Rockets have been offered a 1st round pick for Thomas Robinson (UPDATE: So much for "imminent")

Lets hope so. Lets hope they will be able to trade Robinson and do not have to resort to dumping an actual rotation player for salary purpose.

 

During the press conference a few minutes ago. Feigan was referring to moving Thomas Robinson obviously.

http://www.nba.com/rockets/morey-live-post-draft

If you see his reaction to the question, it seems like he's VERY confident in this getting done.


Also-

Pay attention to what he notes at the 7:20 mark. He says something about how Canaan fits into "The Situation We Are About to Be In" and needing floor spacing.

 

Werd.....

 

So was it better to keep Patterson, Douglas, and Aldrich ? They were expiring contracts this summer. Now we have a player (former #5 draft pick) that Morey can't seem to get rid of.

 

Feigen:

http://blog.chron.com/ultimaterockets/2013/06/rockets-take-isaiah-canaan-guard-from-murray-state/

 

^^^

"The expectation, however, was that they could get more in return before or during the draft than in the coming weeks."

So, does this mean Carl Herrera was right? Give up people. CH is right.

 

Well, well, well Carl ends the night on a high note.:grin:

 

That's always been the case. After June 30 any leverage disappears and the other teams from that point only see desperation.

 

and it didn't happen. Thus...

 

It's no secret what we're trying to do.

And desperation can be a two way street.

 

If the Rockets truly de-valued him, they would have dumped his salary for a 2nd rounder, but they realize he's worth more than that and that he's a bird in the hand, so to speak. Too bad for him that he's redundant on the Rockets.

 

lols.

get your "action" verbs, right.

that's not what we are saying at all. We are saying the Rockets over-valued him and the league de-valued him.

that's been, pretty much, proven.

 

Not necessarily, it could mean Morey doesn't want to move Robinson unless absolutely has to in order to sign Howard. If anything it tells me Morey is not certain Howard will sign, and if the Rockets fail to sign Howard or Paul, the Rockets will not be giving anyone the maximum.

 

Hell no, never.

 

I think it means that the Rockets have a deal agreed to on the proviso they get Dwight. They don't need to execute it until Dwight fills up the space. Old Man Rock has a brilliant analysis on the draft thread that it's the Spurs pick: French guy Visio that we'll trade T-Rob and White for. Visio is euro stash that doesn't make sense for the Spurs to sign. Once Dwight commits, we execute the trade. VOILA! Done.

 

Ha why am I mad? This all proved I know my stuff. And no offense but it proved you know nothing.

 

All sounds positive. I'd rather take a worse deal for Robinson if/when Howard commits, than trade him now for a slightly better deal and end up empty handed.

I think people are finding it hard to believe that Robinson is a guy the organization would like to keep UNLESS we need the cap space to land a superstar. Dude is an athletic, hard working, very good rebounder. Why would we give up on that? What are we, the Kings?

 

I'm quite sure most posters understand that a propsect like Robinson is more valuable leading up to the draft than afterwards. But that doesn't change the fact that the Rockets were very limited in what they can trade him for in this draft.

It had to be a Euro player the Rockets like. Said Euro player must not be coming over next season. Said Euro player must be available at the pick the Rockets can obtain for Robinson. And the team that owns said draft pick must not want anyone on the board over Robinson.

So while technically Robinson's value before the draft may be higher right now, but that's pointless if we can't actually use this value to do anything.

 

I think my first post was right, rook.

Many teams over the cap will not be under the cap until free agency officially begins. Therefore, they cannot trade their first round picks without sending out salary. We do NOT want any salary in return. The Spurs are the team I have been saying all along are the team to do this trade with.

Take your I told you so to Carl Herrera. He still believes we need to trade a pick to shed Thomas Robinson's $3.5 million deal.

 

That's what you're saying. CH is saying TRob has no value and we will have to pay someone to take him. Maybe he is right but nothing that happened last night proves that. And if you believe Morey and I do the Rockets do not want to trade TRob until they have to or even if they have too. Which would mean they do not believe he is the pathetic player that CH claims him to be.

Which brings us to the stupid position CH holds onto, That Trob is worthless specimen of an NBA player. And that is just a stupid position to hold onto considering his pure athleticism and rebounding ability. TRob may never reach his potential and may not make it in this league but there is no way to know that after one season and anyone who thinks they know that already is just stupid. What we do know is TRob is already more explosive around the basket than PPat and a better rebounder and he is 2 years younger than PPat so it is not far fetched to inspect improvement just as PPat improved.

There in lies the stupidity of CH's thinking. Agree or disagree on Trob's ceiling but to say he has already reached at this stage and is worthless is just stupid.