If Nunnally plays well, are you going to give him a rest of year contract, or let him go if he doesn't sign a multi-year? If you give him a rest of year, then why not House? We need all the help we can get. The answer is because Morey wants to stash House, because he can...rather than give Harden all the help he can get....right now!
I think it's a risk the front office has to take at this point. Rox are too short-handed right now to be playing hard ball. Gotta try to put the best possible team you can out there now.
Should have signed him rest of season. If he play really well rest of season, he deserve the big contract from somebody else.
Morey picked the mystery box over ensuring House was available Hopefully there is a boat in that mystery box.
Here's some irony: We could convert him now, and still have the ability to offer him a 3yr $6.1m contract this summer without using the MLE. If he doesn't take that, the reason will be because he played so well in the playoffs, that he got a better offer than we couldt match And if he gets that better offer, then it proves we should just give him MLE money now. Just convert him Morey, and offer a $6.1m contract this summer. But really, just give him MLE now! There will still be plenty to outbid for buyouts.
The NBA for us is entertainment. The NBA for the owners, players, and GM's is business. I think they are trying to build a championship team. But, it will always be a business. I don't think it's much different anywhere else.
We can convert and still offer him 3yr / $6.1m contract this year using his Non-Bird rights. If he gets more than that, well, Morey totally miscalculated and proves he should have given him MLE money now.
You're setting up a straw man here, my dude. IF this scenario happens it just could be because Morey doesn't think Nunnally is worth locking in to a multi-year deal, and thus the negotiation parameters are different. There's enough bad stuff going on that we don't have to try to envision more.
what, for next year? I mean, you have do all you can THIS YEAR, the way Harden is playing. And we are talking about just converting House now or offering him part of MLE. We can convert and still offer him 3yr / $6.1m contract this year using his Non-Bird rights. If he gets more than that, well, Morey totally miscalculated and proves he should have given him MLE money now.
The peeyons still grumbling about Morey, and will be proved wrong once again when cooler heads prevail.
Oh, so you want to lock-in House, but just not now...but rather for the future. Do you see what my straw-man was saying? Morey is treating House differently, because he can stash him, and is thinking about next year more than this year. Just convert the dude now, and offer him 3yrs / $6.1m this summer with his Non-Bird Rights. Stop stashing the better player, if you wouldn't care about Nunnally. Stop farting around with this year Harden is having. Give him the help you can, NOW!
How do you know he's willing to take 3yr 6.1 mill right now? His head might be swollen from his agent and play, he might be aiming for tax payer MLE money.
ugh....I didn't say that. I said convert him now (which is a unilateral team decision) and get him back on the court. $6.1m is the offer in the Summer. Quit thinking about the future with these roles players,,,give them to Harden NOW!
Lebron is the measuring stick. Right now house is underpaid and remains to be undervalued in rockets organization. At end of the day, he would still be in the same conference with LeBron. House is thinking long term.
