Here's how I see the 14 man roster as of today: Yao T-Mac Artest Alston Battier Scola Brooks Landry Hayes Barry Wafer Head Dorsey (possibly sent to NBDL) Francis (possible buyout for retirement) (Mutumbo - if SF "retires") Changes? Corrections?
From best to worse McGrady Yao Artest Battier Scola Landry Alston Brooks Barry Hayes Head Wafer Dorsey If Deke resigns McGrady Yao Artest Battier Scola Landry Alston Brooks Barry Deke Hayes Head Wafer Dorsey
My best to worst, all things considered, is: Artest McGrady Yao Landry Battier Scola Barry Hayes Brooks Alston Wafer Dorsey Head Francis
I didnt even include francis because frankly i doubt he'll even see any minutes ever again as a rocket. As for artest being the best, well he maybe the best way player in the nba, but mcgrady is more dominante on the offensive side plus with his ability to setup the offense and extract points and double teams at will he is our best player. yao is more dominante to. Artest is without a shadow of a doubt our best player, but the best is pushing it.
the way i see it is that cutting down to 14 is a clear sign that deke will join sooner rather than later. since strawberry's contract was non guaranteed cutting him means cutting his salary off the cap. that puts the total roster salary at $69.2M. the LT is set at $71.1M. there is now $1.9M to work with under the LT, IOW enough to offer deke more than the vet min ($1.3) which he said he wouldn't sign for.
Imagine the defensive prowess of this lineup: Alston Artest Battier Hayes Mutombo Literally, no layups... or much of anything else, for that matter.
I missed to put the 3rd. but you're english isnt all that great. so dont go around acting as the spelling or grammar police.
How do you guys see the minutes breaking down. Assuming everyone is healthy, I would like to see something like this... Yao 30 Scola 30 Artest 35 McGrady 30 Alston 35 Landry 20 Battier 30 Barry 17 Brooks 13
My roster are Yao T-Mac Battier Scola Alston Artest Landry Hayes Barry Head Brooks Mutumbo (bench leader) inactive list Wafer Dorsey (possibly sent to NBDL for a month) Francis (injure).
Feigen has been writing that he's been told the Rockets are around $2M over LT. Gauging an estimate of the Rocket's team salary is hard mostly because of the conflicting numbers concerning McGrady's salary and that there's no estimate of Landry's salary yet. Taking a guess at Landry's pay, say it's $3M. I would estimate the Rockets team salary to be around $73.42M. That'd be $2.26M over LT. With Oklahoma and possibly Orlando being the only teams who have a realistic chance of trading their TEs, and not going over LT themselves from making such a trade. I'd say the Rockets would need to trade multiple players including either one of Battier or Alston to get under LT.
From best to worse McGrady Yao Artest Battier Scola Landry Alston Barry Brooks Hayes Wafer Head Dorsey(possibly sent to NBDL) If Mutumbo resigns he wanna be bench leader
