Donatas Motiejunas now a restricted free agent, no qualifying offer for Terrence Jones

That's part of it. The tough call for other teams is that they have go make an offer high enough that D-Mo will accept and Rockets won't match. The question then becomes this for GM's; will D-Mo with his fairly limited sample size of actually productive (at times great) play plus his back injury actually be worth that magic number.

 

What's your thought on Qi?

Do we bring him over as soon as CBL ends in March? Or is he stashed until 2017 (or later depending on how long the strike/lockout goes)?

I would think the room exception may be valuable if Qi looks good and we want to bring him over this season. Can't see signing him to a two year deal unless we're just banking on the new cba changing early bird rights to full bird rights.

 

Read an article that the Chinese playoff team does not want him to join the Rox this year.

You assume right, the Chinese playoffs will end earlier than the average NBA season.

So he could be joining rather sooner than later.

 

Is there any chance we sign him on a large 1 year? Like 15 for one year. Would we be willing to go into the luxury tax for him heavy if it's just one year?

 

That's stick will not be in the NBA until 2018 at the earliest

 

There is no reason for the Rockets to negotiate against themselves. Let DMo test the market. If someone bites, the Rockets can match, otherwise they can wait until the season draws near and try to get him on a cheap long term deal, right?

 

My impression of what Morey has done is decided way back when that paying 2nd rounders the minimum is what they had come to expect...and were told to like it.

He helped change that culture by paying them more than double, but having them sign 3-4 yrs like a first rounder, with non-guaranteed years at the end. Basically, he's extending 1st rounder rookie scale rights to them to develop their Full Bird rights, but making them sign some non-guaranteed years, too. So they accept that. I think you might be assuming this all works with minimum contracts too. I'm not so sure it does.

Look at KJ. He rejected whatever the 76er's offered under the Hinkie (Morey protege) era, to take just a 1yr minimum. He liked that better.

 

if it wasn't for the injury, what he has shown would be enough to get his $. Others this summer got paid for having shown much less and in short amount of time.
Which at least for me leads me to believe that his injury is still a very serious red flag and not so resolved as we have been told.

 

I am definitely not disagreeing with this. The fact remains however in that he DID get hurt, had surgery on his back, have not showed he has or even can bounce back, and had a trade rescinded due to that. People can argue about the who or the what behind Detroit pulling out, but the fact is that it happened and teams take notice to stuff like that. I personally asserted that it will take about a year for D-Mo to make it back to where he was (assuming he is capable of doing so) and his limited performance last season as well as his reason for not joining his national team only validates that IMO. Personally, if we do retain him, I hope he returns to form this season as I believe the light bulb had turned on for him finally 2 seasons ago.

 

he played pretty well in PO. 9pts 5rbs in 20mins. His shot was still off, his postups was still off, but we already seen he can do those things efficiently. I personally think he will have best season. He took summer off to prepare for nba season. If he remains in Rockets he is starter PF or C.

 

He took a big step backwards defensively and lost a lot of his aggression that he developed previously once he got into a nice groove. If he recovers and continues to improve, it will be awesome. However. i am choosing to be more cautious than optimistic when it comes to D-Mo. Let's wait and see if he does actually get retained by the Rockets.

 

Yes and no.

If they don't make an offer, he can potentially go to another team and have them overpay him in hopes of Houston not matching.

If Houston makes him a competitive offer before this and he accepts, we might save us a lot of money.

Pros/Cons to both approaches.

 

i think those things are results of him still being uncomfortable, being afraid to re-injure. Just take a look at his PO FT%. He was really nervous shooting them and his mind was drifting somewhere else. He needs to settle down. And i agree with you on those other things. But i think right now all indicators are on his mental game. Its not about his body, its about his mind.

 

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Seems like he is keeping busy, not worrying about free agency.
Hope he is chill because he already has a deal in place with the rockets, to resign...

 

Pretty sure similar things were said about Capela the summer he got drafted.

I know nothing about Qi but you never know.

 

The body affects the mind and the mind affects the body. The two go hand in hand honestly. How much is on what really only D-Mo can say and chances are, he is probably not entirely sure himself either. The fact that he is not playing for his national team because his back is not ready yet IMO speaks volumes.

 

He doesn't play in National team because his NBA future in not clear and not want get any kind of injury. He want first to have an contract with NBA team. If he had contract, we would be with National team right away. Stop telling bullshjt here.

 

The dude isn't telling bull**** . If Dmo was 100% sure that he is fully healthy and ready to play great he would play for the NT . It would be an opportunity to increase his value . I'm sure his back is quite healthy , but there is probably a glimmer of doubt in Dmo as to if its 100% . I hope he re-ups here btw.

 

Being 100% sure of being healthy do not makes you invulnerable to other injuries. Seriously wtf you talking... I read his interview, I listened his interview and I am saying what he said. He first want to be sure he has a contract in NBA. Once he has it he would go play for national team. But issue here comes that Lithuanian preparation for Olimpic is already started and he don't want takes someone's spot on last day. Like Jonas Valanciunas did last year in European championship.

So please again. Stop spreading this bullshjt about his "health issues".

 

Lol definitely a DMooF. If there was no serious questions about his back, he would already have offers already, not comment that it's not 100%, and be playing.