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

I want this stalemate between Rockets Management and Dmo to end soon. I am hoping Dmo does get an offer from another team because that causes this issue to move forward hopefully with the Rockets matching.

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Philadelphia has waived forward Carl Landry and center Tibor Pleiss, league sources tell The Vertical.</p>&mdash; Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/771092551185162241">August 31, 2016</a></blockquote>
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If Dmo goes else where I wouldn't mind giving Landry a chance.

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Teams eligible to claim Carl Landry and Tibor Pleiss- BKN, PHX, MIN, DEN, IND (Pleiss), UTH (Landry) and CLE.</p>&mdash; Bobby Marks (@BobbyMarks42) <a href="https://twitter.com/BobbyMarks42/status/771098680283828225">August 31, 2016</a></blockquote>
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A chance to do what?

 

Give us insurance if Beasley or Anderson gets injured.

 

On Dmo based on points I've read here and elsewhere:
* Didn't DMO claim Detroit never did a medical on his back? (or at least nothing extensive) and stated it would hurt his RFA because of the 'perception' of back issues.
* Wouldn't it be in Rockets best interest to sign him LATE to keep any cap space as DMO's extension can put us over the cap due to rights?

 

I agree. It makes a lot of sense for the Rockets to stick to their offer (7-8mil per year according to some people on this board) and see if another team will push Dmo's market value. Dmo depending on how confident he is about his back will have to sign the QO or take the Rockets offer if no other NBA team tries to recruit him.

 

IIRC DMo was actually examined twice during the trade. Once by Detroit's staff who apparently saw something that concerned them, and then again by specialists in N.Y.

 

Is Dmo Done.

 

This is the comments I read at the time - "The medical examination is a funny thing. The team doctor simply says whether you pass or don't, although they may not even do any checks. Those 48 hours actually just let the team decide whether they want you or not. The Pistons announced I did not pass the medical, although I surely did pass it and played even before it. I just got ‘screwed'. The injury was a pretense to call off the trade. They changed their minds.

Now I will be talking to my agent and lawyers to clarify what to do next. The Pistons had access to my full medical history, so they shouldn't have done what they did to me. They decreased my value. The medical examination I ‘failed' was a joke. The Pistons will have some explaining to do why they did not want the trade anymore. We will see what happens."

No idea whether that's 100% correct, but that's online and apparently a translation from an interview he did.

 

Yeah, I think the Pistons got cold feet and used the injury as an excuse.

Their doctors never looked at him, they sent him to NY to a specialist who apparently didn't do much.

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I think so.

 

I think they had a feeling his back would flair up again similar to JJ Redick. It's one of those injuries that's doomed to repeat itself.

 

Personal feeling, and I admit the chance of being wrong, is that Detroit lost its first two games coming back from the All Star game (which coincided with the time of the trade), then re-thought the trade: why give up a lottery pick?

Detroit did make the playoffs but to me it looked like a case of cold feet. The back issue seemed an excuse.

 

Well we can assume Anderson will get injured, it's just what he does, but I don't want Landry OR Beasley to ever see the court. Maybe Landry could come in as a coach or something.

 

when it comes to Detroit , health wise , I bit DMo's career will last longer than Reggie Jackson .

 

Who do you think should be the back up PF?

 

Now that is certainly borderline "imaging" things.

 

DMo gett'n his dough.

 

Yea, that's what SVG essentially said during the trade process. I couldn't find that article but here's another one:

Piston's Mail Bag
Langlois: The most incendiary thing Motiejunas said, according to a report published in his native tongue and translated to English, is that the Pistons used the 72-hour window to rethink the trade and that their decision to rescind it wasn’t tied to his back issues. That … well, that’s ludicrous. Stan Van Gundy wasn’t looking for reasons to void a trade for a guy he clearly coveted. Van Gundy thought Motiejunas’ skill set and age were ideal – and that’s not a word tossed around lightly – for what the Pistons needed. Motiejunas gave them two huge things: a stretch four with great size to provide the ability to match up with teams that play big while also presenting unique matchup problems at the other end for those opponents; and the ability to play at center and give the Pistons a lineup with outside shooting threats at all five spots. To suggest that Van Gundy – who has made clear his regard for the value of No. 1 picks consistently – suddenly got cold feet about the fit with Motiejunas holds no water. I can guarantee you he needed to see and hear compelling evidence contained within the medical consensus reached to dissuade him from signing off on the trade. Given the stakes involved – the surrendering of their No. 1 pick plus the contract the Pistons estimated would be required to retain Motiejunas as a restricted free agent – Van Gundy and his cabinet assessed the risk too great. Now, at some point, the risk would be acceptable. With no No. 1 pick in the mix, maybe the Pistons weigh presenting an offer sheet to Motiejunas in July. Van Gundy, by the way, understands perfectly why Motiejunas was upset. "We went through a process and we made the decision we made for the reasons that we thought it was too much risk. I feel bad for him, though. I understand his points in terms of his (market) value and everything else. Guys are going to have negative reactions to things like that and I think you have to give them the room to have that. He’s got the right to have whatever reaction he wants to have. I’m not resentful of that at all. He was in a tough situation."