Photoshop: Stoudemire in a Rockets uni (merged: Rockets-Suns trade rumor)

whats funny to me is that the people whining that the Rockets will have a huge hole in their roster if we include AB in the trade are the same people that thought that AB was not good enough to fill Rafer's shoes when he was traded. You people should leave the GMing to DM, because frankly none of you know ****. In Morey I trust.

Lowry can step up as our PG, and Barbosa will do a descent job as a back-up.

 

I have a feeling though that this trade will be brooks and landry for barbosa lol since amare is a tmac these days. once amare is done, we will be left with barbosa with no landry or brooks....

 

Severly underestimating Barbosa's shot making ability here.

I like Brooks and wouldnt trust Barbosa as facilitator. But we're HOPING Aaron Brooks can continue to hit the open outside looks. Barbosa's ALREADY BEEN doing it, at the rate with some of the best in NBA history. If there's anyone to replace the attributes of Brooks, Barbosa's a pretty safe pick. Even in his down years without D'Antoni and 7 seconds or less offense he's beating Brooks in shot making and size.

I wouldnt do the suggested trade as-is cuz Amare could walk after the season and your essentially dealing Brooks and Landry for just Barbosa. No thanks.

 

I would not be shocked if we deal Barbosa back to Dantoni for a couple guys.....


Nate+Wilson Chandler?

 

Brooks and Landry are both too inconsistent. Landry MAY someday be a starter for a good team. Brooks I have my doubts on his potential. He will always be 5 ft 10 and too skinny. Eventually wear and tear will hurt his quickness and he will be a below avg PG. Barbosa is a rich man's Brooks with superior size and defense.

Landry's upside is that he has above average athleticism, but he lacks the post moves to ever be more than an "energy" guy. Stoudemire has a bit more athleticism but can be a factor every night for 35 mins a game.

I'd do this trade in a heartbeat.

 

nice stats shroopy....

would amare have to agree on an extension potentially?

 

Clutch feels that will have to be done. Look it up in the 1560 thread.

 

Trade One: (Rockets-Sun-Piston)

To Phoenix: Tmac, Landry, Piston's 2nd
To Piston: Amare, Houston Filter
To Houston: Rip Hamilton, Barbosa, McDyss(S&T), Piston's 1st

Trade Two: (Rockets-King-Memphis)

To King: Brooks, Cook
To Memphis: King's 4th, Piston's 1st
To Houston: Memphis's 2nd, King's bad contract

Final Lineup:

Rubio/Lowry/Barbosa
Hamilton/Barbosa/White/Barry/Wafer
Battier/Artest/White
Scola/Artest/Chuck Hayes
Yao/Mcdyss/Dorcey

 

Amare has risks but we are talking about Amare Stoudmare here !

 

Anytime you can nab a bonafide allstar for a few role players you do it. As much as I love Brooks, he can and should be replaced by someone who can facilitate the ball better and actually get the ball into the post.

Getting Stoudemire would open things up tremendously for Yao. The way Yao is taken out of games is our biggest weakness, not the lack of a go-to guy as some suggest. Yao is our go-to guy and I would dare opposing teams to front Yao with Stoudemire playing beside him.

 

i would do this in a heartbeat.

barbosa would take over for brooks as the gunner (instead he'll be off the bench) while lowry should start or we sign a pg in free agency.

amare is a huge upgrade from landry and t-mac was leaving after next year anyway.

 

So we trade one injury proned player for another injury proned player. Tmac's injury was on a non weight bearing area where Amar'e's was. hmmm.... Yeah I don't know about this. If we get nash in the deal too then I'm all for it if not forget it.... We still need someone to score from the outside.

 

Barb is pretty much a better version of AB (slightly)

With this trade, Scola technique becomes our backup 4/5 and we upgrade Landry to a 20/10 guy, Tmac is done, if this trade goes down i will be happy, if we get that draft pick i will be stoked.

Stop overrating Landry, Amare is way better.

 

I second that. Unless Morey has gotten some other trading plans involving guards on the book, this is not a deal I would love to dive in. Sounds like the second step would be removing either Battier or RR, which I would regret to see.

 

Cassel + Horry = Barkley

PART DEAUX ?

 

First of all let me just say I applaud your effort in trying to make a coherent and reasonable post. With that said, let me point out some things in this trade:

1) Amare is not >>>>> Jefferson. Amare may be more gifted than Jefferson, but he doesn't play defense and is paid more than Jefferson. Plus, Amare has chemistry issues and whines even more than Dirk. I'd say they're about even. With Jefferson, you can still afford to surround your team with one or 2 franchise players. With Amare, he's taking 30% off your cap right off the bat, if he starts acting like a baby you're screwed.

2) Spurs and Cavs traded junk into treasure, and in the Spur's case they might have turned thin air into treasure because they're getting their players back. We, on the other hand lose basically our youth brigade.

3) This trade has potential for backfiring in a huge way, we need to get more value to compensate for the "risk".
San Antonio and the Cavs didn't just trade their junk into treasure, their trades were virtually no brainers (in financial terms they would be trading at the risk-free rate). We on the other hand are trading T-Mac(who has a chance of returning at near full strength), AB0 (who tore the Lakers a new one and has yet to play a full season) and MANDRY (cheap, solid pf who shows flashes of brilliance from time to time). What the hell are you gonna do if AB0 becomes the next Jameer Nelsonm T-Mac returns with a vengeance and Landry becomes more productive due to increased playing time, and Amare aggravates his knee or eye and has to shut it down? Expect Ferry and Spurs to die laughing if the above happens.

Bottom line is we need to get more value in this trade because otherwise we putting ourselves at risk just for the sake of making a trade and shipping T-mac out. I only due this trade if PHX gives us their draft pick, or we get J-Rich instead of Barbosa (I'm open to giving them cash and our 1st round next year in exchange). We get that lottery pick, its a deal. No Pick (or no J-rich) no deal.

 

I love T-mac going to the Suns. Their staff is one of the best in the business for getting injured players healthy. Rockets get good players in return and lose the injured T-mac. Suns get to rehabilitate T-Mac.

 

your right. It's not a wash. Barbosa is better than Brooks.

This is a fantastic trade for Houston. Lowry and Barbosa can man the point. Amare will destroy in the front court with Yao. Love this deal. and we don't even have to give up Scola. Pull the trigger and give us our championship trophy now!

 

Here's a link to the rumor

http://www.nypost.com/seven/06252009/sports/moresports/wolves_on_path_of_kahn_176015.htm?page=2

"According to the same source that disclosed Terry Porter was about to be fired as Suns coach, the Rockets are leaning toward swapping Tracy McGrady's expiring $22M contract, Carl Landry and Aaron Brooks for Leandro Barbosa and Stoudemire, who owns an escape clause after next season and is demanding an extension this summer to waive it."

 

With Yao's nagging foot problems rearing its ugly head again, having a player like Amare on the team would greatly help take some of the load off of him and help fill that big role that Yao has as the main offensive weapon; which could later on also help extend his career in the league. If there's another case like before where Yao does go down, the team could run the offense through Amare to get easy baskets and open shots much like the way the team runs their offense through Yao right now. The importance of getting Amare on this team is huge (no pun intended )and the team, esp. Yao, would really benefit from it. Think of him as our own verison of a Chris Webber that Rick would coach.