cant blames james about taking more money. Everyone knows they would do the same go where the moneys at.
Look how our Rockets Treated you namesake They were tell Cat how the loved him then they signed him to a cheap contract then traded him How is that different? Rocket River
.469 FG .442 3FG is a streak shooter? we did already offer him 4 years.. so argument about not giving more that 3 has been debunked by rox mgmt.. I'm not saying we offer him 5 and he was not asking for 5.. if he's not that good, why was he the rox first option? howbout the draft day trade, did you like it? you think shane frikkin' battier will be more a difference than mike james? lets see, mike james can shoot better especially 3s, he's a quicker defender, and he can acutally be a third option, he dished out almost 6 assists last season, he has stepped up on the playoffs, heck he even has a ring to show for it.. you really think battier is better than james? FLIP frikkin' FLOP.. I thought he's not that good.. or are you saying that just because we didn;t sign him.. what if we did sign him, is he still not that good? okay so whats out there for the rox? and be frikkin' specific.. okay dallas ended up with Dirk, Josh Howard, Stack, Finley, Terry, Danielsm Harris, Dampier, and KVH.. you think the rox can equal that talent by the end of the offseason? give me a lineup which can equal that.. again what are our other options to "win now".. give something specific.. again, why was he the first choice and why did you say it would have been nice to have him sign with Houston. when you say not good, I assume you mean not as good as a super star.. you think he's not good for the 4 year MLE? is there anyone else available and good for the 4 year MLE or the TE?
Rockets management = idiots... just saw an interview that James gave to Channel 2 news. James said clearly (and repeatedly I might add), that he would have signed with Houston if they had given him an option on the 3rd year of his contract , and a no trade clause. Just stupid. After all the stupid contracts the Rockets have handed out, they want to haggle with a guy over a 3rd yr player option and no trade clause... damn this franchise frustrates me....
1st, Mike James JUST TURNED 31 2nd, I dont remember Houston sending JVG to the house of Speedy Claxton or send seemingly the entire front office minus Les to Vegas to talk to any other free agents. Houston made James their first and looks like their only priority so excuse us if we're a little upset that houston didn't get the #1 guy on their list. So Rox management traded Mike like Lebron James not the fans 3rd, Dallas actually had players that other teams wanted. That summer they traded Antawn Jamison to Washington for Devin Harris's drafts rights and Stackhouse. Then they traded Antoine Walker to Atlanta for Jason Terry.....im not sure Houston's gonna be able to pull those kinds of deals off with Juwan Howard and Skip.
Show me where anyone from the Rockets said that we were going to win the championship next season. In fact, did anyone from the Rockets even utter the term "win-now"? Since they haven't been able to discuss the Battier trade, I haven't heard them say that. I've heard the media say it, but not the Rockets. The Rockets aren't interested in waiting years for a player to contribute, that's probably true. They're going to try and be as good as they can be, but let's not get carried away and claim that the Rockets think Battier puts them over the top. Mike James putting up 20/6 on a bad team is just the PG version of Sharif Abdur-Rahim being a 20/10 guy for a bad team. What the Rockets are trying to do is to spend their money efficiently. Battier for $5M is a great buy. A 36 year old Mike James costing us almost $7M and armed with a trade kicker wouldn't be a good deal later on. Just because somebody else was willing to overpay doesn't mean that we should too. It's the same situation as when we were persuing Derrick Fisher last off-season. We wanted him, but he got stupid money from Golden State. Sometimes not doing a bad deal is just as important as doing a good deal.
so whats the point of under trading our 8th & athletic productive forward producing 10pts/5 rebs for battier? to win sometime in the futute? you know SAR is an upgrade over our own PF right? 31+3 or 4=36???
Wow, I think you're taking this loss a little hard. Let's take a few deep breaths and count to ten. I don't think Mike James is a huge loss. I am sorry if you feel he is. I don't. That's my opinion. Now, would I have liked him to sign with Houston? Sure. I know what he's capable of. I know he's a potent offensive player. I hardly think I am flip flopping: Is Mike James a good player that I would like to have on our roster? Yes. Do I think he is so valuable that the team's playoff aspirations are lost due to not signing him? Hell no. That having been said, yeah.....he had a good 3 pt. field goal percentage. He also was in the top 20 in the league in turnovers. I had the pleasure of watching James from the 4th row in Dallas against the Mavs. He played great for 3.5 quarters. Late in the 4th quarter, he missed nearly every shot he took, and was almost single-handedly responsible for a Maverick 19-2 run that resulted in an overtime win for the Mavs. I have seen several other games where James disappears in crunch time. And as for you wanting all of these specifics for what trades we can pull off, etc. How the heck would I address that? You can go to Real GM just like me and play all kinds of scenarios out. What am I supposed to say about the Battier trade? Did I like it? No. How does this relate to my opinion, or yours for that matter, about Mike James? Let's move on from this Mike James thing.
wel who's our savior? battier? marcus banks? for 4 yr 5M and option on 3rd and for whats available on the FA market he was well worth it..
wtf CD...add another year, he's better than anyone we could sign for the next 4 yrs anyway. Man the management funked up again.
you can move on but if people want to question & debate why rox mgmt was unwilling to give an option on the 3rd year they can.. they were already giving him 4 years.. mike james wanted an option after 3rd yr.. they didn't give it to him.. was that smart?
To the idiot who insists on Mike James Lied (I've only read that far): If you call what MJ said a lie, here's a reality check, Rockets front office lied to him and us fans so many freaking times - about how they wanted him, how they loved him, how they put winning first etc.
To clarify a point, when I mentioned Battier being unable to put the Rox over the hump, it was responding to the saying that Mike James isn't needed because he doesn't put us over the hump. So in your oppinion what was the Rockets' direction in the Battier trade. If they were trying to win in the future, they could have traded for a young and promising player, or traded the pick for next year's deep draft, instead they have done neither and opted for the "win now" approach by trading future prospects for a role player that is stable, ready to contribute with no upside. It doesn't matter what the Rockets idiots utter from their mouth. Action speaks louder than words. When one mortgaged the future for the present, he better bust his a$$ to put the best lineup on the floor right now. Now about Mike James being 36 when the contract ends, he is underpaid for his performance right now, so overpaying him when he's 36 balance things out. The most important thing is, nobody knows how productive James will be when he's 36. He played in the NBA for just a few years with less tears in his body. He's been durable and improved his game at age 30. Look at T-Mac, should we trade him now because after 5 years his back is going to degenerate even more? 36 years at the end of Mike's contract is a non issue following the same win now logic for McGrady. About great numbers on bad teams thing, hell why didn't Rafer Alston average 20/6 on the Raptors or the Rockets if it's easy to put up points on a bad team? Mike James's 20/6 on the Raptors is significant for us because we were a bad team last year too and Alston couldn't sniff 20/6 at 46% fg% and 45% 3 point shooting. In fact, nobody did other than Yao or McGrady. It shows the big gap between James' capability and the rest of our role players.
