It's pretty obvious the real answer here is to trade for LeBron he'd be our best PF. He can shoot, drive, distribute; The Works! Also, if instead we are looking for our answer at PG, were should trade for Lebron. He'd be our best PG. He can shoot, drive, distribute; the works!
I don't know man, dmo has shown some great ability to be a secondary scorer. No need to add the best player in the world.
Re-sign Brewer Resign Terry backup Small Forward Rockets: Dwight/Capella/Dorsey Love/D-Mo Brewer/KJ/Another backup Harden/Johnson Lin/Bev/Terry[/QUOTE] Ignored everything after this. You can't be serious
Ha. Alright folks looks like i had a terrible idea. just didnt see the huge difference between adding Love this season in comparison to goin all out for Bosh last. Trust me. I do not want Lin back if i could help it. Just thought given the free agent PG for how much he'll kikely cost coming off a terible season would mean we could afford him. Oh by the way.. a Grizzlysharl is the masterr of the land and sea... i thought everyone knew that??
Lost all credibility when you included Lin during the off-season plan. God, no. What an awful player.
The best bet is to surround Harden with great wing defenders. Bev and Ariza work for me. In fact a starting lineup of Bev, Harden, Ariza, D-Mo and Howard should, given a half season together, become a top three defensive squad in the NBA. Theoretically of course. In fact I believe that the Rockets could go to war next season with that starting 5. The Rockets won 56 games last season and those 5 missed about 70 games due to injury and two of them missed the entire playoffs. 64 wins seems about right. Which leads me to my point: why the heck is everyone so gung-ho to break such an exceptional team?
Am I crazy to think that Ariza would be more valuable to this team than Love? You know do I'd actually like to see fill the small forward/PF spot? Tristan Thompson. But for the right price only...that doesn't include Ariza though.
Thompson is a 4-5 not a 3-4. And he turned down a massive contract offer last off season from the Cavs. After these playoffs he is going to be expensive. Very expensive. Fit can be almost as important as talent. Certainly just adding Love to the roster would improve the team. But at the cost of D-Mo and Ariza and the #18 and a future 1st? Now that certainly seems like a net negative to me. Besides, the Cavs never ever do that trade because Ariza sits right where they like to play LBJ, the best player in basketball. Everyone on the roster that really matters is 30 or younger. No, Terry and Prigs do not matter. I believe that Morey's wheeling and dealing days are done for a while. Roster tweaks are now what we should be looking at. 56 wins losing 230 roster games due to injury. That is just insane. BPA at #18 and the MLE used to retain Smith and find a backup PG for Bev. Terry resigned for the vet minimum. Why mess with success?
KJ McDaniels has tremendous potential. In my opinion he was the best ROOKIE wing defender in the league last year. He's got enough handle to get the ball to the rim and finish. And his shooting mechanics are improving. I can see McDaniels playing defensive point at the top and playing alongside Harden spacing the floor next season.
Love is gonna sign with CLE. HOU's chance to signing Love would've been bigger if CLE won the title without him. If they win without him, he's a luxury. Expendable, not needed. I think Love's chances of resigning would be lower with the cloud of the undefined role. If they lose and he comes back, he's seen more as a savior, or at least a very important piece to the puzzle. Love wants to be a key piece. They're going to lose. And he'll be back in CLE. He's not passing up the opportunity to play with LBJ. I think, if anyone leaves that team, its more likely to be Kyrie.
Only if he can learn to shoot. The NBA game has evolved to the point that no team can afford the Rubio/Rondo double. It just kills an offense when a player is not a threat to score beyond the restricted area. The Wolves are saddled with a PG that is an offense killer. Rondo will be lucky to get much more than the vet min next season. Every player but the center has to be an offensive threat away from the basket. Ideally, like the Warriors small lineup, every player on the court is a threat from beyond the arc. The game has evolved and left players like Rondo behind.
As much as most of us think getting Kevin Love would be an awesome fit (I agree), it would simply gut a good core of guys that have already proven to be successful. We ended up the third best team this entire year which seems to be getting overlooked alot. As Harden and Dwight were the talking point this previous offseason the focus now shifts to adding to and stabilizing the nucleus. Daryl Morey has expressed this same sentiment, so lets trust the guy who has gotten us here.
