I have very little interest in Thabeet. I'd rather focus on acquiring someone that can actually play. I'm tired of potential...I want guys that can play
I want Kobe Bryant on the Rockets. He can play. Let's get him. And Dwight Howard. He is pretty good. Let's get him too. My point is everyone wants guys who are proven players who are difference makers, but there are not very many of those guys around and nearly all of them are unavailable to the Rockets for various reasons. Even if the Rockets could go out and sign any center from any team in the NBA that they really wanted, how many potential candidates would there actually be? Maybe ten? Baring a virtual miracle on the trade front, which is what the Rockets signing of an established center who can play and be a difference maker would be, the Rockets are stuck with what they have, what they can get in the draft, and the addition of various potential talents like Thabeet. If the Rockets leadership believes they can work with Thabeet and help him to develop into a serious competitor at the center position, then they should try to get him. Considering the available alternatives, this at least could have the chance to work out into something good.
"I want Kobe Bryant on the Rockets. He can play. Let's get him. And Dwight Howard. He is pretty good. Let's get him too."--You're completely missing the point. To get Thabeet, the Rockets will have to give up something significant, contrary to what everyone seems to believe. We won't simply be able to send them our trash and they hand us over Thabeet. We will have to give up some of our good young players. If we are going to lose those guys, I want to get a proven player in return, not someone like Thabeet. Bottom line is that I don't Thabeet will develop into an above average center. "If the Rockets leadership believes they can work with Thabeet and help him to develop into a serious competitor at the center position, then they should try to get him"--If this truly is the case, then I agree that he should be someone worth trading for. I just don't think Thabeet is that kind of player. My opinion anyways.
I think our best chance for now and the future would be to get Thabeet. With 53 games left in the season, there is still time to get him in and establish him in the rotation (if possible).
Take a gamble on Hasheem Thabeet? Apparently Memphis is trying to unload him. http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4562/splits?year=2009&type=Fielding Last year, he is averaging 5.3 pts, 6.3 rebs and 2 bpg as a starting c in just 22 minutes. He has the ideal length and athleticism for a C. He can offer us a shot-blocking presence which is what we lack. However, he is a little foul prone. Also, I wonder whether he can fit in Coach Adelman's system. Should we take a gamble on him?
The biggest question i'd have is how much would he cost in terms of assets? He seems like the ideal Morey type acquisition but do they want financial help or do they want assets, maybe even good assets. If it strictly about getting him off their hands to help pay for Gasol then use the DPE or Ariza's T/E.
Yeah right now Memphis is really wanting to develop Xavier Henry (their draft pick) and are leaving Mayo out in the cold as a result. They also in my opinion really not appreciating their previous draft pick Thabeet so this is the correct time to make the pounce on them to sell cheap. It's a typical Daryl Morey Maneuver.
What will it take to get him short of J-Hill or P-Pat? Most team will not trade a big for wing or point... He makes 4.8 this year... What will it take?
Not a big Thabeet man but I'd do this: http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=25w7htr Brooks + Jeffries + Budinger + Ish = Thabeet and Conley.
It'd be hilarious if we did that trade and made Conley backup Lowry. (BTW, doubt they do that trade, they still have high hopes for Conley.)
I would do it but he probably won't see any meaningful minutes for a couple of years, for all those people who say he is going to improve our defense, sure in a couple of years, right now all he will do is increase our foul rate.
Newsflash: we are not contenders. The addition of a protector and a stud wingman would take us closer to that goal, though.
Agreed. I'm more concerned about what our roster will look like in two years than what it will be in a couple months.
They may not grow on trees, but money doesnt either and he's proven to be a waste of that so far. I don't get what everyone's infatuation is with a guy that can't break the grizzlies rotation.
