I think the Rockets will eventually trade Anderson for smaller bad contracts. Then they try and move those or possibly stretch those. If another team needs shooting at the 4 and has dead weight contracts, they might bite.
If there’s no trade for Anderson the rockets would keep him.... Remember he’s still very much playable against most in the regular season and can eat up some of those taxing mins of the 82 gm grind.....
You'd basically be paying him the full MLE for 5 straight years to be on another team. I'd rather just wait until next summer if they can't move him this summer.
If Morey does not dump Anderson this season and turn that cap space into a productive player, that Anderson contract will be cemented as his biggest blunder as a GM. Ryan has already cost us one championship and if he is on the squad come next playoffs, he is going to cost us another. To build this roster, win so many games, come so close, only to have the team fail because this guy produced absolutely nothing and tied up the salary cap so that team could not improve either....and of course because he sucks so bad and is on that horrendous contract, it is close to impossible to offload him. Absolutely shambolic
Does not matter because he is a guaranteed DUD during playoffs. The Rockets only goal is to win championship after having come so close and if you make the kind of money he is making and you cant even be played in the playoffs, then I am sorry, you have no business being on this team given its goals. They dont hand you a championship for a regular season and this team does not need him during the regular season either. He was a dud most of last regular season as well. Ryan Anderson needs to go.
He scored 16 pts on 40% shooting during his NO days while playing in a half court system and as the only 3 pt spacer in the starting 5. It was reasonable to expect him to bump that up to 18 ppg or more ina run and gun system and with a genius creator like Harden. People (and Morey) wad thinking he could be Dirk lite and be the among the best stretch 4 in the league. The laughable thing is he even took a small discount because iirc Sac offered him even more money. Him signing with the Rox was actually at a discount if you can believe that. I hated that signing day 1 but thoight he would only be 3-5M overpaid, didnt realize he would be absolute trash until he shot 28% in the playoffs last year and discovered he had always been one of the worst playoff chokers in the history of the sport.
It is already cemented as his biggest blunder, even worse than passing on Kawhi for Baby Melo because of the timing, if we had a decent player instead of Anderson we would have a ring by now. There is no point to trading him now 1 more year of suffering and he becomes a massive expiring contract. Just make sure he is nailed to the bench once the playoffs start.
Nobody will mistake 16-17 Ryno for an all star but he wasn’t more than serviceable and indeed a relevant but part of Ann offense that was very efficient and stretched thebfloor. In other words it worked. And because it worked they weren’t aboe to add CP3 Ryno this year remains a freaking mystery. Good or bad he gets paid way too much but it’s not fair to look at it in a vacuum. Step 1 led to step 2 led to step 3 etc. More than anything it’s Rynos disappearance that is the problem. Like wtf? Will we ever learn why he sucked All of a sudden? If he was putting up 13 and 6 on 39% three point shooting I think there might be a taker this offseason. On DM? Sure. Bad contract. But don’t forget the season this team was coming off of and how it all did work (until they choked against the Spurs)
Sam Presti made a huge mistake by trading Harden and it costed them a title down the line. Daryl Morey made a huge mistake by giving Anderson 80mil/4years and it potentially costs us a title down the line. The truth is, championship team GMs leading up to their titles rarely have these kind of mistakes.
It's not the 20M per that was bad. I understand the cap jump that year. It's the length of the contract that was mind boggling. Morey almost NEVER gives a role player 4 years without a team option. I guess we were desperate for shooters after the debacle of the season before.
Ariza just needs to be a cancer in phoenix so we can trade ryan anderson to phoenix for him at the deadline.
Are we thinking of the same guy? The current best PG in the NBA, that will probably play until he is 40?
Its not a mystery Anderson is a mental midget thats the entire reason he sucks come playoff time. Being a mental midget and playoff choker isn't something that will show up on the stats thats why Morey signed him to that deal. As for the Rox offense working very little to none of that is due to Anderson his shot attempts are so low his 40% 3p doesn't matter, its like if somebody shot 100% but took only 1 shot a game well Anderson contributes just 2 made 3s every game as a starter playing 30 mins a night. Couple his low attempts with his bad D and you have a dude that was not only overpaid, but actually a bad player on the floor thats why he lost MDA's trust in just 2 years. I legit believe Anderson is the worst contract signed 2 years ago and any other deal would be preferable, give Crabbe or Bazemore or Deng or Noah over Anderson any day of the week. It doesnt take much to beat a guy who will give you 0 pts 0 rebs 0 blocks and be -12 in just 10 mins.
Like I said obviously he thought Anderson would be more than a role player, maybe he thought he would see Dirk Jr or at least almost star quality like Gordon. Morey had been after Anderson for years he wouldnt keep trying to get a guy that just projects as a role player.
morey will get to him when he can. right now you have to work the free agents before you lose out on them. resigning capela and luc comes first... then looking into evans, KCP, bradley, mccaw... then looking into trading ryno for bazemore, carroll, aminu+change...
If all goes as planned... they bring back Capela on a big pay raise, use the MLE to fill the Ariza void, etc... I think Anderson will be gone one way or another. That LT bill would be significant and losing RA diminishes most if not all of it. I think Bima brought up the Bulls scenario, basically taking back Felicio or Asik for Anderson and sweeteners. I'd like to see something like that. If that seems to be impossible, I could see them swapping him for another bad contract(s) that comes with someone that could contribute more.
