My guess the extent of discussion is: Billy King: Scola and Martin are good. Morey, who do you want for them? Morey: How about Favors and Lopez. Billy King hangs up.
I think Morey should pursue Melo hard, talk to him and ask him what he wants. We might have a 6 month rental, and we are back on rebuilding mode as we should. Or maybe Melo likes it here and starts extension talks. I know it is not the most encouraging picture, but if we can land Melo we might be able to avoid that inevitable reconstruiction period. Martin and Brooks should both be enough to land Melo here, along with the NY pick swap for next season. Lowry-Lee-Melo-Scola-Hill should be something we can build on, and once Yao resigns for the MLE (i hope less) or walks away we will be in position to upgrade even bigger, and we can also make some other trades with the expirings we have.
I'm starting to think that all of these posters who are dead set on trading away every player over 27-28 years old and starting over with picks and the draft have absolutely no clue how long that whole process is going to take, and how painful it is going to be. Sure, you are gonna get some decent young players who make Sportscenter top plays now and then, but you are gonna go a couple years without really winning that many games, unless you get EXTREMELY lucky with AT LEAST a couple draft picks/young players.
All I take from this is that there are many potential deals that Morey is working on. I have a feeling this will be the typical "out of left field" Morey trade.
I hear you. It's tough but I think this team needs to make one more run at getting a superstar this summer before they go into full rebuild mode. No matter what, I don't see this team being bad enough to draft a true franchise player so instead of having half a roster of youngsters and not winning we will have an entire roster of youngsters and won't win. I'm not ready to quit just yet when we have so much talent and will be extremely flexible this summer.
You do realize that we've been tremendously handicapped by Yao's and Mcgrady's contracs? Wait until they're finally off the books to see what's really going on with this franchise. You were so optimistic in the off-season..continually calling us contenders when most of us knew that another Yao injury was inevitable. I guess that ship has sailed.
True, but I did say "IF YAO IS HEALTHY".......and he isn't...... I don't think Yao and TMac's contracts being gone is going to help much, we still have an unbalanced roster whose best leader is a 5'10" PG that is now coming off the bench. DD
I'm starting to see just how trade happy some Clutchfans really are. This trade would put Houston in the toilet for sure and they still want to do it. For a couple of measly picks, please!! Trade happy thread is trade happy!!
From real gm IF they got Scola and Martin, then Kirilenko, where would favors fit in? On the Rockets We would have so much young Talent our team would be nasty in a few years. Since Scola and Martin wouldn't be here any more, even though I'm a HUGE Kmart fan, we wouldn't have the defensive problems in our starting Unit, Brooks would be fine as our starter. In the future a line up with Brooks at Point would be awesome with TWill feeding the ball from the SF. But between Pat and Favors would Favors be able to play Center?
You stuck to your guns even after the news of Yao's limit of 24 minutes. It's going to help. We can finally put the failed debacle behind us. We're a 50 win team easily with a trade for a good SF (Granger, Iggy, Wallace) and adding a big like Perkins in the off-season.
I think Avery said if Favors would dunk on a few people per game he would consider playing more? Something like that.. You have a potential star in Williams they didn't keep after only a year 1/2.. He's clashing with Lopez Favors not getting , or was not getting the pt he thinks he deserves. They're just not organized. Avery was clashing with players in Dallas... While Dallas was a WINNING team
One deal I could see is the proposed melo trade go down and then nj trading Lopez and Hamilton for Kmart and Scola
I would rather retool and build for the future than continue to watch Yao's supporting cast struggle to find an identity. There's no reason to hold on to an offensive talent like Scola, a very attractive piece to competitive squads. He's as valuable as he'll ever be, and if the organization decides to establish a foundation for the next 3-5 years, he's not in the plans. Trade him now, and scoop up draft picks and youth while we have the opportunity. I'm starting to think that all of these posters who want to hold on to every player over 27-28 years old and continue this trend of mediocrity and first round exits don't understand how painful it's going to be when we're forced to make this decision in 2 years with no hardware to show for their stubborn, "let's keep fighting" mentality. Morey's only delaying the inevitable.
Did anyone consider that Chad Ford is making this up? I feel like if this had potential, we'd hear about it from a more legitmate source than an ESPN chat.
