as much as i dont really like jackson and his attitudes, maybe..just maybe this was the change the bobcats needed to get things going.

Trading short term contracts for long term contracts? Sounds familiar… I know this makes the Cats better right now but it seems like more long term problems money wise. I kinda hope something bigger is in the works.

?are u guys crazy? jack wont like playing there. he’s an allstar that doesnt play on bad teams let alone horrible ones. who are u going to try and trade him for? what team? with his tude i cant see him playing anywhere except where he wants to play. i like that he got shafted and sent to another bad team. sick of all the whiners that make millions and have to play for certain teams. u guys got a bad headache coming your way…enjoy

Especially for what we gave up…I’m actually surprised that Warriors gave up Jackson for Bell and Radman…but regardless this makes happy b/c we get much needed scoring help that we lacked without giving up Diaw or Wallace….

Scenario one is that Jackson is here to stay. Depending on who you are listening to, either the Charlotte PD had better higher an extra SWAT team, or we’re getting the deal of the year. He’s been in the center of a lot of trouble to be sure, but Marbury and Tim Duncan both swear he’s among the nicest and best they’ve ever played with. Regardless of his off-the-court tendencies, if he stays and plays he IS a large part of the answer to our offense nightmares. He’s proven more than once that he’s capable of being a scoring beast. If he gives us that presence you can expect both Diaw and Wallace to improve dramatically as well because for the first time ever the Bobcats will present opposing coaches with multiple players on the court that are serious threats to develop a hot hand and shoot some lights out. Do you double Jackson and leave Wallace undefended? I wouldn’t recommend it. Leave Diaw alone instead? A better option, but if you live or die by that choice Boris will burn you. In LB’s halfcourt offense, Jackson will quicken our rotation, open our lanes, and give Wallace at least a handful of easy trips to the hole caused by defensive hesitation. It might even light a spark under Chandler who will suddenly find himself with some elbow room down low.

The verdict – if Jackson stays the Bobcats now have a VERY realistic shot at the 6 or 7 seed and we’re going to scare a few clubs that were otherwise going to be taking us for granted.

Option 2 is that this is part of a bigger scheme and Jackson will barely get fitted with a Cats uniform before he’s off to somewhere else. I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed when it comes to figuring out who we can get. The Warriors have wanted to get rid of Jackson in a HUGE way and he’s all but begged several teams himself. Charlotte was well down on the list of teams initially and yet here he comes. I don’t see us packaging a deal with any of the teams Jackson wanted to play for and I don’t see any team that can help us that will be willing to take him. I’ve been a soccer coach for 19 seasons. I know how to develop the players that are in front of me and I know how to develop a team around the skills of said players. I know how to adapt a gameplan to challenge whatever team is next on the schedule and I know how to adjust on the fly during the games. I’m nobody’s talent scout. I do have a business degree so I can crunch numbers, but that’s about it when it comes to dealing and trading. Skills-wise, I just don’t see us doing a lot better than Jackson so I’m hoping he stays with us and Brown is able to keep a leash on any problems – on or off court – that Jackson may bring along with him. For all I know, we’re about to trade Jackson AND Chandler for a couple of draft picks and a used Ford Pinto.

I do like the numbers potential and what it may mean to the players on our team that are struggling to find their individual rhythms. This has a massive potential upside on that level. I liked Raja and I’m sorry to see him go, but Im frankly amazed it was him and not Diaw headed west.

Just for the hell of it I ran the trade through the process at

http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine

and the results were interesting. According to La Machine both teams lose on the deal. The Bobcats get a net loss of 1 win for the season and the Warriors net a loss of 4 wins.
Of course, there is a disclaimer directly under it that promises the analysis is likely to be 100% correct or 100% wrong, so take it with a grain of salt!

Looking at the dollars and cents, James the Aussie is right in saying that in order for it to work we’ll need to unload Jackson’s money by the trade deadline next year. But there is one thing to consider when we look at that. Jackson’s known for a honeymoon period where he comes into town smiling and full of community service projects to counterbalance his bad rep. We can take full advantage of that this season and then use it as part of the pitch as in: “And LOOK how nice and rehabilitated he is now! Gosh willickers we hate to lose him, but we need to free up some cap space and shucks, even though you have us over a barrel, we have no choice but to let him go…”
The trick is in getting rid of him before he decides that Charlotte is just too podunk a club and town for a godlike talent such as his and he starts acting up again – assuming he follows his previous patterns.

I just need him to play tonight… he’s on my fantasy team.

I hope this trade works out well for the ’Cats…

1) I actually think Jack will be motivated to prove everyone wrong for a while (read: 1 year). 2) He’s a REALLY good defender when motivated, giving you guys a great defensive unit which brown loves…
3) Underrated passer, mover of the ball. With him and Diaw, you guys should be able to spread the ball VERY well and make up for your lack of a prototypical PG…

You may not have a prototypical scorer…. but it could work. I like Augustin, jack, diaw, wallace, chandler starting 5, It’s gritty, its tough, it could be like what houston’s got going on. Jack can help space floor with Diaw. When you guys space better, Wallace can attack the lane and he’s 1 of best in league at that.

I think he’ll buy into what Brown’s saying for now.

While it will take a lot to get me on the Cap’n Jax bandwaggon, I won’t trash this trade quite the way I did the Okafor/Chandler debacle. If the Bobcats can swap Jackson out for something useful in the next year or so, this deal might work out ok.

But not because Jackson is going to turn the Bobcats scoring woes around. While Jackson has scored between 15 and 20 points a game ever since the Spurs bailed on him, he’s not an efficient scorer. He’s shooting at an abysmal .421 percentage this year, which is still slightly better than his .418 career rate. And this year he’s shooting only .275 on 3 pointers while taking 4.4 per game. Basically, the Bobcats just traded for a taller version of Allen Iverson.

But I do hold out some hope for this trade. Last year a struggling Clipper team made a trade much like this one for Zach Randolph. Randolph brought much of the same baggage (checkered past and attitude problems) and benefits (scoring) that Jackson brings to Charlotte. Both were traded from teams desperate to dump their bloated contracts to teams with struggling offenses. Randolph made the Clippers better but definitely not good, and I expect Jackson to have a similar effect on the Bobcats.

The best case scenario for this trade is for Jackson to take some of Felton’s shots and help reduce Gerald’s minutes before he wears out and breaks down. Then in the off-season, the Bobcats will need to switch out Jackson for some depth and/or expiring contracts just as the Clips did with Randolph. If the Bobcats can follow that plan, then this move could be ok.