Sportsradio 610 Matt Jackson confirms Daniels Speculation

I like Michael Redd alot. But, I just don't see Milwaukee letting go of him.

The guy I'd like to get is Ronald Murray from SEA. I believe he'll be the next Michael Redd. If we are negotiating for Daniels, I'd love to see us get Murray, and one of thier backup centers, even though they are grossly overpaid. I think that might be the only way to pry Murray away from them. Unfortunately, they're probably going to want to hang onto him, as insurance in their negotiations with Allen.

But, the trade I'd like to see is either the TE and a draft pick for Daniels/Murray/Booth or send them Taylor. They might do that to get rid of Booth's contract and salary cap space. But, I think we might end up getting Fisher after all ...

 

I was thinking... If Seattle wants Fisher and Fisher says he wouldn't mind playing for them, why couldn't we just do a sign and trade. Sign him and then trade him to Seattle for Daniels?

That way we don't lose a draft pick or the TE.

 

1) I don't think you can do that under the CBA.

2) Seattle can sign Fisher without having to do a S&T.

 

Thanks for the info codell & clutch...

Wasn't sure if it was allowed unless the player re-signs with his former team first or not. Anway, it was just a thought. Thanks again for straightening me out.

 

Because we would rather spend the TE first. MLE is much easier to use.

 

that article was great. i simply must have more Forrest King quotes. "They don't run nothing like the east coast offense."

and then timmy gives us a little third person talk, awesome.

 

I say wait until next summer to sign Nick Van Exel to the full MLE. There's no point in wasting draft picks over and over again. I'm going to go ahead and say that we're not going to compete for the championship next season -> just wait until next summer and see what happens.

 

Patricia has Daniels' salary this past season at $2.2 mil and James at $5.0 mil for a total of $7.2. Since the $6.9 mil TE comes from a trade that's already been completed, I believe there's no 15% + $300,000 buffer. I'd go for a Daniels and James deal, but I wonder if a Daniels and James deal with the TE works under the cap. Any capologist care to comment?

If such a deal is possible, we shouldn't have to give up a first-rounder without getting one back in return. We had to pay Utah to take on Glen Rice. We shouldn't have to pay Seattle to take on James and Daniels. Seattle may be helping us, but we're also helping them by clearing $7 million off their roster.

I hope Fisher is serious about Seattle. May make facilitating this sort of trade easier.

 

Get Antonio Daniels in a Houston Rocket uniform. Jim Jackson clones, we need more of 'em. Jeff Van Gundy knows what he's doing. That AST ratio is outstanding. Thats a few extra possessions a game for us this year. Poised and in-control is what we're going to need from our point guard. In the limited time he recieved Antonio Daniels was as effecient as a point guard can be. In about 10 less minutes than Barry, he was only dishing out one less assist. He has the passing skills of Barry, the close range shooting and defense of Eric Snow, and the threepoint shooting ability of Derek Fisher.

I'm calling it right now. Antonio Daniels will be to this team what Jim Jacskon was to this team last year.

 

I'd want to part of Jerome James. That guy committs more fouls per min than any player in the NBA.

I like Potapenko. At least, then he won't be giving Yao such fits when we play Seattle.

 

No capologist, but if those salaries are accurate no that would not be permissable.

Thus AD and any combination of James, Booth or Penko is NOT permissable for the TE alone.

But we could do Spoon for any of the 3 centers one for one plus the TE (2.2) for AD--leaving the remaining TE (4.7) for another deal I believe.

Or we could do Gaines/AG for AD and the TE (like 5-5.5mil) for James, Booth or Penko.

OR MoT for AD + any of those excess Cs work as well.

Personally I think Booth or James is a much better compliment to the Rockets because Penko has the least defensive presence of the three. Who cares if James fouls, as long as they are hard fouls. We only want him for 15 minutes of banging and blocking a shot or two anyway. In truth I think any of the 3 are OK if overpriced back-up Cs.

 

If we could somehow get Daniels and Booth. Maybe trading one of our power forwards, if at all possible, as the Sonics seem to be lacking in that department.

As long as something happens relatively soon. I fear that we would be left with, say, Mark Jackson again.

 

The TE gives as lots of room to play around actually, at least until it gets close to expiration.

Unlike the MLE, there are few teams with TE of our size and always teams looking to dump contracts, often for servicable players who just make a little too much or don't fit in the long term plans of another team (e.g., Seattle has 3 OK back-up centers and used a 1st round pick on another C). It gives us a whole lot of oppertunnities and flexibility only a few teams way under the cap can match.

There is no reason to panic.

 

Hoopshype gives James a salary figure of 4.5 million. But to be honest all of these salary figures on the net won't necessarily be accurate because they're not supposed to be released to the public. And since they're not technically supposed to be released that means that only "basic" figures tend to be made known (i.e. number of years, total value, etc).

 

I like Nick Van Exel instead of Daniels...

 

Daniels would be a great fit in Houston.

How can you not like this guy? He's young, has great size and athleticism at his position, dishes well, makes very few mistakes/TO's, is a carreer 45% shooter...I'd be very happy getting him over the FA PGs on the market...

 

His assist to turnover ratio is 4.89:1.