I like House the player, but considering he was also reported to be disgruntled and completely let the team down against the Lakers, is the trust factor gonna be there if Harden and possibly Westbrook are still here? Maybe Silas can work some magic.
Honestly with what Joe Harris and Bertrans getting tonight on their new contracts for being pretty much 1 dimensional players, Gordon’s contract isn’t so bad. Maybe Silas will put him in a different position in the offense that caters to his strengths. Or maybe not.
House deserves to get traded to Sacramento or Detroit after getting his (hand) caught in the (honey) pot in the bubble.
Some of you guys have jsuch bad recency bias. This is what bit us in the Cp3 deal too. Cp3 is done remember guys???
You really can’t compare the two. Ego has been incredibly underwhelming for a while now and takes terrible shots. I, personally, cannot wait to move on from him regardless of what Silas is supposedly capable with his motions.
I would keep Westbrook and Gordon, trade Harden. Sell assets when high, keep when low expecting their value to increase in the future.
Exactly. This team is shaky as a championship contender as is. The best shot is to maximize everyone’s potential and hope Gordon can bounce back(hard to play worse than he did last year). It’s absolutely pointless to trade him for a more stable lower ceiling, higher floor guy since that effectively kills our chances at a championship. ( our talent level and depth beyond the top guys is too low) Gordon with his contract, age, plus the bad year he had is not going to get you anything close to the possible value he can bring the rockets assuming he bounces back. Best case he is salary dumped for a “decent” 5th option/bench piece which is useless for the rockets. Basically closing our window for good. If we aren’t attaching multiple first round picks plus Gordon to get a better more dynamic player it’s a bad move.
Those pieces are useless for the rockets. At the off chance harden and Westbrook stay, it’s better to maximize their prime years than try to fix the salary cap by dumping bad contracts for mediocre bench players. Gordon is streaky but still a talented scorer. The Milwaukee pieces are trash that rebuilding teams pick up to fill a roster, or filler in a deal to save a team money.
Both Westbrick and Gordon are going to have to play their way out of the Rockets roster. And unless the Nuggets are feeling like rolling the dice, Harden shoudn't go anywhere either because all we are going to get for him otherwise are a bunch of mid tier first round picks at best.
I don't care where you send him so long as you do .... Siberia for all I care. Just get that salary off the books for as little as it takes.
NBA executives tell me several teams are intrigued by Gordon, but don’t want to make the first move because it might start a bidding war. The Lakers are looking at this carefully and would offer Davis and several picks to keep him from going to a West contender.
People on these boards are reactive and short term focused. player has a bad month and u want to dump him for some likable scrub role player, while our guy’s value is at an all time low. this is the recipe for mediocrity. whether you like it or not the rockets have a lot of holes and lack talent around their stars compared to the top teams. you act like harden and a team of good role players is actually competive. No one can do it alone, you need dynamic guys capable of stepping up and winning you games in the playoffs when your star has and off game, not just high floor guys who play their roles and don’t mess up. If fans want to see the rockets win a championship, now is the best time to make high risk/high reward moves. That’s the only chance the team has to win.
People want to have their cake and eat it too. They say they want to maximize the teams chances of winning in a 2 year window but then talk about dumping bad contracts. The Issue with the Rockets, who have multiple bad contracts, lack of picks, and lack of young high potential guys, Is they simply don’t have the luxury to get rid of bad contracts without hurting their last chance to win. In this case it’s better to go all out, put all the chips in the center of the table and if you fail, fail spectacularly. Honestly after 2022 the rockets are most likely ****ed regardless so salary cap issues, etc. so from a fans perspective these are irrelevant.
