What is It going to take to turn the team around???

Okay everyone.  I have seen all the rumors and the front office fiasco that is killing our team right now.  I would love to be like everyone else and say replace all of them.  But it is not going to happen.  Nelson will not get fired, Rowel will continue to have control, Cohan will sit on his high horse and collect all the money becuase we pay $80 a ticket. 

Since we can't change the FO we are left with changing the team.  I feel this team has a lot of talent....misused talent.  We also have one of the biggest logjams, becuase we have all guards.  Well let me be the first to tell you that it will we have to get worse to get better.

We will not purposely tank this year... that is not what I am proposing.  Plus I think we have too much scoring talent to not at least fight for wins.  We have too much talent to truly be labeled a shoe in for Blake Griffin.  It is not going to happen without luck, and we have none.  I think we will get a mid-high lottery pick, depending on how we play when monta returns. Here is what I propose as a posiblle plan to turn us around.

First we need to deal that horrible contract of Maggette.  And truly there are only 1-3 teams that would dare take him.  Oklahoma seems like a logical choice, they need scorers and we need relief.  So...Here it is.

Oklahoma City Thunder

Incoming Players
	Brandan Wright Salary: $2,497,320  Years Remaining: 2 PTS: 7.6  REB: 3.7  AST: 0.2  PER: 19.60
	Corey Maggette Salary: $8,275,862  Years Remaining: 5 PTS: 19.1  REB: 5.7  AST: 1.8  PER: 15.70
	Marcus Williams Salary: $1,262,520  Years Remaining: 1 PTS: 1.3  REB: 0.3  AST: 1.9  PER: 3.41 Obtained with a trade exception

Outgoing Players: Joe Smith, Earl Watson

Golden State Warriors

Incoming Players
	Joe Smith Salary: $4,795,000  Years Remaining: 1 PTS: 7.0  REB: 4.5  AST: 0.7  PER: 13.73
	Earl Watson Salary: $6,200,000  Years Remaining: 2 PTS: 5.8  REB: 2.4  AST: 6.0  PER: 7.86

Outgoing Players: Brandan Wright, Corey Maggette, Marcus Williams

Now like I said we will not get any better immediately but here is what the trade will do.  First, cap relief, 2nd give a a veteran to teach Randolph, 3rd a more passer friendly team.  Joe Smith is a solid vet, watson plays better defense than our current guards and he does not take wild shots.  Lastly, Watson will have an expiring contract in 2010.  If we have him he could be a very good trading peice going into the draft and possibly trade deadline of next year. 

Next we have to do some retooling with our roster.  I would love to see Kurz waived, CJ "fastbreak killer" Waston waived and bring in some big body.  Whether it be from D-League or oversees.  I would even consider keeping Kurz if it doesn't push us over the lpayer limit.  I kind of like Nened Kristic, playing oversees and may be given a contract in January to return. (but 15 mil might be pretty high priced) However, I remember Kristic having abosolutey great games against us.  He can shoot mid range jumpers so we can have him stretch the defense as a backup to Beidrins. 

Obviously we would be looking to draft another PF in the draft.  But we could really take the best talent on the board at that point, we would have enough flexibility to make moves and complete our roster. 

Our team would look like this for the rest of the year.

	Monta/Watson (not CJ)/Demarcus 

	Jax/Crawford/Belli/Morrow 

	Azibuike/Randoph 

	Smith/Turiaf 

	Beidrins/Kristic 

I would keep Demarcus becuase it will do him good to stay up and pratice against Monta and Crawford to toughen him on defense at the NBA level.  I see Jax splitting time at the 3 and 2, Crawford at the 1 and the 2,   Randolph at the 3 and the 4. This lineup would give us the ability to go small or big.  It will give a better backup at center and make it possible to have Turiaf in at PF, where he belongs.  Let me know what you guys think.  The only downside is that we give up Wright, and the obvious possiblilty of a declined trade from Oklahoma.  But if they get Wright I could see them going for it.