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

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Escalating protection is interesting. 2017 widely regarded as the deeper draft class. <a href="https://t.co/cO0DXqNYOb">https://t.co/cO0DXqNYOb</a></p>&mdash; Derek Bodner (@DerekBodnerNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/DerekBodnerNBA/status/700374087009435649">February 18, 2016</a></blockquote>
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This is disappointing, to say the least.

 

If Dmo is healthy SVG will have him in beast mode and we will regret this trade.

Dmo was always used incorrectly here, my guess is he's going to get a lot of post touches and make us look silly...if he gets healthy.

If not, then eh...I mean we don't really win this trade even if Dmo busts for them. We barely got anything in return as of yet.

 

Morey the great GM

 

Morey trades away veteran to force coach to play a young prospect, sound familiar?

 

On paper, this looks awful so DMo must be more injured than we thought AND he will likely demand an offer that the Rockets cannot afford. Anthony is probably waived. This gives us an two extra roster spots to make another deal.

 

Not a Dmo fan but who is Joel Anthony?

The guy from the Heat?

 

We'll get the pick this year, it'll be in the 12-20 range

 

If I had a nickel for every time this has been said, I would be a freakin millionaire.
Haven't you all noticed that every time you count Jones out, bad things happen?

 

6 '9' center who shoots 66% from the line. I'm pumped!

 

has anyone called 911 for DD yet???

T_Man

 

Im starting to think that the players that we the fans value...are the ones that Morey is most likely able to get trade returns for.

Truly expected DMo to have a ton of value...and granted that we got a top 8 protected pick...There is a real probability that Detroit makes the playoffs...and...We most likely get a 16-18 pick.

Quite disappointed...

 

We are in tank mode. We want to lose games the rest of this year.

 

I don't care what other trades come. A trade is a trade and should be judged also separately.

We sold incredibly low on DMO. For a crap pick for a team who is not a good drafter.

The chance of a pick out of the lottery in this **** draft to be as good as DMO is like 5%.

 

lol god some people over rate D Mo in here, we just got a bounty for a guy injured all the time and one that has a few spin moves and that is it

 

They are actually sitting in 9th. I can see them fall way below.

 

Horrible trade. Off the Morey Bandwagon.

Let's pile up those draft picks so we can get 2-3 more Sam Dekkers.

 

We are making another move, bank on it! That pick will be essential along with other assets to acquire something bigger and better. Also, an injured DMO got us a first round pick, i think its better than what we could get for a healthy Tjones

 

We better, or else we became a worse team today and that is hard to imagine.

 

DMO is done. He won't ever be as good as he was when he was decent. Injury plagued guy. Sad. Wish the best for him. Thornton? Eh who cares.