[Feigen] Andre Iguodala, JaVale McGee up next on Rockets' wish list

Perfect, these two are my same targets, imo the only players worth to spend that money considering that would put us in tax territory, and we know that at least Green is someone the Rockets already tried to get so, we know they like him and he's probably one of the few guys they're keeping their eyes on.

The problem is they might very well have much better offers out there, or maybe they prefer another team for whatever reason, the point is, why complain about the situation? If the Rockets can get that substantial upgrade they'll likely do it, just like they would've do it if they could've get Butler. If not, i think they're right to stand pat, overpaying a random end of the bench scrub is not going to help us so, yeah, i really hope the Rockets spend the money only if they can get a player who's worth it, otherwise i don't see why it's a bad idea to just keep some flexibility. Signing guys just because we want to see soemone new around is not going to help.

 

I hate to tell you ariza may not be the only one we let walk. I can 100% see us letting ego walk next summer when he gets a big payday elsewhere and we will "replace" him with a cheaper contract for rivers. then replace rivers with another minimum contract.

I don't see us trading ego for the same reason I don't see us trading CP3. we won't get equal value on the court in return. we have to stay competitive for the illusion of trying to win. just stay under the tax, any free agent who wants a big contract will be let go, there's always a minimum contract guy that outperforms his salary waiting to replace them.

 

Here depends on the players you like, like, for me Holiday is an interesting target, but for the minimum, i wouldn't pay him with the MLE. If you look at the contracts that teams gave away in the last two days, i don't really know who we could've signed that was actually good and in the range of our possibilities...maybe McConnell, but we have Rivers in the same spot and signed at half of the money so, i think we did a good job there already. But like i said, when you see guys like Joseph get 13M per season, i think it's safe to say we just didn't have that much of a choice.

All things considered, we got House and Rivers on 5M basically, two solid players who can come off the bench or even start if there's the need, that's pretty good if you ask me. Then of course, i'm the first one that hopes something else is coming, but considering what we had to work with, i think we did fine so far.

 

Yes, let's get hard-capped as fast as possible just so some Clutchfans can feel better.

 

At all costs lol Tillman try again.

 

My problem isn’t not using the NTMLE, my problem is making excuses already as to why we aren’t using it. They already promised a shiny new player with it. Don’t use it just to use it but shut up already. Work in silence.

 

That's fine and I don't entirely disagree, it just seems really weird to reply to a thread about adding a $17-million Andre Igoudala with that.

 

But again, who were you going to sign with the no tax MLE? Carroll at 6M when you can get House for half the price? Curry at 8M when you can sign Rivers for 2M? Now i don't really remember, but i don't think there were a lot of solid players that signed for less than 10M...even decent bench guys like Lamb, Joseph and Ellington costed like 10M, that would've been a waste of money.

On the promise made about getting a great player (or whatever Morey said, can't remember exactly now) i agree with you, no need to say that if you don't know if you can actually make it happen.

 

No, that’s being stupid. They are talking about trading a 1st for him because if he’s released he’d rather be somewhere else.

There are plenty of other examples to highlight the owner being cheap though.

 

BUT FEELINGS?!?!?!

 

Also, folks are asking “who is left that’s worth using the mle on”. The better question is who was all available at some point that we coulda used the mle on that went elsewhere.

 

I have a very hard time believing we would TRADE for Iggy at 17 mil at year. What would that be with the tax?

 

And if someone overpays Eric Gordon as hard as the Suns overpaid Ariza, I will once again applaud this Front Office for their wisdom.

The "illusion" of trying to win. GMAFB. You're so much better than this.

Chris Paul's hamstring snapped. Accept it. It sucks. It didn't happen because of our Front Office's illusory magic not-winning optical parlor tricks.

 

Our 1st would just burn through Morey's pocket if we didn't bro.

 

If we trade for iguodala we can I believe re sign him for next season for a good amount. If we get him with a buyout you have tons of competition and you cant re sign him the next season since we are over the cap and could only offer him the Tax payer MLE

If they are seriously trying to do a trade for iggy then that is a sign of tillman is really putting his money where his mouth is.

 

We are indeed getting younger, oh well, Iggy.

 

@treyk3 don’t go to the dark side.

 

How many players on the current Rockets roster, if money were equal and they were free agents today, do you think would prefer to be in Houston? I'd guess maybe 50% of the roster, and that might be generous. For most teams, it's closer to 10% or 20%.

Most players are where they are because either they were drafted there, the GM traded for them, or they signed there because that team offered the most money.

It's not a huge indictment (or surprise) if a player has 1 or 2 destinations (out of 30!!!) that they might prefer to be at than your team, if the money is equal. It's really not a big deal, unless there's some indication that they're not going to be professional about it.

 

Doom n gloom, u guys are silly. If we did absolutely nothing with melo not torpedoing our start we gonna at worst be 5th seed. Harden along gets u in the playoffs. Having guys that know the system gets u 50.wins easy lol. Yall.tripping