Look at how incredibly close it was;
Instead of Williams, Magic wrestled Anderson away instead. The other young, but better, PF the Nets have. Obviously the Magic acquired Vince Carter too, and I got to say, the reasoning for getting Vince Carter is 100% on.
Nets acquired Battie just like predicted. The writer, Austin, guesses Redick would be a good add too for being a sharpshooter SG, but the Nets were able wrestle C.Lee instead, a better young SG.
The last piece is the least closest tho, as Turk may make sense for the Nets since they are so skeletal in talent, but Turk commanded more money, and its clear in retrospect the Nets wanted more cap space, and hence the Rafer Alston add instead of a Hedo Turkoglu, who was later S/T’ed by Magic to Raptors for heavy TPE and Cash. The Magic braintrust went on to spend more money for VC’s contract (tho only 2 yrs) and acquiring Bass, Barnes, and Jason Williams for adding insane depth. The Nets went on to drafting Terrence Williams who will probly be the SF instead.
I seriously applaud this writer for his NBA smarts. Its not often sports journalists actually have some great basketball knowledge AND apply it so well to calling a trade that was about 85-90% dead on in my opinion.

The trade is a good idea, I think. Carter does play hard and even if he didnt before, you know he will for a championship. Orlando would be championship contenders for a few years as Celtics are old and Lebron might still leave. The only thing is Howard needs to improve his game. He is a beast defensively but what about the offense? all he does is dunk and clown around. Did anyone see his Beyonce imitation? It werent even funny.

I know he’s still young and all but if he spends some time actually getting post moves, they’re gonna win.

Although Vince has shown no indication of slowing down, players sometimes tend to show their age/injuries overnight. Might be a bit of a risk from the Orlando perspective if this happens.