Boozer 10.6 rp36, 16.8% rebound rate Jones 9.8rp36, 14.1% rebound rate, His defense is an upgrade over Jones any day. Boozer spent 27% of his time on the floor at Center. Look, I'm not saying we trade Jones for Boozer. I'm not saying I'd rather have Boozer than Jones. But last season, Boozer was the better of the two, and I think that will be the case next season too. If it's not, let Jones start and bring Boozer off the bench. Guy has shown he can contribute even in 25mpg, so at the very worst we get a reliable, veteran, hard screen setting mid-range shooting back up at the 4.
Sorry brotatos, Boozer to the rockets isn't happening. Here's why, morey has made it beyond obvious that we are staying above the cap. The Ariza s&t, not cutting any of our unguranteed contracts signing player like Dorsey, Adrian, Papanikolau and Daniels, getting a TPE from the Lin trade, in the interviews on talk shows he sites the MLE as one of our assets. We are not going under the cap, which makes putting a bid on Boozer. Its defintely not happening, thread and conversations about Boozer needs to stop.
^ yep. JD88/OP keeps spouting out stats. He isn't grasping that we have to renounce all our exceptions to make a sealed envelope bid, that we could easily lose.
The last 3 seasons Boozer has had an XRAPM in the negatives. His number last year was a pathetic -3.28. Not to mention his glittering 49% true shooting number. He simply isn't a good basketball player anymore, plus I can't stand him. So, no thank you, even if he came cheap.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Nine teams, by my count, have enough cap space to put in post-amnesty bids for Carlos Boozer: ATL, CHA, HOU, LAL, MIL, ORL, PHI, PHX & UTAH</p>— Marc Stein (@ESPNSteinLine) <a href="https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/489272192509558785" data-datetime="2014-07-16T04:55:55+00:00">July 16, 2014</a></blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
I think I read a few capologists saying it's a super longshot for us. We're technically in the race, but the likelihood of us pulling the trigger is the slimmest out of all eligible teams.
Is this true? We were told that Houston can not bid for Boozer. If we can, Boozer is better than Jones.
IIRC from Bima's tweets, we CAN bid on him but would have to renounce the MLE, LLE (or whatever they call the small exception now), and the Lin Trade Exception. So basically we'd have to give up 2 potential players (ex: Marion/Kostas, Aaron Brooks, and good trade asset in Lin's exception. I don't think that Boozer is worth that much.
I don't think we'll be able to get him...we would have to give up our trade exception from the Lin and Asik trades and the mid-level exception...basically, we'll cough up free money to acquire him. Not worth it
2014: Carlos Boozer = 2004: Juwan Howard By all accounts, a great teammate and professional, but don't have enough left in the tank to be all that helpful. Boozer's TS% was a very subpar .489 last season. Now, it may have been partly the result of being on a bad offensive team and being relied upon to do more than he would have been on a more talented squad. But he didn't do much to make that team better and his plus-minus type stats reflect that. http://stats-for-the-nba.appspot.com/teams/CHI.html Wouldn't mind having him on the squad, but not at the cost of having to waive the MLE, the TPE, the BAE, etc. and having to have him on a contract that cannot be traded (players claimed off amnesty cannot be traded for a year). If nobody claims Boozer and he becomes a free agent, the Rockets might sign him to a small contract, but I imagine there are some teams in a different situation that will make a bid at Boozer, just not the Rockets.
Would you take him if no team makes a bid on him and he is on the open market for us to grab? I think his mid range shooting and vet leadership could help us. We would not be leaning on him to get us over the hump, just help push from time to time.
