Remember that time when we had James Harden in his prime and we dipped into the luxury tax like the other contending teams to prove to him we were serious about chasing rings? Me neither. Run it back? Well we can kinda run it back with James Ennis and Melo instead of Trevor and Luc. All the times Morey told us we almost made a trade, we were close, I had permission to go into the tax and yet the majority of the trades actually executed seemed to be to save money. I wish I had saved that image of the Rockets jersey that said luxury tax savings on the back. So you want him to have faith that the organization was going to suddenly do whatever it took to make these tweaks needed to win at the highest level? Easy to see why he might be just a little skeptical.
What evidence? Ariza hasn't been good since and Luc's barely been in the NBA. CP3's move? Well, you want to look at the CP3 threads before he was traded? The majority here wanted him gone, worse contract in the NBA...oh and let's remember Tilman wanted to add Jimmy Butler to CP3...which I'm sorry just doesn't fit the narrative that he wanted to break up the team... Rather it sounds like he knew that CP3+Harden wasn't getting it done...which was proven to him as he watched the 'Championship' Rockets squad lose to a Durant-less Warriors squad.
What evidence? Where have you been the last 3 years with the endless topics and discussions. If the question is seriously what evidence at this point you’ve been living under a rock literally. That’s beyond help and just self naive
Ariza hasn't been good since and Luc's barely been in the NBA. CP3's move? Well, you want to look at the CP3 threads before he was traded? The majority here wanted him gone, worse contract in the NBA...oh and let's remember Tilman wanted to add Jimmy Butler to CP3...which I'm sorry just doesn't fit the narrative that he wanted to break up the team... Rather it sounds like he knew that CP3+Harden wasn't getting it done...which was proven to him as he watched the 'Championship' Rockets squad lose to a Durant-less Warriors squad.
Getting rid of him for a worse contract wasn't the answer. If even if Ariza wasn't good. Having his salary on the books creates opportunities for us to make bigger trades and acquire that third star. We had all our picks. Keeping Anderson and Resigning Ariza for one year deal woulda alllowed us to match any salary. What if we traded for Kawhi since we had the salary to match? All these players you mentioned should make you realize how good James Harden is and how he makes everyone around him seem better than they actually are. Besides CP3 every single player that left is basically useless and out of the league. He took those scrubs to WCF. Asik, Howard, Ariza, Dmo, Jones, Parsons, Brewer, Luc, Anderson.. list just keeps going on and on, if I was a team I'd be scared to trade for Tucker. Without James he's been utter trash.
I'm just living in reality, at least enough to know that the James Harden Rockets never had a championship team to be broken up. You can believe a broken Ariza and Luc and past his prime CP3 were good enough to win a title but I watched that team failed to do so twice and regress...as Tilman did...which is why, again, he tried to add Jimmy Butler...which doesn't fit your narrative so instead of addressing it you ignore it and call me names.
You’re actually not. You’re just naive enough to believe tilman and all the dumbass shitt he’s done since he’s been here has a gimmick excuse to go along with everything but don’t worry more is coming for years to come. And you’ll just be right there with this yeah I don’t see it. Enjoy
Trading for Kawhi? That was literally never an option. CP3 had negative value at the time, there was 0 chance we were getting Kawhi. All your posts proves is that James Harden never had a championship team put around him, he had one solid year where he had and the guy pulled his hammy and the team failed to win a super winnable game to go to the finals. That's the closest he's been. People acting like retreading that team would have resulted in anything but the same thing we got. Eliminated by the Lakers with ease...and then ignoring that Jimmy Butler was option A the whole time but he wasn't interested...which just goes against the whole "Tilman wasn't interested in winning."
Ariza hasn’t been good since yet he was the 1st name CP3 brought up when talking to Reddick about how things changed in Houston so quickly he was able to pull in Oubre via trade 65 win season, and you’re literally dumpster diving for Melo, MCW, Ennis, Marquise Chriss in the offseason with talk of needing to avoid the LT by any means necessary
You mean you watch that team one time take a 3-2 lead on greatest team ever assembled until CP3 hurt his hammy. Then broke the team up. We never saw two years of it cuz Tillman was too busy luxury tax savings to give it another run. CP3 wasn't right the second year but he's looked closer to that form these last two years.
This is just the tip of the ice. I’m seriously in awe how this dude who posts so much around here is this lost lol the logic of ariza hasnt been good since is utterly stupid. So who was good at all the bums they tried to replace him with. Oh that’s right none of them and they were all bottom barrel scrubs. Meanwhile ariza is apparently sorry enough gathering millions of dollar deals and being acquired for the likes of players like oubre.
You totally didn't get what I wrote. I never said to trade CP3 for Kawhi. If we resign Ariza and still had Shumpert or Anderson's contract. We coulda offered the Spurs 2 expirings and first rounders for Kawhi. Which is better than they got. We would have CP3 Harden and Kawhi and Capela for 1 year probably win the ship. The whole course of the Rockets immediately changes.
It's great yall give out awards for almost beating the champions and that's enough for some people. It's a good thing we didn't see it because it wasn't going to amount to anything but a 2nd round exit...and why did CP3 look the way he did? That's a question for CP3, the Coach, and Harden...but he had negative value. I really don't care that CP3 hurt his hammy, an excuse. Durant tore ligaments and the Warriors still smacked us around...
Oh that kind of guy. The everything is fine while the house is literally on fire at all times. Got it
