Is Clint Capela trade-able and what can you get in return?

I think it's better to hope that he improves over the offseason and/or that something fluky was still going on with his health .

He's got to add some skill .

If he adds strength it will cost him quickness and he will less effective guarding the perimeter . Maybe he can really focus on the Lower body and add both , but I wouldn't bet on it at this point .

All I know is that the wcf is the worst I've seen him play in a couple of years .

Edit. He needs to get rid of his stupid yellow patch

 

I think you're right that there just aren't too many teams that need centers. It's actually shocking how many good and/or promising centers there are in the league today. I can think of a few teams who would want him but then I don't see what they can give us in return that we'd be interested in. For example, I believe the Mavericks would love to add him and play KP at the 4, but other than Porzingis and Doncic (who they aren't moving), what do they have that we'd want? Nothing.

 

I remember the suns were reportedly going to offer clint the max, but now they have ayton.

 

He still has value because his contract is relatively cheap for a starting center that can get you a double double pretty much every night.

That being said, a smart GM would only trade for him if he has a ball-handling guard that can maximize Clint's strengths like what Harden has done the past few seasons. Basically, you need a player like Bradley Beal to run the PnR with Clint.

 

So Capela is a negative bad match up against Golden State and they have 4-5 All stars and we have 1 All Star. The Rox are Taking a pistol to a semi-automatic gun fight every year hoping for a different result is the reality. I know I'm sounding like a broken record but in my opinion, we need at least another All Star and/or Rebounder to eliminate the 5-9 point deficit the Rox loose by every game on average to them in the playofs. Jimmy Butler, Kevin Love, Ibaka or Gasol are all long shots obviously, altho I heard Morey was told he can go over the salary cap and he's known to pull off some dastardly deals...it should be an interesting off season.

 

We're all more down than we should on him right now, which is understandable, but the guy was still great for all the season and good in the playoffs (when healty), he just had a terrible series but against the best team ever which is a bad match up for him, i mean, it happens, Embiid just got a terrible series against the Raptors, shoot 36% with 8 boards, for someone with his body and talent it's embarassing.

Capela si still young, some upside left imo (not much though), the contract is still very good and long, some small market would love to have him locked ona 4 year deal, i'm pretty confident in this, if you want some random names i'd say:

Atlanta (even though they have two top 10 picks and i expect them to draft a center, Clint would be perfect with Trae)
Washington
Charlotte
Cleveland
Dallas
NOLA (if they trade Davis)
San Antonio
Sacramento (if they plan to use Bagley as a 4 and not retain Cauley)
Pistons if they decide to trade those losers they have

Not sure about Boston if Irving bolts and they go younger, and Toronto if Kawhi bolts and they try to rebuild around Siakam.

With that said, i agree that he should really try to add something to his game, outside shot would be amazing, cause with that body he's never going to dominate the paint...even though, we never saw this as a big problem, now it is cause he got owned by Draymond, but that happened to a lot of players, some of them more skilled than Clint.

On a side note, the Rockets really need to consdier well where they're with Gordon, if he really wants to retire here sign an extension an shut up, i'd be fine with moving Clint to get assets/third star if we can keep EG, but if the organization has no idea of what he wants or they think it's going to be hard to keep him, they simply need to trade him, we just can't lose him for nothing.

 

Morey will do his due diligence with Capela. Building on Clutch’s idea on his podcast... could you swap out Capela and Gordon for Deandre Jordan, Danny Green, and House? I don’t know if that’d be better?

 

Spoiler

Sixers - Embiid
Bucks - B.Lopez(expiring but totally different player than Clint; don't think they'd be interested)
Bulls - Wendell Carter
Cavs - Trstian/rebuilding
Celtics - Horford (can opt out)
Grizzlies - Jonas V. (can opt out)
Heat - Whiteside (can opt out)/Adebayo
Jazz - Gobert
Knicks - DeAndre Jordan (expiring)/Mitchell Robinson
Magic - Vucevic (expiring)/Mo Bamba
Nets - Jarrett Allen
Nuggets - Jokic
Pacers - Turner
Pistons - Drummond
Raptors - Gasol(expiring)/Ibaka
Suns - Ayton
Thunder - Adams
Wolves - Towns
Blazers - Nurkic/Kanter(expiring)
Warriors - Cousins(expiring)/Looney/Bogut/Green/Bell

Clippers? (Don't see it)
Hawks?
Hornets?
Kings? (Didn't they have cap space last summer to sign him & didn't?)
Lakers?
Mavs?
Pelicans?
Spurs?
Wizards?

 

I'd move both Clint and Gordon. Clint to Sacramento, Gordon plus 2 1sts to Philly, Jimmy Buckets and Bogdan Bogdanovic to Houston. Bring DeAndre Jordan in.

 

This is what i can see the Rockets try to do, get DeAndre for cheap and move Clint with or without Gordon for Butler/Beal and another piece, would absolutely love Bogdanovic but i don't see Divac trade him...might be easier to get Llull, lol.

 

"tell Clint Capela we want our money back"!!

 

I can't even really think of any teams that don't already have their center per say or one in their back pocket

 

Just keep him. He gone alley hoop dunk from hatden all season.

 

Atlanta, Cleveland, Charlotte, Wizards. I guess there might be an outside chance at acquiring Beal for Clint plus EG and a 1st rounder if they want to rebuild. My guess is that they won't commit to that.
Hawks, Cavs and Charlotte have nothing to offer us.

 

Mavs, Lakers and the Pelicans won't help us out. Neither will the Spurs.

 

Capela played better with two viruses. (Maybe fighting through all that took it out of him for the GSW series. Nevertheless, he's our most tradable asset, but you'd need a plan to replace him at center.

"Hawks, Cavs, and Charlotte have nothing to offer us" = "They have players / cap space / picks of value to offer, but don't hold your breath; you'll only pass out and wake up with a headache. So I've heard."