Absolutely zero risk with Lin. I'd pay 10 mil for his production last year. Only three years. Only reason his contract is villified is because of the 3rd year lux tax impact for the Knicks. Does not affect us.
Dwight is the much greater risk. Here's why: 1. Dwight and his camp have acknowledged they didn't want to play for the Rockets. 2. Lin has signed a multi-year contract with the Rockets. Implying he'd like to play for the Rockets. 3. With Dwight, you risk giving up a ton of potential, low salaried players and future picks. You also receive a ton of bad contracts that are just a waste of money. 4. With Lin, you spend 25 million over 3 guaranteed years for his services and you lose no current prospects, nor valuable draft picks. 5. Lin is not a superstar. He isn't going to make this team that much better and he'll continue to allow us to build through the draft. 6. We needed a point guard.
Yes. But Dwight has been the most notorious flip flopper in the NBA. Look at this year, he wanted to be traded, then he decides to stay, now he wants to leave. Saying he doesn't want to be in Houston, that's 50/50 based on his history of flip flop. He could also do this to jack up his rate for the Knicks. People do that in real life, get an offer from another company and go back to their company so they can get a raise. Yes, that's a big risk, but that's how most of these trades are. The Rockets got Juwan Howard with Tracy McGrady. We didn't really need Juwan. What led directly to Lin's signing was that we let go of our original starter, Lowry, and we failed to sign the PG that we wanted in Dragic. He's not a superstar in the traditional sense. You are implying we will suck with him and get more lottery picks. Was he the best option as a PG out there? Could we have gotten someone else?
Matt Maloney didn't have a billion adoring fans willing to bring endorsement deals to his teammates from across the pond.
the way I look at it with the way the off season was going... Rox were looking to tank...or go all out and get Howard who dosent want to come here... Rox have nothing to lose.... you were looking to go lottery for the next 3 to 5 years anyways...
WTF are so many people saying that Lin isn't worth 15 mil a year? He's not making 15 mil a year. If you pay a guy a dollar a day to work for ten years and then 50 thousand in the 11th, he's not making 50 thousand dollars a year! My head is going to explode.
No doubt. From a Rockets stand point, I hope he does well , however if he has a bad game, he will be criticized and that will fair. Early in Yao's career when he was clearly not one of the best players in the league, his fans thought he was . When Yao had a bad rebounding game, they fail to acknowledge it. To be honest, I doubt 90% of the Yao fans even watch the game , they are just there to 'defend' Yao. This place was first and foremost made for Rockets fans. Just remember it's our house.
Lin by far. By letting Dragic walk and trading Lowry you basically opened the door for Lin as your future. If turns out a bust then then we've got ourselves a disaster
Lin. I say this because if D12 walks next year we have the cap room to sign fa's and we continue rebuilding which is what we'll be doing if we don't get him. Lin played well for a small period of time and many pg's would play well if the coach told them to go out there and do whatever they want(which is what d'antoni did). If he doesn't work out we still have 2 years/17 mil to pay him. Is that a lot, no not really but it delays the rebuilding process...
stop saying "here". You're not a rockets fan, you're a lin fan and I've seen you talk crap about the rockets multiple times in your attempts to overrate/overhype your boy.
There is very little risk getting Dwight. If Dwight doesn't want to stay with the Rockets, he surely would be open to a sign and trade with another team. That way he gets paid the max and we are trading the best center in basketball for another superstar.
I think his biggest risk right now is his JOB, although if nothing happens Les would prob. Give him at least 3 more years, or until he wants to teach Sports Econ. @ MIT
No risk with Lin it is three years....if we get him great, if we don't we get luxury tax money float down the todwm pole Howard if giving up everything and taking both Jrich and turk well then he will be forced to make a deal by the deadline to package Turk/Jrich & duhon, bc we can't have these guys who obv. play for themselves. Although I do see a change of scenery, and maybe Turk likes it here he whispers to Dwight and boom Turk is nailing threes in the "bad shooting court Toyota Center"---and then we have something. I'd like to See what DMo can accomplish if not traded as well. So my answer would be his gamble on Howard, but the contacts that come with him more so are his biggest gamble....
