He may be looking, but as I understand it, he does not currently have an extension & it doesn't look like he will get one this year. Can you clarify?
What people dont understand is there is no ESPN HOUSTON.....like they have ESPN BOSTON or CHICAGO...ESPN does not view Houston as a profitable market for them....We have Texans, *baby* Astros and Rockets... ESPN HOUSTON maybe? Never.....
Some quotes from ESPN's Arnovitz: "Houston with Bosh? Are they contenders?" "Kevin, why are the rockets only looking to sign and trade for bosh and not lebron? he would look great next to yao in a rockets uniform" "how does bosh fit the rockets system perfectly? what seed do you see them as if they sign him? "
They're also going to be in the penalty 5 mins into every quarter. This is the part that is going to get crazy and don't be surprised if the Phil Jacksons of the league are griping and complaining about the officials being biased towards us if indeed we do pick up Bosh and/or Lebron. With Yao, Bosh, and Martin out there, each of those guys shoots a free throw approximately every 4-5 minutes they play. Now put them together and their ability to draw shooting fouls......expect them to each shoot a free throw every 3-4 minutes of playing time they get. That means if they play 15 minutes together, they will be shooting 10-12 free throws altogether at approximately 85% since they are all ridiculously good free throw shooters. That is approximately 24 points from the stripe per game if they each average 30 minutes per game. And that doesn't even take into account everybody else on the team getting to the line. If perchance we could add both Bosh and Lebron to Yao and Martin, the free throws would get totally ridiculous. Now add Lowry to that mix, if we retain him.
You can add Lowry to that list as well. Every time he enters the game he ends up living at the charity stripe.
More bad news for the Rockets in the Bosh sweepstakes. According to Feigens article in the Chronicle, Bosh's agent described the Rockets meeting as them just dropping of something (iPad) and chatting briefly. Bosh even mentioned that the "Process started today in Chicago and downplayed the Dallas talks. His agent said that the Rockets will be on the radar. Game Over!
How is this bad? In the 20mins that he did say what was said, it kept bosh interested for us to still be on the radar (unless that was the politically correct answer)
Just listen to the comment! The Rockets visit was extremely downplayed. I think it was just the politically correct way to not close doors yet.
Yeah, I get the feeling that the meetings just after midnight were seen more as visits, and the real presentations are taking place after that. Given that Morey had to work just to find out which city Bosh was going to be in, the Rockets' chances are probably not that great to land him. But you can't blame the guy for trying.
If we don't get another meeting with Bosh in the next couple days then I'll agree with you. But considering that Morey said that the midnight meeting only lasted 20 minutes and 3 other teams also contacted him, I think the midnight meeting was more of a "meet and greet, get your foot in the door" type scenario for Morey. The serious meetings probably started today.
You need to stop taking agents' words at face value. It actually does Bosh no good to publicly show Houston as his biggest contender. Because his agent has to play Toronto too in order to extract the worst possible deal for Toronto, Bosh has to look like he prefers destinations with cap room rather than ones with no cap room. If you're not clear on how it works, go watch Morey's interview on nba.com. Now, I'm not saying Bosh's real target is Houston. But rather, even if he wants to come here, his best option is to play the field so Toronto won't ask us for the moon in S&T.
DM meeting w/ BOSH cheap? DM met w/ BOSH at his house (in Dallas) 1201 a.m... local time..... does this mean anything to BOSH that a G.M. came to his house in person and had a meeting? while all the other teams are having these power meetings that are more official? i just dont want BOSH to think of DM's meeting as a cheap meeting while the other other teams are in their boardrooms. what are u guys thoughts..........
