Capela signs 5yr, $80mil deal ($90M w/ incentives) with the Rockets

So...A guy who hasn't played in the NBA in 4+ years. OK...who is the next of 'many'?

EDIT

Also, is he one of those that you'd rather have than Clint?

 

Didn't make it about me. But I am answering those that did.

 

It's not a matter of I'd rather have. It's a matter of the type of skills we need on court to beat the Warriors death lineup. Capela does not work in that scenario and that's where everything funnels down to.

Randolph has the necessity tools. A plus switch defender with enough size, length, and athleticism to defend the low post and enough offensive skills to run PnR, PnP, or 5-out depending on how the defense is countering.

Yes, there are guys not in the league for 4 years that can play and play well in the NBA. HE's one. Llull is another. (Not in CC's spot of course.)

 

I'm just looking for you to provide names of 'some' of the 'many' than are not on NBA rosters than would serve the Rockets better than Capela.

 

He's good at throwing your own support for the team or a team's current player into his shtick.

Um, saying you'd rather have other players of different teams or that haven't been in this league for years or EVER over a guy we currently have and are rooting for is not the same. Yes, I rooted for T-Jones to work in Houston, he was our near lotto pick! Why wouldn't I? But how well is Thon Maker performing compared to Clint Capela?....

I still don't get how he tries to compare the two.

 

You make it about you all the time - as someone that used to be that way.....it is a long dark path.

Who cares if your take was 100% wrong.....just enjoy the Rockets.


DD

 

Oh brother....ha!

 

Quoted for truth. These are some wise words.

 

That's because you apparently aren't aware that the clock has tutick ahead two years from then.

 

The pot and the kettle about to have ego rumble? I smell 200,000 posts and an abandoned moniker coming.

 

Yes. He had played tougher against them here in the regular season. No question.

And no question about it. He'd balling hard right now. He really is

And he's playing better than even last year and better then he ever has. I acknowledge all that.

But......the playoffs... That's a different animal. He doesn't have the right skill set to help us beat the lineup of death.....period. All this other is just pretense. He can't shoot to spread the court. And he can't switch well enough against the lineup of death. Despite 18/18........that hasn't changed.

You guys can choose to bury your heads in the sand here. Go ahead. And you can keep hemhawing about me hating on Capela. I don't care. Waste your keystrokes.

We need a different set of skills at the 5 to beat the death lineup.

 

Did we?

Have we?

LOL

 

I hope you understand that the ability to do something and actually doing it are two different things.

Last year, with Clint Capela on our team as a starter and James Harden being the primary playmaker, we were leading one of the best teams of all time in a series 3-2. If our second best player doesn’t get hurt, there is a good chance that we beat them and go on to win a championship.

So yes, we had a championship caliber team that could have beaten the team that you keep saying we couldn’t beat, even with the supposed shortcomings that you keep bringing up.

Even if the rockets do everything you suggest and have suggested they do to beat the warriors, and everything works exactly as you think it would, they could still end up in the same exact place as last years team and lose. Would that mean you were wrong because they didn’t win a championship? No, it would mean that even though they had the ability to do it, it just didn’t happen... like last year’s team.

 

But we lost because we weren't deep enough to withstand and injury to our second-best player, which is somehow Clint's fault (if he's your hypothetical third-best player you can't win a championship against GSW, you'd be better off with a guy like Thon Maker against KD/Green)... or something, i'm not really sure just trying to cobble together some bballholic logic.

 

All the salary savings from the undervalued contracts go to CP3 anyway.

 

Worth. Every. Penny.

 

Capela is perfect in today’s NBA imo... can dominate a game without even dribbling once!

 

Capela is probably the best center out there that fits our team. The guy fits on this team and what we do it’s like match made in heaven. Catch the lobs, pnroll , dunks, rebounds well, and most importantly can grab a pass without dropping the ball ( something Yao wasn’t good at).

 

It's not Clint's fault. He simply doesn't have the skill set needed to beat the lineup of death.

To beat the lineup of death you have to have 5 shooters and 5 switch defenders. Sorry.

 

Ummmmm, he can dominate a game once in a while when Harden gets doubled and he's left open.

He can't dominate the Warriors though. Rather he'll get dominated by them. And we'll have to sit him down. Or we will lose.