[orlando sentinel]Rockets to get Cook, Foyle, and Wilks

I was laughing at that as well, I think tmactotherack was on stupid me time.

 

guess we are rubbish bin.

 

So is Cook really going to Memphis? Or us?

 

what a ****ing deal.

 

who cares?

i miss raf

 

Dorsey would be the obvious cut. He's been a disappointment, and the Rockets really haven't been hiding that.

 

Um, Cook was already with Orlando?

 

4 for 1 deal. Hope its true that Foyle comes to Houston!

 

That doesn't work either, unless Memphis is under the salary cap or has a trade exception. They'd have $3.5 million coming in and only $1.16 going out.

 

I'd almost rather have Foyle than Cook. If we want to go small and space the floor with a range-shooting 4, we can always use Artest in that spot. It's not like we'd be losing anything defensively or on the boards with Artest playing PF instead of Cook.

 

We're going to have to wait until the dust settles, we may have gotten cash to pay off Foyle and Wilks and they get cut or one of these guys is going to Memphis.

 

Memphis is giving up Lowry for Orlando's first round pick

 

Its funny people think rafer is some kind of good player or something. i appreciate a guy that had more drive to suceed than me on the court, but rafer isnt a starter or big minutes guy in this league. pair him with Anthony "I drug Kidd in the playoffs" Johnson and maybe they have enough to get by. Theyre arent bating contender with Alston either. Getting Foyle would be nice too because hes a defender/shot blocker and Cook is that floor stretcher at the 4/5. Good move to me

 

We have multiple small trade exceptions (Francis, Wells, Snyder) that can easily take Foyle, Wilks, and/or Lowry.

 

Except the Magic.

 

People are really overrating Alston if they think we could have gotten Hedo for him.

 

Doesn't this knock the Rockets into the LT zone? It seems like a lot of salary to take on just to get Lowry.

 

hopefully we can see this from brian cook lol

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It gives us a good option when Deke retires as well. A good defensive big man, willing to play spot minutes.

 

imho, the trade makes the most sense when the rockets get lowry and cook and the grizzlies get foyle and wilks.

the grizzlies recently traded for chris mihm because they were looking for some big men help. foyle might help them in this area as well or if not they could just release him. wilks was added because orlando wanted to dump additional salary.

the rockets really have no need for wilks (out for the year anyways) nor foyle (deke already isn't getting any minutes. why should adelman play foyle who's also pretty old and offensively challenged?). but with t-mac obviously gone for the year they might have some room for a great shooting big like cook. with rafer traded and t-mac done barry should see more time as a backup pg and artest and shane will see more time at the two. at the same time we'll probably rely on the 3-ball more with the offense focusing more around yao. cook might help in that area. he's not as good a shooter as novak was but he's substantially better at everything else (but still bad, though).