Rockets sign Trevor Ariza to 4-year, $32 million deal

Ariza for 8 > bosh for 20

I like the idea of having 3 long players on the floor together who can all shoot the 3 at a high level. I see Ariza as a 6-man of the year candidate. Curious to see what Morey's next move is. PG, C, PF?

 

Really good value on this contract, I think; $8M per is quite good considering the prices for 3-D wings, and also slots in very nicely to the trade exception generated by the Jeremy Lin trade if Washington is willing to S&T (and I can't see why they wouldn't, in order to generate a sizeable trade exception on a capped out team), so the Rockets can likely match Parsons and operate over the salary cap after Sunday. At this point, makes more sense to retain an $8.4M trade exception for Asik, and still have the mid-level exception to sign Troy Daniels to a long term deal, sign Nick Johnson to a 3-year deal, and perhaps bring over Papanikolau or sign a backup center.

Can't say I was a fan of Trevor Ariza the first time he was here, thought he rode a hot-shooting playoffs to an overpaid contract (wait a minute...), and personally loved the trade for Courtney Lee. But this time, it really does seem like the improvement in his shooting is real; over the last 3 years he's noticeably improved his free throw percentage, which correlates well to sustainable gains in long distance accuracy. I don't expect him to ever repeat his 59 TS% contract year masterpiece of last year, but 42/37/77 would basically be Carlos Delfino with defense and rim finishing capability, and that's a very fine addition.

As a replacement to Chandler, I can't get on board with that. As an addition, seems like a very good move.

 

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to people asking about Parsons do you really think the Rockets are going to pay ariza 8 million to sit on the bench?

 

Stephenson is more of a 2, if they slide him to SF and Monta at the 2? that lineup too small

 

Can ariza defend 4's? Hopefully better than parsons. If they plan to use cp at the 4 I'd think they use ariza to defend the pf spot

 

Random free agent though: why dont we go after ed davis? don't we need an athletic four?

 

exactly, morey was thinking, "what if we combine both, i want the 10 3s also" .... and behold. he did.

 

We should re-sign Parsons and start him at the 3. Bring Ariza off the bench, and use Parsons as a stretch 4 sometimes but mostly just let Ariza play a 6th man role where he backs up both the 2 and the 3.

 

ariza is starting with Parsons. How can you not see that?

 

we could, if Mchale learns what zone defense is.

 

They paid Lin that much to sit on the bench.

 

I'm ok with this deal. Let's be honest, it's not a huge splash and it doesn't immediately push us into being one of the top favorites in the West like I think Bosh would have, but I still think it's a solid deal for a player that should fit our lineup pretty well.

When we had Ariza before, we were asking him to be one of the primary ballhandlers/scorers, which has never been his strength. Not, with Harden and Howard, he will be able to focus on what he does best- good perimeter defense (one of our weaknesses), pretty good outside shooting, and using his athleticism to get out in the open court on some fast breaks.

TBH- if Parsons and Ariza were the same price, I would prefer Parsons easily. But 4/32 is so much better value than 3/46, and I could see how Ariza would be a great fit for our team. I think Ariza is a better defender than Parsons.

I could see the advantages of both sides of matching Parsons or letting him walk. It will be interesting to see what we do.

 

Why did we sign ariza? is he suppose to come off the bench? Does this mean they are not going to re sign parsons? I would have preferred them to go after greg monroe

 

We paid Lin and Asik 8 each to do that last year ..................

 

DOES HE STILL HANDLE LIKE A d******d

 

This is both dumb and ridiculous.

 

We're not asking to be a star. We're paying him 8 mil to be a great 3&D guy which he can do.

 

we are going to pay parsons 16 too

 

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