Would you Trade Tari Eason & Kevon Harris for Ayo or Carter or Grimes or Oubre?

I'm not even gonna lie, I was thinking "who the **** is Kevon Harris?" So I googled it and sure enough he's a real person. In a Rockets jersey no less. Funny world man.

 

We need a point guard and these are all combos or 2 guards. Don't need to trade Tari. Just cut Tate and sign Dinwiddie.

 

Of course, I do. Eason has more NBA tape showing he’s a good player than anyone on that list other than Pritchard. Even if he has a second underwhelming game on Friday, that doesn’t change his body of his work during his young career. In the cases of Grimes and Dosunmu, why would the Rockets trade a restricted free agent to be in Eason straight up for either when both will be unrestricted free agents after the season? Also, the Rockets wouldn’t have Grimes’ bird rights because he took the qualifying offer from the Sixers.

Your post isn’t going to age like fine wine whether Eason plays well or poorly tomorrow night. There is a thing called sample size you are failing to consider. Two games doesn’t drastically change a player’s value when they have already put at least a season of positive play on film.

I’m open to trading Tari Eason for the right return. The only player you have mentioned that fits that bill and has team control beyond this season is Payton Pritchard.

 

Just to be accurate, Harris is a two way player so he counts $0 in a trade.

 

Releasing a player with a guarenteed contract doesn't create any cap space.

 

I still wouldn't trade Tari. I'm still mad at him for being ass, but I hope he turns it around because I hope he stays.

 

Grimes would be legit great for us, he's even born in Houston. The problem is he's asking for 30M/year that the Sixers wouldn't give him.

Now would I give that to him if we didn't have to pay FVV? Yes, I would because his age lines up perfectly with our young core but he's also not a pure PG, he's more of a shooting guard that passes. I think he can fully convert to the point guard role if Ime asks him to because he average 5 assists last year on a team that had an injured Embiid and PG. That's not easy for sure.

I just don't know how we can even acquire him because Sixers are at the 2nd apron so trading with them would be difficult. Signing him outright would be difficult as well with FVV still on the team.

But yes, in a magical world where we can swap FVV + Tari for Grimes then pay Grimes a contract close to 30M a year? I'd do it. Heck, he might even take a home grown discount because of no state tax and he's a home grown Houston kid. He'd instantly be a fan fav if he took like a 27M/year deal.

 

For the millionth time we need a shooting guard not a point guard. Amen and Sengun are fine at initiating the office. Grimes would be a good fit, but it would only be for this year which I might still do.

 

Yeah, but I don't think we can do this. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but Grimes is on a Qualifying Offer, which means he has a no-trade provision. Even if we traded for him, his Bird Rights would not transfer, so we wouldn't be able to extend him at a substantial figure even if we wanted to. Grimes is very likely to play out this year with the Sixers, then either extend with them or sign with a team with cap space.

 

Exactly that's why this trade post makes no sense. We can't even trade for Grimes. But yea, in world where it's possible I'd LOVE to have Grimes on this team. Dude dropped 44 on us last year when he came to Houston, he was cooking everyone we threw at him. He also talks a ton of trash, perfect guy to fit in our system and culture. Cherry on top is he's born in Houston, Texas. He definitely a fan of the Rockets growing up.

 

You don't need cap space to sign minimum contracts.

 

Because AI Slop is painful to read & easy to generate.

 

I like Grimes as a role player but I think he has more to prove to be considered anything more than that. Let's see how he contributes on a team that actually contends - it's not super hard to put up points in a losing effort on a bad team - see Green, Jalen.

...also as mentioned above - the trade path seems difficult if not impossible and signing him outright seems difficult as well. It seems unlikely he could actually get here even if everyone wanted to make it happen.

 

Well, same can be said for Tari

 

Haven't logged on to this forum in a long time. Why is the level of NBA conversation here so low?

Dosunmu, Oubre, Carter, Tyus, Tre Jones: these guys are minimum-ish players. Look at their metrics. They are not actually good. Highly doubtful our FO sees them as better at basketball than Aaron Holiday. No point in mentioning their names.

Grimes: Literally not possible to trade for and keep him, no bird rights. No point in mentioning his name this season.

Coby White, Austin Reaves: Essentially impossible to trade for and keep. No point in mentioning their name this season.

Tari Eason: By the metrics a very very good and winning player, age 24, with multiple years of team control, at the league's most scarce position. Worth the equivalent of multiple good first round draft assets in trade.

Any Tari trade would either be (a) some kind of major swing package for someone really really valuable or (b) involve another team trading us significant draft assets + an actually good rotation guard on a cheap contract. For example, with SAC for Keon Ellis + 1-2 FRP's.

 

Also, the competent PGs are mostly on good teams and unavailable.

 

You do if you are hardcapped and don't have enough space to fit a minimum contract under the 1st apron. That is the Rockets exact situation.

We can't even sign a player with no experience, the lowest mininimum. We would have to clear some cap space even to sign a minimum deal.

 

Will the Rockets get any cap relief for FVV being injured for the entire season?

 

You are having a classic knee-jerk reaction about Tari based on one game. Let's wait 10-15 games before being so harsh. We also need to see how DFS fits in.

By ~Thanksgiving it should be obvious what kind of moves this team needs to make.

 

The Rockets are hard capped at the first apron because of their offseason spending, and they are less than 1.5M from the first apron currently. That’s why they aren’t signing a guard nor can they use the disabled player exception they were awarded after Fred VanVleet tore his ACL.