I don't see why anyone would pick the Griffin trade. If the question was asked, "which trade turned out to hurt us the most," you could say the Griffin trade, but at the time, it was a stroke of brilliance. Moving 3 mid to low picks for arguably the most enticing prospect in the entire draft was a risk anyone would make at any time and 99% here were ready to throw a parade at the time. So please stop with the "we could have had Jefferson, Randolph, and Tony Parker" revisionism - no team has the foresight to pick all the gems in one draft. Far and away the worst trade was the Glen Rice deal. We traded away a first round pick to trade Glen Rice's expiring contract for John Ameechi. Hands down the most indefensible act of incompetence possibly in all of Rockets history. Truly sickening.
I don't know. True, EG seemed like the choice of soem other teams, and any other team in our position would have pulled the trigger, but i think RJ was a good fit for us. I didn't understand how EG would fit, and as much as I hate Lute's players I would have happily kept RJ.
agreed. i don't understand why so many people bash the rockets for griffin when there was practically unanimous jubilation right after getting him. i like the barkley trade and would do it again every single time. there's no way we were winning another ring with that core and though we ultimately didn't with barkley it was fun trying. for me it's either the glen rice trade or the pippen trade.
are you serious? so you're saying a team that just won 52 games and took a team that went to the WCF to 7 games in the playoffs is no better than a lottery bound team that had some young talent and old scrubs that won like 30 some odd games? you're insane.
You know what? I'm not going there. The Spurs are the Spurs for one and one reason only...they were lucky enough to tank in a season when Tim Duncan (who stayed for his Sr season at Wake) was available in the draft and they received the #1 in spite of the Celtics having the strongest statistical likelihood. Had Duncan decided to forego his Senior year or had the ping-pong balls bounced ever so slightly differently, there'd be a "Hillboy" somewhere on a Spurs website cursing RC Buford and Gregg Popovic to high hell. And Celtics fans would still believe in "the mystique" and Rick Pitino would have never uttered the now famous "Bird ain't walking through that door" phrase. I am not sure and really don't care why you continue the personal negative diatribe against the Rockets' management for the last 10 year span. They've made bad moves, they've made good moves...often there is as much luck associated with the process as there is skill. From your posts, I can tell you're not a Jr High kid and you've been around the block enough times to know that NOTHING in life is intrinsically good or bad. There are very often multiple shades of gray before you get to the extremes. Carry on...without me...
Griffin deal sucked then and it hurts every time I think about what could have been. Barkley deal was bad b/c of Cassell and think of all the crap we have had at pg over the past 10 years or so.
Thank you- I was so happy at the time of the Griffin deal-many here now do not rememeber how bad we needed a big man at the time. Pippen hurt us much worse- we got nothing for him after putting so much resources to get him.....Long time damage.... Signing and trading Shandon to get Glen Rice is a strange use of resources
I remember very clearly how excited everyone on this board was (including me) when we aquired Eddie Griffin from the Nets. Regardless of that fact it was still one of the all time if not the all time worst trade this team has ever made.
IIRC, the reason for the rice/amaechi deal was as follows: the jazz were rebuilding and needed to reach the salary minumum. the rockets were happy to dump off rice's deal onto the jazz. i believe amaechi's deal was in it's last year as well, just much smaller that rice's. this gave the rockets a very large trade exception. that was the reason the jazz wanted a first round pick. still a bad deal. the jazz needed ricels salary. for helping out the jazz we get a TE. fair enough. why throw away a first rounder? by the way, does anyone remember what happened to that TE or who the jazz picked with that pick?
I don't know if it was a "lot" of damage-The Rockets paid Rice 18.4 mil over 2 seasons, when we could have let Shandon walk instead of sign and trading him. Did it look to you like Glen Rice's knees were bothering him?
that trade was done at the end of the summer, right after gundy was hired. a year later, i think we used that TE to make the tmac deal work. if that's the case, then it was as good of a deal as any! as for thier pick, i can't find it anywhere.
Yeah...Griffen worst... other notables... Prizabella for Collier. Najera (?) for Langhi. Scott Brooks for ...can't remember the guys name. And the Barkley trade looked good at first until you see what Hory became...and Cassell is still goin at the point. We could use him
