Why the Rockets are interested in adding guys who won’t make the team

Gotcha ... So, just to make sure I understand:

When we hear about GSW or Popovich looking at scrubs, we should be calm and “Ho-Hum, that’s just them trying to fill out their D-League rosters” versus all like “Do Something Maury”, they must know sumpin we don’t?

 

It's sad you have to explain this to all the Negative Nancy's on this board.

Not that it's going to matter.

 

Or maybe most of the responses are joke posts but maybe even light-hearted posts hurt people's feelings.

 

I personally have never cared that the Rockets try out all these lottery ticket type players. They make all sorts of sense. I don't even blame them for not re-signing Ariza since that's such a huge amount of tax to pay.

I am just annoyed the team has not used its MLE to fill a rotation spot with a legit player because they can't even go slightly into the tax. To me that's just being cheap.

 

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I am okay and go along with it...... (Coffee slurp...)

 

we have just 6 players who aren't making the minimum that's crazy

 

"Waiting for the buyout market."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA


Nice try Tilman. They said that last year and didn't use the MLE.
Just like they said they had the "green light to bust the budget" two summers in a row. (LOLOLOL)

"GrEeN LiGhT tO bUsT tHe bUdGeT"
"WhAtEvEr It TaKeS"
"WiN aT ALl CoStS"

Still sitting on a portion of the MLE ($2.2M or $5.7M). They don't want to pay the LT or hard cap themselves so they won't be using the remaining $5.7M (NTPMLE).

BTW, I guess Danuel House was the terrific free agent they said they'd add with the MLE. (LOLOLOL)

 

Yeah, I got what Bima said and was never against taking looks at these players. Context is important.

I think the cynicism whenever these guys are signed is in the context of not getting better role players. It doesn't help when Morey insinuated with things like firework and stuff. Plus, a lot of them are just lighthearted inside jests in the context of CF's memes.

 

Remember the championship years where half the team was paid and half were minimums?

 

Two solid points here.

 

not making the minimum:

Dream
OT
Max
Jet
Mario
Carl
Sam
Horry
Brooks
Bullard

only Petruska and Riley were getting the $150k minimum

 

Going slightly into the tax and into the tax are seen as the same thing. It’s all about not starting the repeater tax. They will not be able to avoid the tax the next two years. I’m not saying this is the right way to go, I’m not saying it’s not either. But stating they won’t go slightly into the tax is cheap isn’t exactly what’s happening. That’s how I read things at least. Could be wrong.

 

recent history has proven otherwise. tilman & morey have shown they can move Heaven & Earth to get below the taxline if they so desire

 

Bimathug, I truly appreciate your insight but please, don't justify yourself to some of these guys. You cannot satisfy these guys even if you try. We all agreed that Tilman could spend more to get serviceable BIGs and that his unwillingness to go above tax line or pay luxury tax is not acceptable, especially, if you want to win the Larry O'brien trophy this days. We can also agree that the organization is doing the best under the circumstance. Spending the MLE just for the sake of spending or satisfying the fan base, just doesn't make sense or financial sense. To do that may be expedient but not prudent. Rather, it's best to wait for the opportune time to spend the MLE. These guys are insatiable; they go where the wind blow. These trollers were the same guys wailing and winning that DMorey was giving too much to acquire Jimmy Butler; and when the deal fell through, they were the same guys complaining that Dmorey should have given more to close the deal. Damn you do, and damn you don't. If you ask them who, out there right now, the Rockets should use the MLE on, they would only come up with players that are not available or still under the control of their present club. How do you satisfy that type of thinking? I can't wait for the training season to start to see who makes the team and who doesn't. Once that is determined, the like of Iggy may become available as the season approaches.

 

Big fan of yours, J.R., but why does that matter? They picked up Austin Rivers and Kenneth Faried. If we hadn't added anyone who could help I'd understand your frustration but those were probably two of the most positive mid-season signings in the league last year. Wish Faried would have contributed in the playoffs but he no doubt contributed to some wins in the regular season. Austin Rivers was such a great fit that he actually returned for the minimum.

Who did we miss out on because we didn't use the MLE?

 

This should be stickied as a reference.

Also, the fact about using MLE for House. On Clutchfans in late 2018/early 2019, House was our lord and savior and how dare we have a contract negotiation? Now that we used MLE on him, we regret it and want to play Monday Morning Quarterback about paying him last year - nevermind that he disappeared at key moments.

Then we weren't going to make any moves to help the team (because Rockets management is so inept), but we made a huge trade to swap CP3 for Westbrook. Now suddenly "broke down useless" CP3 is still good and Westbrook is a huge chucker (which I agree with..).

Then we aren't going to extend anyone (because Tilman is cheap). But we now extend Gordon (top 5 valuable player on the team), and there's not much excitement, just more focus on extending 34 year old PJ Tucker.

We need some stakes in the ground to stop self-hating fans from constantly trying to drag us down the next rabbit hole.


Also, #FireBillObrien