Honest question here. How many games will the rockets have to win in a row for us to stop caring about the Dmo saga.
According to @Codman DMO is joining the team. Couple of questions: 1. When is it official? 2. On what terms? Original Nets offer, or the renegotiated contract?
lol I'm totally chilled and enjoying a great blowout, plus I actually know how to read. You're the one spazzing out. It's ok though. We all have things we are bad at.
No, Morey and the Rockets never really wanted Motiejunas back as much as some people seem to think. It really can't be much more obvious. They tried to trade him for a mid first rounder last year. They didn't attempt to extend him prior to being a restricted free agent. Morey would agree to sign him at a low (and moveable) cost but wasn't going to make it a priority. Guess what? The rest of the league felt the same way. Motiejunas didn't get a sniff of real interest until December. Even then, the contract he signed was extremely team friendly. Motiejunas chose poorly when he hired BJ Armstrong. Motiejunas was an afterthought for Armstrong until no one came knocking down his door with offers. Motiejunas then chose poorly not to take the QO and keep BJ Armstrong as his agent. Daryl Morey hasn't wronged Motiejunas, neither has the other two and a half dozen teams in the league. If Motiejunas is mad at anyone it should be at his poor representation and ultimately at himself for making a series of poor decisions. Sitting out sure seems a lot better than playing on a Rockets team that is doing very well, collecting $5,000,000 and putting up inflated numbers under D'Antoni entering unrestricted free agency next year.
DMo is waiting for you to surpass 101,000 different post. And, with your current pace - it will not be long. If you talk as much as you post here, I bet your wife, if married, wears ear plugs to drown out your chatter. Unbelievable!!
For sure, the ONLY reason you'd offer a player a QO and then offer them a different contract for more money and then match their offer sheet and then offer them a different contract for more money is because you don't really want the player back.
Morey tried to trade him because he didn't want to deal with his RFA. Morey never likes expiring contract unless he just wants the player walk. Since the trade fell through, he gave DMo the QO instead of just let him go, like he did TJones. Clearly he saw value in DMo and didn't want to just lose him like that. The fact that he matched the Nets' offer sheet also shows that Morey didn't think DMo was worthless. The offer was team-friendly but not dirt cheap. If DMo turned out to be a decent player, Les will have to pay 30+ millions for his service. Now, one can say that Morey didn't really want to keep DMo to PLAY for the Rockets. All he wanted was a trade asset. But even that I doubt. I think D'Antoni genuinely wanted DMo on the squad. Morey had got to take that into consideration.
