Houston: Norman Powell, Miles Turner, Victor Oladipo Indy: James Harden Toronto: PJ Tucker I would think we have to send one of the three draft picks we get from
Switching gears with some unrealistic hope. What can we trade House, Clemons and all of our picks for to get an upgrade at SF? I think we can trade up to 4 picks. OG Anunoby?
Here is the best offer I think we could make for OG Anunoby. House Clemons Houston 2021 1st (less favorable of OKC, MIA or HOU) Portland 2021 1st (lottery protected) Detroit 2021 1st (top 16 protected) Washington 2023 1st (lottery protected) All of the Portland, Detroit and Washington picks have loooong duration protections, making them more likely to convey as 1st round picks rather than converted 2nds. I’m not suggesting we trade all of these picks for OG, only that they are available, and I believe he is the only SF that would be an upgrade to House and has a low enough salary to be traded for without PJ or Gordon. Wall / Gordon Harden / McLemore Anunoby / Nwaba Tucker / Tate Wood / Cousins
I'd still rather trade for Aaron Gordon. The question is do we trade Wall or EGo? Both will require FRP but both Wall and EGo have built up some value from preseason. Wall trade options: *Both options may require up to 3 FRP (or more) to move Wall to Bulls and SRP to move Clemons to Kings. CHI: John Wall + 3 FRP ORL: Buddy Hield SAC: Otto Porter Jr., Danuel House, Chris Clemons + SRP HOU: Aaron Gordon, Zach Lavine, Khem Birch, Robert Woodward EGo/Lavine/Brown Harden/McLemore Tucker/Nwaba/Green AG/Tate/Woodward Wood/Cousins/Bruno/Birch EGo trade: *May take up to 2 FRP to move to another team like Kings or Hornets as well as SRP to move Clemons. https://tradenba.com/trades/ub-0hLGLy ORL: Buddy Hield SAC: Eric Gordon, Danuel House, Khem Birch, Chris Clemons + 2 FRP + SRP HOU: Aaron Gordon, Robert Woodward Wall/Brown/Brodric Harden/McLemore Tucker/Nwaba/Green AG/Tate/Woodward Wood/Cousins/Bruno
i think you can make reasonable arguments either way. One reason I like OG is that he works with either Harden or Simmons, whereas Aaron Gordon works better with Harden and Lavine works better with Simmons. Hes just 23, and an excellent defender. Hit 39% from 3 last year. 68% at the rim. Very athletic. He’s a great fit to add defense next to Harden. If we were to pull off this trade, the sum total of our offseason trades look like this: Westbrook Covington House For Wall Wood Anunoby Considerably younger, and better fits for our needs. If this won’t convince Harden to stay, nothing will.
House, Clemons and 2 FRPs for Anunoby Wall / Gordon Harden / Brown Anunoby / McLemore Tucker / Tate Wood / Cousins Bench: Green, Nwaba, Caboclo, KJ Martin 2 Way: Thomas, Jones That looks like a championship roster to me.
Needs some height / length (TWSS) Get Wade (CLE) - tall, shoots 3, rebounds, tries at defense, on cheap contract for 2 more years (IIRC)... ship Clemons & SRP to CLE
That lineup would be pretty long. Wall - 6’9” Harden - 6’11” Anunoby - 7’2” Tucker - 6’10” Wood - 7’3” Brown - 6’10” McLemore - 6’8” Gordon - 6’9” Tate - 6’8” Cousins - 7’6” No shorties in any of that.
https://tradenba.com/trades/9o94CSd-k Amended trade based on board input. Hou out: Harden, Gordon and Tucker Hou in: Simmons, Thybulle, Korkmaz, Reed, Scott (salary purposes only), Barnes and Woodard + Philly's FRP in '21 & '23 and SRPs from Philly (NYK) and Sac (Mem) in '21 Philly out: Simmons, Thybulle, Korkmaz, Reed, Green & Scott + FRP in '21 & '23 and '21 SRP (Knicks) Philly in: Harden, Gordon and Tucker Sac out: Barnes and Woodard + Memphis' SRP Sac in: Danny Green and Mike Scott (both expirings) ***Trigger cant be pulled on the Sac part of the trade until 12/27 due to Green being recently acquired by Philly*** This deal makes the Rockets younger and longer and much more versatile defensively. After this season the front office would likely have 3 first rounders to add to a team that is already 2 deep at every position (except PG). Additionally, the rockets save several million this season and moving forward their books are pretty clean to continue building around Simmons.
Chicago would ask for 1 or even 2 of the Philly FRPs, they won’t trade Lavine for EG + 1 pick. In fact, I don’t see why they would trade him at all; he is a good player at a fair contract at the right age, fits with the rest of their team. Simmons plus Lavine is a pretty good haul for Harden, I’d be very happy with that. These 2, plus Wood turning into a lower-tier all-star, plus another all-star acquired by trading Wall in the summer of 2022, would make us contenders in 2023.
yes this is basically my thinking. Lavine for Ego, Maxey and a 1st seems reasonable if Chicago is on board. He may lineup with their timeline, but they simply lack the talent to compete for championships. Lavine is not the best player on a championship team...he’s like a 3rd or 4th guy. I agree that we stick with Wall for 2 years. Either he reestablishes himself as an all star or we trade him as an expiring with picks for a star.
Minor trade, “breaking” EG into 2 pieces to add some bench depth. HOU in: Bjelica, Lamb IND in: EG SAC in: McDermott, 2 second round picks (1 from HOU, 1 from IND)
The reason Rockets have so many athletic 6'5 players is because these players have the best triple threat skills to maximize 5 Out offense AND also switch everything on defense. Adding one dimensional 3ball shooters or players that can defend but not shoot is not going to help us at all. Players who fit Rockets profile are not cheap, especially if those players have length (+7'0 wingspan) and height (6'7 or taller). 6'7 Larry Nance Jr 7'1 WS - 2 AST, 7 REB, 32% 3P 6'8 Aaron Gordon 7'0 WS - 3 AST, 7 REB, 32% 3P 6'10 Domantas Sabonis 6'11 WS - 3 AST, 8 REB, 32% 3P Bruno - 7'7 Brodric - 6'11
I'm on the OG train. Especially because Raptors are waffling on extending him, they have a cap hold of 11.6M for next season that they are reluctant to go over. Masai Ujiri's extension is creating greater anxiety in Toronto. 6'7 OG Anunoby - 7'2 wingspan, built like linebacker, 38% 3P last season. TOR: Danuel House, Chris Clemons + FRP + SRP HOU: OG Anunoby
1st Trade 2 FRP + House + Tate for OG Anunoby. 2nd Trade https://tradenba.com/trades/eXKpWoiGl ORL: Victor Oladipo + pick swap (Kings) IND: Buddy Hield + Kings SRP SAC: Eric Gordon, Chris Clemons + Rockets FRP + Rockets SRP HOU: Aaron Gordon Wall/Brown/WMW Harden/McLemore/BT OG/Nwaba/Green AG/Tucker Wood/Cousins/Bruno KJ and Mason Jones on 2 way.
