[Hardwood Paroxysm] Kyle Lowry should be Untouchable

Lowry is tradeable just like any other player on this team, but I would only trade him if the right deal comes along. Scola and Martin? I'd trade them just to get out of their contracts.

 

are you kidding me? Kyle Lowry untouchable ???? I would trade Lowry for Jeremy Lin in a heart beat.

 

this ^^^

 

The NBA is all about true superstars. The ones that turn an okay team into a playoff team. The ones that can win an entire playoff series by themselves. You do whatever you have to do to get those players.

But to get those players it totally dependent on perceived value. That value is not determined by how the Rockets view any any current player or other trade-able asset, but how they are viewed by the rest of the league. Right now, Lowry is the only player with any value that another team with a basketball operations department worth-it's-salt would take to replace a superstar player.

If you make Lowry untouchable, the Rockets will never be able to trade for any superstar-level player.

Although, you have to point out that we do NOT even know if Lowry can be that type of player. While probability-wise, he would have already broken out and reached that level if he was, this is the first season he has been the No. 1 option for his team, and the Rockets are firmly in the playoff hunt. He also has not had the opportunity to perform in the playoffs.

This season he has not appeared to be an obvious superstar consistently but that is seen in many young stars when they are first asked to lead their team. We also cannot underestimate how the more compacted season has affected Lowry's ability to learn to be the alpha of the team, and be able to go all out, every game. So you wait at least until this season is over, and more likely until the 2013 trade deadline before you trade Lowry.

 

:grin:

That's why you're not a GM

 

Once you get fools gold and mr head fake off the roster, they will be better. I wonder how this team would look if we didn't have martin and his 11m or scola and his 8m on the books. Had managment jus let mcgrady contract expire and let scola walk because landry was behind him,I'm wondering what flexibility the team would have.

 

Dude, get over it ... do you cry yourself to sleep because we cut Jermy Lin or what?

 

Lowry is the guy clearly steering this ship to its record right now. That and a few guys off the bench relly contributing like Dragic, Patterson, and Lee.

 

stop your bullsh!!!t . Just ask clutch how much money this website could have gained if Lin would still be a Rocket.

 

0 because

1. He never would have started
2. Rockets don't run enough PnR for his best talent to be utilized all game.
3. He never would have been as big a deal in Houston as he was in NYC.

 

WHAT?????

 

Seriously, some of you people have to take every word at its literal value. When people say the word untouchable in the sports sense, they don't mean it as "you can't trade him even for anyone under no circumstances no matter how proposterous and one-sided and unrealistic the scenario may be".

The author isn't talking about Lowry being untouchable like he's a NBA deity or something. He's talking about Lowry's value being much higher than what everyone seems to think he is. Hence the Rockets will not trade him, hence the term "untouchable", because his value is higher to us than as a trade piece.

 

That's not true.. oh wait.. haha I see what you did there.. haha.. your so funny. :grin:

 

Your fighting a losing battle my friend.

 

If you put a sign out that says "Closed for Business" you can't then turnaround and say after the fact "why were there no suitors?"

Teams aren't much interested in wasting their time on a one-way conversation that says....

"I'd like to talk to you about what it would take to acquire your best players", when for all intent and purposes, you've already taken yours off the table.

 

The Rockets are not on a championship path. This is not a "lets wait it out, things will get better" situation. No one on this team is untouchable. The Rockets need to get onto that path by getting a legitimate core and trade any pieces needed to get that here.

The most logical trade is too move the guys that are expiring, who we won't resign, with a guy like Scola to get a major rotation player (Wallace, Jefferson, B.Lopez, Iggy) back, while maintaining cap space. We would take a step forward talent wise and still leave the cap door open for further improvement. This extends our window a little bit.

Lowry is a great player, and I'd love for him to be here, and be a part of a championship team, but if trading him, gets us on the right path, he is a goner.

 

I don't understand why some are keying on Lowry. Last time I checked, only Lakers were more than just interested... but hell they are interested in half of the point guards out there.
There is a reason why he was, and still is under the radar. People have not jumped on his wagon so far.

 

Whats the typo? He said rookie scale deals. Notice people like Harden and Monroe listed too.