I guess you wouldn't want TD on your team. What do you think he has been doing during the regular season for last few years? Not only that, Pop makes sure he coasts into the playoffs. Nah, you wouldn't want Pop as your coach either, especially how he sent his star players home on a national televised game in Miami. Dumb coach tried to lose games and only looked out for the players! LeBron can still win MVP but is he giving his best effort during the regular season? Of course not. But he is guaranteed an MVP candidate in the playoffs. I guess you wouldn't want him on your team either.
If we keep Dwight, we are doing ourselves a favor by not letting other teams be an elite team. One thing for certain if Dwight had signed with the Warriors, they would not have discover a rare species they have. Dwight probaly would have destroyed the chemistry to that team. By us signing Dwight, we made the Lakers, a lottery team and the Mavericks, an average team still desperate for a superstar (DeAndre). Maybe the Atlanta Hawks would not have benefited, but they are in the L-East Conference and they are not world beaters like the Cavs. Our NBA Finals Champion is going to be from the winner of Western Conference Finals with exception to Cavs. Elite or not, Rockets is winning with #12 for years.
Those are such dumb analogies I don't even know what to say. There is coasting as in - be a smaller part of the offense, play less minutes and there is coasting as in - not put in effort. You're implying Dwight isn't playing hard because he's coasting, but TD as far as I can remember plays 100% whenever he is on the floor. TD is 40. Also those teams won championships. Dwight isn't as good as Lebron. Lebron can coast and put up MVP stats and lead a winning team. Dwight coasts and we're .500. You really don't think Lebron is playing hard this year? What are you watching?
That is for sure, there's obviously no way to prove it, but Dwight would have ruined that team. Bogut is far superior for what they need at the C (Defense, screens and hustle plays)
A couple more games like this and the Rockets can get back quite a package!! One game of old Dwight out of 25. Maybe it's the fit, maybe it's him. I don't care. I know it won't last. But he'll be there in the playoffs!! Maybe. I'm not counting on it anymore. Let Dwight have a couple of old Dwight games so people can forget about the crap effort games and we can get some great assets in return hopefully
I'm with ya. But that's a fine line, though. If he gets a bunch of alley-oops, a few hooks and blocks, lot's a rebounds, and we beat the Spurs with him going 22 and 14, Les will blocks trades of his Fool's Gold ass. And Popovich will laugh at us, because he was testing out his Curry/GSW defense on us (double the star hard to funnel everything to the post and collapse) and that wasn't what he do to us in the playoffs.
Yes, a 15% trade kicker. The other team has to pay him 15% more on his contract. Considering he wants more that that in his next contract and will likely opt-out, I don't think it will have an effect next year. That said, the trade kicker acts as a salary bonus, which means it has CBA implications for trading purposes. Since we are at the apron (right?), the receiving team will have to absorb the bonus portion of the salary increase via cap room or an exception. That is, they are receiving his HOU salary plus the pro-rated part of the 15% bonus as incoming salary, but we can only receive his salary up to his HOU amt back...no room for even the 125% difference, due to being at the apron. BimaThug can confirm and likely explain better..
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ESPN had a graphic of number of 20/10 games he's had in 3 year spans. Cliff notes: they've significantly declined
Never forget that the Rockets gave up no assets for Dwight other than cap. He was a freebie, and he was an upgrade over Asik. He was a great pick up and still is. It's just a matter of whether the Rockets want to match the jumbo contract which at least one team is going to offer him.
Under this CBA, the team that signed the player with the trade kicker has to pay the actual trade kicker, but the receiving team takes on his higher cap figure.
