IYO, What Was the Worst Trade the Rockets Ever Did?

ill tell you which one hurt the most

hakeem trade to toronto

 

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we should do a thread on worst draft picks ever. then one on the worst free agent signings ever.

this is making me sick thinking about all of these.

 

I agree here - but add Sampson for Sleepy Floyd, we could have gotten more.

 

Not trading Ralph Sampson for Clyde Drexler and the #2 pick in the 1984 draft (where I would have taken Barkley, since Clyde would handle the 2, but some would have taken Jordan) was the worst front office move by the Rockets. Dream, the Glyde, and the Round Mound of Rebound for their whole careers anyone?

 

Agreed.

 

With two solid players from that draft, we would have never sucked bad enough to have won the lottery and drafted Yao.

 

I really think is charles barkley deal, which makes rockets lose 3 young players for a lost of a champaign. These three young players are the
future of that team.

 

Horry kind of disappeared when he left, bounced around. Even Danny Ainge said he was a shadow of his former self. Had to get on some great teams in order to hit those big open shots. But in the end was somewhat one dimensional. He was never more than a role player, I dont see how he could have carried an aging Rockets team.

Cassell only became a great leader recently and is still a shoot first PG. I would love to watch the guy play but in all honesty we did have Mobley who was similiar, younger, taller, and better defender.

Rockets were one of the worst rebounding teams in the league and got dismantled by the Sonics. They had to address the problems. Barkley and Willis did that.

An often injured and aging Olajuwon, Horry, Drexler, Elie or Mack, and Cassell wouldnt have cut it. Not by a longshot.

Those initial Barkley Rockets when healthy had one of the best records in the NBA. Went far. Were a 3rd qtr Barkley injury away from knocking off the top Jazz from the 8th seed a few years later. *Ill never forget Drexler simply smirking as we blew a huge lead. Barkley wouldnt do that...*

Sorry for picking on you TJ, most people share that view. But personally I dont get it. I think people feel Horry and Cassell were some kind of all-star tandem.

 

worst move? considering how incredible sampson was at the time, and for the next 2-3 years? I don't think so..

 

Eddie griffen deal.

 

Barkley Trade
We lost our Future [Horry and Cassel]
disrupted the team chemisty
and
it facilitated SNOTTY brining his nasty *ss here

Overall Effect. . . Devastating
Rockets have never really recovered from it

Rocket RIver

 

That's the one I was going to mention. There were better things we could have done with $15 million. Trading him away was also poorly handled. Pippen did make it hard, but I think we could have gotten more if we weren't in such a hurry to unload him. The whole Pippen saga was a trainwreck.

I'm a big Griffin booster, but that trade probably was the worst in post-championship history. I agree at the time it looked fantastic. But, now we can look at it with 20/20 hindsight. And, in hindsight we ultimately got nothing for those three picks. As for Yao, can one really argue that we shouldn't trashed those 3 picks so that we could get the #1 pick later and get Yao?

 

The trade for JBC and Sleepy and the acquisition of Cornbread Maxwell after he was washed up.

The Barkley deal would have won us a title or two if he hadn't gone down to injury in the playoffs.
At the same time,that team had battled injuries all year and weren't even healthy until the postseaon,if that.
ET and Bob for the longterm would have been nice,but at the time I approved the move to get over the hump.....Tough call.

Griffin is just a wack job.I remember celebrating with JBC(clutchcity JBC) after dealing those three picks...oh well.

It's not a trade,but having three picks in the first round and not even coming up with Rashard was pathetic...Look at who we drafted.

 

I vote for the Barkley trade (Cassell was later traded for Jason Kidd, if I remember correctly).

Does signing Pike and A.Griffin and letting Posey walk count? I'm still mad about that.

Also the Langhi/Najera trade always bothered me a lot more than the Collier trade.

As for trades that never happened but should have, I would include the ones where we wouldn't consider trading Rhodes or Mack.

 

Let's see, my pick would be either the Pippen trade or the Barkley trade. Pippen because he was a girl and demaned a trade the next season. Barkley because we got rid of Sam and Robert plus a few other to get him. Not to mention that he gets a career ending injury later on and never won another ship.

Anyways, I'm glad all these bad trades, picks and signings happend. If not for all those, we proabably never would have got the chance to draft Yao or trade for T-Mac.

 

I agree. Since I'm more fond of this current Rockets team than any since the first championship, I am extremely grateful for every boneheaded decision that has ever been made.

 

"Does signing Pike and A.Griffin and letting Posey walk count? I'm still mad about that."


We got Motumbo out of this.

 

Like I said in my previous post, I am totally happy about how all of our trades worked out. I'm happy we didn't draft Rashard, happy Eddie Griffin trade happened, happy he was a bust.
Happy we had Pike's contract to trade for Mutumbo's contract (it seemed at the time that we were trading mistakes).

But looked at in a vacum, the Posey deal is still very upsetting.

 

I hear you.

Posey's a GREAT defender and can hit from downtown some.Another role player needed on teams that are a serious threat.


...and as far as all the deals go..we've won two titles,been contenders many years, and will be contenders for the next 5- 10 years..It's all good.