I have no doubt OP heard this from a legit connection. There have been a lot of twists and turns here. If......the Rockets make a big trade for the right piece(s), they will be much more interested in signing DMo to a higher dollar deal or matching a high offer sheet. There's at least one other team willing to sign DMo to an offer sheet substantially higher than anything Morey has offered. DMo hasnt signed the offer sheet because he doesn't want it matched and then to be traded somewhere else in a year or to be stuck on the bench as a reserve playing 15-18 minutes a night in a non-essential role. DMo wants a defined role, either starter or sixth man, that will consistently give him 30 minutes so he can prove his value. When we signed Anderson (and Nene) that left DMo in a quandry over playing time. He has no reason to sign a one-year deal because he could easily be shuffled to the bench, then renounced after the season and then have to sign a low contract elsewhere to once again prove his worth. He also had no reason to sign a low ball multi-year deal with only the first season guaranteed where he could be used as a trading pawn all next summer before being unceremoniously dumped after summer is over and all the free agent money is gone. DMo knows he has more value. He's going to put himself in the best position to get consistent playing time so he can further enhance his value. And he's going to avoid putting himself in another situation where he can't control his future. DMo wants his minutes. And at this time and ever since we signed Anderson there hasn't been minutes to give him here. Guys, this is partially the result of us benching DMo over the last 4 years when he was healthy. We benched him as a rookie in favor of Patterson because we had a logjam at the 4 and we needed to keep Patterson's trade value high enough to trade him for something of value. We then benched him in favor of Terrence the next season even though Terrence had not outplayed DMo that training camp. That decision was made by James and Dwight. They wanted to run with Terrence. McHale went along with it. DMo requested a trade at one point. He wanted to play and knew he was better than Terrence and others in front of him. DMo also knows he could go to the Nets tomorrow if he were unrestricted, and they would pay him and give him a starting job or at least 30 minutes a game. So he has had no reason to take a lowball offer here that doesn't guarantee him a role and puts him in a position to have to play for another low ball salary in 17-18 to finally earn the contract he deserves now. Now here's where we are today. We can't sign him and trade him this season. He obviously wasn't going to let that happen. Don't blame him at all for that. Any rational person who understands how this Association works shouldn't blame him for that. So now we're headed for Dec. 15. And then the trade deadline. And then March 1. We'll have to wait and see if a trade materializes that clears a defined role for him here. Or possibly a trade emerges that causes us to unrestrict him so he can walk to the Nets or another team. And if none of that gets done by the deadline then look for DMo to play overseas shortly and then leave his Euro team around Feb 27 in order to sign an offer sheet over here by March 1. DMo can sign an offer sheet on March 1 that makes him untradeable until the summer of 2017. Two year contract with player option on year 3 makes him untradeable at all if Morey were to match. And it would destroy a lot of our free agent options in 2017 and 2018.......unless we move Anderson out. Bottom line if if we don't trade Anderson we are going to lose this DMo situation. We'll either have to let DMo walk when he signs an offer sheet. Or we'll lose irons in free agency. The signing of Anderson signaled a huge problem with DMo. We partially betrayed his trust. The most likely conclusion is DMo walks on us after we don't match an offer sheet offer because we make a trade and renounce him. I'd love to keep him at around 3/40 and trade Anderson for Gay if we can't do anything else. But the truth is DMo STILL has more trade value to us than Anderson has, even though we can no longer sign-and-trade him this year nor can we sign him and trade him later this year. He's still more valuable to us as a trade pawn than Anderson is.
October 31st, November 14th, November 23rd, December 15th, Feb 27, March 1 Wow so many dates thrown out there.
It's amusing how basketballholic posts in all of the "insider" threads to defend them even when spectacularly wrong.
Insider info is simply small snippets of info in time. A lot of possible player acquisitions and transitions get incredibly close and then they go the other way. There is no question that we were going to "sign" DMo at one time. The organization projected that by sending MDA to meet with him and sell him on his role here. Months later MDA is still selling that idea to the media, and trying to entice DMo. It's not about "insiders" being right or wrong or about anybody defending them any more than its about your useless smart-alec snarky and boring comments every time some micro piece of info doesn't come out exactly right. It's about the team, understanding where they are going, and how they can get to championship level and win a championship. Hope you enjoy your thanksgiving and may the turkey stimulate your brain cell to make your posts more interesting to read than they have been.
See ya DMo. Can't believe you thumbed your nose at $8mil/year with NO other offers. How much are you making now?
No one knows how the Donatas situation will play out. Let's not act like he has the organization by the balls, though. We either sign him or we let him go and we move on.
Sounds like a "ME" type player. I understand you want to get paid, cool, but how about learning to be 7' tall and dunking everything rather than laying it up and getting your ish thrown every time. Winning comes first but according to DMO he comes first than the team, na im good.
All this posturing, maneuvering, plotting, and planning. Not blaming him or saying it's wrong. He has to do what's best for him. But think about it - would you need to worry about this if you were really good? If you're good, everybody wants you.
Lol. What's funny is I agree with you here. Your insider information is really you just interpreting what you think the team will do and calling it sources. Happy thanksgiving to you too. My sources tell me that you might have turkey or maybe something else entirely. Either way you will consume food at some point. You'll see.
Yah, well, if anyone remembers, DMO dropped in draft because apparently he had issues with his drive for the game, which was complete false ? I mean, looks like it had some truth to it.
You're doing it wrong. You have to somehow be spectacularly wrong, even if it's obvious to literally every other poster. I wonder what would happen if holic and what had a baby. The boldest, most incorrect "insider" of all time.
"While Motiejunas' average efforts boxing out and lackluster hustle could get better with age and coaching, he just doesn't have very good instincts for rebounding, making it tough to see just how much he can improve down the road in this area. He doesn't play with very much intensity, looking lackadaisical in his approach, rarely going out of his area for rebounds, and often going after loose balls with one hand. It's here where the Andrea Bargnani comparisons appear the most accurate." lets ignore most recent 4 years in Houston where he worked his ass off, made most of his weaknesses into strengths and go back to when he was a kid, because that defines DMo more than who he was the last 4 years.He skipped Olympics for this, no way he's surrendering for cheap after going this far.
thanks but no thanks http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/18126545/houston-rockets-pull-offer-donatas-motiejunas
