[CHRONIC] If no season, Rockets may overhaul roster

So I've mentally checked out during the lockout.

This article is based on the premise that during the lockout, the contracts continue to run and are not suspended. That means the players (and teams) basically lose out on one year of the deal in each contract.

I wanted to make sure that was correct. Somehow I thought that the contracts would be "suspended" and, even if the season was lost, the year would not count against the contract.

Can someone brilliant -- BIMATHUG? -- confirm that is correct?

Thanks. And happy thanksgiving to all Clutchfans in advance.

 

Right. The players would lose their paychecks. They would lose the entire year. Paychecks don't get delayed ("suspended" and you say)...they are lost.

 

I'm hoping for a shortened season if not for anything but the chance to tank while playing players who we have an option to extend.

There are question marks about T-Will, Thabeet, Hill and Johnny Flynn (Basically the entire 09 first round).

We need to play these guys extended minutes to find out who there are and trade or dump them. We get a high 2012 draft pick that we can rebuild with or trade away for a star.

A shortened NBA playoff run is worthless in my opinion, just like the Spurs first championship

 

Let's hope that Morey has given up the fantasy of signing a top ten player. Why on Earth would either Howard or Paul want to play in Houston when they could be in LA or Chicago or maybe even NY?

 

Why on Earth would Morey *not* try to sign a top ten player?

 

Defeatist attitude. **** that. We're a large Market and players would come here if they knew they had help.

 

Agree 100%.

If there is this 3-year 'lottery', we'll get a much worse position than if we play this season WITHOUT tanking. I'm hoping to tank as well for a top 5 pick.
If we play a 1/2 season, there's no reason to not tank. And by tank, I mean play the young players more and see who's worth keeping.

 

Obvious article is obvious. Even with a season, this would still have happened. Morey set this up from the start so the Rockets clean house next year. A lost season would simply mean that rather than paying the likes of Hill, Thabeet, Flynn, etc. millions on the off chance they stop sucking, the Rockets will just write them off instead.

2012 will be the 1st year of a true rebuilding no matter what happens. The only question is how long that rebuilding process is. Could be as short as one offseason with Dwight Howard. Could be a few years like the OKC scenario.

 

Yes, all contract lengths continue to run during the lockout. It would be highly unethical for the league to bind players to their current team beyond the stated expiration dates of their contracts by locking them out. Those contracts are for stated terms. The lockout doesn't change those dates, just whether the teams need to honor their obligations under those contracts.

 

Because it delays rebuilding through the lottery, all those "assets" will win just enough games to keep the Rockets drafting 10-14, but not enough games to make the playoffs.

 

Well, the lockout doesn't really change the Rockets goal, only their methods. Daryl Morey always wants to move human assets and acquire better human assets and won't stop until the team has some super-asset level humans. Even if they do he'll still continue moving pieces of assets around.

What changes is that if there is a 2011 season and 2011 free agency period, Morey will likely go after a good center-- remember he thinks sign-and-trade is pretty much as viable as cap clearing as a method of getting a, say, Dwight Howard. If no 2011 free agency, the Rockets will go the cap room route by default.

 

Why would you need to rebuild via the lottery if you landed Dwight Howard or CP3 in Free Agency?

 

There are several folks out there claiming that team sources have privately admitted that they operated with the understanding that there was a very high likelihood of no 2011-2012 season.

Morey's moves last year definitely look as if he expected that.

Should there be no season, the league will undergo such a dramatic overhaul it'll be unprecedented. A double-sized rookie class. A tidal wave of free agent movement. A washing out of aged vets that couldn't stay in well enough shape to make rosters after an 18 mo layoff.

It'll be very interesting to witness.

 

This^^! 10 times! The great Rockets draft that everyone is looking to happen has already happened. In 2009. The majority of the people on this team have at least played together for half a season. So they have great chemistry as a team. This team is going in the right direction and i think with the added pieces and a decent amount of season, they would have a very good chance.

This is not something that i just came up with. These are facts in my sig. I have yet to see facts that our 2009 lottery line-up is full of busts.

 

What happens if the new CBA simply rolls all the contracts forward a year, IE 2011-12 gets moved to the next year?

I would expect that to happen.

DD

 

There are few players even worth keeping around on this team. If there is a season this year, there should be little to no optimism as far as the Rockets chances.

 

So this means we get another round of the Rockets fans being teased with the prospect of getting star players and ending up with a bounty of first round flops?


Excellent.

 

What? Wrong.