Its time to talk about Tyson

And please, stop talking about Tyson's "upside" and comparing him to EB.  This is the best Tyson will ever get.  He's never going to be a scorer.  

What do you think might have happened in the last week or so if we had the second best defensive rebounder in the league on our team.  Might those 20      offensive rebound nights from our opponents been more like 12.  Would we get to 50 wins with Tyson?

And Fred, I'm not saying he's a scorer, I'm saying even this year he is significantly outscoring Big Ben (the worst free throw shooter in NBA history)

Now I'm glad that Tyson is doing well but it's too bad that it took him to be traded to dedicate himself to the game. If he would have done that while he was in Chicago then he would still be playing here.

The minute Wallace signed with the Bulls it made no sense to keep Chandler. $25 Million/yr tied up in 2 centers who can't score wasn't going to happen.
Like Matt, I bemoaned Chandler's baby hands, his inability to set a legal pick and his lack of anything approaching a post game. However, there was no question that the Bulls were a superior defensive team with him in the lineup and much less of one with him on the bench.

He needed a new situation and I'm only mildly surprised at how well he is doing. The big difference this year is that the Hornets don't really use him on offense except to line up on the weak side and cut to the basket for rebounds and dunks. Because of that he gets very few offensive fouls and stays in the game.

what did we end up doing? We crippled a divisional rival, got on nat'l tv, huge coup in the FA market, saved a year in the long run on contracts, got a new defensive identity, and made the best move we could given the circumstances.

If tyson continued to underpreform at 10M a year, we  would be in a much scairer situation given deng, gordon, and noch's extensions and resigining.....its easy to look back and criticize, but i think we can all agree it was the right move at the time

Second, we expected quite a bit from Tyson after the fourth season.  That's when both he and Eddy had begun to mature as players and gel as teamates.  At that point, everyone was pretty excited about these two going forward.  But it was not to be.

By the time next year began, Eddy was in New York and Tyson was thrust into the center position.  To make matters worse, team doctors spent half the year diagnosing and treating his esophagus problem that was prohibiting his breathing and affecting his stamina.  And if that wasn't enough, he was no longer playing alongside a big scoring threat and now paired with what would have been deep bench players on other teams like Othella Harrington.  
Not buying that?  Just look at Tyson's numbers without David West, injured for the first half, versus his numbers since West has been healthy and productive.

To get back to Skile's doghouse, that's not Tyson's problem.  It's Skiles.  We're not talking about Stephon Marbury or Rasheed Wallace here.  Just like were not talking about Sweetney when it comes to conditioning.  He may not have worked as hard on his game as MJ, but that doesn't get you traded by most coaches.  He may not have done whatever it is Chris Duhon is doing, but that doesn't get you playing time from most coaches.

To be honest with ourselves, we ought to realize Tyson's days were numbered the day Paxson became GM regardless of his performance.  Better performance last year would simply have meant better players in return once he was dealt.  The day Chandler, Curry and Crawford magic markered "JK" on their shoes ensured their days were numbered - contract extentions or not.