[Chron] Lakers acquire Howard, what next for Rockets?

Depressing stuff. Has he been drinking when he wrote this?

 

I feel gutted...

I would've loved to get Dwight, but what can you do?

It sucks that we have two rabid Lakers fans in my church, and I'm already getting Dwight in a Lakers uniform pictures & texts on the hour.

Who knows, maybe Lin, Lamb & D'Mo are the real Big 3....one can only dream.

 

You can join me in my Rockets official drink of choice.

 

meh whatever, dwight woulda moaned here and we woulda been the talk of espn. exposing morey n us havin a million dwight threads. i think we are fine. just need to tank pretty good n hope toronto does the same. next years draft picks are vital.

 

Now let me see hmmmm....

WHERE'S THAT DAMN PICTURE OF A TANK?

 

Is Clutchfans the Chronicle? Because this looks familiar.

 

Toronto pick
Dallas pick
Own pick(?)
One of (Patrick Patterson, Marcus Morris, Donatas Motiejunas, Jeremy Lamb, Royce White and Terrence Jones.)
One of (Patrick Patterson, Marcus Morris, Donatas Motiejunas, Jeremy Lamb, Royce White and Terrence Jones.)

for

Howard
Turkoglu/Duhon(or Turkoglu/Richardson)

Oh well. Time to power forward.

 

Hey, at least he is not spouting the company line. He is telling it like it is this time. I can respect his honesty and appreciate it.

Although, I gotta say, I'm a bit higher on the rookies than he seems to be. Can't say I blame him for being on a down note though, having Howard on board would have made his job alot easier this upcoming season.

 

Man, that was a depressing read. Not that optimistic. But sure did take me back through the emotional roller coaster of Dwight. When Scola was amnestied we all thought we had the best shot at Dwight, and that a deal would be made that day...

Does anybody think there's a chance these Rockets make the playoffs with the current roster? I'm kind of Anti-Tanking, I never like the mentality of trying to lose games. But I'm not against rebuilding.

 

So we can focus on developing our rookies now.

 

Two notable things from the article:

1. Feigen spells out what the Rockes offered: 3 draft picks, two young players, Martin, and taking back two bad contracts.

Kind of interesting how Patterson and Morris are included the the group along with with the 4 rookies. I'd imagine these two, especially Morris, would have less value than the other 4. Maybe the deal is one between Pat and Morris and one among the rooks?

Also, seems that Dreamboat Parsons was not part of the offer.


2. This is what I don't get:

What does Afflalo (and Al Harrington) do for them? They are not bad players, though hardly cheap (i.e. don't give them substantial cap room any earlier than they would have without the trade) and, more important, hardly the kind of players that make them contenders.

Sure, that Toronto pick, which would have been the center piece of the Houston offer, and the young players from Houston may not turn into All Stars, either, but it seems that Orlando should take their chances with the future rather than trading for two guys who are ACTUALLY OLDER THAN DWIGHT HOWARD.

 

I'm as happy as when Stern fixed the Gasol mistake.

 

At first I was happy about Stern vetoing the trade but now I'm definetely not. Martin, Scola, and Dragic appear more valuable then just Pau, but now Dragic signed elsewhere, Scola was cut, and Martin is undoubtedly on his way out. They milked meaningless production out of these players.

If the trade went through the Rockets would still have Pau right now, and he may have even helped attract a star to Houston. And now the fact that Stern vetoing that trade adds to our mediocrity is depressing me even more

 

Cant wait until we play the Lakers 4 times this year and beat them twice! lol

Nash vs Lin Nash will score, but Lin will run him ragged
Kobe vs Chandler I know Chandler is our 3, but he will guard Kobe
Artest vs Martin Artest is just a brute now, Martin will score efficiently
Gasol vs Donuts Okay, Gasol gets the nod, but he can't guard Donuts 3ptr
Howard vs Asik How good is Asik's defense really? Howard isn't great O

Lakers are kind of old and we have some good young players off the bench to push them to the test if we play our game and not try to match up with a half court strength game against them.

Of course they are the favorites to kick our ass, but wouldn't it be great if we could win one or two games against their superstar lineup just to piss on them!

 

That will definitely be an exciting game.

 

I thought the tone of his article was sort of glummy. However, I'm excited to see the rooks play & develope next season.