CHANDLERS BACKKKKKK

What the hell is wrong with him?

Yahoo sports has a take on this:

Tyson Chandler’s turf toe injury voided the deal between the Hornets and Thunder.

All I can see is Clay Bennett’s fat face about to cry. And it makes me happy.

Suck it former Sonics.

OMG!! This has to be one of the happiest days of my life! This is ridiculous!!!!

And proves all his critics wrong. I believe!

I love Tyson, I’m just not so sure the trade was 1) really that bad for us insofar as this season’s concerned or 2) it mortgaged our future. The main problem is we should have been able to maximize his value beyond what we got, even though in a vacuum exclusively this season, I’d actually rather have Wilcox & Joe Smith rather than a perpetually hampered Tyson for the rest of the season.

Turf toe’s akin to the hamstring injury that Calderon’s trying to shake, it’s a recurrent pain condition, at the base of the big toe which severely restricts jumping & acceleration.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turf_toe
the Blue Jays Troy Glaus had it and it pretty much mooted his mobility, and he’s a roided up fat man who had to move every other inning. Tyson has it & he’s in a sport in which its implication’s far graver I think than anyone here’s considering.

It makes me sad to trade Tyson because he’s young & will continue to develop, but we’re inevitably going to have to move people for space, and there’s not going to be much good value for Peja, it would be nice to move Posey but I’m not sure if that’s even remotely possible (?), so it looks from where I’m standing he’s going to have to go unless there is a creative alternative no one’s disclosed (distinctly possible). But Bower has to get a 1st rounder or else his negotiating skills need first aid.

the implication of a hampered Tyson for the rest of the season, slowing down the offense, possibly causing us to overrate the improved interior defense & cost us games, I mean think of of an injured Tyson D’ing up against the premier bigs in the playoffs this year, as opposed to a significantly enhanced bench & a resurgent Wilcox. This makes me think this wasn’t a bad move, and would have been a great deal if Bower had gotten a 1st rounder, which is imperative now that we have another shot

As if it wasn’t awkward before, Tyson’s going to feel strange everytime he looks at the staff.

Plus, he knows the guys are tight with him. I think the Hornets should not be asking what is better for this season, but what is better for the franchise. Clearly, in the long run, we’re better with Tyson as part of our big 4.

Our luxury tax situation should have been fixed by trading an unused wing and a extra back-up big, not trading one of our key players.

The only legit indict is that if we get Wilcox & Joe Smith, we’re compelled to make them our FA signings. I think the offensive production of a deeper bench (Joe Smith) and a better offensive center for the remainder of this season (Wilcox) > defense from a hurt Tyson for the remainder of this season.

1) Our future is already tough, I’d rather have Chandler for the rest of this year as a Hornet & go from there.
Re: ???, okay so let’s get this straight because I think you’re completely misleading the turf toe condition. Nobody’s questioned players can recover from turf toe, the problem is they need an entire offseason to. So how is having a hobbled Tyson essentially rented for the rest of this year as opposed to Wilcox & Joe Smith rented for the duration of the season, a net-ben?

Barring a miraculous taker for Peja, & I think it’s almost laughable that someone would take him (think, his salary next year is $14,202,000, then it goes to $15,336,000), & the same goes for MoPete & Posey, I haven’t heard any suggestions within the scope of NBA reality that actually make these alternative scenarios plausible/how it’s going to be anyone but Tyson who is Bower’s moved man.

2) Plenty of other athletes besides Troy Glaus have had turf toe and recovered just fine
Re: That’s asinine. Taking the above into acct., recovery’s a moot point, I know of no recorded episode where a player who has been hampered in-season by turf toe has recovered during that season. AND it’s bad enough to make the Thunder rescind this trade)

Consequently you’re saying:

You’d rather have a severely hampered Tyson, hobbled enough to make OKC still nix this trade despite that Presti probably gets hot just thinking about him, essentially rented out for the rest of this season, rather than TWO healthy players who can probably run the pick and accelerate much more down the court on O.

Essentially have an injured Tyson for the duration of this season, then when he ultimately does heal in the offseason, trade him. Wait, how is this good again?

“I think the Hornets should not be asking what is better for this season, but what is better for the franchise. Clearly, in the long run, we’re better with Tyson as part of our big 4. Our luxury tax situation should have been fixed by trading an unused wing and a extra back-up big, not trading one of our key players.”

Okay name names and realistic possibilities: http://hoopshype.com/salaries/new_orleans.htm

How does this, now putting the franchise in the position of paying over $6 million in over the luxury level taxes, not make Shinn more miserly ex post facto? The important thing for the franchise was money first and foremost, and it should have been given the weak financial position the team has to compete today & in the future, that’s what should have been solved in order to make the team more competitive in realistic terms for the long-run, not naively clinging to Chandler “because the guys are tight with him”

Wilcox and Smith can’t make a name for themselves on the Thunder. How would they make us contenders? Tyson will come back and this team will compete.

Is that a serious answer? Do you know who the Thunder are? They’re in the proverbial “youth movement” where they bench even beneficial older players in order to season their core youth for the future given this season, for them, is in the toilet. Why aren’t Wilcox & Joe Smith playing? Oh, I don’t know, maybe Jeff Green and Kevin Durant have something to do with it.

The Thunder also consider Collison part of their long-term plans, and they have to play Krstic w/whatever spare minutes are available since they’re paying him $5,000,000, $5,400,000, & $5,800,000 over the next 3 years.

“Tyson will come back and make this team compete.” – Where is the warrant to your arg? Can you even prove once that a player with his condition, bad enough to make OKC nix a trade for a player their GM gets the sweats over, comes back to perform competitively?

I’m trying to get a straight answer, all I’ve heard from you my fellow Hornets fan are fanciful scenarios and rude repartees. I would love some constructive criticism, however, I think it’s rude to just post ad homs like “puh-lease” and nothing else

Too many opinions, not enough facts. Sir.