Chris Paul was on verge of being traded to Chicago yesterday?

What?

 

Two weeks or two yard line?

 

99%--remember 99% ain't 100% tho.

 

Sounds like we were two weeks away from the 2 yard line .

Both a physical space and a space in time .

Our proximity to this deal created a warp in the space-time continuum

Or it's bs hahaha

 

I think you know it is …..

 

It is stupid for bulls not going for the trade. They are rebuilding, Paul would be perfect to help on that. He does not have high FGAs, which will give young players a lot of opportunities to develop. soon they will have their core on one or two star players developed from their draft picks. In another hand, rockets will still be flipping back and forth with no sight of championship.

 

Rebuilding teams want overpaid, declining, increasingly injury prone, big ego guys even less than contending teams do.

 

Yeah .

I think it's unlikely we move Paul .

A LOT of things would have to come together to make a CP3 deal ..... #1, even happen . And #2 make sense for us .

Whatever we do this offseason ... our roster and place among contenders has a lot of questions / concerns .

There could be major FA movement elsewhere in the league . Either LA team could get significantly stronger . GS could get weaker , or not . Not to mention teams in the east could get get better or worse.

Our best assets are probably any teams 3rd or 4th choice in terms of roster moves they wanna make . For us to take advantage of a team , they are gonna have to strike out some haha . At least I think . Hopefully , I'm wrong .

Either way I think we are in for a fun ride .

I think tilman likes action .

 

David West was an all star when paired with Paul. Blake Griffin and Deandre Jordan were all stars when paired with Paul. Nothing happened in Rockets, apparently, for some reasons.

 

And squeezing money out of us by providing smaller portions and poorer quality food ("feta?! use Kraft slices!") in his restaurants.

Oh, wait........maybe I should move this to another forum?

 

Not sure what point you're trying to make? The fact that Paul isn't that good anymore?

 

Um no.

that's not how rebuilding works.

 

Give us Lauri Markannen

Please?

 

The point is paul would be a perfect fit for Chicago to rebuilt.

 

Hey , I didn't say which direction tilman likes action in.

I'm definitely leaning towards he is a cheapass .

He's got a year or two to prove it to me . I think maybe the timing of the deal was unfortunate . It's not uncommon for owners to be financially limitited for a couple years after purchase . It sucks that this coincides with our "window" .

@Corrosion knows that I think that we could have made better moves at the deadline if not concerned about getting under the tax .

#1 we would have an extra expiring contract to match with in trades . We do have shumperts rights and could use him in a trade but that's way more hoops to jump through .

#2 we could have used our MLE on house earlier or just converted his contract earlier. We tried to strong arm him into signing a team friendly deal , and it disrupted his development for 2 months . There is no telling how much better he would have been. Alternatively , he could have gotten hurt or worn down with the extra minutes .

#3 we wouldn't have been so quick to dump Ennis (and to a lesser extent MCW). Ennis played well off the bench in philly and IMO was getting comfortable off the bench here. Yes , he was undisciplined . Still , he was not a bad 3pt shooter and he was fairly physical. I think we expected too much for him to be a starter at the begging of the year . Ironically this is the time MDA should have stuck to his guns and started Eric . Lol

All 3 moves arguably could have led to us being in a better spot this season or going into this offseason . All 3 were made in the interest of getting under the tax . Disappointing

 

Crazy to think but if Lebron is injury proned again this season and the Lakers miss the playoffs again and they don't land anyone in free agency, you could argue that they have never landed a major free agent in their history that was not over the hill when they got him besides Shaq. The Shaq signing only happened because Orlando low balled him and then had their stupidity show with that poll. Asking a bunch of retired old white guys if a 25 year old black athlete is worth $100 million is not going to help you in anyway. The Magic's youth, NBA structure at the time and Florida's open racism made him leave. If not for that, the Lakers wouldn't have anyone.

 

People keep criticizing Tilman for not wanting to pay the tax but I see things differently. Why would he want to pay a tax for an overpaid aging player without a shot at a championship? There’s not enough cap space to sign a quality FA. Morey was the the one that signed Paul to a long term deal, and Tilman is smart enough to realize the Rockets need to cut their losses now to have a chance at keeping Harden for a championship run.

 

Not that I disagree at all …. but all it takes is one team to think CP3 still has "it" …. and that he just wasn't a good fit here. That he can be that star he was in LaC.

That's what we have to hope …. that one of the 29 other GM's thinks he'll be better for them and take that contract off our books ….


Maybe a team gets desperate ….

 

So true!

The only way it makes sense for Chicago is if they have the young talent they are happy with, and want to add some 'veteranship' to allow it to develop. But you don't trade away one of your best pieces as part of that deal...

I could see how they might trade Porter for Paul. But I don't see why they would give up Markkanen.
I'm not sure why the Rockets would go 'all in' on Porter though. They'd need extra incentive to take on a role player with a huge contract (who would be a great fit)

 

Rumors from people who want click bait and you guys gobbling it up.