The Poor Man's Kevin Love

and his wingspan? If they’re not high enough, Ernie will have no interest. Seriously, Anderson is the type of player that I wish Ernie would target more often. Solid, unspectacular pros who can hit an open shot.
It is always a dicey situation going after restricted free agents though. They usually end up back on their original team.

Although, I’m not sure how he pairs defensively with McGee – let’s face it, when Dwight Howard has your back, it can hide a lot of things.

Check it out on Dimemag.com. (I can’t add the link)

but we don’t have howard

he reminds me more of a power forward peja than love though

maybe Gerald Henderson? I think he is restricted, too.

I like where your head is at going after guys of his caliber. He’s young, has more room to develope and brings exactly what this team needs with his professionalism, shooting, and IQ. We will see what happens with the early extension deadline this week and then we’ll know what our chances are. Another under the radar guy right now that is ballin is OJ Mayo. I know some people might not like targeting him but it seems like he has matured. He is averaging close to 12 a game right now off the bench and is shooting 45% from the 3. His career average still sits right at 16 a game and I think he is someone who could be ready to break out. There is no way Memphis is going to be able to resign him after the big contracts to Gay, Randolph, Gasol, and Conley. I guess you target Barnes in the draft after those two moves and your starting 5 would look like:
Wall, Mayo, Barnes, Anderson, McGee with Singleton, Vesely, Crawford off the bench. I would also target Omer Asik from Chicago to backup Mcgee and would think about taking William Buford from Ohio State with one of our 2nd rounders.

Probably too much to think that Orlando would let him go. With Howard’s future in doubt, I doubt that they’d trade him for a guy like Blatche who isn’t coming anywhere close to justifying his long term contract. The ‘Zards have been trying to shop Blatche for a long time with no takers, and I’d have to assume that a guy like Ryan Anderson is several tiers above the kind of players they’re realistically asking about.

Anderson is currently 12th amongst all NBA players in Player Efficiency Rating. Blatche is 33rd.. amongst PFs in the Eastern Conference, behind such luminaries as Shelden Williams and Vladimir Radmanovic.

The only situation where I can see the Wizards acquiring Anderson is if he’s demanding something like 5 years/60 million or if the Magic lose Howard through a trade where they take on salary but don’t get someone to play the 5. Maybe they’d trade him for McGee there? I’m not sure who would say no first.

But with the way Anderson is playing. $12 million a year could be a steal. He really isn’t playing that far over his head as far as his career per/36 numbers are concerned. His 3pt shooting should likely come down a bit, but even then he’s a 23 year old ‘stretch 4’ who still has upside.

If the All-Star game forced you to pick an actual PF instead of two forwards, I think Bosh would narrowly top out Anderson for the top PF in the East this year.