It exacerbates a weakness while "improving" a strength that we are pretty much maxed out it. So no, it doesn't make sense.
It depends on what you think is more valuable: 48 minutes of rim protection or a true stretch 4 and a perfect compliment to Dwight Howard. There is a lot of money tied up in the Center position right now.
Either one benefits the team greatly and may be just enough to push us over the top. At some point the team will start to gel and then the real fireworks begin.
Yuuuuuup. Or...since Granger wants out of Indiana, now that he's lost his starting spot. How about a 3 way Asik trade with NO?
The Rockets already traded Morris, Patterson & Robinson largely due to having Jones, showing they are high on him. Jones is not going to be traded. Smith has the most experience of any true PF on the team. Last year he did an excellent job defensively against Blake Griffin. Jones & D-Mo might move ahead of him on the depth chart, but even then, the ability to defend strong PFs is very important & valuable. The Rockets aren't trading him just to add an outside shooter. Plus, the PF position isn't going to be weak that much longer imo. Remember, last year at this time people were still questioning what kind of player Chandler Parsons was going to be for the Rockets.
I wouldn't want to give up Jones, but Smith for PPat would be nice. Maybe we'd have to throw in something else? We have a whole bunch of 2nd rounders. Cousins has repeatedly said he'd like a defensive bruiser next to him in the frontcourt, and Smith looks to turn into that. And they're lacking a back up center. He could play some with Cousins and some beside Cousins. Cousins says that he's a 4, so if Smith becomes the sort of player I think he will, he could start beside Cousins at center eventually.
The problem here is you don't really have a "glaring weakness" that is improved by getting Ryan Anderson. We have a surplus of SFs who could play PF on the squad, any one of Garcia, Parsons, Casspi and Covington can play the stetch 4 role at the same level as Anderson does, any to mention we also have 2 "real" PFs in D-Mo and Terrence Jones who could be making the leap into full time starter this year. The Rox definitely have a great strength right now...we're the only team in the NBA who can put out 48 or more mins of elite paint protection. If you're gonna trade Asik and lose that strength just so you can get a starting PF, it better for someone better than Parsons at PF.
Playing Omer Asik alongside Dwight Howard will fail. Both can't hit jumpers/space the floor nor shoot free throws. Teams will just clog the paint which will take away penetrations from Harden and Lin. Ryan Anderson doesn't make sense to you but keeping Omer who's bound to only get 15-18 minutes per game as a backup center does? Not to mention that this will eventually become an issue because we know, experts know, and he himself knows that he is a legit starting NBA center who should be getting starters minutes. Such a waste of $8 million.
I can see a small deal for some Channing Frye if we can't do anything major. Love would be great, Illyasova too. LaMarcus or Horford very good. But Channing Frye off the bench couldn't hurt.
The healed Channing Frye for ? He is paid 6.4 per for 2 more years. That may not seem major but with 2 max contracts on the roster it would hurt if he is not the player he once was. For this reason IMO we should PASS on this one.
Can't agree. Morris was traded because he wasn't the answer at PF. 2Pat because otherwise he'd be entering the 4th year of his rookie deal and his trade value diminishes, and he was traded for Robinson who Morey thought would be easier to trade this summer in case he needed the cap space for Dwight (which is what happened). Personally I think Jones will be our starting 4 to start the season and has a great chance to keep that spot, but to say the Rockets traded the above players because they're set on Jones is most definitely wrong. They're still trying to find out if Jones or DMo or someone else would be the answer. As for Greg Smith, really like him, but unless his D improves he's not going to be the solution at the 5, and he's not a stretch 4 either (not even mid-range game). I can see playing Asik in a twin towers lineup because he brings so much defensively, but not Greg Smith. And you can't compare his situation with Parsons's. Parsons was a starter a few games in and easily cemented his starting position with a solid all-round game that was a more consistent jumpsho away from being an above average starting SF in the league.
7 mill on a locker room, that's cool but if you want the championships don't be afraid to spend a ill extra on luxury taxes too, les needs to wake up can't be cheap having morey make all these trades to stay under the cap to bring in Howard having ppat/jones/asik all at PF spot going into this season would make our chances sound way better right now, dmo/smith/camby would not be needed at that point that's a ill cap room right there, but morey can't do no wrong in most tall eyes so I maybe preaching to the choir right now but someone has to feel me
Had to make moves to sign Howard. Has nothing to do with being cheap. There's no way we could have kept Patterson and Jones.
never going to happen but ALL TEAMS get better: http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=k77czk4 Rockets in Amir Johnson & Kentavious Caldwell-Pope out Asik, D-Mo, & Canaan Toronto in Jonas Jerebko, D-Mo,& Canaan out Johnson Orlando in Asik out Afflalo Detroit in Arron Afflalo out KCP & Jerebko
Saw this on rantsports: Rockets IN: Thaddeus Young, 1st round pick via Wizards. 76ers IN: Emeka Okafor Wizards IN: Omer Asik
