i heard on the radio in Toronto(Fan590).......Van Gundy likes Davis...and Davis wants out bad....the 7 mil exception looks like it may be used....the raps are willing to eat some of his crazi salary anyway....NO this info was not from a very reliable source but the guy made sense....may just happen.....Mo Pete will be probably thown in as well..... what you guys think?
If we waste our trade exception on a player like Davis, then Id have to revaluate my approval on the trade. Getting Mo Pete in return makes no sense at all. We are already stacked at the swing positions.
That would be incredible. This guy is a productive veteran the Rockets could use. A great person and decent player that Eddie Griffin can learn from. He can also put Franchise in his place if he gets too cocky.
I hope not. According to rebs per 48 minutes, Griffin is BETTER already as a 21 yr old than Davis. We need to hold on to this trade excemp all year and if Mobley or Steve cant get along with JVG(and I bet they dont) then we need that to trade for another ALLSTAR. Davis is not anywhere close. Unless they throw in Alvin Williams,and take Moochie, THEN I'd say yes.
If they throw in Alvin Williams I like the deal. If the Rockets can get Davis without using the exception, say for Cato or Taylor, then I think we should do it tonight. not tomorrow but right now. this second. make it happen.
Cato for Antonio Davis sounds good to me... I don't know. What would the trade be? I like Davis even though he is old. But we would still have Mo Taylor and Eddie Griffin. I don't want to trade anybody on our roster except for Cato, Moochie, or Taylor and all the scrubs.
Are you kidding me? You can say AD is old, overpaid and has declining talent. But if you think EG is better than him, pfffffff. For example, I wouldn't mind seeing him take a 12 feet jumper every once in a while. With EG I'll be screaming in pain.
No. Davis is the type of player that a team adds to win it all. We're not there yet. Alvin Williams is a completely different story. Let's get that guy.
ok, davis is old and has been declining for several years and makes an assload of money. think eg shoots bad? davis shoots 0.8% better, and doesn't have all those 3's bringing his % down, that's all 2's baby. rebounding? eg actually grabs more per minute if you wanna say AD is physical and grabs lots of rebounds. of course eg has him beat in blocks. AD is tougher obviously, but he's well past his prime and isn't AD from 5 years ago. wasting our exception on him would be worthless. he's barely better than eg or mo t and we need eg to get PT to make our final decision on if he's gonna pan out or not. peterson is good, but not better than mobley and not enough better than jackson to wanna take on AD's salary and give up a valuable contributor somewhere. if you wanna physical rebounder at PF, just play cato.
Agreed. Davis benefits from playing in the EC and will turn 35 on Oct. 31st with 3 more years @ $37m on his contract! I just can't see wasting all of the newly acquired financial wiggle room on a deal like this when we are realistically 2-3 years away from serious contention.
I did not say he has good trade value but you actually think EG's better? Davis shot the lowest in his career this season because he's been bothered by an injury, missing like 20 games. EG's shooting just plain stinks. So so much for that 0.8% argument. When are people going to realize boards per 48 mins is a useless stat. Unless EG can play at his best for an entire 48 mins that stat means jack. EG is NOT at this point better than AD (who actually carried a Carterless Raptors to the playoffs 2 seasons ago). He will be when AD retires, which is why I wouldn't do this trade, as I said before. But explain to me how is he better?
The 6.5 million exception brought up my hopes that the Rox were going to make the long-anticipated BIG SPLASH. (Instead, Les just might let it run out...) If this is what the trade exception is for, get ready for another 4 years (or however long AD's contract is) of mediocrity and, more importantly, NO PLAYOFFS.
I'll never understand why so many people are so big on Antonio Davis. You might as well say we should pay 15 million dollars to Charles Oakley. (I believe Davis is making somewhere in that range. maybe more) he's over the hill. more and more injury prone and even in his prime he wasn't a superstar. nevermind an AD in his prime is exactly what we need. a washed up AD isn't going to help us though. I don't think it would even help us much this year. And every year he is only getting older.
If not, how do the Rockets match Davis's $12m contract? They now only have 2 "bad" contracts and neither Taylor nor Cato is within $4m Davis by himself. Perhaps yuo better run to RealGM.
Davis is not worth his contract...fact! BUT WHO IS THE VET ON THIS TEAM? there is nobody....they just got rid of the oldest guy in rice.... Davis is a good fit only if he was'nt getting the $$$ he is getting. if the raps throw in Bosch(he's gonna be way better than EDDIE GRIFFIN) then we have a deal....but that's not likely.
