[ESPN] Ariza verbally commits to Houston

per twitter

Marc Spears of Boston Globe is reporting 5 years, $33 million for Ariza in Houston

 

thank God. We have a fast young team and didn't overpay for any of them

 

It's not a team swap.

We are losing Wafer as well.

 

I have always liked Ariza but we are adding another player that needs someone else to create offense for him. We now have a team with a bunch of great role players for a championship team. Unfortunately we don't have stars to be one.

When we had the stars, we had no role players. When we got the role players, we were left with no star players.

As for Artest, he was brought in to be 2nd or 3rd man for the Rockets. With Yao/McGrady both out, he wasnt going to help the ROckets. I just wish Artest had gone to Cleveland instead.

 

Not important it seems looking at some of these posts.....

 

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/steve_aschburner/06/30/free.agents/index.html

At least one sportswriter believed that Ariza was the 3rd best player available in Free Agency. Guess where he rated Ron-Ron? #10

Even though I have mixed emotions, take solace... it's the start of something.

 

Personally, I'm not high on Ariza. I just see a lot of limitation in his game, but hopefully I'll be proven wrong. As another poster suggested, the best situation now would be a S&T swap of Ariza and Artest, if such a thing is possible. That would leave the MLE to sign our second rounders and possibly Gortat.

 

Once the season starts I think the people that say Ariza >>> Artest will be singing a different tune. I hope I'm wrong.

I understand not re-signing Artest though with the Yao injury thing.

 

We have no money.

 

word up, sir. It's all about the run and gun Adelman offense now...things are looking up ladies and gentlemen..all hope is def. not lost

 

I'm down with the deal as long as we're moving other parts too this offseason.

 

Yeah but see...we are rebuilding now.

Ron is on his last legs as I like to call a player entering 30. He still has 5 good years left sure, but that means nothing to a young team like ours suddenly.

NOW if we still had Yao going into next season and if Yao's future health wasn't in jeopardy, than Artest is the better guy for us.

But with how things are turning out this is a pretty good signing.

 

Most inked up Rocket ever?

He had one bad flagrant last year, but I guess he was the least offensive of those jerkoff Lakers.

 

We should have done a sign and trade with them, and we would have still have our MLE to play with.

 

Great post. I totally agree.

 

come to think of it, hes almost a poor mans clyde drexler which isnt bad at all.

 

Since we lack scorers that can create their own offense as our roster is now, I'd have to agree. But if we had a 4 or a 5 that can create their own offense, then I think Battier and Ariza can feed off of them simultaneously.

 

It's a good move. The elusive trade for McGrady continues.

 

Love the swap by Morey, who is thinking about the long term viability of this team....Ariza is only going to get better as an offensive player, while Ron has peaked as a player already....plus if Yao come's back, which I believe he will sometime next year, Ariza fits in perfectly into Adelman's sytem, whereas Ron was ok at best, playing off of Yao.

 

We got McGrady when he was 24 as well. Damn.