I love this trade -- a look into Houston's cap situation

Kaman would be next move for us. Expiring contract, and is still a good center. Wouldn't be a bad move to make now that I know for a fact we aren't tanking.

 

I have a bad feeling the Hornets will send him to LA instead

 

The thing is Orlando is the team that Howard plays for. They get to choose the trade they want, not Dwight.

 

I was really shocked about this trade, but the more I study it, but the more I'm becoming fond of it. We start younger guys and and the 09 players get more opportunities to play and develop. While still being competitive. The cap space is great too.

Lowry, flynn
Lee, Williams
Budinger, morris, Parsons
Patterson, motiejuenas, hill
Gasol, thabeet

also the possibility of nene, dalembert, chandler, Hayes. Not too bad

 

Howard won`t sign here. D-Will won`t sign here. And Griffin won`t sign here. The big market teams get creative to get enough cap space to get them - and they go where they want to go. Whether it is NY, LA, CHI, MIA or DAL.

We are clearing cap space to overpay one of the FA centers like Nene, Jordan or Marc Gasol. Is that enough to compete for a championship? I highly doubt it...

This is like the BOS-MIN deal for Garnett - only that we trade away our only other possible star players and aren`t adding another one. So instead of the big three, we are building a big one with good roleplayers. I don`t get it.

 

That's what I thought I heard somewhere initially.

 

Houston gave N.O. the N.Y. first round pick

 

Just wanted to say i like the trade and we were not gettin anywhere with scola, martin, combo we couldnt even get in the playoffs. Time for a change and this will open the spanish basketball euro prospects to be dying at a chance to play with gasol at the nba level.

 

just a question havent followed basketball at all since they had the lockout,,, what is the status of Donatas Motiejunas, will he be playing for us this year?

 

-signed Carmelo-

 

Carmelo could have signed this offseason with NY, Dwight won't be signing as a FA with the Lakers, no matter how creative they get with the cap.

 

This trade is very reasonable, but i dislike it personally... )=

 

Forget Dwight man. He will traded and signed long term prior to next offseason. Who else are we going to throw max money at?

 

frees up cap space for a big deal that will never happen. planning for a future that will never come.

 

Exactly. You can have all the cap space in the world, but if a player doesn't want to come here, what good does it do?

 

ya but what am i gonna do about a shooting guard i only hav courtney lee

 

Deron Williams

 

Not a fan of Gasol, but this isn't a bad trade for three reasons:
1) We're moving away from one-way to two-way players. Sure Martin and Scola are better offensively than Lee and PPat, but they can both play both sides of the ball.
2) Legit 7-footers that can play both sides of the ball are hard to get and make a big difference in the playoffs. And they're really rare, so they're actually worth more because of that scarcity.
3) Like the OP said, we get mad cap space to pick up some legit star.