Daryl Morey Talks Draft And Other Off-season Plans

Thanks....
Morey is stating the obvious
but the whole "it is the second year after Yao" statement is horse crap,
that is making excuses once a season starts all over again

 

Interesting. If the Rockets were truly going to use their cap room this summer, they'd want to "wait" (i.e., no more than a private, wink-wink deal, perhaps) with Dragic in order to keep his cap hold at $4.0 million. The second there is a real AGREEMENT to the terms of a new contract, I believe that Dragic's cap hold will increase to first year salary of his new deal.

But, I suppose "getting their guy" is more important than playing games around the salary cap.

 

I bet we end up trading our picks for cash and 2nd round picks, or late first round picks. I give it a 10% chance of us actually trading up in the draft.. It's going to be another disappointing draft for the Rockets, leading to another lackluster season.

 

I'm starting to feel that way too.

 

Were you saying something up there?

 

I think that wasn't meant to intimate that there's a substantial drop-off after the "top-16". He said AT LEAST 16 guys. The entire point of his statement was that he wasn't worried about "the last guy they really liked" (like almost happened with Patterson or Morris) going off the board before they can make both their picks.

I happen to agree with the statement, too. There are several players in that range who could fall to 18 or 19 who would be very solid picks.

 

thx for the read...

 

That is HIS top 16. That doesn't mean (and never means) that Morey's top 16 will go in the first 16 picks.

He said last year there was 8, the year before 10. I'm pretty sure he also got one of them in PPat that he had as top 10, right?

 

Noticed the same thing. I think "getting it done early" may not be something that really prevents them from pursuing an outside free agent-- makes managing the mechanics of things somewhat harder, but you can get around it.

Specifically, during the 10-day moratorium period, the Rockets can settle on a deal with Dragic and pursue other possibilities (be it a FA signining or a salary-eating trade) that require holding Dragic at the $4 million cap hold during the 10 day period. They can then arrange it so that the Dragic signing is done moments after the other deal is done.

My guess that if there is a big $ FA to be signed, this will get settled during the moratorium. In the case of a restricted FA, they just need to wait 3 additional days to formally sign Dragic. The kind of deals that don't get done until later in the summer are probably going to involve more minor players and it's not really worth delaying signing Dragic to pursue such players (the one exception perhaps being a Dwight Howard trade, but Orlando might well settle it as early as draft night).


Also, they also have other ways to open up cap room-- Courtney Lee is a restricted FA, he can always be let go or renounced (should an important enough deal presents itself), Kevin Martin and Luis Scola can be traded or even amnestied.

 

Yea you don't want to leave him open to where some team swoops in and changes his mind. You can get away with that with a player like Hill because the risk is low but there is too much interest in Dragic to gamble even for the possibility of a good FA signing.

 

Is Marcus Morris still in his top 15?



DD

 

A likely wink-wink deal and wait to sign Dragic could be a scenario where Dragic wants to sign but demands that we trade Lowry, and Morey says, "well, give me one month to do that; you and I need to get value for him...so let me do my job and we'll get this done. Give me one month, OK." Dragic, "sure, ok. send me some more Rockets shorts though, my other one is dirty."

 

it depends on if the Vipers have any openings. Seriously though I am all for rebuilding but I am not sure adding a 14 and a 16 and DMo is what this team needs unless they plan on unloading some current players for future picks or making some 3 for 1 trades. Otherwise they truly are just going to sit and rot.

 

Thank god no one in the Rockets organization would EVER do that, right Kevin McHale?

DD

 

everyone...shhhhhhh

Maybe Clutch should delete all posts talking about wink wink deals.