Trade:
Sacramento sends: Jordan, 9.1, and 10.1
Phoenix sends Bargnani, 9.20, and 10.22
DeAndre Jordan > Andrea Bargnani
Nice deal for Phoenix. Very tough for Sacramento to have any type of interior defense with Cousins and Bargnani out there.
I'm still going to have Taj Gibson start and have Bargnani come off the bench. I expect to play him mostly at the 4, and possibly some 3.
Bad things happen when Andrea Bargnani plays the three.
A defensive nightmare. His team gets killed in transition, he is already one of the worst transition defensive big men in the league but he is absolute train wreck as a SF. He costs your team an additional 3-5 points a game on layups/dunks from transition opportunities alone as a SF.
It's not just transition hoops, that is just one area of the team defense where he is an absolute train wreck. Just too slow and too dumb to make proper / timely defensive rotations from the SF position. Your team defense will fall apart repeatedly on the first or second defensive rotation whenever Bargnani is asked to make a rotation for you. Consistently lost within the defensive concepts.
It was painful watching Toronto experiment with this idea a couple of years ago. When they had Jermaine O'Neal and Bosh on the floor with him. Teams were just running all over them and getting whatever they wanted against the Raps defense with shocking regularity.