Dipo and culture is funny to hear considering his well reported team issues with Pacers. Only in Houston I guess.
you aren’t doing it for the players. You’re doing it for the picks. We do need a backup PG and it gives a couple rolls of the dice on him and frank even if they are going to likely be busts. but if there’s teams out there that value him or frank or Kevin by all means re-route them.
Ugh, I hope we don’t make any more trades where draft capital is the primary concern. We have enough. Either upgrade, get younger, or stay put.
I do it for all different reasons and all sorts of ways. But circling back to the point, Rockets can do any trade to get both - preferred players AND picks. This is not an all or nothing proposition. Expand the trade and move a 3rd PG to another team for an asset that actually fits the team's needs. Smith is not a 2 wayplayer/poor defender/mediocre 3ball shooter so he would be a bad fit. Ntilikina is not a great overall 3ball shooter but he is very good from the corner. And his defense and size fit team. It was simply a tweak to your trade proposal, it was not a personal attack.
not taken personally - no worries. the trade opens up time for mason jones and kpj. I don’t think the guys coming back have value around the league it was more for the picks. if the rockets can route those guys and get back value, more power to them.
It will be interesting to see where the Blazers and Heat are around the deadline. If Blazers are out of the playoffs and Miami is comfortably in I'd be open to getting a 21 pick.
his value has got to be pretty low How many teams are giving up some major quality for a free agent to be who wants big money? People really think Riley would view Dipo as the missing piece and actually give up Herro?
He has gotten very ballhogish and looks like he’s playing for his contract rather than for the team. This is something I’ve noticed during our run..but it was easier to overlook then because he was making his shots and we were winning. His defense is still solis though.
All he sees is $$$. I don’t personally think he has much investment in this team but he’ll say the right things to the media.
He is as motivated as possible to put up good numbers for his contract year. This is probably the last big dollar contract he sees. I know it's only been a few games, but I am very conflicted about what to do. I think if he'd be willing to sign for what he rejected in Indianapolis (~20-25M/yr) then maybe you extend him, but my gut tells me he wants more and will get more, in which case you have to trade him at the deadline.
I got bashed for merely suggesting that everyone should pump the brakes 20 games into the season with a max 40 win team that is going nowhere. Our core and salary core of Dipo, Wall, Tucker, Gordon, and Exum will not be here. Wood (8 shots) and the young guys are worth building on and should be beasting out. We can do nothing with Wall but he will distribute the ball. If we are left all season with Gordon and Dipo they are going to take half the shots and all of the minutes that our young guys need to develop. The things we need to do aren't pretty but it is what helps you build for the future. If everyone loves this current team just wait and tell me that after next year. A month from now no one is going to be on here bragging about our #1 D anymore. We will win games against bad teams but you blow out a team one night and then that team blows you out the other night resting their star too. This is the NBA slog. Don't confuse gold for a piece of pyrite, we ain't it and aren't going to be without MAJOR change.
More like what happened to Oladipo? He doesn’t finish at basket through contact and is clearly not good at pulling up off the dribble for 3 pointers even though he likes to shoot them. He needs to shoot less of those and take more catch and shoot threes if he’s going to shoot them.
