Wiz Shopping Blatche

Could this be a nice way to dump Biedrins? in a bad contract for bad contract trade, the Warriors could take on a potential headache with big upside down low.

Which is worse, Biedrins' 3yrs/27mill or Blatche's 4yrs/30mill?

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by Anonymous1337 on Jan 13, 2012 3:04 PM PST via mobile reply actions

I don't understand. What is this "high upside" of which you speak.

Blatche is horrible.

by Ronaldinho on Jan 13, 2012 3:15 PM PST reply actions

'high' upside

by tafkasam on Jan 13, 2012 3:27 PM PST up reply actions

If Blatch is "horrible"

then what is Biedrins?

by eastbayglory on Jan 13, 2012 4:14 PM PST up reply actions

Beans is better than KBrown

by ILoveWarriorsGirls on Jan 13, 2012 4:18 PM PST up reply actions

Bidrins, in limited minutes, has been substantially better than Blatche this year.

Look beyond PPG.

Biedrins is a much better rebounder, shot blocker, and post defender. Biedrins shoots much less, true – but Blatche is so bad at shooting that every shot he takes hurts you. The fact that he scores more than Biedrins is not actually an argument that he’s better than Biedrins – Blatche would help his team more by shooting as little as Biedrins does.

by Ronaldinho on Jan 13, 2012 4:25 PM PST up reply actions

I don't think it's as definitive as you make it out to be

Points aside, Blatche has led Biedrins in almost every statistical category the past couple years. He’s inconsistent, but has some big games in him. Biedrins is ok defensively but he’s a borderline throwaway big at this point.

Why not mix it up? this team is terrible, especially up front.

by eastbayglory on Jan 13, 2012 4:36 PM PST up reply actions

Well, over the last couple of years, I agree with you.

Biedrins has not been a good player for two years.

That’s why I said “this year.” Biedrins appears to be, defensively and rebound-wise, the guy he was pre-injury.

And that makes it not close. He is very very good at those parts of the game.

Blatche is good at NO parts of the game.

This isn’t “mixing it up.” It’s taking a clearly worse player on a longer deal. Pass.

by Ronaldinho on Jan 13, 2012 4:48 PM PST up reply actions

Nope

he’s not good

we have enough players that aren’t very good, I think we need to honestly start looking at acquiring guys who are good at basketball

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by Duby Dub Dubs on Jan 13, 2012 3:29 PM PST reply actions

Dude, the Wizards are shopping him. Lock the thread!

There will be no extra point!

by Sleepy Freud on Jan 13, 2012 3:34 PM PST reply actions 5 recs

NOOOOOOO

there’s a reason why they’re shopping him lol. He’s soft and settles for jump shots way too much.

by jpees on Jan 13, 2012 3:35 PM PST reply actions

and there's a reason the Warriors have been shopping Biedrins for a couple years now

by eastbayglory on Jan 13, 2012 4:16 PM PST up reply actions

Beans + pick for Amare and we turned down

yeah..

by ILoveWarriorsGirls on Jan 13, 2012 4:19 PM PST up reply actions

That pick was Steph Curry.

Look who Amare has been this season and last.

You’d rather have Steph.

Of course, had we made the trade we would have ended up with neither.

by Ronaldinho on Jan 13, 2012 4:26 PM PST up reply actions

but we gain cap space~

by ILoveWarriorsGirls on Jan 13, 2012 4:39 PM PST up reply actions

The amount of cap space we would save by losing Curry and Biedrins ...

… would be just about what it takes to get Deandre Jordan.

Not enough to get Tyson Chandler – a player who’s, you know, unambiguously really good.

You still want to trade those guys for cap space?

Cap space is not a particularly valuable commodity. You’d rather have good players.

by Ronaldinho on Jan 13, 2012 4:51 PM PST up reply actions

why not enough to get Chandler?

That’s additional $10mil with what we had this summer.

by ILoveWarriorsGirls on Jan 14, 2012 11:55 AM PST up reply actions

I was trying to contextualize the space saved.

Not talk about the total amount of space we had. And we’re talking about a year or two from now anyway, not last offseason.

You say “hey, if it doesn’t work out, we have cap space.” That move nets us $12-13m in cap space. $12-$13m in cap space does not get you two players as good as Curry and Biedrins.

That’s my point. You talk about the cap space we end up with if Dwight walks as if it’s some hugely valuable commodity. But it’s not. It’s fools gold.

by Ronaldinho on Jan 14, 2012 11:59 AM PST up reply actions

That's "IF" they don't sign extension

What happen if Amare or Howard sign the extension?

by ILoveWarriorsGirls on Jan 14, 2012 12:20 PM PST up reply actions

You're talking in circles.

You brought up cap space as a worst-case scenario. I was responding to how that’s not much of a consolation prize – it makes us worse in the short term and quite possibly the long term.

So now you’re saying “what if they sign.”

And I’m saying that if a player tells you he won’t sign, that’s a pretty stupid “what if” to hang your hopes on.

Amare made it clear he wouldn’t sign here. In retrospect, that’s even more obvious.

by Ronaldinho on Jan 14, 2012 12:54 PM PST up reply actions

CAP SPACE DON'T SCORE POINTS

by joegiant on Jan 13, 2012 7:02 PM PST up reply actions

not shopping

they could have traded him to the Rockets . Biedrins has played well in the minutes he has been given.

by jpees on Jan 13, 2012 10:24 PM PST up reply actions

Yeesh.....

by Dro50 on Jan 13, 2012 3:47 PM PST reply actions

Blatche's "big upside down low"

He has all-star potential when it comes to wiping down the court during dead balls.

by Killjoy on Jan 13, 2012 3:55 PM PST reply actions

God no. Blatche thinks he's Amare. Do not want.

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by kenntoe on Jan 13, 2012 5:38 PM PST reply actions

i mean if it comes with their first round pick.....

It's lonely being the only Warriors fan at UMass :(

by j-spliff415 on Jan 13, 2012 7:43 PM PST reply actions

Oh boy, Andray Blatche...

I can’t decide if he’s the worst good player or the best horrible player.

His PER is 11.93, good for 207th in the league. Beans is 60th with 18.79. Stats aside, have you seen him play? He’s supposed to be a caption for the Wizards, and it’s pretty ugly over there at DC. If there’s player that I definitely would NOT want on the Warriors for any reason, it’s Blatche.

by lameallenmark on Jan 13, 2012 7:53 PM PST reply actions