In a Single Day, the Rockets Doomed Itself To Mediocrity

Stop being a drama queen.

 

Thank you CP3 for teaching me the vocabulary - greedy.

Sorry Christ Paul, but do you really think you should get more money than Lebron James?

 

Why do stupid people talk so ****ing much

 

Morey got james harden from the most mediocre team imaginable

 

What if he's right ? …. It's not far fetched at all.


Not that I want him to be right …. far from it, I want CP3 to come back and play like one of the best PG's to ever play the game but he hasn't been anything remotely close to that all season.

How much of that is injury ? And what's the prognosis for recovery ??


How much is it father time ?! That SOB is undefeated …. Other than Tom Brady.

 

Accept all he had to work with UNDER the cap was about $8m prior to signing CP3.

Who are you going to sign that's better than a healthy CP3 for $8m ?

The other $32m that's over the cap …. you weren't going to be able to use on another player who you don't have Bird Rights to.

The only other remotely reasonable option was a sign and trade allowing you to use CP3's contract to facilitate bringing in salary over that $8m you were below the cap ….

 

What a long winded way to show you’re the “I told you so” guy.
Just quit watching it’ll save you money on mascara from all your crying.

 

The OP's screen name says it all.

CP3 got damn close to bringing us a title last year. Quit crying over this poorly conceived bullsh*t story.

 

It was a gamble Morey had to make how hard is that to understand?

8M under cap is not better than Cp3, old or not.

 

I'm tired of all the premature whining. Some of you kids really need to stfu.

 

I'm gonna go ahead and blame the CBA for this one, although I've never read it and am not really familiar with the rules. That being said, there should be protections stipulating how much a max contract can be for players of that age (perhaps declining after a certain point the way it increases for young players). A $160 million max contract or whatever he's making, especially at that age, is totally outrageous. Rockets got hustled for sure, but they didn't really have a choice.

 

Cp0 looks like he is on his last legs. Sure occasionally he will have a 28-11 game but from here on best case scenario is 15 and 8 a night.

Why are people blaming morey when it was harden who recruited CP0

 

People saying CP deserves no blame...

CP and Harden are basically making all the decisions. Maybe I can believe Hardeb saying he doesn't need more help. But CP has to know we need more depth, yet he still sat there asking for a max contract knowing that it will hold back the front office from signing up other players.

CP is easily prioritizing his money over winning.

 

There is no rule against acting short term and not thinking long term.

Spoiler

(Hoping someone else saving you for your own stupidity. Ain't working.)

 

From what I understand, they put in protections all the time to save franchises from their own stupid decisions. Usually Morey is ahead of the curve, and he probably knew he was getting bent over the shed in this case. However, CP3 had all the leverage over the summer. It took us many years to get to this championship window, a short one at that. We have to win now. If that CBA protection is in place, CP3 saves face and still gets his "max" contract, albeit a more palatable one for the franchise moving forward.

 

Not really, Paul could have easily signed for 30 million a year instead of 40. What other team is giving him the Supermax at this age , when he’s done nothing without harden?

Even worse, this was a guy who has earns well over 200 million in his career. A terrible, terrible contract by a clueless gm for a delusional player. Paul should be paying house salary from his own pocket.

 

If Paul resigned for 30M then we would still be in the exact same situation of being capped out and not being able to sign anybody else. Once you are over the cap the same restrictions apply until you reach lux tax range.

Perhaps that is why Morey maxxed him out, no difference in capspace other than a bigger hole in Tilmans pocket.

 

At the time it made some sense, sure, but a true visionary GM would have thought of future plight with elite role players.

He was just too confident he can replace those with scraps.