Does anybody here think it's possible the Rockets don't make any major moves in free agency?

This. Old team, no player development (besides Capela), have given away draft picks like Halloween candy.

2010: Patrick Patterson (Traded 3 years later)
2011: Marcus Morris (Traded 2 years later)
2011: Donatas Motiejunas (Out of the league)
2012: Jeremy Lamb (Traded for Harden)
2012: Royce White (BUST)
2012: Terrence Jones (Out of the league)
2013: Traded for Harden
2013: Traded in 2010 for Terrence Williams
2013: Traded in 2011 to Minnesota (DMo draft night trade)
2014: Traded for Harden
2014: Clint Capela
2015: Sam Dekker (Traded for Chris Paul)
2015: Traded to Los Angeles to dump Jeremy Lin
2016: Traded for Ty Lawson
2017: Traded for Lou Williams
2018: Traded for Chris Paul

Just because you're in win now doesn't mean you go to the LeBron James School of GMing and trade away all your picks.

Spoiler: Long version

2010

• 1-14: Patrick Patterson (Patterson was traded 3 years later with Cole Aldrich, Toney Douglas & cash to Sacramento for Francisco Garcia, Tyler Honeycutt & Thomas Robinson)

• 2-45: Traded to Minnesota in 2008 with Kirk Snyder & cash to Minnesota for Gerald Green

2011

• 1-14: Marcus Morris (Morris was traded 2 years later to Phoenix for a 2013 2nd round pick(Isaiah Canaan).

• 1-23: Nikola Mirotic (Houston traded Brad Miller, the 23rd pick(Nikola Mirotic), the 38th pick(Chandler Parsons) & a future 1st round pick to Minnesota for Jonny Flynn, the 20th pick(Donatas Motiejunas) & 2012 2nd round pick.; Rockets acquired the 38th pick(Chandler Parsons) from Minnesota for cash considerations)

• 2-38: Chandler Parsons (Parsons was allowed to walk (Dallas) as a restricted free agent)

2012

• 1-12: Jeremy Lamb (Lamb was traded 4 months later with Kevin Martin, 2013 1st round pick(Steven Adams), 2013 2nd round pick(Alex Abrines) & 2014 1st round pick(Mitch McGary) to Oklahoma City for James Harden, Cole Aldrich, Daequan Cook & Lazar Hayward)

• 1-16: Royce White (White was traded 1 year later to Philadelphia with Furkan Aldemir & cash for a 2014 Top 55 protected 2nd round pick they did not receive)

• 1-18: Terrence Jones (Jones was allowed to walk (New Orleans) as a free agent)

• 2-40: Traded to Portland in 2012 with Jonny Flynn & Hasheem Thabeet for Marcus Camby

• 2-44: Traded to Detroit in 2009 with cash considerations for the draft rights to Chase Budinger

2013

• 1-12: Traded to Oklahoma City in 2012 with Kevin Martin, Jeremy Lamb, 2013 2nd round pick(Alex Abrines) & 2014 1st round pick(Mitch McGary) for James Harden, Cole Aldrich, Daequan Cook & Lazar Hayward

• 1-18: Traded to Brooklyn in 2010 for Terrence Williams

• 1-26: Traded to Minnesota in 2011 with Brad Miller, a 2011 1st round pick(Nikola Mirotic) & a 2011 2nd round pick(Chandler Parsons) for Jonny Flynn, 2011 1st round pick(Donatas Motiejunas) & 2012 2nd round pick

• 2-32: Traded to Oklahoma City in 2012 with Kevin Martin, Jeremy Lamb, 2013 1st round pick(Steven Adams) & 2014 1st round pick(Mitch McGary) for James Harden, Cole Aldrich, Daequan Cook & Lazar Hayward

• 2-34: Isaiah Canaan (Canaan was traded 2 years later with a 2015 2nd round pick(Richaun Holmes) to Philadelphia for K.J. McDaniels.

2014

• 1-21: Traded to Oklahoma City in 2012 with Kevin Martin, a 2013 1st round pick(Steven Adams) & a 2013 2nd round pick(Alex Abrines) for James Harden, Cole Aldrich, Daequan Cook & Lazar Hayward)

• 1-25: Clint Capela

• 2-42: Nick Johnson (Johnson was traded 1 year later to Denver with Kostas Papanikolaou, Joey Dorsey, Pablo Prigioni & a 2016 1st round pick(Juan Hernangomez) for Ty Lawson & a 2017 2nd round pick(Isaiah Hartenstein)

• 2-54: Traded to Milwaukee in 2012 with Sam Dalembert for Shaun Livingston, Jon Leuer, Jon Brockman & 12th pick in the 2012 draft

2015

• 1-18: Sam Dekker (Dekker was traded 2 years later to Los Angeles Clippers with Patrick Beverley, Montrezl Harrell, Darrun Hilliard, DeAndre Liggins, Lou Williams, Kyle Wiltjer, cash & a 2018 1st round pick for Chris Paul

• 1-27: Traded to Los Angeles Lakers in 2014 with Jeremy Lin & 2015 2nd round pick for Sergei Lishouk

• 2-32: Montrezl Harrell (Harrell was traded 2 years later to Los Angeles Clippers with Patrick Beverley, Sam Dekker, Darrun Hilliard, DeAndre Liggins, Lou Williams, Kyle Wiltjer, cash & a 2018 1st round pick for Chris Paul

• 2-36: Traded to Minnesota in 2014 with Troy Daniels, a 2015 2nd round pick & 2016 2nd round pick & cash for Corey Brewer

