Dumars didn't even present a contract to him lol. And trust me that meeting was not that long. All the executives know what the Rockets plans are we just don't know it until it happens. Dumars is playing the waiting game but make no mistake there will be a SnT to get Smoove to Houston.
Some guy tweeted that if we signed Dwight, the Hawks planned to do a S&T Smith for Asik. So maybe we could keep Lin in that scenario? Not sure on the salary situation with that.
Smart move. Why open yourself to endless unearned redicule? We've seen where that can lead to here. Thanks for clearing that up, The_Yoyo. Maybe folks will quit bugging RickSmith about it, at least until after Dwight signs on the dotted line, hopefully here. I've been wondering about Dwight's apparent interest in the Rocks signing a third "star." We'd have to move one or both of Lin and Asik to do so, best I can figure (depending on the contract). I thought Dwight really wanted to play with another big man like Asik, and that Omer was one of the draws of signing with Houston? Anything to that? In other words, would getting Smith be more of a plus in Dwight's eyes than having Asik take a big load off at the 5/4?
Hard to argue that we really had a "core" to begin with, outside of Harden. The rest of these dudes had "asset" stamped on their heads from jump street. I'm still surprised Parsons has turned so untouchable.
How good would our defense be with Howard and Smith though? That would pretty sweet. Honestly, if we can just get Smith to lower his 3-pt attempts it could definitely be a good fit. The thing is though, with the offense we ran last year, it relied on our 4 leaking out the the 3-pt. line so...
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Funny thing is, with Harden and Howard in the fold, Parsons is going to end up a borderline all-star feeding off of those two.
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/FFTHRY4-CtA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> "If Dwight goes to HOU, they would take the next step as being one of the elite teams.."- Magic Johnson
30% of the guys shots come from beyond the 3tp line and another 30% from midrange. You can live with the midrange shooting (but maybe not in this system), but not that 3pt shot. But, you'd think it'd be easy to correct that. Get it down to 15%. If you can do that you have a much more efficient player. I do worry about spacing a bit, he's not the perfect compliment to Howard but you can squash those problems if you build the roster correctly.
Dont think we can get smith under the cap if we just move Asik. We're right up against it having moved TRob and assuming Dwight signs. Smith will make more than Asik'$8 mil. We'd probably have to trim another $4 mil. No one is gonna take on Royce. Greg Smith only gets you $750,000 in relief. DMo and Jones have too much upside to dump for cap relief. Beverly is too goo of a value at $750,000. That basically just leaves Lin, who we'll have a hard time getting 0 salary back in return.
Would have been funny if Parsons said I am right here mofo and I will make 1/20th of what you will make for the next 2 seasons. No but seriously, Parsons as your potentially 4th best player is extremely enticing.
Agreed. The kid is marketing himself into a Houston main-stay like JJ Watt has. Carl Landry and Kyle Lowry both had extremely favorable contracts. That just gave them more value to trade destinations. We could dump Lin anywhere in the league as long as Parsons was attached to the deal. Or the draft pick we could trade him for. Unless LeBron or Durant are involved, he isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
