[Woj] [Shams] Rockets trade Westbrook for Wall

1. Why would Orlando trade Isaac for that trash? Why? He is the most valuable piece on the entire orlando roster and they are trading him for Eric Gordon's contract, a 36 year old PJ Tucker and a protected 1st.
2. Isaac is likely missing the entire 2021 season. It doesn't help us next year.
3. Aaron Gordon is overrated AF and Orlando still wouldn't trade him by himself for that deal.
4. There is no player on an NBA roster named Buddy Hill.
5. If you had Isaac, trading him for Buddy Hield would be one of the worst trades in NBA history unless you got every 1st rounder from sac until 2030 with him. In a hilarious twist of irony, trading Isaac AND AG for PJ Tucker and Gordon to even get Isaac is an even worse trade.
6. Not only do you lose a very young player with extremely high value around the league, you take on 20 million dollars more in salary from someone who is trying to force his way out of the Kings.
7. You propose to trade Isaac AND something else. Because Buddy Hield is just that good and the Kings have all of the leverage in the world.
8. Why not just trade Eric Gordon and picks for Hield if the Kings are dumb/desperate enough to do that.
9. Why not just trade Aaron Gordon for Hield if the Kings are dumb/desperate enough to do that.
10. How do you match Hield's salary in a trade for Isaac? We would be way over the salary cap if we added Hield and Gordon.
11. Since when is John Wall a "3 point threat"
12. WHY????

 

What is your evidence?

 

god i want this to work so much

 

of what ?

 

Honestly I love the trade for two reasons. Wall sounds like a smarter player than Westbrook. Westbrook relied almost exclusively on being the most athletic person on the court and that just doesn't work in the playoffs nor does it fit well with Harden. Secondly, he knows the league is all about 3s now so hopefully he's been working on that and he was already better at it than Westbrook has ever been.

 

And they gave up on each of them after playoff exits where they were playing hurt. So they fixed that problem by going out and getting John Wall.

 

Finally getting a chance to digest this. Man. What are we doing lmao

 

Thinking out loud here:

Is there any way GSW does Draymond for Gordon, Tucker and picks? Probably not, but it’s an interesting hypothetical in that it gives both teams exactly what they each need.

 

They are giving the team a chance.

 

Just listened to The Ringer's emergency Westbrook-Wall trade practice and SURPRISE! They are really down on the Rockets.

Somehow they start out by rehashing the "Is Harden a #1 guy" argument, then they pivot to the Rockets not being a playoff team even if Harden stays.

They finish off by saying there's very little chance that Harden is going to be a Rocket by the end of the season.

Depressing listen, not sure why I put myself through that.

 

We should get that pick in 2023 if Beal/Westbrook are still on the team. It shouldn't be hard to make the playoffs in the East.

 

man they are elite at that

 

I will take the championship in exchange for the picks it took to get Paul.

 

This is the flailings of an organization in the midst of an identity crisis...knows it....knows everyone else knows it...and is throwing **** against the wall hoping somehow it sticks.

Lets be honest......PEAK John Wall and PEAK DeMarcus Cousins couldn't deliver playoff success where they were before. Now the Rockets org has brought them in coming off of major injuries and suddenly we're supposed to believe this team can somehow transform into something good? If I'm Harden, I just decided once and for all NOT to sign any extention. The rebuild is coming....next year at the latest.

 

Russ is a better player, but Wall is a better fit with our team (if healthy).

 

David Aldridge:


A lot of people — a lot — who’ve been in D.C. more than 10 minutes, and who have roots here, came to love Wall, what he did for poor people and families in the parts of town many don’t care about. How he was clearly flawed but owned it, how he wore his heart on his sleeve and cried openly – when he signed his max extension, when his mother was sick, when a little girl he’d befriended died. And how he played in the playoffs with a broken hand, and how he led Washington to within a game of the Eastern Conference finals, and jumped on the scorer’s table after winning that Game 6 in 2017 over Boston, and how the crowd roared that night, having a legit contender in town for the first time in God knows how long, and the point guard and the crowd both hoping the night, and the feeling that washed over the building, would never end.

 

His handles were surprisingly bad, too.

 

- someone who has never seen a single game from john wall. Relying on being the best athlete on the court is true... for john wall. Only hes coming off a ****ed achilles and was a worse athlete to begin with