Considering we made out like bandits on draft day without giving up any of our players with major value (RLEC, Martell, Trout, Frye, Sergio, Petteri) does anybody see KP standing pat for the rest of the Summer? I'm guessing some serious roster consolidation is in the works.

I keep thinking that the addition of Diogu makes Frye expendable, and the addition of Bayless frees up a PG for a trade.

Here's what I was thinking:

Portland recieves:

Shane Battier SF $5,883,600

Houston recieves:

Travis Outlaw SF $4,000,000

Channing Frye PF $2,480,240

Sergio Rodriguez or Petteri Koponen PG ~$800,000 (we'd have to give Petteri a contract for this to work, obviously)

Works on the ESPN trade machine, I'm just a little worried about giving up so much for a guy with his stats. Battier is a hard working team player who can lock down any 2 or 3 in the league, but his numbers really aren't very good. I mean, he doesn't score, but with a frontcourt of Roy Rudy and Bayless, plus Aldridge and Oden do we really need another scorer? He also shoots over 40% from three so that'd be a nice fourth/fifth option. Plus he's a quintessential "culture guy." I think it makes sense for Houston as well.

Bayless/Blake

Roy/Rudy

Battier/Martell

Aldridge/Diogu

Oden/Vanilla Gorrilla

Man I like the look of that. Has everything: size, athleticism, depth, rebounding, solid D, scoring off the bench. That's a championship team. Plus we still have RLEC just in case. Is there something obvious I'm missing why this wouldn't work.