No freaking crap! Of course it's his opinion. Honestly, there's NOTHING he could offer for Pau Gasol that you'd disagree with. Because he's Morey, so it's gotta be right. It doesn't matter how many draft picks for the next 20 years he piles on to this deal, there'd be a slew of you telling me how awesome it is simply because DM said so. The roster is the problem, meh. Not the city. Clearly it's not the city, because so many of them choose to live here otherwise. It's overpaying. It's a bad contract. Nene at $15 million, which is what he's being offered by the Nets, is just bad. Not good.
I agree, any day the Rockets get the chance at signing not one but TWO franchise Centers(yes Pau is a center, albeit a finese one) that can play together, you have to make a run at it.
I think we are all a bit underwhelmed by Pau Gasol. He is not a superstar that will hit the gamewinning shot, most likely. Maybe Lowry could develop into that? Maybe Marcus Morris? Still, If Les refuses to tank, I fail to see how we could do any better than a top 5 player at each of our big spots.
I don't think this is fun. Add Pau 5 years ago?? That would have been fun. Adding Pau now at this cost?? No thank you.
Compared to the Rockets roster, yes. Have you watched the man play? I have some, he strikes me as a beast. Don't bother thinking costs. It's not our money and they left the cap "manipulateable" just like it was before. We are getting the level stars we can get and paying the price we have to pay. But we are getting two of them. If we still have Hill to rotate at PF/C we are pretty set, and if we lose Pat maybe Motiejunas comes over.
Superstars only get called superstar after the fact, right? If Dirk didn't go to the finals last year, what will be the difference between him and gasol? It'd be that Gasol has two rings, he has none. You just don't know what will happen in the playoffs, which is why DM's focus is on putting out a competitive team year after year rather than tanking and waiting for the big one. Also, tanking wont be just a year process. It'll take at least 5 years, and only after that will you know whether you built correctly and can contend (Thunder), or you whiffed on getting a franchise player and are still scrubs for the foreseeable future (Minny, Toronto, Memphis).
The year we signed Pippen, the salary cap was $30 million. We gave him a contract of 5yrs/$77mil. By today's NBA cap standard, it would be the equivalent of 5yrs/$149mil deal. Starting salary of $21.2 mil. Also, that year there were only two teams with that cap money. The Knicks proceeded to sign Antonio McDyess instead. If today we can actually offer Dwight Howard a 5yr/$150mil deal, and no other team has the same cap room to compete with us, then the comparison would be valid. Otherwise, different rules back then. Not comparable.
it's charming alliteration, really. i'm really not mad...enjoying the discussion, though. judging by the personal crap that gets thrown back when you dare question the emperor, it clearly upsets some people though. i'm stuck with the rockets no matter what they do here.
