I understand this, but he is not looking for a team to overpay him at this point he just wants to play for a contender. And we can actually offer him the most money of the contending teams.
Completely agree. If there's one thing I've learned, it's not to get my hopes up on Houston being "confident" they can get someone.
It really comes down to us, Mavs and Clippers. Heat are in no way contenders. Not with that record. We can offer him more money and potentially a starting role. That's enough. It seems Dwight is already chatting him up as well
Yea... I've been conditioned to never get my hopes up... I'll never forget feeling leaving work so excited on Bosh-day and then it all falling apart when i pulled into my driveway.
PG: Beverley, Canaan(Johnson) SG: Harden, Terry SF: Ariza, Brewer PF: Smith, Papaniko C: Howard, Motie Looks great on paper, 4 out of 5 starters are GREAT defenders (and Hardens much improved), over half the team can hit the 3 ball, and bench looks strong.
Yeah, I remember exactly where I was (Hearsay) when I saw he resigned in Miami. Definitely did the sad Charlie Brown walk for a while.
This time, even though the Heat have more money, it isn't by much. $300,000 more the Heat can offer is figuratively and literally pennies to the dollar of the extra 31,000,000 (+1 year) that Bosh got. We have more advantages that the Heat can offer with Howard and the fact we are competitive in the West and not struggling to stay 0.500 in the East. But I understand the pessimism. That 3 day stretch of offering a max to Bosh, finding out Parsons betrayed and screwed us over to be a "superstar" for the Mavericks, awaiting LeBron's decision (Part II), the excitement that LeBron was going home which meant Bosh was Houston bound, making the moves to clear space for Bosh, then the downfall with the news that Riley offered Bosh a new full max contract that Bosh signed and finding out we weren't resigning Parsons was probably the wildest and harshest emotional roller coaster ride any Rocket fans has ever experienced.
I would assume these sources are getting their information from James and Dwight. I think our only threat here is Dallas because of Rondo.
With that lineup, you could run a 10 man rotation. No one would have to play more than 35 minutes a game & Harden probably would be the only one playing more than 30 minutes. That means fresher legs, more intensity, better defense & easier offense come playoff time.
Dallas made a bad move with Rondo. Usually I give things time, but he has made there offense stagnant all while not being a big enough improvement defensively over Nelson.
If you watched the games. It's not huge. But there's clear conflict. In rondos first game, Ellis was doing well the entire first half. Didn't shoot anything until about half way through the 3rd once rondo got checked out. It's just adjustment. But when you have 2 really good, ball heavy players, it's going to take a while to adjust.
Similar things happened last night against the Hawks where Ellis really wanted the ball, and rondo wouldn't give it to him.
