Michael Jordan's Smarts as GM

This move that Charlotte Bobcats General Manager Michael Jordan made for Stephen Jackson from Golden State sealed the deal. After the trade, the Bobcats played together and cohesively as a basketball unit. They shared the basketball, they competed, they depended on each other's competitive nature to play basketball, and most of all, they had the desire and will to finish and complete basketball games especially in the fourth quarter where it counts the most. What the Bobcats have to compete with the other 29 teams in the NBA is that they have complete point guard display of skills with Raymond Felton and D.J. Augustin at the helms. They can pass, they can score, they can handle the ball, and they have complete leadership of the court and the team they are playing for. I don't doubt Stephen Jackson's ability to handle the basketball at his natural position which I think is small forward, but he can also play shooting guard as well. Jackson is able to shoot very well for someone of his size and versatility. The combination of Jackson and Gerald Wallace, whom I've wrote about in my previous articles, is deadly. They're both extremely long athletes and they have tremendously long lanky arms. Wallace can play terrific defense and is a potent offensive scorer as well. The Bobcats aren't so big at the power forward spot. They have 6 foot, 8 Boris Diaw who is an athletic forward who can do a lot of the little things to help a team win, but they lack his height to play aggressively with the bigger forwards. Off the bench, they'll have Tyrus Thomas, who Michael Jordan helped acquire from the Bulls, to play well and score points in bunches. I think Thomas' specialty is defense. He can block shots and make steals. These trades Jordan made for Stephen Jackson and Tyrus Thomas erases the memories of his acquisitions in the NBA Draft for Kwame Brown coming out of high school and the disappointing Adam Morrison out of Gonzaga. At the center position for the Bobcats, Jordan has done well at this spot although I think there is a logjam and some of these centers can actually do perform better at the power forward spot. I can see Tyson Chandler, who I think is a natural at power forward, do better there. I don't think Chandler's a center, although the NBA and the Charlotte Bobcats list him as so. Nazr Mohammed and Theo Ratliff definitely are promising centers to keep for the Bobcats and they are serviceable big men. The other two wingmen for the Bobcats who back up Stephen Jackson and Gerald Wallace: Gerald Henderson and Derrick Brown will do well to score points when subbing in for either Jackson or Wallace.