Rockets trade D-Mo, Thornton to Pistons for first round pick

It is either a franchise player for 10 or more years or Lebron, Wade, Bosh/ KG, Ray, Pierce

either worked

 

My opinion has taken a nose dive? Ok.. cool story bro.

Let us hear what you think then. You must be inside Morey's head.

 

Funny how someone who doesn't even know the basic rules of trades is going to make a sermon on what Morey's plans are.
Thornton has to clear his physicals. That probably has already happen by now.

If you think that the trade may be voided you are clearly too naive.

Ohhhh Morey doesn't value Rhyno Anderson? Good thing we have Moreys soul mate telling us what he thinks.
And Morey was willing to pay at all DMO?

Good to know now what Morey thinks and feels through this great insider.

 

Lol... I'm a Morey insider, mockingly, because I don't share your opinion? Dont you play the "insider" on this forum anyways...

What on earth would make you think Sullinger is someone Morey would give big money to? He may acquire him but he's not going to throw 10-12 mil for him.

 

btw I still want to hear from Heypartner, Larvs and daywalker who defend this trade, what is the fall back plan to spend our money on if we fail to lure Durant and Horford.
Who you gonna spend this money on FA as the pf ?

 

Lol a sermon? Lol soul mate? You sound salty gurl.

But you said physicals were usually done on the same day a few posts up... DMo was taken to be seen by a specialist and in the meantime Thornton can't participate in practices because you think he hasn't completed the physical now?

 

lol maybe you don't know how to read well. Where did I say he will throw 10-12 mil to Fat Sully?
Of course he wont'. Because he isn't worth it.

But then again since you say my opinion has taken a nose dive, I'm sure YOUR opinion coming from inside Morey's head is worth much more buddy.

Perhaps up there in teh dark, inside Morey's head you will also find some info about how trades are made, and how they can be voided.

 

I will leave the priest to continue his sermon. Ignore list. Bye bye and done from seeing arrogant garbage.

 

Because some teams can take risks on big men with back injuries. We are the team with the most information on DMo and we concluded his injury wasn't something to match an offer by a team who would be willing to overpay.

We were in a position to take risks and overpay for Asik and Lin because of where the rockets were in development. Pistons got Drummond who excels at one side of the floor but need scoring for their team.

Do you think if DMo had no injuries and continued to improve from last season that the rockets would have let him go the way they did? Of course not.

 

Lol. I guess I had a valid point about why Thornton still couldn't participate in practices with the Pistons.

 

So can someone who, won't get mad when they are challenged, explain to me the situation involving DMo still needed to be cleared? I'm just basing it off what I read from the Pistons article.

 

I'm not one of the users your asking for but I have an idea of what Morey can do with the cap if he can't lure a big FA

Firstly, there is more then just Durant or Horford, although they will be the best free agents for Houston available.

There is

Durant
Horford
DeRozan
Barnes
Conley
Howard
Whiteside
Gasol
Batum
Parsons
Anderson

That's 11 players that would fit with Houston, if Morey for some reason can't lure at least one or two of these guys, he can always sign some stop gap players to one year deals, then swing for the fences again next free agency which will have a pretty nice group of FA's.

Dmo isn't healthy, why would it be smart to be forced to lock him up long term this summer when we don't even know if he will ever return to form? Our team isn't ready to compete yet, we need another star player, you don't lock your self up with damaged goods role players when you're trying to build through free agency.

 

I'd like to see them all. List them all. It's a better way to assess historical precedence, versus lazy cherry picking one event in history.

 

wtf? I'm not defending this trade. I do not like this trade. I've explain that in several posts today. I swear you people who are irate can't think clearly right now. I DO NOT LIKE THE TRADE.

You, Btg and DD are seeing too much red. It shows, because you actually think I'm defending this trade. so weird.

It's somewhat self-centered of you to think that. You think if I don't agree with every thing you say today, it means I must be one of the people who like the trade.

 

Just tag me as a concerned citizen and not as a defender of this trade.

The plan was to go through the draft for another PF all along.

Morey just isn't good at drafting PFs, he showed. Other than Landry and couple of tweeners and undersized PFs that were average we did address that spot properly

That is why ppl were so excited about a finesse PF that was a legit 7 footer and a couple of versatile yet talented PFs that were Jones and possibly Royce White.

They were just not as good as advertised as well.

We needed every ounce of talent at that 4 spot. He tried to lure Bosh, Love and others but nobody joined.

So we experimented with stretch 4s and even put Delfino there.

It is just a travesty looking back at it.

 

Why do you think that DD fits here? He is a sg with a suspicious defence who can't shoot well,but takes too many FGAs, and likes to attack the basket to get FTs. It's a lot of skill overlap with Harden.

If you were Morey and Durant and Horford said no, how would you spend your capspace to fix the holes in this roster by order of the Free agents.

I will put the price next to them
Durant, Horford, Conley, DD, Batum : 25-27 per
Whiteside, Barnes :22-23 per
Parsons : 18-23
Rhyno : 16-20
Gasol...who the heck knows. But you will have to compete with Chicago and Memphis who are more desireable destinations for him. (according to him). So not much of a discount like his last contract of 8 per.
Howard...20+

What would you do for pf?

Go maybe to realgm and search at traded picks or smth?
Why do you ask me to do all that research.

WTF relax dude. I dont' read every single post in this thread. It was my idea from the posts I DID read that you liked it. You don't like the trade? ok.
I'm not seeing too much red. I don't like this trade either but time to move on. I said repeatedly that Morey shouldn't be judged by one trade, and that it's not time to burn the ground down and put fire to the team.
I asked your opinion about the course of action from now on, if you don't want to give it ok.

So your opinion is that Morey will try to find the pf throught the draft? (so we should look mostly at pfs for draft prospects). But the pf will be a rookie and most likely not able to contribute next season. So you think that Morey will put Harell as the starting pf?
And fill the rest of the holes through FA?

 

Barnes

 

My opinion is only that it is the normal and healthy way to find a guy through draft. That is all.

If you read what I said during the season you would know that both Harden and Morey/Alexander lost me.

I will cheer for them as long as they are with the Rockets but I do not like the way they go about things.

Therefore you would know that I strongly favor a total rebuild. What does a total rebuild imply?

Yes, correct, going through the draft and be a lottery team for couple of years.

If you ask me what positions to best find players? Point guard and the PF position.

I am good with Harrell and Capela but the chances of them being cornerstone players is almost zero

They should be panning out as good role players.

So you can trade them at any time when they can yield better players.

The situation now if you try to salvage anything.....

You try to surround Harden with players that want to play with him, do not see him as ballhog that he is. (FAs)

Draft players out of need and not with the most potential (something against my belief but why not)

 

Look you clearly don't understand how Morey operates. He is very methodical and calculated in his decision making.

He wants to win a ring, he does not want a "good team". If he doesn't think his team is good enough, he will let good players go if it gives him the flexibility to go and hit a homerun, either via free agency or trade.

If he strikes out on big names, he will keep his flexibility until the next time he has a chance.

Motiejunas is not a difference maker, even if he was healthy. He was expendable.

 

Still waiting for DMo fans to give a prediction of his stats for the rest of the year