I don't see how a Wallace for Randolph and Lee trade would hurt us?
Let me rephrase the situation this way:
We have a player Ben Wallace, and a fairy comes down and says he can turn Ben Wallace into David Lee. All we have to do is extend Wallace's contract for one more year. We significantly upgrade the player, but we have to deal with him having a bloated contract for 3 years instead of 2. Would you do it? (I understand Lee's contract is expiring, but we will be able to reacquire him under the Larry Bird clause)
That's the absolute worst thing that can happen with this trade. Even if we get absolutely no contribution from Randolph, and we just put him on the bench, we get an upgrade in exchange for one extra year of a bad contract (an important contract year, i understand, but still).
Lee, who's basically the perfect PF to start alongside Z....I see us using him on first team, and then AV/Randolph on the second team, because that gives us one big man who can make his own shot on each side of the ball, and one helper who is high percentage when he gets the ball in good position. I think that's a more dangerous match up.
We get to resign 25 year old David Lee next year, and can also resign AV. Lee, AV, Hickson is a pretty good rotation of PF/C for the long term, though AV is a little short at center, our bigs are pretty decent because LBJ can play there too.
We still have Szczerbiak to trade, and this opens us up to the possibility of trading AV/Szczerbiak for a top flight 2/3 at the trade deadline (Gerard Wallace?). Presently this is an impossibility because we don't have the numbers of big men necessary to trade AV. This leaves us a good PF rotation in Lee/Hickson, and three top flight players in LBJ, Mo Williams, and whoever we get. That's a team that could win a championship.
~Lyuokdea
