Danuel House Contract Options (I have grown to love LTS)

nope. not for his first nba contract for an undrafted player. hes done nothing to warrant more than an offer like that.

so what will it be for the tipjar?

 

Yep.

 

how much

 

A cool 25 bucks

 

Sounds good

 

He might move the needle, because the needle just needs to be moved a hair.

 

You don't break the bank for an undrafted rookie who was decent in less than half his career games and only when playing in a system designed to inflate role player stats manned by the the best player currently in the league and tried to play hardball with you because you think there MIGHT be a slim chance that he moves the needle by a hair.

 

Can you give us evidence of a 25+ year old with 50ish games experience getting better than a min offer on the back of 7 good games of basketball?

Just curious?

 

You are probably too young to remember Kevin Cato

 

No idea who Kevin Cato is, but maybe his brother Kelvin played for the Rockets?

 

One thing we can be sure of House plays into spelling our key players heavy minutes more of a utility player. He will be needed in a deep playoff run

 

I am old enough to remember how to spell it Junior...

Kelvin Cato...

 

What role player stats are being inflated for us right now?

I don’t see Green/Clark/Ennis/MCW/Melo/Gordon/Tucker aka ANYONE’s stats being inflated that started at SF for us.

Who was asking to “break the bank” for him?

 

I've yet to see Rivers or Green put together a better 25 game stretch than House did, nor do any of them have the minor upside House has.

The relationship damage is done, so we're better off just waiting the extra 15 days and bringing him back on the 2-way contract ($50k/season) when it becomes possible in late March and then converting him on the last day of the season (I believe somewhere between $7-9k) making him a restricted FA in the offseason.

We need to incorporate Shumpert more urgently because he's much more proven and we have a decision to make with him in the offseason. We have 3 main targets that we have to throw multiple looks at (given Capela is 100% at C and Harden will be on Green or Livingston almost exclusively):

Durant: Tucker and Shumpert must take on this task. Faried or Green would be a nightmare here.
Klay: Paul will start on him and Shumpert can help. Again House is a good option to provide a breather while not being a 3PT or FT liability.
Curry: Gordon needs to be doing the heavylifting here with Paul a backup defender and Shumpert has had a tiny bit of success doing this as well.

If you look at this with any logic, it's clear that the addition you need to make is neither Green or Rivers. You need one more guy to throw at the bigger guys in Durant and Klay. Whether that's as a tactical option, insurance, variety, whatever. House was not great defensively against the Warriors, but he is certainly more playable than Rivers/Green in this scenario where he's essentially providing breathers for Tucker/Shumpert.

Between Paul, Gordon, Shumpert we are not lacking in guys who can defend smaller players. Those 3 will eat up 90 of 96 minutes in the backcourt easy.

 

This is how I see that article:

Dear Mr. House,

Don't be a martyr, no one cares to fix the problem with your odd situation. Just sign a deal and when it runs out, ask for lots more money. Just see what happens if you do. It might be worth it rather than fighting the good fight.

Love,

Writer of this article

 

How much was the last offer to Dmo?

Rocket River

 

Yeah, that article seems to say that even offering the 50K 2 way contract will make House a RFA meaning we can match offers.

The only thing I can think of that would really benefit House is if we win a championship with him as a starter and closer and he makes big plays frequently. Then maybe some team out there would have an incentive to offer him a big deal. Like he's the hottest new toy on the block and everybody is competing over him. In other words: pretty unlikely, but if it happens good for our further increased chip chances.

I really just hope there's no animosity and everyone inside the Rockets organization just understands it's business.

 

I liked House when he played as a Rocket , but he really does not dominate consistently w the Vipers like you would suspect a decent NBA player would.

 

Bismack Biyombo was 23 years old and had one good playoff series in his entire career and turned that into a 4 year/$70M deal. If House pops even a little bit during the playoffs, I could absolutely see him getting $5M per for a couple years.

Here is a partial list of SFs making more than $5M this year:
Thabo Sefolosha
Wesley Johnson
Jonathan Simmons
Lance Thomas
Davis Bertans
Doug McDermott
CJ Miles
Jared Dudley
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist
Demarre Carroll
Trevor Ariza
Evan Turner

Danuel House has to at least believe that he would belong on a list with guys like that.

 

I think we have proved we can get along fine without Danuel House. He has a history of ditching his team and being selfish. Not somebody I want as a supporting cast member for James Harden's team. I know people are blaming his agent for House not taking the contract that was offered him but he put us in a hell of a bind. Just like he decided to leave his team at U of H when they needed him looking for a better opportunity. I put this impasse on him not on his agent. He blew a chance to be a Rocket for life for his own selfish concerns. He will never find as good an opportunity as he had here. I don't blame Rocket's management one bit for not chomping at the bit to bring him back.