Sooo... unpopular opinion but a perfect backup 5 with this team is Donatas Motiejunas. Good post defense, can be a change of pace player inside, and enough of a threat from 3. And mentally tougher than Ryno.
Ok, it might not be DJ who plays for peanuts, but he might take a discount for less than Capela's value, and CP3 takes a significant discount on top of that. But the point still stands; players sometimes make it work, and in this case, the players involved would be the same, thus allowing DJ to become part of the Rockets, and Capela to walk. Again, this is all speculation, and you are getting too caught up in the details of speculation. Kinda like when Lebron and Bosh decided to join Miami, all the naysayers prior to the decision were like "nah, that doesn't work financially, etc.etc." and then, it happened... What we do know from legitimate sources, is that DJ wants to join CP3 and the Rockets. And we can infer that it will require a discount on his part, because if not, why bother? There will be no incentive to the Rockets and from a winning perspective, to himself to do it unless he (and CP3) eats some money. In the end, and more on point, I personally don't think the Rockets will match a max salary offer to Capela, unless they can't land some of their more coveted free agents. And that is the bottom line I was trying to get across.
So you think that Lebron joining the Rockets and replacing Capela with say, Wright, doesn't make them better on paper? And how can it be "literally" if nothing has happened yet, thus we not knowing if the Rockets will be truly better off letting Capela walk or not?
Because in any reasonable scenario in which they add Lebron , they can retain Capela. His salary doesn't affect anything accept the amount of tax Tilman will pay.
The idea that Capela "is only going to get better and better" is garbage. That's not how careers work in the NBA. Only in a few extreme cases does a player only get better and better after 4 seasons. They're human beings fit crying out loud. Just more nonsense.
You re correct - Dwert was the better player in his prime but he is NOT the better team mate. He wouldn't sacrifice for the greater good of the team. He was selfish wanting post touches instead of running the offense generating easy / open shots. If he had done what Capela did this season - play defense , set good picks and rebound while being fed gimmies …. they'd probably have gone a hell of a lot farther than they did when he was here. He didn't. He wouldn't. Clint is the better FIT despite Dwert being the better player (in his prime not now).
Have to agree with most of this. CC is the better fit than Dwight. But....that does not mean CC is so valuable to us that we have to keep him. Because he isn't. And it does not mean that CC today is the better player when it comes to being able to help a team beat the Warriors in the playoffs. If we had had Dwight standing down there on the baseline and on the other end defending the paint we would have been much better defensively. Good enough? Dunno. Doubt it. All the same though.....neither player is worth $20 million per season in this system we are currently playing. Because neither player can spread the floor by shooting the three and one player is a very mediocre defender while the other player is a zero in the pick-and-roll. Accurate post @Corrosion with the exception of CC being better today. He isn't. This completes it.
I don't drink. Thank you. Haven't touched alcohol in 35 years. All the same you shouldn't post something like this on a public message board. Because the person you are writing to may actually be an alcoholic. Alcoholism is a serious illness that many people battle with daily. It shouldn't be trivialized or used as a joke.
It's an unknown how far down the tax rabbit hole the Rockets new owner is willing to go, thus we literally don't know anything about whether he won't go there or he will make an exception just to build a super team including Lebron and a max/close-to-max center. It's all speculation at this point. Now, if the Rockets do land Lebron, I suspect they will not care too much about the center position, as they will probably be playing small ball 75% of the time (just an arbitrary number), and they will probably ride with signing Wright or somebody akin to him. The Warriors are the model here, and they are more than likely going to win a championship with Zaza and Mcgee as their centers, so the Rockets going with Nene and a lower end free agent is not out of the question.
It seems to me that Capela and Gordon will be offered in a package to acquire Lebron. Whether that will be enough, I don't know. Perhaps not.
If we keep Capela, it would be nice for him to develop into a good post up option when defenses switch. The Cavs has success posting up he Warrior guards on switches. That wasn’t something we were able to exploit.
How depressingly true. I have a good friend, like me, a native Houstonian living in Austin, who always claims, "It's rigged!" Particularly when watching the NBA playoffs. I generally tell him, "Don't be ridiculous. There are good calls and bad calls. It evens out and it's just part of the game." When we see the refs assigned and the calls made during the Rockets/GS series, it is very hard not to agree with him. I'll be remembering that when I get League Pass for the umpteenth time so I won't miss a Houston game. It'll be very tough to get it again, considering how corrupt the NBA appears right now. I will anyway, but one of these years, I just might say **** it. **** the whole sorry mess the NBA has become. Right now, this BBS is what's keeping me in the game. Thanks, @Clutch. As for Clint, you have to keep him, in my opinion. He's a perfect fit, has been working out regularly with Hakeem, and is still clearly improving. We would be nuts not to hang on to the guy. Shouldn't we keep high end talent we've developed ourselves? It isn't like the roster is loaded with developing players that could have the impact Capela has had. You make it work. Find a healthy, similar player, maybe one of those mentioned as a cheap "replacement," so we can continue to play our style of basketball when Clint's on the bench, taking a breather. Don't move the guy. Not in my opinion. People seem to think it's easy to replace valuable parts of the rotation. It isn't. It ain't easy.
Its a player option, which he would absolutely have to waive if he ever wants to become a Houston Rocket. Probably won't happen, but if the reports of him wanting to join the Rockets are true, then the only way to make it work is to take a discount. "Now that we have James and Chris I think people are going to look in free agency and say: `Hey I can make this money there but maybe for close to the money but not quite as much I'm going to come to Houston and try to win a ring,"' he said. "So that's a big difference walking in with that kind of a situation."
a discount is taking a couple mil less. thats nothing new for alot of players or the league for that matter. taking what over 50% less than what hes going to make when hes never going to get that year salary again? not happening
