Zach Lowe Mentions Spurs in Hypothetical Trades for Josh Smith

[cd021]

for sure, I'll be more than happy to educate yourself.

Yeah,no.

[Obstructed_View]

The difference in the Spurs and the Thunder last year was that the Thunder had a superstar who could step up and get a big bucket in crunchtime of a close game. I watched the end of last night's game against the Knicks to see if Smith fills that need. Short of kneecapping one of his teammates, I'm unsure how he could have been a bigger bust in the last minute of that game.

[ManuTastic]

This team has all the offense it needs. I for one would love a stout, sizeable defender like J Smoove on this team. If all it takes is SJax plus scraps, even for just this stretch run, I'd do it in a heartbeat.

[look_at_g_shred]

This team has all the offense it needs. I for one would love a stout, sizeable defender like J Smoove on this team. If all it takes is SJax plus scraps, even for just this stretch run, I'd do it in a heartbeat.

Same here. Imagine Manu and Smith in the PnR....

[Hoops Czar]

Actually, it's 48.6%. If you're unhappy about Stephen Jackson, you should want no part of Josh Smith in our offense. At least Jack is only playing 9 minutes. Smith would be mucking up the offense for probably 35 minutes per game. Yuck.

Interesting. Well one player is 34 and the other is 27. Defense wins championships and the Spurs have plenty of offensive firepower to boot. For his career, Smith has a career .515 Ts% compared to Sax's .520. But more importantly, Smith is much better defensively and has a lot more upside than Jackson. The last thing you should be worried about is how Smith will muck up the offense especially after watching S-jax doing basically what amounts to nothing on the offensive end of the court. If Atlanta agreed to this ridiculously lopsided trade proposal, the Spurs wouldn't even think twice about it if they thought he would sign here long term.