LaMarcus Aldridge Could Inevitably Become Available Soon

If we somehow miraculously get LMA, I will be ecstatic. James Harden was my favorite non-rocket player and after we acquired him LMA is right up there. Only two other (non-top 5 talent/ realistic) players added to this team would make me as happy as acquiring him (Love and Rubio, who shouldn't be available.)

LMA is perfect. He would spread the court allowing A) more rebound opportunities for Asik B) more penetration room for Lin/ Harden C) more defenders away from the arc allowing someone like Parsons or Delfino to get more open looks.

 

He is too old for this team. We have plenty of PFs we can develop. Rockets only trade for him if they believe they can get him cheap and flip him for a profit later.

 

27 is not old for a big man. Dream didn't win his first title until he was 31. If healthy he still has 5-7 good years left.

 

Since when did 27 become old?

Flip him for profit???.... what would you consider profit??... He's already a top 5 NBA PF, and possibly a top 10 NBA big man at least offensively. When you trade an all-star player, do you think you are really going to get something more valuable coming back??

 

27 IS NOT OLD...ARE YALL ON CRACK?!

lebron, bosh, melo are ALL 27 or older!!!!!!!!

 

IIRC the rules make it so the old team could sign him for more money. It's also the reason why Houston was willing to gamble for Dwigh Howard/Bosh/Melo, cuz we could sign them for 5 years, other teams only 4.

So the reality is we won't be able to pry him away from Minny via FA, we'd have to trade for him first and then resign him, just like what we did with Harden.

 

It's a bit old if the rest of your team is 23 years old. More importantly LBJ, Bosh, Melo don't have back injuries which could become chronic in a couple of years.

 

LMA available? At what cost? Would he be good for the developing Rockets offense which has 4 players beyond the 3 point line? Would he make the Rockets a contender given what they would have to give up to obtain him?

Basically, what is the purpose of this thread? Why did you even start it? What was the point? Can you please think twice before posting trivial nonsense?

 

Those three are good examples of what I would call "damaged goods". Lowry and Bogut attack the basket a lot and their bodies can't take their style of play. With Lowry he's had a rolled ankle, back spasms and another injury last year I can't remember. Bogut broke his arm prior to his injury. Boozer...he's always having one injury or another. Anyway he's a loozer, I'll never forget how he bamboozled the old Cavs owner.

My point is the same with LMA, prior to him being Patterson 2.0, he was actually really deadly on the PNR with Brandon Roy, and perhaps carrying that load has taken its toll on his body. I don't really wanna be on the receiving end and find out, esp. when he's having a down year and we'd have to trade young amazing PFs to get him.

Also despite all the tsk tsks you've been givng on my examples don't have a "cautionary tale" counter of a player who was an injury risk but then became healthy after the trade. Howard's still the best you can come up with and he was traded for a worse player health-wise.

 

Then you are commenting about hypothetical assets we might have years from now compared to what other teams will have. There is no guarantee that we even have one of the better packages for love that far down the line. Right now we can sell potential for an all star and I think it's best to act when you can.

 

What about a three way trade for cousins? How would he fit with asik?

 

Aren't you the one saying it's only 2 years away though? We currently have the best combination of assets, capspace and picks. Not hard to figure out that it'll be the same 2 years from now, esp. if we get the lottery pick this year.

If LMA was playing at an all star level and didn't have these crazy ass chronic injuries then yes you trade for him now. But that's not the case at all, LMA's playing at a career low and he's been having some back problems and whatnot.

Point is we have the luxury of time right now, with Harden only being 23 years old. Rather than blowing all your assets on what might be a balky star, why not wait around for a better deal. You don't know when a deal will come up, and if DM wasn't so patient all these years then we wouldn't have Harden on the team right now.

 

Where is this "Howard is the best you can come up with stuff" coming from? I used him as an example that you could understand that even bad back injuries are not career enders, let alone just nagging ones like Aldridge's.

Did you not realize we were talking about the backs of giant seven foot men when you went on this tangent about point guards rolling ankles or the Bogut arm injury? [Which, don't ever, ever google for that video. You've been warned.]

Did you really want to expand the discussion to NBA big men who have recovered and are playing just fine after serious injuries? We need look no further than Al Jefferson, a player who ClutchFans bromances over frequently. Were you aware that Big Al tore his ACL a few years back, but is still playing at a high level, and his own injury "history" evidently hasn't deterred Rockets fans from targeting him for trades?

If my time were somehow worthless, I could name hundreds of other players who have recovered from serious injuries and have gone on to have successful careers, not because I'm The Man when it comes to that sort of trivia or something, but because recovery is the norm, not the exception--especially when it comes to medical advances in this day and age.

If you think all of that is somehow refuted or negated by typing that "Carlos Boozer is a loozer" or something, I just don't know what to tell you.

 

I would love the trade but I just don't see it happening.

The way Asik has been playing I bet the blazers would want him in return and they would want youth in return.

 

Make "Player L" (my favorite player on the Rocks before he was amnestied) 6'11" or 7' tall and he's an All Star, IMO. I have mixed feelings about Aldridge. Would he make the Rockets better? In a vacuum, yes, but whether the team would be better would depend a lot on what we gave up to get him. It might be better to look elsewhere, like maybe among the young players we have now. I really want to see what Donuts ends up doing, and he isn't the only 4 we have on the bench who isn't playing.

 

Two years from now Jones and DMo might be busts. Morris might not be playing as well etc. As far as picks go, we already traded all of them so we wouldn't be giving them up in a deal for LMA.

 

Also, it's only been 14 games. He had the best shooting year of his career last year.

 

Personally, I want to wait a spell to see what we have in Motejunas. Asik, MoJu and Parsons could become a formidable front court with height, quickness, scoring and rebounding. Aldrich, 2Pat/Jones and Delfino are solid backups for them. Aso, if we are lucky enough and smart enough to draft Steve Adams, we will be stronger than goat's breath up front.

 

You can say this guy is a "better patterson", but he looked like a helluva lot more than that if the first game they played against us.

 

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