• 2-37: Traded to Philadelhia in 2015 with Isaiah Canaan for K.J. McDaniels

• 2-58: Traded to Philadelphia in 2014 with Sergei Lishouk; Minnesota sent Ronny Turiaf to Philadelphia

2016

• 1-15: Traded to Denver in 2015 with Kostas Papanikolaou, Joey Dorsey & Pablo Prigioni for Ty Lawson & a 2017 2nd round pick(Isaiah Hartenstein)

• 2-37: Chinanu Onuaku

• 2-43: Zhou Qi

2017

• 1-28: Traded to Los Angeles Lakers in 2017 with Corey Brewer for Lou Williams

• 2-43: Isaiah Hartenstein

• 2-45: Dillon Brooks (Brooks was traded to Memphis on draft night for a future 2nd round pick

• 2-58: Traded to New York in 2015 with Alexey Shved & 2019 2nd round pick for Pablo Prigioni

2018

• 1-30: Traded to LA Clippers in 2017 with Patrick Beverley, Sam Dekker, Montrezl Harrell, Darrun Hilliard, DeAndre Liggins, Lou Williams, Kyle Wiltjer & cash for Chris Paul

• 2-46: De'Anthony Melton

• 2-52: Vince Edwards (Acquired from Utah for cash considerations)

• 2-60: Traded to Philadelphia in 2017 with cash considerations for Shawn Long

 

Yeah! Let's go back to being a 40 win team with all our own picks! This 65 win, finals contender crap is for the birds!

 

And all it's gotten us is to the western conference finals. Come on JR. I think you are being a little harsh. Look, I don't like the fact that we trade away our picks every year and that Clint is the only home grown and developed player on our roster, but you can't argue with Morey's success. I hope he'll take a more balanced approach going forward, but as long as we improve every year and eventually win a title, I'm okay. We're pretty damn close.

 

We just added Chris Paul last year, how soon people start to forget. Re-signing Paul was a huge move in its own right. If one could have hands tied and handing out $40M max contract, then having hands tied might not be so bad. LBJ and Cousins not begging to join Houston wasn't Morey's fault.

 

You can't have it both ways and everyone knows it. Choose your path.

 

I think Melo would be willing to play for the leftover MLE money once he’s bought out. Not many teams with cap space at this point. Or they can retain Luc and maybe add Nunnally.

Clint Capela will work out a deal.

Rockets are still suited to make a trade with using Ryno and/or Gordon as the money and developing young talents that teams have valued in the past. The only restriction is how much of a tax bill does Tillman wanna see

CP3, Capela, Green, MCW (for D and only D), Whoever they use the MLE on + The draft picks is a pretty succesful offseason for any team.

Lakers will probably be seen as having the biggest offseason but no one they’ve signed around Lebron is anywhere close to being on the level of talent that CP3 and Capela provide around the MVP. We are years ahead of them in building a complete team. I doubt they get it done in the time Lebron is still at his best. They will be capped out next summer after adding Kawhi/Klay and not have very many options to add quality role players into the mix.

 

Yeah, because the only choices are being a 40-win team with all your picks OR a 55-60 win team with no picks.

Yes, they've made the WCF twice. Daryl, for the most part, does a good job. But this is an old(er) roster, this is a roster that became expensive real quick. It'd be nice to have some youth and youth on cheap deals.

Can't have what both ways? I can't win & keep my draft picks? I guess teams like San Antonio(who's been doing it for 20+ years), Boston and Golden State are doing it all wrong!

 

Lol see Anderson, Ryan signing. I would say that was a bad deal that’s sabotaging their championship hopes as we speak, but other than that I agree with you!

 

We tried to shortcut and it would have worked in a league that didn’t have the warriors

Sooner or later the chickens will come home to roost

 

A major move basically would involve a S&T involving Clint, EG, or most likely both.

For the elusive “3rd Star” thing to happen, we’d be giving up a massive chunk of why we won 65 freaking games last season and should’ve won the title.

Who realistically is a better choice that Clint and EG?

 

Lol. Wheres the 33%?

 

Cleverly disguised “Missing U” Pat Patterson post.

 

Beat me to it!

 

GSW was not winning when they amassed their talent.. it's the reason they had so many high draft picks. we all know this.

Spurs is the ONLY team to ever do it because most of their talent came in late to 2nd round

Boston fleeced a couple teams for high draft picks.

 

And they've kept their picks from 2015-2018 (time frame @bevo202 initially said).

2015 1-30 Kevon Looney
2016 1-30 Damian Jones
2016 2-38 Pat McCaw (bought from Milwaukee)
2017 1-30 Traded in S&T that brought in Iguodala
2017 2-38 Jordan Bell (bought from Chicago)
2018 1-28 Jacob Evans

Kept 3, bought 2, traded 1

 

san antonio drafted tim duncan with the 1st pick

warriors used high draft picks to get curry and klay

celtics brought in garnett and allen as FAs

when did the rockets last have that high of a pick

 

These are picks that GSW had the luxury of keeping (and flipping) because they had a core team that was already built through high draft picks and Draymond Green. You're just adding to an already established team..

Rockets had James Harden trying to get stars around him. I don't know how Rockets were going to do that without sacrificing something. Before you say Rockets could have had Kahwi Leonard, Rockets got Chandler Parsons in the second round and was looking like a steal before his douche took over.

 

Possible is an understatement. The Rockets will most likely do nothing. In the vast majority of days, the Rockets don't make any kind of transactions at all!

 

This new math isn’t as fun. Morey needs to bust out the calculator already