This upcoming season......i don't know the specifics of how it will work but there will no longer be the 3 man injured reserve. Makes sense since every team had to keep coming up w/ fake injuries for players they didn't have room for on the active roster but still didn't want to lose off the team.
I think the new "IR" will be the same format, i.e. 12 active players and 3 inactive players. It's just that you don't have to be injured to be on the inactive list.
I like this deal. With Mutombo backing up Yao, I think this is the team to start the season with. We probably won't see any more action until closer to the trading deadline or even maybe next summer.
It may be the 3 man practice squad. I'm guessing if Griffin is resigned after he is waived by the Bulls, he will be on that squad. The same goes for Gaines. Fans of Gaines may be disappointed if they expect him to play. The guy has no jumpshot.
great move and probably our last move great way to cap the offseason, another few weeks of boring cluthfans and then preseason will start!
Well that's why I said it, but I don't think I read exactly where it was finally decided to be the case. Maybe it was in that one long thread that kept on going back and forth for a couple of weeks. Anyway, this means that CD/Les are definitely concerned about the TE and won't just give it away for nothing.
aelliott confirmed it again on page 5 of this thread and I think NIKEStrad posted somewhere that he actually e-mailed Larry Coon about it...I was not sure before that, either.
this also intrigues me, but what could we get in return for the TE without tampering too much with the roster we have now? Outside of Howard or Taylor/Lue/Gaines I dont see anyone on our roster that I would want to trade. Now with the mutombo deal the only thing i see now is trying to get a player like chandler for a long-term backup for yao. i am still for trying to get eddie griffin back in a rockets jersey if he gets his head back on properly. but that is just a pipe-dream, but then again so was trying to get t-mac
Piakowski is probably wanted for outside shooting, along with some height at the SG position. The Tribune article says they want Wilks to compete with Duhon for a backup PG spot. If Wilks wins, Duhon will probably go to Europe for a year, with Chicago keeping his rights.
Not only the possibility of re-acquiring AG (if the Rockets want him, maybe his knee is better now?), but this tidbit: "Wilks, a free agent who will sign a three-year contract with one year of guaranteed money, will battle Chris Duhon for the backup point-guard job." Say Wilks actually does go in there and knock Duhon out.. the Bulls waive Duhon.. we should snap that guy up quick fast and in a hurry! This may turn out to be a whopper is a deal eventually
and his full name is Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean Jacque Wamutombo ?? wow! Speaks English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and five African dialects. too bad he doesn't speak Chinese or Shainhaiese.
So to you and yours, this is a good trade because we traded 3 guys WHO NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON THE TEAM IN THE FIRST PLACE for a guy who cannot move at all, cannot score one wit, is injury prone and who was over the hill 5 YEARS ago. Also, this is supposedly a "good" trade" because he will give them 10-15 "quality" minutes off the bench (that's assuming that he'll even be able to get off the bench in 10 minutes). They would done better if they had just suited up Ewing. Oh wait, he's still 7'2" you say? Well great! Shawn Bradley is 7' 4" and he STILL CAN'T PLAY! I really gotta hand it to that incompetent ass CD: He went out and found the one guy who's even WORSE than Shawn Bradley is now for a backup. By December, folks around here will be longing for the "good old days of Kelvin Cato". So now the Rockets have hit the trifeca for their front line: they are short, old and slow. Unless T-Mac can score 40 points every night, this will be a slower team than last year that will struggle to reach 70 points on a nightly basis. I'm not attacking you cabbage because I can see that you desperately want to believe in this team and this organization but I have long since stopped believing in anything that Dawson does as nothing more than complete BS. This is vintage CD, trade for a nothing player and then try to blow sunshine up our collective assess. This is yet another stop gap move in a continuing series of stop gap moves to correct CD's personnel mistakes (like the signing of Piatkowski and Griffin in the first place). What amazes (and irratates) me to no end is how Dallas, with a boob like Mark Cuban running things, can end up with Dampier for basically nothing while the Rockets continue to waste time signing marginal players who end up doing nothing to make the team more competative in their conference.
Sam, he'd have to IMPROVE immensely just to be considered awful. I didn't know that this was the wheelchair basketball league. They'd have done better if they had simply signed a lifesize cardboard cutout of Hakeem for the backup center position for which they'll still need to fill once Mutombo hurts himself while trying to get up off the bench.
The Nuggets force-fed him in his rookie season. They figured he'd develop offensive skills if they kept giving him the ball every time down court, that he was just "raw". They learned the error of their ways.
