But we're not talking about getting Dalembert. We're talking about McGee. Dalembert has been in the league 9 years. He's pretty much topped out his ability. McGee is only in his 3rd year and shows a ton of athleticism and promise. He looks like a young Marcus Camby.
As for Blatche, you'd be surprised if you had been watching him lately, he's put up 4 straight 20/10 games including a 36 pt 19 rebound effort among those 4 performances. The noticeable trend to me though is that the two don't seem to coexist well. The Wizards may have to trade McGee just because A) He's redundant with Blatche there and B) Blatche's larger salary is a lot harder to trade.
And I'd like to make one more observation. I think the Jeff Green trade was a mistake. Not because we were giving up Perkins, apparently we had to move him, but what we got back in return. Jeff Green is just not a very good defensive player.
In contrast compare what Portland gave in the
Gerald Wallace trade - Joel Pryzbilla (your proverbial backup center), Dante Cunninham (who?) and a 1st round pick.
Wallace is a tough rebounder, defender, can score, etc. And the price they gave up, is is arguably less than what Boston gave up in the Perkins trade since Perkins is > Pryzbilla by a good margin. And the loss of Perkins coupled with the fact that Green isn't really a tough defender exacerbates our situation of having over the hill centers in the two O'neals and a tepid defender in Kristic. Getting Wallace instead would have made up for losing Perkins somewhat. He is a tough 3/4 defender.
But anyways if you lose defense somewhere, you need to get it somewhere else. Neither Murphy nor Kristic are good defenders by any stretch. Our middle looked soft and exploited vs the Bulls. Quote me the numbers, but the eyes don't lie. How are we going to match up with the likes of Howard, Noah, Bynum, Gasol, or even Boozer in the middle during the playoffs?
The minute KG takes a breather, Boozer starts to dominate our soft middle, by the time he's back game is already out of hand. Rose's penetration had a lot to do with the Bull's success for sure, but they had far too many easy scores whereas Thibodeux' defense forced the Celtics into tough jumpers in the second half and slowly throttled us to death. This is the kind of defense the C's used to play. Let's get a big man in the middle who can give KG some serious defensive help.
