Shifting Some Pieces

With feelers sent to the rest of the league earlier in the week, Chunky Monkeys finally landed the player they were looking for. Welcome, Wes Matthews, the team's new small forward! The full trade is Chunky Monkeys ship out Greivis Vasquez and a 2014 RD3 to Jedi Knights for Wesley Matthews and a 2014 RD6 in return.

Despite having a glut of premiere point guards entering the draft -- Chris Paul, Jrue Holiday and Goran Dragic -- the Monkeys picked up Greivis Vasquez in the draft and E'Twaun Moore from free agency and found themselves with too many guards.

After a quick round of proposals via email, the Monkeys got their man in Matthews. Despite picking up a gem at the SF spot with Al-Farouq Aminu, the Monkeys knew they needed depth at the position.  They got that and more with Matthews. Matthews will be the presumptive starter and is expected to contribute in threes, steals and overall scoring. More importantly, he'll now be the new anchor at the swing position for the new look Monkeys.

As for Greivis, his hot start has now likely earned him a starting slot with the Jedi Knights alongside Mo Williams. Analysts at ESPN thought it was a win win for both teams. "Vazquez will now have a chance to be the undisputed starting point guard for his team. He was never going to have that chance with the Monkeys. For the Monkeys, we anticipate that Wes will be a really strong player in the Monkey's rotation. Similar to James Harden, we expect to him provide strong scoring, three pointers while shoring up the steals category for the already small-ball minded Monkeys", said ESPN analyst Ric Bucher.