Brooks probably wouldn't like Beverly very much. Beverly is too much like Lowry when he was off the bench.
You don't sign a veteran PG as a trade piece. That doesn't make sense. Let's go out and sign Derek Fisher and then trade him back to the Lakers! Who does that make sense to? Brooks value will come from vet leadership and believe me he will crack into Beverly's and maybe even some on Lin's minutes. We need a good shooter to pair with Harden. Brooks can be streaky at times and his pace will be a welcomed addition.
That's what you think. Morey is collecting unguaranteed and partial guaranteed contracts. He took 2 off the Kings. Why do you think he did that? Don't look for either Garcia or Honeycutt to get cut. If there is a big added to this team at a later date it will most likely be at the expense of James Anderson....for the same reason I listed above. If Morey can pick another contract off the waiver wire scrap heap that fits into the remaining cap space we have left after the Brooks' contract, watch him cut James Anderson and make it happen. I expect Brooks will get our $2.575 exception, which can be pro-rated, with a team option for next season. Then if another player guy with a $2 million or so contract with a non-guaranteed deal for next year is waived sometime between now and the end of the season, look for Morey to drop Anderson and pick that player up off the waiver wire. Morey is stacking up non-guaranteed deals for a trade opportunity early in the offseason.
AB would fit right in...no defense need, just finish at the rim and take open 3's...AB is really hard to keep in front, cause he is so darn fast... I wonder if he will be able to work something out with TRob to get his #0 back?? who knows...Maybe he'lll be
Garcia has a team option that will not be picked up. There is no non-guaranteed salary as part of his contract. Delfino must be waived by June 30 or his contract is guaranteed. That leaves only a small handful of tiny non-guaranteed contracts. A drop in the bucket compared to the Rockets' cap room. You are reading WAYYY too much into things, IMO. Yes. By agreeing to a buyout last night, he just BARELY made it in before the cutoff where players waived from teams are no longer playoff-eligible with their new teams.
You know, I'm going to take back this post. The more I think about it, the more I can see Brooks getting rotation minutes from Beverley and Delfino. This organization is one of the best in the business at taking scrap heap players (Lowry, Chase, Landry) dressing them up, playing them, and then trading them for something of value. If we indeed sign Brooks to our MLE deal with that team option for the second year, he's essentially an expiring contract, tradable after the season, that if we can get in the rotation and make look good, could become attractive to another team to trade for. To go along with what I'm saying, Delfino's run in the small ball lineups appears to becoming back to center. He's been great for us all season but he can't defend anybody either and DMo is proving to be even more versatile than he is offensively and there is no way that DMo for as bad as he is defensively is worse than Delfino defensively trying to defending 4s. Tobias Harris just ate Delfino's lunch last night. Dude can't defend, especially in isolations and teams are starting to pound us with isos when he's on the court. So, with that being the case, and knowing we really aren't contending for a championship this season, and knowing that the guy we really want to retain long-term at the point is Beverley.....I am changing my original forecast. I think Brooks is going to wind up getting significant rotation minutes on this team, probably around 20 or so. McHale will shave down Beverley, Lin, Harden, and Delfino and come up with 20 minutes for Brooks.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Spurs say guard Tony Parker is expected to be out for approximately four weeks with a Grade 2 left ankle sprain.</p>— Marc J. Spears (@SpearsNBAYahoo) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpearsNBAYahoo/status/307921586801999872">March 2, 2013</a></blockquote> I could see the spurs signing him before us. Bima, has anything been finalized in terms of where he will sign next or can he still sign with another team?
I think you may not be digging deep enough into the options that Morey has in regards to Garcia's contract. Just delving into extensions, renegotiations, etc. in the CBA, it appears to me that there is an opportunity to get Garcia to agree to a renegotiated deal that would put a little bit more of guaranteed money in his pocket in order to have his contract on hand to trade as a non-guaranteed deal. You are an attorney. I'm sure you can read through there and come up with more solid info and understanding than my little pea brain can. And perhaps I am all wrong. But right now I am of the belief that Morey can renegotiate that contract to benefit Garcia with a few extra dollars and benefit us by having it available to trade as basically an expiring non-guaranteed deal.
This will not happen. Please don't give others on this BBS the impression that this has even a remote chance of happening. You are chasing rainbows here. At some point, a move is just a move. Your penchant for reading so much into things tends to cloud your (otherwise good) basketball intellect. Please stop. Thanks!
You know a move is not just a move. It's about what options that move creates for other moves. It's all about the next move. So you have to give consideration to everything. And everything includes understanding the big picture and what the brightest possibilities are this offseason, that being the acquisition of not one but two superstar players to go with Harden. Every move Morey has made came out of nowhere and seems to catch most of us blind. You just admitted as much with this latest trade. And yet, we know what the endgame is. You better than most. When you know the endgame, you have to consider all the possibilities of getting there. My point has been and remains it makes more sense to make trades for superstars than to hollow out the cap and sign them outright...especially when you consider the possibility of synergizing 2 max guys together with another max guy. Just remember #60 and #62 on cbafaq.com Ok, I'll stop. ;:grin: But if it happens what are you going to say then?
I don't think the Rockets actually needed Brooks. Morey just went for some reverse meta poison signing move so that the Spurs or Lakers don't get him.
