The team will be completely different next year I suspect. The offensive strategy would change--more post-ups and less read and react, pace slowing down, etc..
Marc Spears is full of ****. Somebody will take Thomas Robinson. Just have a look at Spurstalk. Those fools are talking about picking him up for a future 2nd and Bonner. We could then waive Bonner for a savings of approximately $2 million. I don't think that would help us, but it illustrates that teams would be willing to pick him up. It's just a matter of who could help us clear the most space.
I think the opposite if they sign DH. He will be traded by the 3rd year if he brings back Linsanity simply the Rockets can not afford him. Otherwise, he'll stay until the contract expired. No team will pay him 15M for a cap hold of just 8.3m.
I may not be paying enough attention, but why are people discussing sign and trade ideas still? The sign and trade is not needed anymore with the new collective bargaining agreement correct? At least in D12's case. The only reason to do it would be to add a 5th year for D12's new deal, which would almost certainly be a player option, Dwight would demand it, leaving himself the opportunity to opt out of his deal at the age of 31 so that he can guarantee himself the most leverage to sign what will be his last max contract if he is still performing at an expected high level. There is NO benefit for any team to sign and trade for D12 because he GUARANTEED be opting out of the final year of that 5 year contract that LA could offer. I recently saw numbers somewhere showing that a 4-year contract comparison between LA and Houston actually shows that Houston can provide a comparable monetary deal given the lack of state tax in Texas and the infinitely better situation D12 would be moving into if he came to a young, up and coming Rockets squad with tons of cap space, tons of young, highly-talented players on great contracts, great front office planning(unlike the Lakers who basically threw away all their decent draft picks until 2017 for what amounts to a 2/3 of a year rental for a still injured and healing Dwight and the rest of their picks between now and '17 for an injury prone Steve Nash that cannot run the offense he specializes in with the over the hill teammates Lakers' front office surrounded him with. Trading for Dwight and Nash would have put the Lakers into title contention every year for the last 3 years if these trades had been done at the CORRECT time, 3+ years ago when both main players were still capable and performing at their career averages, at dominating levels. No reason to trade Lin, no need. I personally don't think we should help the Lakers out of the jam their endless greed has gotten them into. No trade, just outright FA signing.
No. Under the new CBA Dwight cannot get the 5th year through a SnT. The only way he can get the 5 year deal is to resign with LA. There are other reasons to do a SnT for Howard though. The most obvious reason would be if the Rockets wanted to retain their cap space to try and sign Chris Paul.
Why would Lin's future here be in jeopardy because of Howard? I'm not seeing the connection. I suppose if the Lakers wanted Lin and we were more keen on Robinson and/or there was another free agent we wanted to sign to a mid-sized contract, then we could. But, it doesn't seem terribly likely. Even if Lin couldn't co-exist with Howard for some inexplicable reason, we'd probably get fuller value by trading him to some other team.
I don't believe he would be in jeopardy because of a Howard acquisition. I believe that him being in jeopardy is somehow related to Harden's gang signs.
I hope so. That would cancel out all of the trade Robinson talk. This kid deserves a chance to blossom.
I don't know how many times more this needed to be explained. If we get Howard, it would be a luxury to keep Asik. So they will not play together here. Period. Asia will be heading out of Houston the day we trade for Howard.
If the best PnR coach cannot get Kobe and Howard to work out PnR, why would you think it will work for Harden and Howard under MaHale?
I don't think Rockets will go Beverly with Howard. I believe Howard wants to play with Lin because he knows he can get more shots playing with him. I think on, or by June 27th, TRob will be an ex-Rockets, the day of the draft.
Why don't we just pay the tax? Brooklyn and LA are already 30 mill over the cap and they don't give ****s
true I can actually see us dealing with the spurs. In regarding Matt Bonner : " 2013-2014 3,945,000 - - 3,945,000 2014-2015 UFA 2013 $1 million guaranteed, fully if not waived on or before 06/29/13" per: http://www.spotrac.com/nba/san-antonio-spurs/matt-bonner/ We could trade T-Rob for Bonner before July, decline his option and only eat 1 million which would put the total cap savings at 2.9 million. That + stretching whites salary or trading White + 2.1 cash million. Should be enough to sign Howard to the max. Now what they would give us I am not sure, but I am confident that if T-Rob went to the spurs. They would develop him, and get the most out of him. He would replace everything they will lose with Blaire and more.
