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Rockets re-acquire Josh Smith in trade with Clippers

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by Amel, Jan 22, 2016.

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Do you like the Josh Smith trade for the Rockets?

  1. YES

    539 vote(s)
    96.3%
  2. NO

    21 vote(s)
    3.8%
  1. chandlerbang21

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    The guy is getting DNP while blake is injured lol. Welcome back to bum town
     
  2. JayGoogle

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    Yes, the less Jones plays the better basically and at this point in his young career...the less Capela plays as well. He's just not ready.

    Big mistake in the organization at thinking he was ready for such a big role so quickly.
     
  3. Os Trigonum

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  4. gotsis

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    HAUHAUHAU

    THIS. WAS. SAID. EVERY. FREAKING. GAME.

    At least we used to win back then.
     
  5. Karolik

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    wow...ridiculous :rolleyes:
     
  6. theredbackpack

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    i kinda thought a reason he left was because he clashed with either dwight or harden, but hey if he wants to come back and play well and throw lobs to dwight and shoot the 3 and not look as lost as TJ, by all means welcome home buddy! :)
     
  7. juanm34

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    This season has officially become hilarious !!
     
  8. REEKO_HTOWN

    REEKO_HTOWN I'm Rich Biiiiaaatch!

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    Instantly the second best passer on the team and will help facilitate ball movement.

    To me his passing and rim defense is what made him so valuable last season.
     
  9. basketballholic

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    Minimum salary TPE's are always available. We didn't lose any trade exception with this trade. There's another move(s) coming. We'll most likely create other trade exception(s) with those move(s).
     
  10. Rockets025

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    Ty/thorton/harden/smith/Capella would be a raw 2unit
     
  11. _RTM_

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    Give me some Flop City Chokers in the NBA playoffs and Josh Smith will bury them to the ground again

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  12. OTMax

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    Going to be even funnier since he will leave after this season.
     
  13. Von Rafer

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    YES! We get a chucker ballhog to counter the one we already have! FINALS HERE WE COME!!
     
  14. Snow Villiers

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    Yeah, was really impressed by his Defense in the PO.
     
  15. chandlerbang21

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    ???? Llull ? the guy who told the rockets he doesn't want to play for them and accepted a contract extension in Europe? I bet he will come over for clippers lol
     
  16. jogo

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    Maybe Josh helps a lot, maybe he helps a little. But he can't make us worse.

    We need a PF who can defend. That's Josh. He passes well, too, and increases our chances of keeping Dwight (which I am in favor of doing). And it lets us trade TJones, which will be good because I'm sick of all the whining about him on this site. Jones has talent and can hopefully return us something of value. Also, DMo's health is a huge concern. (I didn't want Markieff and Anderson wasn't coming here. I wanted Gibson but that was pretty unlikely to happen).

    Josh is a little boneheaded at times, but he has heart and will play hard. Isn't that what we need? And he did win us that game against the Clips (Brewer helped). That was a huge deal because it helped get us to the WCF.

    Good deal for us, we even had a roster spot open. (Hopefully Harrell will still get minutes to develop).
     
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    They didn't expect a Dmo setback. It appears Dmo's injury is pretty bad, they can't afford to wait on him to recover and so this is absolutely the best move to make right now. Hopefully this is the spark we need and he pushes the other pfs in practice to get better
     
  18. Rocket_Man_2.0

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    Defense will improve tremendously with Smith back...contender status!
     
  19. Os Trigonum

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    we've turned a corner!!
     
  20. REEKO_HTOWN

    REEKO_HTOWN I'm Rich Biiiiaaatch!

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    Look at the guy who must not have watched the playoffs last season. awwww.
     

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