Not to beat a dead horse but whose idea was it to give a guy an extension and want to trade him 1 year later?
What do you mean? Players get signed/extended and traded within a year if not months everytime. Not giving him a contract last summer would've made no sense, until he's traded this guy is (and was) our starting center, why would you not want to resign him? It's not like by letting him go we would've been players in free agency anyway.
Same, Need to give gordon 76 million extension, then trade him. Horford 33years old = 112 million I thought he want to win and pay cut to 3year 30 million contract snt. it fits tilman cost saving program. What a waste of time! Whoever wants 80 million overpaid, don’t come. Harris is worth 110m wants 190m, don’t come.
Many people on this board have no idea how the NBA Salary Cap works. The best free agents last year were LeBron James, Paul George, Chris Paul and Clint Capela. If the Rockets let Paul and Capela walk, they would have added $49.4 million in cap space last summer. However, they were more than $20 million over the salary cap. Therefore, if they let Paul and Capela go for nothing, the Rockets would have still needed to shed more salary to barely offer James or George a maximum salary contract and have room under the cap to sign other players. Then, ask yourself this: Would James or George sign with the Rockets if they no longer have Paul and Capela? The answer is no. The bottom line is the Rockets’ front office made the right call in re-signing both Paul and Capela. There wasn’t a better, attainable way to improve, and they now have the ability to get assets back via trade. Furthermore, it also meant keeping the core of a 65-win team that took the Warriors to seven games in the Western Conference Finals together.
Definitely, and fwiw, if you let Paul go, Lebron certainly isn't walking through that door so, gutting the team who was so close to win just to have like a 20% of getting Paul George made no sense.
There's a lot of rumors around Boston wanting him, but I think they will pursue DLo with their available cap space first, then see if they can trade for CC with some of that left over cap space and add a player or two like Smart. We can dream for Brown, plug him into the 3, and then add DJ at the 5. With New Orleans having $30 million in cap room, and having a big gap in the middle, I could see them pursuing CC or Steven Adams. Adams will be easier to get in a salary dump by OKC. Tillman may think he can save money by getting out from CC's contract, and just paying DJ the MLE.
You do realize capela is only making 14 million a year right? Let me show you some other contracts centers around the league have. Horford 33 Jokic 27 Embiid 27 Drummond 27 Whiteside 27 Adams 26 Gasol 26 Gilbert 24 Jordan 23 Aldridge 26 Ibaka 26 Kanter 19 Thompson 19 Biyombo 17 Favors 17 Valanciunas 16 Mozgov 17 Mahinmi 17 Dieng 16 Chandler 14 Gortat 14 Olynyk 14 Seller 14 Plumlee 14 Yeah we were stupid to give a kid averaging 17/13 good rebound percent. Good rim protection. Premier rim runner and upper echelon switch center an incentive based 14 mill contract.....
Clint was worth every penny until last season. Not sure what happened to his ability to switch on the perimeter but before that went away I would feel comfortable with his contract
clint is cool. i like him, but he just not playoff matieral. the stats are alright, but we need better. simple as that. i want the most aggressive MF out there, not the softest.
Clint has improved every year he’s been in the league. The debacle that happened against GS was a coaching problem, Kerr outfoxed MDA. My goodness, this dribble reminds me of the negative talk so many hear had about James Harden early in his Rockets career. That negativity from Houston fans might have even infected the National narrative, Harden gets so much hate from the media, it’s sickening so I avoid it as much as I can, I can barely stomach any nationality televised games (Van Gundy is the only positive one about the Rockets). But don’t forget that hate predated the National media, it started here just like all the blah talk about Capela (that Capela contract was good value). Let Capela adjust and get better, he got stumped by Draymond Green; it’s going to happen. He’ll make adjustments, he’s done so throughout his career. But for so many Rocket fans claiming Capela didn’t pull his weight on that contract is shocking!
