Why is everyone so sure we wanted DH? The overriding strategy of the office was always to find superstars, trading for one of them is only one of the options. The other option is draft, and while DM is willing to take risks, the fact that you'd trade the number 2 pick in a deep draft for a rental is just ridiculous in its face. If you looked at Clutch and Bima's "intel" right after the draft they said the FO was extremely high on MKG. To be quite honest I'd be ok on the deal, Dmo, MKG, Lin, Asik and PPat seems a decent core.
We don't know... but if they had two different things up on that board for the Rockets (one with Lowry and the other with the #8 pick instead of Lowry), I tend to think they are offers the Rockets put out there. I would think the Rockets relayed info that suggested getting 8 instead of Lowry was a possibility.
For those of you thinking we would trade all of our first round picks and include Lowry and Parsons for MKG then trade him for Howard are insane. We could have given up all that for howard after the draft and it would have been a much better offer than the one they actually got. My opinion.......that is way to much to give up for MKG.
I'm not really sure about that. Other than Parsons, what among those would have returned a core player? We would have been left with a core of Asik, Lin and MKG...that's honestly not bad.
Its not really about Parsons really. I just think Parsons is a great 2nd round pick and I think he would be like a Shane Battier type player but more athletic and more aggressive on the offensive end. But it would be a lot to give up just for MKG. MKG has the potential to be a good player but losing Parsons, Lamb, White and Jones seem to be too much. But it wouldn't be bad either. It would of really sucked if the Rockets got the 2nd round pick and drafted MKG with it and shipped him out to Orlando for Howard.
Yea that contract of Thomas is really bad. But can they just move the contract when its on the expiring year? It seems a lot of money but if MKG does turn out to be a star, that would be a big first step of acquiring a cornerstone and the Rockets could just move some pieces around.
Good thing we didn't do those, the level of talent in this draft was pretty much the same from 2-20. Read articles saying how teams only had Davis as Tier 1 and one team had the guys from 2-16(something in that range) in the same tier. Is MKG really a safer pick than Lamb? Will Thompson or Drummond turn out way better than Lamb, Jones or White? I heavily doubt it. In this draft having our three picks seemed far better than having one top 8 pick.
I'm thinking it was drummond. Drummond has superstar talent, mkg doesn't. If the rockets wanted to get that high, I'm thinking a 6'11 270lbs 18 yr old center,not a position less mkg. JMO
That was the word. I got a few people on the detroit side and are very tuned in,once drummond was coming down, they were gonna draft him. He was their top rated player on the board. He and monroe are a perfect fit together. The rockets probably knew something close. Once drummond hit a little slide, pistons were not going anywhere which is kinda rare for them.
The whole thing about this trade being for Howard is something that is very contradictory to what was reported later. We were supposedly offering just 2/3 rookies in addition to the Toronto pick, so basically Lowry, and maybe our own pick. People will say they lowered their offer based on summer league play but I highly doubt if the Rockets were serious about getting Howard they were going to play hardball about keeping Parsons and the three rookies when they offered them for the #2 pick. We can all agree Howard is better than any1 not named Davis in the draft right? It is a lot to give up for a #2nd round pick but who knows how high they were on MKG / Drummond or some1 else.
Unless the Pistons wanted Thomas Robinson. In which case we could have drafted him and traded him for Andre Drummond when the Pistons got him plus a future first.
Yes, but getting Howard at the draft is a much greater advantage than later in the offseason because it was BEFORE free agency and before the Rockets got to see what they had first hand in Dmo, Lamb, Jones, etc. Having Howard going into free agency perhaps makes you change your mind on Lee, Camby, Dragic and Scola. I firmly believe they would give up more at the draft than after free agency, since it was only one guaranteed year of Howard.
