Povtak: Orlando Magic Interested in Tony Battie, Ronny Turiaf as Backup Centers for Dwight Howard

Trade the 2013 pick into Anthony Randolph? Or even Jayson Williams?

How many centers BOS and MIA (now) have? We should be fine with finding one big to play limited minutes behind Dwight since he has supposedly approved the trades! Wake up! Who says that he has approved the trades? Did Dwight say anything except lukewarm statements, as he was expected to do?

Good lord I almost fell over in excitement just reading that possibility. Hopefully we CONTINUE to explore such an option.

To be a backup for Howard.

Otis Smith: “Yo Donnie, can we have Turiaf? We’ll give you…erm…Duhon and….ahh….Richardson.”
Donnie Walsh: “Jason?”
OS: “Ahahaha. No, I meant Q.”
DW: “lol!”
{hangs up}
OS: :-(
Tim Povtak: “Yo Otis, I need some stupid premise to base an article around. You doing any trades?”
OS: “Why yes, Tim. Just now I was talking to Donnie Walse about trading for Ronnie Turiaf!”
TP: “Otis, you’re a genius! Let me just treat this nonsense as an entirely serious and realistic proposition and write an idiotic column about it. Man you make this job easy. Cheers bro!”

so knowing Otis, we should get ready for Battie.

Has anyone gone to trade machine to see how hard it would be to get Nesterovic?

Turiaf is easily the one we want. I agree that this is probably just idle trade “talk.”

What can we realistically do to get him?

His family?

Love his energy.

But if we are able to make that deal then I will lose my mind at the absurdity because there is no way the Knicks should make that deal.

but i pick ronnie

http://www.sportingnews.com/nba/story/2010-12-21/vince-carter-considering-arthroscopic-surgery

This team could contend with the right big. Turiaf is that guy. He would be perfect. I think the magic should shop JJ. I like JJ but he has a lot of value and is also pretty expensive considering he really won’t play much now.

If you get Turiaf here he could play next to Howard against the Celrics and play next to Bass when Howard is sitting. These are both very attractive scenarios. Batman is not. He is not a guy who will make a difference on the court like Turiaf. That is what we need to truly improve the defense.

I’d take Battie for a 2nd rnd pick from PHI for depth (he’s > Allen, imo) if they’d do the deal. AND, I’d keep looking for another/better option. Until Orton is healthy enough to hold an active roster spot, we can’t count on him.

Re: wing defense, I liked the idea of trading Duhon +$3M to Milwaukee for M’bah a Moute (I’d throw in Clark, too, if that’s what it took) since they lost Jennings for over a month. (Can’t remember the source, but I think it was Kevin Pelton’s tweet, but might have been Brad Doolittle.) MaM’s a top-flight defender, though provides very little on the offensive end. Matches up well versus LeBron.

It’s “Let’s trade JJ for… WHATEVER” time again! Let the good-Ol trading machine do the THINKING for us …

Let’s forget that JJ just had a 29-point game two days ago; that just yesterday came STRONG from the bench (It’s a SHAME that the Coach didn’t care to use him in the 4th Qt); ot that he’s been one of the most consistent Magic players, second only to Howard for the past three weeks.

Yes… let’s CONVENIENTLY forget that he’s really our go-to guy from the bench, especially now that we having NO offense at all. Let’s do this “trade” and really make Otis LOOK like the fool he’s NOT!

No… we DON’T move JJ, for NOTHING! I would rather move Jameer “too-small-shoot-first” Nelson in a deal with Duhon, or Anderson. THAT would get us something really good to complement our new additions. Let’s talk about THAT trade. And, please spare me the Howard-won’t-have-it line… As I stated before; let Otis explain to Dwight that it’s all-or-nothing for the Championship… and Nelson has to go! With the firepower the Magic have, we NEED a point guard who averages 10 assists/game, while making only 1, or 2 turnovers. Someone who will get Howard the ball… when he’s open!

That’s it… let’s get REAL and stop this JJ trade non-sense.

Can probably be scooped up for cheap (i.e. part of the BAE) and w/o having to trade away RA, Q, or JJ. I think he should definitely be added to the discussion. As most have mentioned already, obviously we’d love to have Turiaf, but realistically he isn’t an option and Barron is serviceable.

This doesn’t really address the pressing need of a backup center right now, but I’ve seen several people here and in the media why Otis made both of these trades right now. They wonder why you don’t make one and trade and see what happens, etc.

However, by making the trade on December 18th like we did, all of the new players are eligible to be traded by the Magic on February 18th – 6 days before the February 24th trade deadline.

So along with having a lot more season to work together before the playoffs, it means that if things clearly aren’t working and/or there is a chance to get someone like Carmelo the Magic could package anyone on the roster (including the new guys like JRich) in a trade. Seems like a wise move to perhaps back pedal if things go awry.

Battie doesn’t interest me at all. Plus, I love Ronny!