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At the crossroads, it's time

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by basketballholic, Feb 6, 2019.

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YOLO said: ↑

there's mainly only 1 person and you're in his thread. he's had this capela agenda for years now and has been so far off ever since. he's desperate at this point
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Even on Twitter many are quick to throw his name out like he isn't a valuable piece to what makes Harden/CP3 so successful.

#21 joeson332, Feb 6, 2019

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By now we should all know...we're not good enough. And tweaks aren't going to work.

Next season we will have $75 million invested in Harden/Paul and we'll be in the third straight season of the luxury tax if we continue as is.

We simply cannot afford to do that and be facing the repeater luxury tax in 21-22 after having paid that luxury tax three straight seasons without winning a championship.

So something has to give here.

One of two things is going to happen.

Either we are going to trade for a superstar player by tomorrow at 11 pm that makes us a legit title threat

OR

We are going to fold down and get out of the tax.

If we do not get that third guy tomorrow we will trade Capela to get out of the tax and preserve/gain assets for future moves.

Why?

Because we only have there choices to get out of the tax. At least one of Capela/Ego/Knight has to go.

1. Knight has negative trade value. It will cost a pick to move him.

2. Ego has neutral trade value and he's more important to our system than Capela is.

3. Capela has the most trade value of the three players and he's the easiest to replace between him and Ego.

4. Capela's long term contract is actually a risk to our championship aspirations.

You see, if we don't trade Capela.....and he ruptures an Achilles or busts a leg...and goes down for a year.....or more....we are totally screwed. We will be stuck in the tax with a team not good enough to win a chip but not bad enough to get to the lottery and with a sky high payroll. And he'll become untradeable, another boat anchor albatross.

That leaves us with Ego on an expiring deal...and...four mediocre picks/house/harty/re-signed rivers(if he stays) as our trade assets.

You see where this leads? Do you see reality? We simply can't go on this way. It's too risky. Morey is trading Capela. Get ready.
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11pm or 11 am???

#22 rockets13champs, Feb 6, 2019
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joeson332 said: ↑

Jesus why do Rockets fans want to get rid of Capela so fast lol
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Don't group the majority with the OP. He's been hating on Capela since the very beginning.

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SIGH.

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Don't group the majority with the OP. He's been hating on Capela since the very beginning.
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Probably been tipping the bottle since Maker got traded earlier today.

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joeson332 said: ↑

Even on Twitter many are quick to throw his name out like he isn't a valuable piece to what makes Harden/CP3 so successful.
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honestly if you're not from houston or don't follow this team pretty consistently, you wouldn't know how great capela fits this team

#26 YOLO, Feb 6, 2019
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Even if we entertain this idea, that means they dun want to win this year.

Signing CP3 for those 4 years would be even more devastating.

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basketballholic said: ↑

By now we should all know...we're not good enough. And tweaks aren't going to work.

Next season we will have $75 million invested in Harden/Paul and we'll be in the third straight season of the luxury tax if we continue as is.

We simply cannot afford to do that and be facing the repeater luxury tax in 21-22 after having paid that luxury tax three straight seasons without winning a championship.

So something has to give here.

One of two things is going to happen.

Either we are going to trade for a superstar player by tomorrow at 11 pm that makes us a legit title threat

OR

We are going to fold down and get out of the tax.

If we do not get that third guy tomorrow we will trade Capela to get out of the tax and preserve/gain assets for future moves.

Why?

Because we only have there choices to get out of the tax. At least one of Capela/Ego/Knight has to go.

1. Knight has negative trade value. It will cost a pick to move him.

2. Ego has neutral trade value and he's more important to our system than Capela is.

3. Capela has the most trade value of the three players and he's the easiest to replace between him and Ego.

4. Capela's long term contract is actually a risk to our championship aspirations.

You see, if we don't trade Capela.....and he ruptures an Achilles or busts a leg...and goes down for a year.....or more....we are totally screwed. We will be stuck in the tax with a team not good enough to win a chip but not bad enough to get to the lottery and with a sky high payroll. And he'll become untradeable, another boat anchor albatross.

That leaves us with Ego on an expiring deal...and...four mediocre picks/house/harty/re-signed rivers(if he stays) as our trade assets.

You see where this leads? Do you see reality? We simply can't go on this way. It's too risky. Morey is trading Capela. Get ready.
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geez....serious?

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So, what if Harden ruptures an achilles or busts a leg and is out for one season or more?

And i'm nost sure about this too "we move Capela to get out of the tax and retain all the assets"...what assets? Capela il literally the only pretty good asset we have, other pieces are from decent to trash.

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I personally think we can supplement the roster with 2 role players and make a title run if healthy.

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So, 99%?

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it's hard to find a center who can fit in so well with Harden..I would rather trade CP before trading Capela..of course, if we can get AD or Embiid then I would trade Capela real quick.

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macan said: ↑

it's hard to find a center who can fit in so well with Harden..I would rather trade CP before trading Capela..of course, if we can get AD or Embiid then I would trade Capela real quick.
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What about Jockitch?

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He finally admitted that Capela has value. That's what you call progress.

#36 lnchan, Feb 6, 2019

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Don’t be mad because Thon Maker got shipped to Detroit lol.

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Did Capela have sex with your sister??

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tc0330 said: ↑

na capela definitely not the problem. the main problems are CP's contract and hammies
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What's going to be easiest to move?

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