Based on that 2014-2015 mural The Rockets should have never let Pablo Prigioni go, I mean he is on the mural alongside everyone else in the roster of that year...
If ariza is so ass why didnt cheapman replace him with an impactful player by going into the luxury tax instead of signing ennis and carmelo who couldnt even make it to the end of the season? Why didnt cheapman want to pay the luxury tax for a backup point guard when chris paul was just coming back from a season ending injury? @Salvy
this is how a dumbass owner tries to build upon a 65 win perennial contender. oh wait the beginning of the dismantle by Tilman. Reading this is utterly pathetic and an embarrassment. These are the bottom barrel additions expected to help the cp3/harden and co. compete with GS. The start of the worst resume in flat out record time
I mean more the year or two after the hamstring. Trading Russ for CP3 is just on Tilly. Hell, he admits it. Winnimg would have bridged the gap between JH12 and CP3. However, He seems to be letting stone do his job and the rebuild is going fantastically.
folks like to spin it that it was all diva harden fault. Since he force poor ole poorman to trade away CP3's massive contract for westbrick.
All I know is that giving away 5 FRPs and $40M to get 3 star players (CP3/Westbrook/Wall) OFF the team doesn't sound very genius to me.
I'm going to save you now from this stupidity. Ariza was trash. He has been trash ever since. He would be a negative asset meaning like Ryan Anderson, he would cost us picks to move him. He's not passing on the multi year deal he got to take a 1 year discount to run it back as a backup. You speak as someone oblivious to the cba.
I noticed you didn't mention a single better basketball player he could have signed to improve the team. Just spend stupid money on bad players works so well for a strategy doesn't it? Remember when the Warriors paid Festus 15 million per? I don't...
TF has a role in the Paul deal but he wasn't alone. He didn't come up with the idea. Someone went to him with it and said it might work. What they were doing for sure was not. 12 games worse isn't getting it done.
For all the morons whining about not back up a cash truck for the corpse of Trevor Ariza... here are the free agent small forwards the Rockets could have signed to go into tax: Troy Williams Malcolm Miller Derrick Jones jr Treveon Graham Georges Niang Torrey Craig Omri Casspi Luol Deng For that math... the cap was 102 million. Harden, Paul, Tucker, Capela, and Gordon were 100 million. The unused roster spot charge meant no cap space without dumping one of those 5. The luxury tax was 123.7 million. They spent 121.8 million. But I get it, a team wants your low first round picks and a bad Ariza contract for their star small forward... Pie in the sky cr@p....
And this is when @larsv8 @DatRocketFan @jerryclark @kubli9 @YOLO either make a lame joke about Tilman or they go silent because they just got rekt with facts....
Tilman stan brining up luxury tax and other nonsense like lack of free agent to why we couldnt improve a champion caliber team. This is what poorman says in 2018 https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...ships-no-problem-paying-luxury-tax/344500002/ What actually happens. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cb...g-payroll-avoiding-luxury-tax-per-report/amp/ If u are fking serious about doing whatever it takes to win, u actually do it not the opposite. Poorman is all talk but doesn't back it up. Still waiting for the new training facility he himself brought up.
How does giving a bad contract to Ariza help with that? So we can give up picks to unload him or so we can take back a worse contract later for picks? Honestly just stop whining since you can't come up with a better option for him to have spent the money on... you just look foolish...
You missed the key part.. "IF we can win" Winning 12 fewer games with oldest roster isn't capable of winning.
