Skip Bayless: Houston Rockets BIGGEST LOSER of the trade deadline.

The biggest losers? I don't know. I don't think we GAINED value. I'm not sure we lost value since we've regressed to a fringe playoff team.

We were probably the biggest losers of the season but of the deadline? That's a bit reactionary. We did almost nothing at the deadline.

 

Hilarious...

But it's hard to be on the "opposite" side on this one, unfortunately.

 

If nothing was done at all, the team would be better today than it is. The only way this trade specifically makes the Rockets better is if either they hit big on that late 1st round pick or if they miss the playoffs now and hit big on their own 1st round pick.

That's it.

Neither Thornton or DMo represented any salary next year if we didn't want to keep them so there was 0 benefit towards the cap in the off-season. Sure DMo would have had a cap hold, but you could renounce his rights if you wanted to clear that money.

It's incredibly unlikely that the Rockets did anything more than save Les a bit of money at the expense of the team's short term competitiveness with these moves.

 

Skip's comment:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;The biggest loser to me is Houston. They needed to get out from under him by any means possible.&quot; - Skip <a href="https://t.co/O2ECzWnrIv">pic.twitter.com/O2ECzWnrIv</a></p>&mdash; First Take (@FirstTake) <a href="https://twitter.com/FirstTake/status/700710489974673408">February 19, 2016</a></blockquote>
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That just shows you that Skip can be wrong even when he's right by being right for the wrong reason.

 

This guy?:

Spoiler

 

Hope the Skip reverse jinx will be in full force, in which case we will sweep GSW in the finals.

 

Until Harden and Howard leave Rockets, media sources outside Houston will always bash on the Rockets. The media knows a lot of ppl hate Harden and Howard so if they jump on the bandwagon, they'll get more views.

 

Surely you didn't think this was funny when you posted this, correct?

 

Houston Rockets:Skip Bayless is the BIGGEST LOSER of Espn

 

Bwhahaha exactly J.R.

 

Jimmer Fredette is the NBA version of Tim Tebow.

We will pick him up from the D-League.

You wait and see.

Lol.

 

We weren't the biggest losers.
NO.1 LOSER: New Orleans. Couldn't get anything for Rhyno and he will leave.
NO.2 LOSER: Bulls. Same old Same old, now also resigning 35+ y.o to big contracts.
NO. 3 LOSER: Orlando. Skiles doing Skiles things.

We are though probably after that no.4 loser. Couldnt' trade Lawson, couldnt' dump anyone else, couldnt' rob NY for Bev, couldn't trade Dwight to get smth back and instead of taking the draft day deal, we sold as low as possible on DMO.

 

Hey you forgot to add basketballholic to this list. Where is old school at anyways. He claimed to be an insider so why didn't he predict this move by the Rockets. Lol neither did his hero, and you know who I'm talking about. Haha

 

This is a popular angry fan theme. But how do you value Ty Lawson? He was really good, but can't seem to get it together this season. Harden impact that for sure because he's so ball dominant, but trying to trade away a player who hasn't shown himself this season while having off-court problem history doesn't give Morey much leverage in trade deals. They shopped him, and decided it was better to keep him. I assume that you are also talking about Brewer. He could suck a golf ball through a garden hose this year. Terrible. Who wants him? We lost D-Mo, who's been hurt and can't crack the rotation, and Thorton, who's a vet minimum player. What did we lose, and what "could" we have shipped away? I'd say that did well by getting back a first round pick. Do you really think otherwise?

 

DD, your reasoning most of the time is as bad or worse than Bayless and Barkley. Your arguments are far too often more visceral than rational, and you have a hard time seeing the forest though the trees.

 

Was I just reading homer sites yesterday? I swear every article I read grading trades (including ours) had us coming out pretty well. A lot thought it was a win-win move. Read maybe 3-4 articles, none were negative on Houston (or Detroit for that matter).

 

What we lost was by far our best PF on the roster and arguably the most reliable bench scorer on the team....and a 2nd round pick and all we got back was a late 1st round pick and we saved Les some money.

In no universe was that a good trade unless it leads to the Rockets missing the playoffs and then we can say that the trade got us 2 first round picks with our own being better than the Pistons'.

In a perfect world, we ship out garbage like Jones, Lawson, or Brewer, but I understand that we probably would have to pay too much to get some team to take awful players like that off our hands. The goal of the trade deadline was merely to save Les money and we accomplished it and we likely went the route we did because it was cheaper than sending out players on the team that are worthless.

 

That describes like 90% of the fanbase of any sports team.

Nay, more like 90% of the US population haha.