Trade: Tyson Chandler to the Thunder

well, this obviously doesn’t make them any better, but i don’t see why it’s being called such a bad move. Tyson and CP were more about CP anyway, i’m sure he’ll het Wilcox and Smith their easy shots as well, and i do mean shots, since Tyson could only dunk. It gives them more options than just throwing him an alley, although it was effective, it doesn’t work every time, if it did then they’d just do it over and over. Eventually you need someone who can shoot also, especially with an anemic bench. They might improve a bit if Joe smith can play like last year, but that’s about it.

More reason for Chris Paul to go play somewhere else. West too. Who wants to play for a franchise only worried about saving money? Not competitors like CP3 and West.

RV – its called defense. The team has plenty of shooters, it didnt need Tyson for offense. It needed him to protect the paint and crash the boards, and when healthy he does those two things incredibly well. Wilcox and Smith will not replace that.

Maybe the Hornets are thinking like the Pistons, rebuilding slowly while still making the playoffs..Not a bad strategy IMO. Better than selling everybody and starting from scratch like some clubs do.

The Hornets do need more points out of their frontcourt though, and while their defense should struggle to keep people from attacking the rim, Joe Smith could provide some added scoring. Although, how many more pick and pops can they really run? I still think they need to start playing Julian Wright.

Yeah ciolk, West alredy provides what Joe brings to the table, and Wilcox, i don’t know what he’ll do for them?..i think it’s safe to say this was a financial move for the future and nothing but…

I have a theory: teams who make their jerseys look better fail.
The Hornets’ new jerseys are gorgeous but they suck, last year their jerseys were crap and they flirted with the conference finals. Same with the Sonics, Raptors, and Suns.

The Thunder is going to be hell to deal with in a year or 2. Durant is that dude already, the rest of the league better hope they don’t get Blake Griffin. Even if they don’t they have loads of cap space and they have 5 1st round picks over the next 2 drafts. Yikes!

RV i dont think his defense was overrated. To me, that guy was absolute garbage when it came to scoring. CP3 saved his career. I think Chris Wilcox and Chris Paul is a nice combo. CHRIS CAN DUNK. He also can do some scoring too, so i think the Hornets win

and the hornets didnt get any thunder draft picks because?

@RV – defense isn’t measured solely by blocks, in fact, I’d say blocks are a pretty minor part of defense. If you follow the Hornets you know how important Tyson was on the defensive end.

RV’s right though.
I’ve watched New Orleans about 15 times this year, and I haven’t seen Tyson Chandler do anything. He’s been horrible. Not mediocre, not decent. Horrible. In December, Dwight Howard chewed him up and spit him out – Chandler finished with 7 points and 5 rebounds in less than 25 minutes. At the beginning of January, he put up 7 points, 4 boards, and 3 turnovers in less than 25 minutes against Portland. He’s getting paid almost $12 million, and he only mustered double-digits 16 times this season. That’s bad.
For about half that price, there’s no doubt that Chris Wilcox can do pretty much the same thing. In fact, I think that Wilcox plays harder than Chandler does, and even if he’s not as good a shot-blocker, he might be a better post defender. If Chris Paul can work his magic as a leader, and bring Wilcox along as a real contributor on this team, this will prove to be a good business and a good basketball move.
The CP-to-Chandler alley-oop isn’t going to hurt much because it hasn’t been there at all this year. I think that’s partly Chandler’s fault, and partly Byron Scott’s fault for not finding new, creative ways to take advantage of CP’s sensational passing skill.
But with Wilcox on board, there’s no reason that he can’t put up numbers better than the 8 points and 8 boards that Tyson tallied. The biggest question is whether he can get up and block a shot per game. Chandler was only swatting 1.4 per night, which isn’t a huge loss.

@ anyone who thinks Wilcox will help New Orleans in any way: he won’t. Wilcox is a lazy @ss who dunks when he’s wide open. He can’t play defense, he can’t shoot at all, he even has a hard time getting his butt down the court because he’s out of shape. And Joe Smith has lost his touch. I think New Orleans was stupid for this, but I’m a big Thunder fan so I’m not complaining. Great move by Presti.

Can’t believe there isn’t a topic for this but…
Happy 46th birthday, Jordan.

Joe Smith will have the best production of his career with CP3. He done the same for David West.

Seems a strange trade.
Shame to see Tc split from CP3.

What’s people thoughts on what J Smith has left in him???

AllenP he actually does work in America because he called from the office located in michigan. But besides the fact he works in AMERICA I hate outsourcing also. Big businesses in order to save money hire people from other countries for pennies to do the job. They Also can’t speak a lick of ENGLISH and are a pain in the balls to understand. But it’s good to see you are still your argumentative self.

i hope tyson has a chip on his shoulder. and is able to play some games this year , the thunder is /will be, a sick team to deal with , youth and length and ffast guards , go thunder…..
memeo to cp3 : dont shut it down yet despite what the owners think……

LATE BREAKING NEWS! tyson chandler “failed” his physical and the trade was rescinded! on purpose much? knowing chandler, he prolly thought he was screwed when he got traded. nowhere else is he going to average 8 and 8. ughh i wish he was averageing 9 and 12 like he was a couple years ago. anyways what do you guys think?