I wonder if Morey will make one last attempt at Pau. I know he said he wasn't interested anymore but with Daryl, you never know.
Those picks don't serve a purpose in a deal for a player like Rondo, but they do have purpose and there are good reasons why Morey and the other GM's agreed to this type of weird protection on them. Look a player like Anthony Morrow for example which could be a player Morey would trade for with using one of these picks. Picks like this, Cash and often Europrospect rights are used more as currency in deals for role players. Think of them as free tickets to make a trade... not as an actual chance to draft a player. Often what the other team is really trading for is about a million dollars or so in cash at least on top of the cash they are saving by trading that player. 2 million dollars is a drop in the bucket for some of these billionaires, but at the end of the day 2 million dollars saved is 2 million dollars earned to a smart business person.
LOL good idea. Dwight and Pau worked seamlessly in Los Angeles from what I remember. GET'R DONE MURRAY
Do the Rockets even need rookies the next 3 years if they get Rondo (or maybe Milsap)? - because that team is "ready to roll". Morey should trade whatever picks from those years to get a deal done while keeping Parsons. Anyway, late first rounders usually aren't NBA-ready, require 1 or 2 years to develop - even for the ones that make it. So maybe it's time to burn through future 1sts stupid team style. (But probably not the 2nds - Morey makes good use of them, while other teams value them at near nil.)
I'm sure there has been interest in the back of his mind, but I think at the end of the day, Morey knows that the success of this team is going to rely on James Harden and Dwight Howard with a system around them that makes them maximize their talent. Pau and Dwight could be dominant together, but not at the expense of the Rockets current style of play if you wanted to use Pau correctly in a high/low offensive set. If you didn't want to change the style of play, than you are basically trading a 8.4 million dollar a year defensive stopper backup center for a 19 million dollar a year offensive minded veteran backup center while giving up your 6th man in the trade as well..... I think its safe to say that Morey values his system, + defensive backup to Dwight + 6th man over the thought of going high/low with Dwight and Pau..... even though I'd LOVE to see them play in that system for a few games, and bring back the corner sets.
Morey don't play that... when you lose Yao and Tracy... have them sitting accounting for max money... you learn to stay flexible regardless of the circumstances.
He doesn't want our picks. We will have crap first rd picks as long as we have Harden and Howard. New York's second round picks we own offer more flexibility and almost as much value. Ainge wants lottery picks. He might just accept 1 and Bev and T Jones. But we still got to find that one. Morey's probably working on that now. But not many GM's would give up a potential lotto pick for Asik. Which is why there is talk of Parsons. I do believe it is just that, talk. But someone has to make concessions to make this work. It all comes down to how desperate Morey is to get Rondo or how desperate Ainge is to dump him. Let's see he blinks first.
I'm hoping we make a move sooner than later (tomorrow rather than Thursday). We really need to get Troy Daniels signed up, he is the sharp shooter we so need.
No way! That punk stays here I tell ya ! He's our liquid nails, every championship team needs liquid nails.
Not exactly, because if we had our first round picks then we could just turn a bad season into something good. Unlike the Knicks who can have a bad season and get nothing in return for it. I too do not think that Morey will trade away first round picks far into the future, maybe for next season the 2015 draft...but not far far into the future like the Knicks do.
I've been telling you for a long time that Rondo was a target going back to last February even before we acquired Dwight.
