I hate these as much as anyone, but just putting this out there as a general idea as opposed to a specific trade proposal. Cavs have a few roster issues, and we'd ideally make one or two trades to take care of our overflow. Cavs: Pavlovic and Varejao are both holding out and even declining one-year tenders. Damon Jones has asked for a trade. We need to dump JL3 somewhere and move at least 2 others, 3 if you include Sura (versus the very viable buyout option). Varejao is the obvious prize, but Damon Jones may be a stipulation to make the deal happen (I don't want him either). Example scenario: Varejao S&T for 4 years at $7 mill per* in exchange for JL3, Snyder, and Bob Sura. Followed by Damon Jones for Jakie Butler and Justin Reed. Reasonable or unreasonable? Seems like a waste to me if we just waive guys - especially since that does not remove them from our cap. Evan *yes it's hefty, but remember that he's holding out after a $6 mill per offer.
Hehe. Brazilians and Argentines don't get along. You will have chemistry issue no. X if you bring Anderson Varejao into the team. Plus Scola pwns him anytime, anyway (except flopping)
I thinks that's too cheap for Varejao from the Cavs perspective, plus that's adding more to the luxury tax on the Rockets' end when they're using Sura's contract. Do the Rockets really need Varejao? Scola looks like he's ready for plenty of minutes, and you've got Hayes there too.
Errr... 2 bad contracts. I thought about the pros, but Varejao probably wouldn't even start. Coming off the bench, he'd just be a bad contract on this squad. I think the Rockets would be better off just developing their young bigs, rather than overpay Varejao.
We already have a dream team. We don't need anymore guys. We can only trade for future draft picks now to make adjustments for the future.
Seems unreasonable because we are just adding salary and not taking away enough in exchange. And plus the players we would add would just add dept to areas where we already have enough depth. AV is not big enough to play center like butler. And plus what else can damon do besides shoot. Dont we already have an undersized shooting guard in luther? Seems kinda pointless to me
Varejao proved to me in during the playoffs that there's not a lot of brain matter under all that hair.
I know you're trying to think of scenarios that'll clear up the logjam with the Rocks. Too many players and some on the bubble (Harris!) that we want to keep and may not be able to, but this ain't it. Keep trying.
It'd be nice if we could flip some of these players for picks. A couple of second rounders could come in handy in a couple of years.
Kirk Snyder & Pavlovic are similiar players not surprsing as they were draft picks by the Jazz. Cavs are offering him 2.8m he wants 5-6m. Cavs have a 2.09m TE, if the +/- 25% rule still aplies, then Rockets can trade them Snyder.
I would trade for paplovic but no varajao... maybe a no to both... I think we have a good mix of players right now so the chemistry will be good.
We lock up that money w/ Varejao, and we'll be painting ourselves into a corner like the Cavs did. I don't pay attention to contracts, but I'm assuming we could use that money to resign Wells/Francis/James down the road if we need to.
I used to be one of the worst "what-about-THIS-trade?" posters, and that has gradually died away over the years. But of course we're all interested in just what's going to happen with this roster. Until we DON'T trade with the Heat, I'm always going to think we'll trade with the Heat. Something that sends Rafer and some combination of players, perhaps including Sura, in exchange for Jason Williams (expiring contract) and Daquan Cook. Cook won't play much for awhile anyway, especially for Miami except when DWade is hurt, but who had a great workout for the Rockets. Rafer gets to play for a team that knows him, after showing in the preseason he can play and be a professional (and having already proven to a judge that he didn't cut anybody at a nightclub). We look to our future, Miami fortifies a breaking-down team that many predict will barely make the playoffs (in the Eastern Conference, no less) while they can still get 50ish regular season games from Shaq.
Why would we trade for any of those guys? They would end up as overpriced backups, much like Cato and MoTay. Do we really want to repeat that crap all over again?
