I watch Bosh against the Kings last night...i wasn't impressed with his game...it was horrible. I am like...do we really want this guy to replace Scola?? C'mon man...dude shows no hustling and energy and play with a sense of urgency like i see in Scola. His length and ability to block shot is impressive though...and of course rebound. Maybe he has one of those bad games...but i wasn't impressed.
Old article has been discussed along with Bosh/trade talk. But because of Yao coming back from injury and possibly taking a temporary lesser role this may be a tactic Morey can use to convince him franchise player. Haha but really he is a long shot i've been saying this for a while now. We'd have to gut the team to even think Bosh and after we gut it would he want to play here?
We're not going to "gut" our team for anybody. Morey has already proven that he very craftily makes upgrades and increases his assets. And all the verbosity from Bosh is meaningless. He's not revealing his intentions. And the truth is, he doesn't know himself what he is going to do and most likely won't know which direction he is going to take until the offseason gets here and the Lebron situation gets figured out. Then, of course, is the DWade situation. Bosh's team may collapse down the stretch and he get a bad taste in his mouth about losing. Or his team may excel and make a surprise run in the playoffs, get to the 2nd round and take their series to 7 games, or perhaps, even upset someone to get to the conference finals (highly unlikely). In any case, they may win enough that Bosh can see they are going to be a lot better and he decides to commit to be Canada's Boy. To come to the conclusion at this point that we have no shot at Bosh is a farce. The only conclusion we know for sure is this.....1. Morey is loaded with assets to acquire a superstar, and 2. Morey will only make a trade for a superstar if he can get him at the right price to add to what he already has working here without starting over. Morey is looking for a final piece to add to this current mix to make this team competitive for a championship.
Only way I can see us getting Bosh is if we trade good players to get him. Where does one get 15 million to trade? Battier? They already have Hedo, and DeRozan. Expiring contracts? Toronto needs all-star talent and they can't get that from free agency. All-Stars don't want to go to Toronto. And all of this still doesn't matter b/c we don't even know if he wants to even leave Toronto.
Honestly, a week and a half ago, I was pretty much ecstatic about the chances of getting Bosh in Houston. Now? It really doesn't matter. Scola has really stepped up his game and he's showing that he can be a consistent major-minutes PF, and honestly, I don't think he's too far from Bosh as a scorer and a rebounder. The only thing Bosh can do better than Scola is block shots. Right now, the only way I would want to get Bosh is if we can get him without giving up Lowry or Brooks. Considering the Toronto PG situation, I doubt that could happen... so, no thanks.
For all of the people who have been concerned about the Rockets' lack of a "closer" why would you want Chris Bosh?
Those statements don't mean anything, not at this stage of the game. It's a fact that he feels that way now, but not a fact that he will definitively feel that way come time to resign, S&T, or just sign elsewhere. There will be plenty of players, GMS, and coaches trying to persuade him to come play with or for them. Who's to say he won't change his goals? Who's to say that there won't be a team out there who wants him to be the sole franchise player?
I'm not a lets get Bosh fan. I'd like a good big PF/C. With that said... We would want Chris Bosh because with more All-Star Talent the better overall our team would be in the closing minutes of a game.
It's already proven that Morey can acquire the under the radar, cheap, the diamond in the rough type role players; its the already established studs that are the harder catch. For example, he can net himself a Lowry, Budd, etc for next to nothing, but getting a K. Martin cost him his best trade chip in Landry. He knows getting Bosh <i>will </i> cost him his dearest pieces, but would it be worth it? Absolutely! If 'starting over' meant having a trio of Yao, Bosh, and Martin, and then having to replace all the assets that we traded away to aquire that trio, then I'm quite sure Morey will gladly take that scenario. I have full confidence in Morey's ability to get the role players again....and yet again.....if only he can catch that big fish...
dont think it means much other than he doesnt want to go to a team just to follow a "better" player....I think he just prefers to stay in Toronto and is trying to let them know maybe they need to make something happen this summer to keep him. Also, i dont see why he couldnt be the guy here. Martin isn't that guy, yao may need to take it easier, and brooks' lack of size would cause him to struggle as the main man.
Agreed and that's what I have been arguing for quite a while. Many people seem to think we need a Kobe, Lebron or Wade type of closer and I disagree. I think if you put enough talent on the court and enough capable scorers you can have a different closer on different nights. Not to mention, if you have enough talent you won't need a closer because the game will not be close.
The question isn't "Is Brooks better than Bosh?" or "Is Scola better than Bosh?". The question is whether they are better together. And actually, there is no way Brooks + Scola nets us Bosh, because 1) The salaries won't match 2) That's not enough to get him. So then you start getting into... are Brooks, Scola, Battier, and a first round draft pick worse than Bosh? That's the kind of haul it's going to take to get him. And there is no freaking way I would do that trade. Not in a million years. That's why we're not getting Bosh. The only remote chance we have at getting him is if he tells Toronto, "I want to sign with ONLY Houston and if you SnT me over there, I will leave and you'll get nothing in return." And why would he do that? Has he said anything that even hints he prefers to play here over anywhere else? Why wouldn't he SnT to Dallas instead, if he wants to come to Texas? Either way he has to play alongside an all-star big man (Nowitzki or Yao), but Dallas is his hometown and frankly has a much better record this season.
Or even San Antonio for that matter, since Duncan is almost done and Bosh could take over there like Duncan did for Robinson.
Is this why the Raptors suck, cause Bosh wouldn't let anybody who could potentially take his franchise kid title away?
Not saying I'd give up that much, but we're not winning a championship with a bunch of super / almost all star type role players. You need real superstars. Bosh is a superstar. It's easier (especially in Morey's case) to get role players once we've gotten that superstar. But netting one of them is the hard part.
