Iguodala would be great, but who's to say he will come here as a FA? Deng is younger, has more length, hits threes at a better rate, and scores more. Deng scored 33 against the Knicks Friday.
Screw that. Only 23year old guys that might worth keeping Harden, Parsons, Lin and Parsons and Lin can absolutely be traded for the right price For all I care Harden and a bunch of 27 year olds are still not an old team
would only want to keep harden parsons asik delfino. But the latter three can be made vaialable in trades for a legit star that can work with harden and build with. Otherwise, all others should be traded for upgrades. In the end, i dont see much happening.
There are several good free agents this year that the Rockets have a good chance of signing for a good deal.
If you can get two borderliners like Big Al and Milsap/Landry without losing Lin besides Harden that would be great
Carl. Taj is a great player. But they will not trade him. They passed on Asik so they could pay Taj and they are relying on Taj to take over when Boozer comes off the books. Pairing Asik with Taj is great because Taj has such freakishly long arms the defense is hard to penetrate on. I think what it comes down to is what kind of team we want to commit to. A slow down defensive team would mean Asik plus someone like Taj Gibson and then you could trade Lin. An up pace team would not want a F like Taj since he has limited 3pt range. In this scenario I think we trade Asik and move Parsons to the 4. The good thing is that Harden works with any system we commit to, but I cannot overemphasize the need to find the right fit for our team. We can't just pick 5 guys who have a high PER and put them on the floor like the Lakers! LoL
Actually Deng is only a year younger and their is not much difference in their career three point shooting percentage. Plus, it's more realistic to try to sign A.I. than to try to get Chicago to trade Deng. They would probably want to trade Boozer befor they would trade Deng.
Not enough upgrade to trade Parsons for Deng. Deng is still better but Parsons is 4 years younger and improving. Deng's 14 million dollar price tag would make signing a top free agent prohibitive and although I would love to have Deng on the team, he does not make us a contender.
Giving up Parsons for Deng would still leave us with a hole at PF. But if you believe T. Jones/Montejunas can become something that may not be a bad scenario.
Nah...TJones and Moti are still away from top production maybe 2 years Bigs usually come around in their 3rd year, there are exceptions
Personally I would love to have Eric Bledsoe and pare him with Harden as I think they would play well off each other plus Bledsoe is a good 3pt shooter. The problem is that I can't think of a single reason that LAC would trade him. Their cap situation is very good even after they resign Chris Paul to a max deal they will very likely be farther under the cap than they are this season which is below the luxery tax threshold. All of their core players will be locked up for years once CP3 is taken care of.
Never know what type of offensive player Deng could be since he plays in that slow down Chicago offense. On this Rockets team he would probably earn every penny of that $14 million and plus he's a lock down defender. I think him and Andre Iguodala or on the same level.
How about: November 21, 2012? or December 25, 2012 You say you would take Deng over Parsons any day... but how about those two days?
1) They cannot trade Boozer to anyone unless they want to package someone like D. Rose or Noah into the deal They will trade Deng because he actually has value to other teams and they actually discussed it this year. 2) I like A.I. but I think Deng is a step above. He will score 30 plus points a lot of times through the season. Deng's 3% is down this year but I think this is due to having Heinrich as the main guy penetrating instead of Rose. The last 5 years 3 point % Deng: 08-09: .400 09-10: .386 10-11: .345 11-12: .367 12-13: .326 Iguodola: 08-09: .307 09-10: .310 10-11: .337 11-12: .394 12-13: .329
I never said A.I. was better. Just don't think the Rockets can trade for Deng. Not enough trade assets.
