OFFICIAL: Omer Asik a Houston Rocket (3 year/$25.1 million)

I dont think we are going to loose both of them at once. i think we are going to loose Martin and maybe none of them.

 

Man if only he had those hands like Hayes, but with more height he can block and bother shots rather than relying on the lucky swipe. Sounds like we have a good presence down low who should fit in the P&R system well.

 

Well I think that your explanation is completely wrong. Its because an article came out a while back that was translated from a chinese interview. It read something along the lines of "when will you fire murray" and they refferred to morey and murray. People found it funny and continue to use it. I also use it from time to time.

I dont even live in houston so i dont even know who 610 and josh innes is. I also respect morey because he is a practical GM. In the future, please dont call people fools, senseless and foolish when trying to make an arguement. Its disrespectful.

end vent lol.

 

let me show you how it is supposed to be done.

Always include a link, and make the story readable. Yours was a hot mess.

 

Nick Friedell: Chicago Bulls officially decline to match Houston Rockets offer to Omer Asik. #NBA 1 minute ago

 

It's official - From Bulls Web Site -

http://blogs.bulls.com/2012/07/bulls-will-not-match-houstons-offer-to-asik/

JUL 24
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The Bulls will not match the restricted free agent offer to Omer Asik, allowing Asik to join the Houston Rockets.

“We have decided not to match Houston’s offer sheet for restricted free agent Omer Asik,” Bulls general manager Gar Forman said Tuesday morning. “It was a difficult decision because Omer did a nice job for us. Matching the offer for Omer could have put us in a difficult position going forward in trying to acquire high level talent. We wish Omer good luck and continued success.”



Asik is expected to be the starting center in Houston along with fellow free agent Jeremy Lin at point guard, who went to Houston when the Knicks didn’t match his free agency offer, similar to Asik’s at about $25 million for three years with a payment of about $15 million in the third season.

At that amount, Asik in his third season would have been the second highest paid player on the Bulls roster after only Rose despite still being a backup center behind Joakim Noah.

So with Taj Gibson, who will be a restricted free agent after next season and a priority to resign, it would be difficult to see how Asik would be getting more playing time. Asik has been developing into a solid defensive presence. But he only averaged 3.1 points and shot 45.6 percent on free throws. And, especially without Rose at least the first part of the season, the Bulls’ needs will be on the offensive side.

The Bulls are expected to sign veteran center Nazr Mohammed. Mohammed, from Chicago’s Kenwood High School, averaged 2.7 points in 11 minutes per game for Oklahoma City last season compared with Asik’s 3.1 in 14.7 minutes per game.

But with Asik’s absence, the likelihood is Gibson would get more playing time above his 20.4 minutes per game. Smaller front lines have been more common in the NBA these days with Miami winning the title last season not using a traditional center in most of the playoffs and Finals. Thus matching teams with more offensive firepower would seem to have an increasing priority.

Asik is a loss. But in the end he seemingly would have been too costly to retain. By keeping that huge third year salary on the payroll, as the Knicks also realized with Lin, it could have created internal tensions with a little used bench player one of the team’s highest paid players. But more importantly, it would have inhibited the Bulls’ ability to add key pieces to the roster once Rose is at full health.

Obviously, the loss of Rose is the major setback heading into next season. There is no replacing a league MVP. But it still appears despite the loss of Asik and members of the so called Bench Mob — Kyle Korver, Ronnie Brewer and C.J. Watson — the Bulls have been able to put together a solid bench to support the likely returning starters of Noah, Carlos Boozer, Luol Deng and Richard Hamilton.

The Bulls signed veteran and longtime Bull Kirk Hinrich to start at point guard until Rose returns. The key with Hinrich is he can both play backup point guard behind Rose and play shooting guard with Rose. Hinrich will meet media Tuesday afternoon at the Berto Center. There were few players available of those skills and the Bulls were fortunate to get Hinrich, who was in demand elsewhere.

The Bulls also are expected to sign Marco Belinelli, a 6-5, 26-year-old shooting guard who is a career 39 percent three point shooter and averaged in double figures the last two seasons starting for New Orleans. He makes up for the loss of Korver with his outside threat and is more athletic and considered a better defender. And given his age he is a player whom the Bulls could move forward with if he proves effective.

Jimmy Butler was one of the best players at summer league and will step in for Brewer. Going into his second season, it is clear Butler had to play. And he likely gives the Bulls a better offensive option than Brewer with a strong defensive possibility.

There’s little doubt around the NBA that Hinrich is a major improvement over Watson. Watson signed for a minimum contract with the Nets and Hinrich was in demand for salaries much higher as the Bulls used a big part of their mid level exception for Hinrich.

The Bulls have also signed veteran big man, Vladimir Radmanovic, a so called stretch four with his long distance shooting ability. The role is also becoming more important in the NBA these days. Radmanovic is a career 38 percent three point shooter and in five of his seasons he has shot better than 40 percent on threes. Essentially with the depth of the current bench, he’ll be replacing Brian Scalabrine, who while popular was not considered a regular producer.

With Rose’s contract extension starting this season, the Bulls with the new additions will be in the luxury tax and still have one of the top five payrolls in the league. But had they matched Asik’s contract, it could have severely hampered them in future flexibility for free agents. Plus, they’ll have the $5 million exception in the trade of Korver that could net them a higher level player next summer when Rose is returning.

 

99% of people mean no dis respect and are just trying to be funny. Some may even see it as a term of endearment.

You've been around here long enough, you should realize sometimes this place is like a bad night on Letterman,where he repeats the same gag over and over.Hell there's still posters repeating stuff that wasn't even that funny 10 years ago.

 

you are probably the only one who uses "murray" that way.

 

Nope, me too.

http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?t=206531

 

Awesome. This guy is a top defensive center. Great pick up by Morey.

 

No...

 

Yep, young highly skilled rim protector. Morey's been chasing one for years, and he finally struck gold.

 

Murray is the best GM eva! :grin:

 

Top defensive we will see about that you must be talking about out of all back up centers in the nba.

 

I'm pretty pumped about our season. Whether or not we get Howard, I'm happy we got Asik. I definitely think his defense will make him worth his contract. As long as he keeps getting garbage buckets, I really don't care too much if he ever develops offensively, however, if he could get a hook shot in his arsenal, that'd be nice.

 

Let's see what you can do Asik. Let's pray Worrell and company won't come up with lame ass nicknames. We already know Americans are horrible at announcing names that are non-English. It's not asheek, it's: http://nl.forvo.com/word/a%C5%9F%C4%B1k/

We should get Turkoglu from the Magic, terrible contract I know, and have ourselves a Turkish duo

 

My Turkish friend really loves Asik.

 

Thanks Rockets2K

 

Awesome!! We got a young defensive center!!

 

Carl Herrera faints....


In a good way.