The guy pouts about his role, plays no defense, scores inefficiently, pounds the ball to death, and is one year older. I’d say you’re being delusional with your #me7ooFantasies
Yeah that's an option - assuming Atlanta is interested in that deal and no other team will offer anything to get Bazemore. Isn't Bazemore only like 6'4"? If rather have a SF around 6'8". Also, it sucks that losing Ariza would cost us a 1st round pick too.
Getting Exum would be fantastic, but we only have the $5M MLE to offer and Jazz would easily beat that even if Exum accepted it.
Yep. @saleem mentioned that. If only we had a few extra million available. Or like $20 M that wasn’t being tied up somewhere useless.
Signing Luc has to be priority now. Their isn't many lengthy 3 and D guys in the market and our line ups with him and PJ on the floor actually did better than Ariza in limited sample size. Remember Ariza was out for like 3 weeks straight around the All-Star break and Luc filled in easily and we didn't skip a beat. Hopefully he got surgery on that shoulder. He's not a reliable 3 pt threat but he's a better slasher and better overall defender. Trade Ryno for Bazemore, possibly sign Melo when he gets stretched if he's willing to sign a paultry contract and be a super-sub. If he didn't learn his lesson with OKC, then fuggem.
I'm sure they'll figure it out but they have a **** ton of 3s and 4s. Trevor Ariza TJ Warren Josh Jackson Mikal Bridges Marquese Chriss Dragan Bender Jared Dudley
You can't put it all on Ariza. Especially when he put needed more energy on the defense side. You forget the team went 0-23 also.
I really don't understand the decision for Ariza here. Go literally from the best team to the worst team. Have higher expectations and a much more muddy role. He must really need the $ but then... why only one year? He's not going to have more multi-year offers when he's a year older, right? So he could actually lose lifetime earnings a bit with this deal. Say he has (in a terrible org on a terrible, young team) lower stats this year. So next year at 34, he gets a few 1-yr offers. Just a head scratcher for both sides, b/c Phoenix is not going to contend this year. So then you take time from young guys for Trevor? Maybe he's like a highly paid mentor to improve the culture? Well, I only wish him well and I hope it's not a miserable experience on that team! (except when he plays us and Green dunks all over him.)
Its double what he was gonna make this year, thats why Ariza did it. Think about it this way, he could sign a 3 year 21M deal with Houston or sign a 1 year deal for 15M with Phx. Suppose he only got a 1 year deal next year then he would have still made 1M more in the worst case. And thats assuming Houston offered him a 3 year deal what if they only offered 2 years due to his age.
Yeah, I don't think people appreciate what Ariza does for the team defensively. And when you are trying to build up to play the warriors, Ariza's length against KD is important. Ariza leaving surprised me. And him leaving to the lottery Suns surprised me even more. What I am worried about is Ariza getting bought out at the trade deadline and then going to the Warriors. I have to believe Morey saw this coming. Just didn't want to invest in a 33yr old swingman. Perhaps this is a pivot point to get younger and keep the championship window open all 4 years of the Harden/Paul relationship. Let's see what Morey does next. Not going to look at Ariza thing until I see the puzzle finished. One thing I DO NOT want to see is the idea of inserting Carmelo Anthony at the starting SF spot. Not going to work on this team with Harden at the 2 spot. This team needs DEFENSE at that wing next to Harden. I am not against Carmelo, but only in a bench scorer role.
This is the kind of deal I am sure the Rockets were hoping for with Ariza. And he said, screw that, I will take it in 1 year and get back out in the market.
The Bazemore trade upgrades us over Ariza and we'd ditch the Ryno contract. Would be the perfect scenario for us.
I think we underrate Ariza's "durability" a lot. Luc can do a lot of the stuff Ariza can do. But we all are going to be waiting for the shoe to drop to see if Luc dislocates that shoulder again. (assuming he resigns). Durability matters.
