[Feigen] Fertitta disputes idea Rockets used the Trade Deadline to get under the Luxury Tax

Yeah yeah tight tight .

I get trading Ennis if you really think he's not going to play .... but ducking get something for him . Don't just give him away for free .

The only way for tilman to convince me he's willing to pay the LT .... is for him to pay the LT .

Until he does , it's pretty obvious that getting under the tax was a goal .

 

C - Capela, Faried, Nene
PF - Tucker, ????, Clark is not in the rotation
SF - Shumpert, Green
SG - Harden, Gordon
PG - Paul, Rivers

Please move Gordon back to the bench. Our bench scoring is awful. 9 men rotation is locked. Problem is can Capela and Faried co-exist in MDA system.

 

morey spent the entire season making every move possible to get us just below the tax line. so basically STFU tilman you lying POS.

 

We might as well never have more than 10-12 players .

Mike will only play 8-9 ..... only more if it's a blowout situation .

We don't practice so we don't need bodies there .

Maybe we will just end the year on a string of 10 days

 

I honestly hate this dude lol. How dumb does he think we are?

 

Not only that—-we gave up draft picks...1st rounders for it.

Tillman insulting our intelligence

 

It really insults fans intelligence for Fertitta to take that stance. If he wants to say, "look, I'll go into the tax for a big addition but when that doesn't materialize I go to Plan B which is tax avoidance," I'll swallow that bitter pill. Never mind that all of the teams actions show a mandate to avoid the tax and the only evidence supporting the argument "I'd go into the tax for the right person" is rumors and innuendo. But to say the moves had nothing to do with the tax, seriously??? Is that why Rockets gave up assets to move two players they easily could have cut (or just kept on the back of the roster)?

 

Beat me to it

 

Have you seen how fast defenses switched last year?

Almost at a breakneck speed.

 

That's major spin when you consider how much we gave up this year, for a grand total of Shump in return.

We used

• Melton,
• a FRP,
• 3 SRPs and
• all our Cash (to buy picks) in order to get under the tax,
• not to mention Knight's expiring contract,
• and prorating out the use of this year's MLE, which we still might not use...eg. we probably get Morris had we outbid OKC with all we had.

As much as I'm glad we have Shump, you can't convince me he's worth a FRP all by himself, especially when we see what PHX got for Ryan Anderson, all by himself....and not to mention he's a rental, and could bolt.

 

But he is right, none of them would have played down the stretch in the 4th quarter of a playoff game....the only way they play is if players are injured and even then Mike has been known to run a 6 man rotation due to injuries.

Out of those players, the rockts would play ennis rather than run a very short rotation....but they would still lose.

 

This is exactly what irks me. Les didn’t consistently defend himself to the media. Les didn’t joke about the best GMs job security in a presser.

Tilman says what he wants whether it’s accurate, insightful or helpful.

 

Owner thinks Fans are idiots. Usually right, but not in this case.

 

Just because someone might not play doesn't mean you give up future assets to get rid of them.

You can cut them to free up the roster spot or keep them for injury insurance. We burned future trade assets to remove their salary from the books (with nothing in return), and then say that tax wasn't part of the decision.

 

To be fair, nobody was going to trade anything of value for Ennis. Ennis is not a plus NBA player.