Is it possible for Morey to sign both Howard and Millsap if he clears off Robinson? I'm wondering if this is more his plan than signing Paul. It seems to me a bit more like a Morey thing to do. Especially with Les wanting the Asian money from Lin, which evidently, is rolling in. Howard will get the max and Millsap will get what is left over which should be significant. 2013 - 2014 Roster P.G. - Lin / Beverley S.G - Harden / Anderson S.F. - Parsons / Jones P.F. - Millsap / Motiejunas ..C. - Howard / Asik / Smith Is that a totally unrealistic possibility?
You know what, the clippers played a combination of Ryan hollins and Ronnie turiaf in the 4th quarter and majority of second half anyway. At least asik can get some rebounds. Not for cp3 though...but I assume that is obvious. Maybe for Caron butler. Parsons is on clippers radar too so maybe we can flip Bledsoe and butler for asik and parsons.
Why would we do that trade? and again, unless the clippers can get rid of Jordan why would they get asik? Unless they're trying to pay one of them to be a backup, which wouldn't make any kind of sense.
It doesn't make any sense to pay deandre $10 mil to sit on the bench, but that's what vinny del negro did in almost every game. Maybe the new coach will work deandre in during second half, but until he figures out how to shoot a free throw, he's sort of a liability. Asik is a good rebounder and would start for clippers. You'd do that trade only if you get Howard. But you'd get a nice pg in Bledsoe to manage the offense. Oh, clippers would be willing to take lins contract off the rockets hands too. Without asik and Lin, rockets can maybe go after David west.
i don't think that's worth it for us. yes asik would be redudant with dwight, but im not high on bledsoe as others. his negatives are the same ones lin has next to harden. asik for bledsoe is more than fair imo. downgrading from parsons to butler is overkill. ideally in an asik deal, we'd either get space to sign a 4 with future incentive, or we'd get a 4 ala ryan anderson or somethin.
That's not the point. We are going to maxed out in cap space if we sign both Howard and CP3 on max deals and our team is going to look like your NY's and Miami. It may be a pipe dream but if the 3 of Harden, Howard, and CP3 can cover anywhere around $48m-$50m, that will give us a lot of breathing room to sign other players that aren't total scrubs. Lebron, Wade, and Bosh all took pay cuts to play together. I think Howard and CP3 needs to consider this if they are really serious about winning championships.
Bledsoe was a very inconsistent player last year, but like griffin, his athleticism is off the charts. There are games where he and Jamal Crawford just took over and the fans at staples were upset that cp3 was put back in. He's like a poor mans Russell Westbrook. If the rockets want to run next year, Bledsoe would be a perfect fit. But I suppose that would put Dwight back to square 1...except he would be in Houston instead of la. Parsons will probably spend the summer in la and ask fegan for possibilities. Getting Bledsoe now for him would be better than getting nothing next year. Butler is a serviceable sf and he has an expiring contract.
Asik and Dwight could work very well if Asik can pass. Some high pick and roll would work great between these two. Also their combined defensive presence should boost Rockets to top 15 at minimum if we can stop turning the ball over.
One thing that sort of worked for the lakers last year, after spending the first half figuring out what Dwight was good at, was running a high pick and roll to gasol and then he would dump it to Dwight for a dunk if his man comes off. If asik can come off a pick and roll, then they can try too. Howard doesn't seem to move without the ball very well. Kobe and Nash seemed to be coaching him on the court on pick and roll a lot this season and it didn't help. Plus, I kept reading that Hakeem worked with Howard on post moves. Doesn't seem Howard comprehends very well because he kept getting the ball stripped on the post.
Now even Forbes is saying this... http://www.forbes.com/sites/leighst...ll-howard-leave-lakers-how-could-this-happen/
Bledsoe is just getting a cheaper Jeremy Lin for one year, then Bledsoe gets paid and it's a copycat of Jeremy Lin, and all we'd have to give up is our starting 3, good deal. If players got traded based on whims, Dwight would be in Brooklyn right now, although in Dwight's case, we actually have a fairly good idea that's what he wanted.
We get it -- you have a boner for Bledsoe. Thankfully, Morey doesn't seem to agree with your assessment.
What we could do is not even trade Asik for a PF, but for a servicable(3rd/4th scorer caliber) swingman, cap filler(expiring), and 1st round pick possibly. Just an above average swingman that can get it done. Like a Wilson Chandler and Nuggets future first round pick, then our end of game lineups is Dwight, Chandler, Chandler, Harden, Lin. I think our best 5 will be our small ball five where Parsons plays some 4, or we find a swingman that can step in right there. Kind of like how we want Asik, Parsons, Garcia, Harden, Beverely. Then for the mean time, D-Mo can start at PF for 20-25mpg and stretch the floor. It'd make us more cap flexible and give us another asset, directly. While also allowing us to develop Terrence & Donatas to help their value, indirectly. If we pigeon hole a trade of Asik for a stretch 4(like Ryan Anderson), we aren't seeing it from a macro level perspective. Just my two cents. I think Morey sees that too, or perhaps a better one. Yeah, probably that, a better one. My version: Dwigh/Greg Smith D-Mo/Chandler Parsons/Chandler Harden/Lin Lin/Beverely Pretty good 8-man rotation.
Except Bledsoe has shown that when Paul is out injured, he's not very good at managing the offense. Extended minutes for Bledsoe is bad. Off the bench pace of change guy, yes, with great athleticism and defense. But he'll be overpaid by someone for a role bigger than he has shown to be able to handle
According to Olajuwon, there was only one place Howard wanted to be last summer and that was la and playing for the lakers. There was no talk of Brooklyn or Dallas. Are you calling Hakeem a lier? The nets are like new York version of the clippers. Although I did see the nets play the warriors at Barclay center which was a pretty nice arena, its still no Madison square garden. And many New Yorkers wouldn't be caught dead in Brooklyn.
