IF this is true that he is signing for the vet min that is a HUGE steal for us. Low risk and high reward at its finest. And if some people can't get behind that they need to stop with the haterade. Too much is not good...
you mean when he was playing hurt or right before he got hurt the last couple games of the regular season when he was playing like a beast?
Yeah let me clarify... He didn't fix the shoulder that was injured twice. Who knows? Maybe it can't be fixed? But for the risk/reward it was only worth it to give him the vet min. Doesn't matter how great someone can cut through the lane and play defense if they can't stay on the floor.
Ariza ORTG and DRTG in both regular season match ups vs GSW 107.3-121.4 in a win 104.9-116.5 in a loss Ariza ORTG and DRTG in the 7 game series vs GSW G1- 97.7.......119.3 L G2- 126.9.......100.2 W G3- 95.3.......130.7 L G4- 103.8.......107.5 W G5- 96.8.......96.2 W G6- 92.0.......115.6 L G7- 87.1.......108.5 L 2 of 9 games with positive net ratings and he was mostly brutal By comparison his "replacement" who "Golden State isn't worried about" 105.4 ORTG-88.8 DRTG W 115.6 ORTG-97.9 DRTG W 113.5 ORTG-106.8 DRTG L 77.6 ORTG-117.3 DRTG L 3 of 4 games with positive net rating with 1 ridiculous blowout What does all this say? Melo's team out produced GSW when Melo was on the court while Ariza's did not when he was on the court. These are just the numbers man. What would you rather have?
I don't understand the infatuation with Luc. Nobody cared about him while he was on the clippers. You only cared because he came to the rockets. Now he is back on the Clippers WITHOUT CP3. He is not going to move the needle at all this season.
Yes... is it really that hard to believe that Morey didn’t want to pay Luc when he had two shoulder injuries in the same season and never looked good after that?
No, Bima said we have to extend a Required Tender offer (which is similar to QO, but for draft picks), to secure draft rights. That's not a signing, just a Required offer, but draft picks can take it....few do. What I'm saying is Isaiah's Valgiris contract and buyout supercedes his ability to take the Tender and force Rockets to give him a roster spot. I talked to Bima about that after we discovered that he's under contract still in Europe, with a minor buyout ( <$700k, which we can freely pay). While he's not sure if we still have to extend a Required Tender to FIBA players who we drafted (maybe as a formality), he agrees that we do not have pay a buyout and sign him, if we don't want to. Here's the concise question I asked him, and the end of a tweet exchange: Required Tender (like a QO) can be signed, KJ McDaniels shocked the NBA by signing one to become a free agent the quickest (after 1yr),..but it's the worst contract available...1yr min NOT guaranteed, and not part of MLE. Our tweet exchange agrees that Isaiah couldn't really sign that, if Valgiris required Rockets to pay the buyout, and we refused.
