No, but he was when they sent him to RGV - nothing has changed since then other than he has gotten even more time. I hate knowing he was healthy, because it pisses me off even more that we traded him to save money. BTW - Morey would have traded Kawhi because he was not a SUPERSTAR at the end of his rookie deal. DD
No, the point was that we trade guys BEFORE we have to pay them...but Kawhi was HARLDLY a superstar when the Spurs re-signed him. Our org SUCKS compared to theirs. DD
Yeah Dmo won the summer league finals MVP.* close enough. *don't even think they hand out summer league finals mvps haha. Let alone the fact that DMo is older than Kawhi.
No, probably not. "Ehh good but not a star, we gotta move on. We gotta chase the next big, bad thing." - Rockets FO
To you, but according to folks I know, it is the truth. Which was why I was so pissed at the trade....he is healthy now....whether he stays that way, who knows...but he is healthy. DD
Yeah, exactly - was driving me nuts to read that stuff, when I knew better.....I am not doubting Cod's folks, but I had heard a completely different story. DD
Kawhi was hardly a superstar when re-signed? First, we have never failed to re-sign a superstar who we drafted. Francis and Yao are the only ones who would even qualify. After them are Scola and Parsons. We re-signed Scola, and it took a significant overbid for us to pass on resigning Parsons. But more important, you do realize Kawhi was re-signed this summer, right? By that time he had accomplished this: 2012 All-Rookie 1st team 2014 NBA All-defense 2nd team 2014 NBA Finals MVP 2015 NBA DPOY It doesn't matter if you say he is HARDLY a superstar or not, every team re-signs him. I would define "HARDLY", especially in ALL-CAPS, as someone who is showing no indications of even being the best player on your team. Everyone was calling Kawhi their best player last year, and, at 23 yrs old, trending towards Superstar because of that Finals MVP and NBA DPOY, and improved shooting over college which was his main knock in the draft.
The answer is "No it does not" it leaves and plays elsewhere. Lowry, Scola, Patterson, Hill, Parsons to name a few that have turned the styles here. DD
houstona int about developing talent but wasting talent. kj, harrel, lowry, dragic, canaan, covington, even troy daniels had a better time after houston. must be something in the houston air that makes everyone suck so much ass. what are you guys doing over there? get the air cleaned up and dont copy flint's brown water program.
Morey, Has a HUGE decision to make this summer on DMo... It sounds easy to say let's sign him to this amount, but his injury history is not helping with that decision. I don't think the issue is from a talent perception.. The problem is signing a gut to a 5 year contract that spends over 50% of the time on the injury reserve list. T_Man
We re-signed both Lowry and Scola. We also re-signed Beverley. We amnestied Scola in a youth movement to develop TJones and DMo. btw, you should include Landry and Morris on that list, as well. Let's not make this a semantic argument. We do develop players here, and I agree, we flip them. I'm not arguing about that. I was focusing on the word "develop." Patterson, Landry, Brooks, Head, and Budinger all had their best years here. Beverley counts, too. And Parsons certainly was developed here as well. His big contract was due to that.
