Even If the Rockets Lose Scola, They May Get an Asset

Dont worrry Bima they are dumb-asses who dont understand crap, dont even bother.

 

wouldn't scola be a BYC player still just like Morrow and we'd only get a trade exception worth half his first year just like Golden St only got?

 

My understanding, from asking this question a few days ago, is that since Scola is BYC, our TE would only be half his first year's salary. That is simply not worth it.

And a front-loaded contract actually works in our favor, in my opinion. It allows us to overpay a little for him on the front end while at the same time, he becomes more tradeable as he ages because his contract is more reasonable.

 

BT - I am not suggesting likely, only that it could be arrived at as a reasonable conclusion.

Frankly, I am a big Luis guy, and I believe he has skills and synergy requisite for the success of this team.

 

Bima, understand what you're saying, but we'd have a gaping hole at the 4 spot. Anyone watching summer league (granted it's summer league) knows Patterson is not ready, and Hill just may not be the guy.

Now if we added Someone like Paul then you do it all day long. Unless there is a possible deal in place, I think it's very risky.

Hopefully it doesn't come to this. My hopes are we can trade Hill, filler and picks to upgrade.

 

Bima,

I think we get what your trying to say or the info your providing to us but the problem is that, even with the TPE we'd be getting, isn't more prudent to just overpay a bit to keep Scola then acquiring 4.5 million in free money to spend?

Also, please do not rip my head off...just talking out loud :grin:

 

yeah, don't worry fellas, you'll lose a dollar, but you may get a penny back.

 

Worst case scenario: SCOLA AIN'T GOING ANYWHERE!

AND IF HE DOES, I'LL PERSONALLY GO AND LAND AN A-BOMB ON THE NETS!!

 

Remember how we were all wondering why houston would make such a hard push for Bosh when we already had scola? We just assumed this was a significant improvement in the right direction and improvement or upgrading is always good, right?

Well, what if the whole time Morey was expecting to lose scola? Maybe he saw this coming, thought it would be best to pull off a trade before losing him for nothing. the trade exception is nice, but of course doesnt guarantee we'd be able to replace scola with a similar or better player.The whole "we're matching" thing would still help just incase the team was unable to land an allstar PF.

 

Again, what better player than Scola could we theoretically get with a 4.5 million trade exception? I understand the thought, but I don't see it. Unless someone overpays Scola like crazy, matching will always be better (and yes, I fully understand that you are not advocating getting rid of Scola).

And if someone is willing to overpay Scola like crazy, I don't think we would make a deal with them - because in this case, someone could make us make a deal with them by merely threatening to overpay Scola. So we cannot even signal that we are willing to make a deal.

 

Why do you get so angry? You are a great poster and I understand the point you are trying to make, but I think the scenario that someone would overpay by so much that it would be more beneficial to us to do this kind of deal instead of matching is unlikely.

Don't fall into the trap of not accepting other opinions just because you know that you are a great contributor to the site. The "sometimes I don't know why I even bother" and "what part of...don't you understand" is not usually your tone. You don't even need to resort to that arrogant kind of tone.

 

Okay so lets say NJ, for instance, overpays Luis and Morey says thanks but no thanks thus we get a 4.5 TPE, can we use that like a expiring contract and package it with a group of players to acquire someone now or at the deadline? I noticed that it can be broken up but it seems that it can only be used to acquire one player.

 

I got a better idea lets resign scola and lowry .

 

Somebody didn't read the thread.