[Ryen Russillo]There are people around the league who believe that Westbrook is available for trade

Smh y’all cats be saying anything on here.

 

I like this idea. This would make the team better for sure.

 

I know, it’s just wishful thinking on my part.

But the Pistons are ready to blow it up. Reports they are listening to Drummond deals. Not that Houston or Magic
want him.

http://www.espn.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=sg9wg9x (pieces of deal could be re-worked)

I’ve seen the Lakers/Orlando/Washington (I believe) make a deal for Dwight Howard. D-12 ended up as just
rental.......and Vucevic might be considered “spare parts”

 

A superstar who can't shoot well and is a proven bonehead especially come playoff time for a guy who can nail the 3 at a higer percentage score in other ways as well as play intelligent bb + another guy who can actually provide a legit 4 in the paint and move PJ to the 3. No, I don't know anything about basketball.

 

@D-rock

This trade works as well.
http://www.espn.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=sknqrnr

Houston in:
Aaron Gordon
T Ross
D Rose (here is the play maker whinny CF babies....As if PnR is forbidden)
Markieff Morris
Christian Wood
Rose a more controlled WB.......Rockets have hard time with Harden/WB each making $41M next season.
Easier to trade D Rose before next season with Clemons developing.
x
Pistons in:
Aminu
Bamba
Fournier
Flutz
Rivers
(Picks)
x
Magic in:
Sefolosha
Westbrook
Blake Griffin
Nene (substitute Nene for McLemore......salary equal)

Pistons can trade Drummond for further picks/pieces

Magic need to decide if they want to be a first round knockout or push all chips to the middle of the table and go
all in. Worst thing is being 7th or 8th seed and get pick number 15 or 16 in the draft. Fill in gaps with low level
signings. Mostly the move is for building towards next year.....free agency fill ins. Westbrook/Issac/Griffin/Vucevic

 

D Rose and eric Gordon are our only guards besides Harden?ehhhhh bubble wrap everything!

 

Plus McLemore and Clemons.

 

These dudes forgetting Lou's last playoff run with the Rockets lol. It wasn't pretty.

 

To be fair he played well for us against Russ and okc

 

That true but...

The problem with role players is that they fill a niche but that's it. The Rockets are a bit redundant with Lou, EGO does everything he does but can also play decent defense. Rivers can also do everything he does. We don't really get better with that trade, we get deeper. I'm not even sure how much Trez would even play here, he'd be a backup center and back up centers barely get any minutes on this team. That would be a bad trade for the Rockets in the sense it does little for them.

People always get this idea that the deeper the better but teams rarely win championships without at least 2 all-star players.

 

If this is viable trade (Magic trading 6 and only getting 4 back, 3 actually since Nene is essentially retired), only change I would make is trade Gerald Green instead of Austin Rivers.

Also would rather have Bamba over D Rose.

 

Well I would imagine Hartenstein and Gary Clark going to Magic to help fill their roster with low cost players.
The pieces are flexible in the deal.

According to BimaThug Clemons can’t be traded until seasons end and Eric Gordon can’t be traded until after
the trading deadline.

I question the “why” give Clemons a contract while having Westbrook, Rivers, Eric Gordon, Harden all able
to play the point guard position. Unless one would be possibly sent out in trade options. In the trade
proposal I send out both of those available for trade (Westbrook/Rivers) and bring on a cheaper D-Rose
to silence the critics about us losing a quote-unquote playmaker. Pistons would get a project in former
number 1 pick Fultz.

Anyway take care D-rock, it’s all venting on my part. I like Westbrook for us in the regular season but
not for the post season and his contract going further into next season.

 

cont’d from post #332

according to basketball-reference.com

Westbrook Ast% is 32.9% and 15.4 TOV% this season ($38.5M)
D Rose Ast% is 43.5% and 13.7 TOV% this season ($7.3M)

 

Not only that, but it's not too difficult to imagine Fertitta throwing a fit at some point and demanding that Morey trade Westbrook. If Russ has a really horrid streak again that lasts 10-12 games, you know Tilman would be throwing things around his office and screaming, "How much am I paying this guy again?!? Get rid of him!"

 

If Capela continues to play like he played last night and Westbrook can make his dunks pressuring defenses in addition to Harden/Westbrook alliance no one is going anywhere for a while...Westbrook makes his dunks last night he's at 50 percent 12 for 22...missing 3 dunks is a rare occurrence...Hopefully Capela's big night isn't and will be more of the norm in the near future. I didn't see that coming against Embid no more than Russ missing 3 dunks .. let alone both happening in the same night