wally and West in the backcourt to start.
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And their backups? For now with injuries we will see alot of Eric Snow and Damon Jones until Gibson gets healthy (and I am worried how long he will be out, that injury looked bad last night)

So once everyone is healthy does Gibson or West start? Or do they both start and you bring Wally & Jones off the bench? Where does Sasha end up?

My next thinking is how is Mike Brown going to screw this up :biggrin:
 
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