I would like to see what JR is actually capable of before talking about trading him. He only played 4 minutes. Also I don't want to get too excited about Walker after just one game.
Ditto. The Walker fan boys are jumping all over Giddens. . Walker didn't do anything Giddens can't do with the exception of the dunk on Ratliff, and Giddens is known to be a vicious dunker himself. Walker's performance yesterday was a good showing, but he just finished the plays he was supposed to. He caught an Alley-oop, he finished a lay-up, hit some free throws, and had a emphatic dunk on Theo.
I don't know what suggest he's already a level above Giddens or so much farther in development.
i think the awnser would be got onto the court post training camp, and one is buried on the bench and his coach has said he doesn't "get it" yet.
that being said, he played real well in his limited minutes, and im pretty against trading a 1st rounder based on 4 freaking minutes in a preseason game, and one that played well in his 4 minutes at that.
also, giddens is a SG more than a SF, and walker is a SF more than a SG, so i dont think that they are necessarily exclusive to one another.
honestly, i'd like to try to move big baby, not that i think he's a bad player or anything, but we have leon, im with roy on him not being super impressive, but i know i'd be burned in effergy by the big baby crowd.
but for me, trade scal and baby in a package,