[Ziggy Lidstrom]

Malcolm and Moon. The raptors have plenty of perimeter oriented guys that cannot really create their own shot: Bargs, Calderon, Graham, Parker not including bosh. I look at this trade like another poster does: Addition by subtraction. Kapono wasn't really a good 6th man at all. He is a 9th guy on a good team. Evans has qualities that lack in our current group of bigs: Toughness, Rebounding and defensive acumen. Sure he is a couple of productive seasons removed from his denver and seattle days, but let's reserve judgement until training camp. I think evans diversifies our front court and sees that we lose a redundant component.

I watched Evans eat up the Rap's poor post defence to collect serious numbers, last year and the years prior.

It breaks down like this.

Kapono - Pros:Good perimeter shooter...Okay team player...
cons: every other part of his game.

Evans - Pros: Rebounding, toughness and defensive awareness...cheaper than JK
Cons: No offensive game, no elite athletic ability. undersized 4.

Thus, we save some cap room (marcus banks can go now too) and we gain a differnt dimension in our bigs' rotation. Sure, we lose an inconsistent dead eye shooter who is easily cancelled out by aggressive perimeter defenders, but he was so inneffective that i hear BC was considering using him as a decoy with a division rival(oops don't tell ed stefanski).

Pardon the shots at JK, but I was so unimpressed with that guy. I remember him going back to UCLA and thought there was no way this guy will be a pro player. Sure enough, he was a 2nd rounder who gets by as a niche player(three's only).

PS, Evans did not get a lot of burn due to their roster having a glut of players at the 345 spots: Dalembert, Ratliff, Brand, Young, Speights, smith and Marshall. Igudola plays the 3 so that's another one to add to the equation.

Evans was redundant there and JK was the redundent white boy, who became the butt of all the viewers' and fans' jokes.