Seriously though, by about January of last year I considered the Bucks the worst franchise in the NBA. The aura of “Not giving a F*&K” was visible through the TV.

If you have no leverage, you shouldn’t make a trade.

To me, getting Ridnour as insurance, Damon Jones and Adrian Griffin’s expiring $6 million while flipping Mo Williams’ long-term deal, well that’s about $10 million more that John Hammond couldn’t offer Charlie Villnueva next summer before yesterday.

I know opinions are rather mixed on Villanueva, but I’d like to have money around for a guy who has gotten about 12 and 6 for all 3 years he’s been in the league, especially when the only other option at PF for next year currently under contract is Malik Allen. The Bucks will likely start next summer over the cap, so no FAs from other teams besides exceptions are allowed. I think you have to pay Mr. Villanueva. Without making this trade, if you pay Villanueva you go into luxury tax with the trade you don’t go into tax. I wouldn’t let Villanueva walk unless something solid comes back.

Mason’s expiring contract probably could have been put to better use, too.

For real.

The reason why this is a disaster for the Cavs is defensively. Now their two best perimeter players, Gibson and Williams, are short and scrawny. What does Chauncey do to short, scrawny point guards? He uses his size and strength to get in the blocks or get to the stripe. Considering Stuckey is even bigger and stronger than Chauncey, who can the Cavs stick on these guys? (especially if West doesn’t re-sign) Szczerbiak and Pavlovic are just as terrible defensively. Because of this, I think the addition of Williams actually makes them worse rather than better.

Being disagreed with doesn’t hurt my feelings - I realize that on paper Mo Williams looks pretty damn good. I could bust out those stupid stats to try arguing my point, like that he has the lowest Net PER by position on the team (his PER minus allowed PER), but that stuff doesn’t really mean anything. I’ll just go on the record that this trade will be a disaster for the Cavs, that we sweep them in the regular season, and that they don’t make it past the first round next year. I’m really excited about this trade.

USA 84 - Greece 74

The sad part is I’m pretty sure we’ll play our hardest from start to finish… whereas Greece will probably get bored and start conserving for the medal round about 3 mins into the 4th Q….

Still, we need this one. Go USA.

Well, that pretty much answers the “Why the hell would Milwaukee do this deal” question doesn’t it? Apparently Mo Williams was so soft and so disinterested that he was worth taking on Luke Ridnour’s “career” just to get rid of.

Seriously I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO glad I’m not a Bucks fan. What a mess of a franchise. Good luck Mr Hammond, yagonaneedit.

Seattle gets two decent pieces, who also function as expiring contracts. Another smooth move for Presti.

Milwaukee? Well, they get the $50 million check David Stern paid them to make this trade go down, not that it does much for their fans. I mean, seriously, how is this happening? Is it safe to start the Vince Carter to Miami watch now?

He’s a WAY more consistent shooter than Larry Hughes ever was and he fills the same “second option” role that Hughes was acquired to perform way back when. (Note, I do not have stats to back that up because I am hells lazy. This is what I mean by “watch some basketball”. I do. Therefore I have seen enough of both Larry Hughes and Mo Williams to say emphatically that Mo Williams is a more consistent shooter. Maybe 82Games doesn’t agree with me, but I really don’t care, it’s OBVIOUS watching both of them perform that any SANE person is much more comfortable watching Mo shoot than Larry… no really, this works).

He’s also no WORSE a facilitator than Delonte West (see note above about watching basketball) AND he’s not threatening to move to Europe through his agent. He’s more marketable in Cleveland as well from a personality standpoint. Delonte is WAY WAY too “Baller” to really fly in the Midwest frankly.

So basically Cleveland gets a second option on offense AND at WORST treads water on the “pure point” issue.

Finally and I don’t want to fight but really this is silly:

“Mo Williams is like a point guard version of Zach Randolph. Puts up great stats, but there’s a reason his team is terrible.”

Maybe Mo is terrible. Maybe he has things in common with Zach Randolph… I don’t agree but I’m not willing to fight to the death over it… Otoh.. the reason the Bucks are terrible is pretty obvious when you watch Andrew Bogut high five himself after an AND1 shot as a way of shaming his team-mates into caring about something, anything. The Bucks franchise is a cancer, you can’t blame Mo for not turning them into a winner.

That having been said, I’ll agree that Williams attitude towards “Defense” has been somewhat questionable but really Cleveland’s coaching staff WON’T play guys who aren’t playing defense… so he’ll at least try.

Wow, that was REALLY way too long. My bad.