Derek Fisher back to the Lakers?

Standing pat isn't necessarily good for the W's, and Baron is less than likely to improve his shot selection and his durability when the pattern of the past three years says otherwise. If Dunleavy bricks to the tune of less than 45%/75%, then he wouldn't fit the criteria I mentioned of who plays 3, thus better to move some and/or combo of Murphy/Pietrus/Dunleavy for Bobby Simmons or Shane Battier. I can't imagine a team accepting Foyle for the salary he's drawing, so I've just written that off as a necessary burden. However, I don't think the salary cap room afforded by getting Mihm does much for the team unless we have a proven player or a likely star in mind to get using that money. (If we do, then I agree--make the trade and then make the other move(s) that the cap room enables.) Fisher, for all his problems, has contributed more to the Ws than Mihm to the Lakers. He is our best free-throw shooter, if nothing else; he shoots well if he's limited to catch-and-shoot with room, as opposed to shooting off the dribble. In short, there's a role for him in which he can be effective--not worth what he gets paid, but effective. I can't see Mihm's role. I believe we'd do better with someone like Theo Ratliff, who has limited but definite strengths that could play a limited, definite, useful role.

I guess what I fear is that the Ws may be acting out of fear, shuffling pieces just because they didn't work out so therefore any shuffling must be better than no shuffling. No shuffling would be disappointing, but there are shuffles that could be worse than disappointing.

A last note about Baron Davis, responding to your thought-provoking diary. Baron has shown, I believe, what he can do for the W's: in about 100 games with Baron, we're about a .500 team. That's not earthshaking, but it's not terrible either, considering the team's state prior to his arrival. His faults are plainly evident: difficulty staying healthy, poor shot selection/shooting too much, poor shooting from the field and from the line, erratic defense. This coming year may be a year of reckoning for him, in which he either makes some adjustments, as in shooting less and staying in top shape, or declines into malaise and underperformance. That said, the list of 30 guys better than Baron includes about 28 guys that just about any team would love to have. If Baron's somewhere around the 30th most valuable player in the league, and if only Nash, Billups, Chris Paul, and Tony Parker (MVP+ROY+leaders of 2 most winning teams) outrank him as point guards, then that still makes him pretty valuable, despite his faults.