DMO's agent "Rockets not doing enough to re sign him"

I agree with this. The longer he holds out, the more acceptable I am to him being traded.

 

DMo and his agent only have themselves to blame if they're disgruntled.

 

Read an article on ESPN a few mins ago about Dekker going to backup PF full time.. Not looking good for DMo

 

None of this makes any sens for dmo. He knows he is coming off a bad injury, & he has no leverage. Sign a deal and go out there and prove it. If anyone needs time on the court this preseason it's him. He looked really rusty when he came back last year.

At least with JR Smith, he had the leverage of playing a roll on the team that won the championship. Dmo has nothing, and it is pissing me off that he's holding out and hurting the team.

 

Is Motiejunas going to Europe ?

 

You make no sense. How can he both have no leverage and hurt the team?

 

You're being ridiculous. And you're repeating what's been said already and proven wrong. Am I the only one who remembers Rockets trading DMo LAST SEASON? It was still 2016. If that didn't have impact on team chemistry, nothing will, how can you even consider it. And that trade alone proves DMo doesn't owe anything to Rockets.

 

Having little leverage in contract negotiations does not give one an inability to "hurt the team"; the two are not necessarily correlated.

 

I agree with this, but I don't think DMo is the kind of player who would do something like that. Looking at his history with the Rockets, it's quite the opposite. He's not a headcase... These are just contract negotiations, nothing personal.

 

I do have to agree I am getting a bit irritated by this all. Get the message already. Throwing 8 figures guaranteed at DMO is a gamble. He either needs to suck it up and realize this or hope someone overseas will take the gamble. Frankly I don't have a lot of sympathy. Most of us in the real world are lucky if we reach six figures a year. Take your 4 million and consider yourself blessed. If your back does not hold up so be it it. That is the way the cookie crumbles. Banking 4+ million for that year would set the rest of us piss ants up writing in this thread for quite some time.

 

So even though scouts consider Wiltjer's biggest strength to be his shooting, and his college stats support that, and he is shooting 40% in preseason, you are not going to consider that his strength simply because he has not played in a regular season game? What you are basically saying is D-Mo is a better shooter than every single rookie in this league right now.

No one ever said D-Mo didn't improve, but you honestly cannot expect people to consider D-Mo a good 3PT shooter because he had a 60 game stretch of good shooting on low attempts. Like I already said, he attempts less than 2 3PT attempts over his career, and even in his best shooting season he attempted less than 2 as well.

It's just insane to consider someone who is a career 30% 3PT shooter to be a good shooter simply because he had a decent stretch of good shooting on low volume.

 

What a joke this has become. You have a guy who has been told by the market that he basically has little value, with a chance to actually raise his value by playing in a Mike D'antoni offense, and him basically refusing that opportunity in favor of .... well I don't actually know why. Does anyone?

The Rockets have been cool with investing basically nothing in the 4 spot ever since they signed Dwight, and that was when they were supposed to be contenders. Why would they suddenly get desperate now, after signing Anderson to a huge deal? What do DMo and his handlers hope to accomplish here?

 

How am I being ridiculous? The team had horrible chemistry last year and it showed up on the court. It seems obvious to me that there has been a concerted effort to not let that happen again this year. If DMO doesn't want to be in Houston, and if it carries over into his play or his presence in the locker room, you don't see how that could affect the team negatively?

 

The main takeaway I have from this whole saga is that I feel bad for anybody with BJ Armstrong as their agent.

 

You might be right and that is the way it looks right now, but that could change based upon the final deal.

DD

 

Common sense dictates that he takes the offer and proves his worth on the court. My personal opinion is that he's damaged goods (or one small step away from permanent damage) and he knows it which is why he's looking for one big payday as it will be his only one. That's how I'd play it if it were me.

 

Nyet.

 

I'm over D-Mo. I hope I'm wrong about him already having secured a deal with us. Would rather watch Harrell/Wiltjer/Capela/Dekker/McDaniels/Onuaku stumble through this season, see what comes out.

 

Dekker looks to me like he is an end of the bench player at most - while DMo is borderline starter - this is posturing by the FO to get DMo to sign.

DD

 

Dekker should get all of Brewer's minutes.