Now Looking at Butler, Melo & P.G deals (do you think we gave up too much for CP3 ?)

Yeah, I think if he has a good season there will be at least a team or two that will throw good money at him. Lot's of teams with cap space next summer.

 

Are you sure about that? He exudes some major defensive stops, critical loose balls, and 3 pt shots. I say he's at least better than Lavine and a tie with Oladipo. Kanter on the other hand would have helped this roster no doubt.

 

I would take Bev over any of those dudes, tbh.

 

For Melo yes

I pray that I'm wrong I really do but if I look at the analytics I would say Gordon health scares me. Dude hasn't played in like 75% of games in his career. If he gets hurt everyone is gonna turn against saying we should of traded him for that reason

 

Did you watch the playoffs last year. OKC couldn't play kanter against us because his D was bad.

 

he just completed an entire yeah of staying healthy overall. what does analytics have to do with health.the constant complaint about health is just tiresome at this point, when last season proved they can be relied upon to stay healthy

he was hurt in NO for most of his time. he comes here in a much better situation and has a great year. might actually his best if you want to take into account winning and contribution

 

Dekker was hot garbage. I don't see the hype. He was the most frustrating player in the roster after Anderson, clearly.


I was sad about Beverley being included it he. Found out he requested a trade so he was gone anyway. Harrell wasn't getting anymore minute that he did the previous season. The first was a given . Only person I felt was overkill was Lou williams but without him I don't think the salaries work..

 

The value of our trade ultimately boiled down to how much value we perceive our assets outside of Bev as having. For me, the draft pick was worth more than Dekker at Trez combined. Lou might be worth a very low first rounder himself. However, I find the people crying about the following hilariously stupid:

- "Lou was worth a lot because he was a 6th candidate." Let's be real... Lou was a 6th man candidate on the LAKERS. They sucked, like sucked really really bad. Don't let his role on a really bad team inflate his value artificially.

- Dekker was becoming trash given how broken his jumpshot had gotten. The only reason we played him as much as we did was because we had no one else to put behind Ariza. Even with that situation in mind, we still chose to play Ariza way to many minutes. I wonder why that is?

- Harrell was such a bad fit for our team that we didn't even play him much in the playoffs. While his potential is intriguing, it's not something we want to slowly develop and hope he turns out the best case scenario.

 

I'll have to see how he does as a full time starter, the game against PHX last season was a glimpse of what he could do, but he's running Doc's offense now.

The other 3 have had major scoring roles as either the #1 or #2 guy on a team.

 

Kanter would be another scoring and rebounding threat in the post... Something the Rockets surely needed.

 

We didn't have cap room to sign CP3 outright, so a trade was needed.

 

oh the same kanter that you can't play in the playoffs. oh what a threat he is....sitting on the bench

 

Nope because CP3 is so much better than those other guys. You can make a case for CP3 being a top 5 player.

 

We gave a lot of player but that allows us to do a Trade, not sign Paul as FA.
and that allows us to sign Tucker (it could have been Iggy or Reddick) and Tarik Black. and keeping Anderson

Dumping Anderson contract to create space for Paul could have cost us 2 first

 

We would've had to dump Bev and Lou, and maybe one other. Same price but maybe keep Dekker.

 

Good question. We definitely gave up too much for CP3. If we had Dekker or Trez, Melo would be a Rocket. CP3 is a superstar on the downside of his career. No way he's worth that many players. But I credit Morey's aggressiveness

 

THIS!!

 

First, yes. On second thought, no because we didn't know Melo was in play until he requested to be traded after the CP3 trade. And most important, the trade shows CPaul how valuable the Rockets think of him. IF, he does the unthinkable, it is going to hurt for long time.

 

We gave up a free agent PG, Corey Brewer, and the 18th and 32nd picks of the 2015 NBA draft, for a consensus top 10 player in his prime.

 

but Melo wouldn't even consider us without CP3

so Dekker/Trez would actually make NYK change their mind about not wanting RA?

we would have Melo if morey had given RA the 4th yr as team option or 3yrs $65M