Artest trade?

External Since: Nov 01, 2003 Posts: 108

Any updates? I thought they were trying to get a deal done in a 10 day
window? They need to do something, the Pacers need some more help if their
going to make a run at it this year. The rookie is good, but losing Artest
hurts.

External Since: Jun 19, 2004 Posts: 148

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 17:12:07 GMT, "Jack Dotson" <jdotson RemoveThis @stx.rr.com>
enlightened us:

>Any updates? I thought they were trying to get a deal done in a 10 day
>window? They need to do something, the Pacers need some more help if their
>going to make a run at it this year. The rookie is good, but losing Artest
>hurts.
>
>

The team needs to adjust only slightly. After all, they hardly had
Ron at all last season and did well. The other night in Cleveland,
the Pacer defense held LaBron to 14 points but still lost the game.
When they met earlier in the season with Artest, they held LaBron to
19 points.

Granger is looking pretty good. Tinsley needs to get into game shape
and stay healthy and someone needs to step up and take the scoring
load off of Jermaine. Specifically, Stephen Jackson needs to pick it
up. He's only scoring 14 a game (down from his previous two years
averages) and he's only hitting .333 % of his 3's and .422 % of his
FG. While both of those numbers are at or above his career average,
he needs to improve in order to help the team more.

At this stage of the season, I'm just not sure how much, in terms of a
starting player, the Pacers can get for Ron especially if we're only
looking at the Knicks.

Both sides need to meet and iron this thing out with the intention of
getting Ron back on the floor. He'll need to mend his fences with the
players, but it can be done.

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