Reality check: Cousins+Collison for Gortat+Lillard

[slchsu]

Have hammered out this deal in principle with another owner. I get Cousins and D. Collison and he gets Gorat and Lillard.

BBM says it's pretty fair, though I pretty much lose my advantage in 3s. What do the experts in the room think? Is Collison the starting PG in Dallas for the rest of the season? Will Cousins find some bizarre way to get himself suspended?


12-team, 9-cat, H2H keeper league (keep two).

My team:

PG K. Irving
PG J. Holiday
PG D. Lillard
SG/SF G. Hayward
SG/SF K. Leonard
SG/SF T. Sefolosha
SG/SF N. Batum
SF/PF C. Parsons
PF D. West
PF/C N. Vucevic
PF/C K. Love
PF/C T. Zeller
C M. Gortat

[yellowishodie]

This is an interesting and pretty lateral trade IMO. Cousins is on a tear and I think he can continue it but its not all certain (potential move to seattle i.e drama with trading). I am a huge fan of Lillard and he is simply a beast this year. The kicker here is what Gortat is capable of. I dont think he will reproduce his numbers from last year. I may pull the trigger on this one but to me its really lateral. what do you need?

[slchsu]

Thanks for the response. My thinking is that since this is a H2H league, consolidate the categories I'm strong in while not quite punting the others. This trade bumps up my FG, FT, REB, STL, and PTS while sacrificing BLK and 3PT and TO (which I'm already losing every week anyway).

If everyone continues to produce like they have this past month, that leaves me with strengths in FG, FT, REB, STL, and AST. I would have toss-ups at 3PT, BLK, and FG. And I'd be punting TO.

I love Lillard, but he is a rookie and it's a long season, so I worry about him hitting the wall or getting shut down later, which would be right during fantasy playoffs.