Seems to me, the trade ensures another season of watching these guys chunk up a three ball as the clock winds down. Moving Etan and Songalia cleared the space and the fifth overall pick guaranteed suiters. We should have made our pitch for a GOOD post weapon.

Stevenson and/or James won’t get us what we need. Wiz fans will hate this, but with Miller here we may have to consider something involving Jamison or ugghhh…choke..cough ..BBBBButler.

Wish we coulda somehow had James in that mix!

Everyone knows I like Crits upside so I hope he competes in camp & doesn’t get lost on our guard heavy shuffle (that’s unfortunately been the problem everywhere he’s been)…

All that to say, nice to lose some dead weight & a little salary obligation.
Nice to add some backcourt pieces so that guys like Dee Brown, Mike James & Juan Dixon aren’t running our show from time to time this season.

1. It makes us a much better team for ’09-10. We should contend for home court advantage in the first round of the playoffs — assuming everyone stays healthy.

2. It costs us nothing. Darius is a great guy and a heady basketball player, but he is limited physically for his position and doesn’t really put up good enough numbers as a result. Obviously, Pech and Etan aren’t much of a loss to us.

3. Ernie gets rid of his mistakes — all the 3 guys we traded were GM mistakes. Ernie matched at too many $$ for Etan, drafted the wrong guy in Pech, and signed a guy who couldn’t deliver what he wanted from him in DSong.

4. You can think of this pick as ET/DS/OP for Foye (not much for not much — a wash) and Miller for pick 5. Foye is not a contributor; his numbers are way below average, but Miller sure is: he is one of the top wing players in the game and is quite under-rated.

Basketball is about the future and the present both — Mike is good right now. Maybe the guy we got at 5 would be good in the future, but who knows. If Curry is still on the board at 5, I’ll have a twinge of regret. Other than that, I’m happy with this trade.