Yeah...good point...they also have Sweeney and Thomas and McDyess. MICHAEL REDD? Michael Redd is a pretty good shooter...I would rather keep Mobley. But Kukoc would be nice since his contract expires. Griffin is just missing right now...I wouldn't sign Mason! Cancer! Caffey is an assaulter too..
I still want SAR. For some weird reason, I always thought he would end up in a Rockets uni some how. How about: Mobley/Cato/2nd rounder for SAR Francis-Mooch Jackson-Pike SAR-Nachbar MoT-Griffin?/SAR Yao-Amechi Have ya'll noticed the turn-around love for Cato all of the sudden. Remember when Cato got the triple-double in a preseason game his first year with Houston, we signed him with that ridiculous contract the very next day and hasn't proved he was worth it ever since. I hope he has a hell of a seson.
Mutombo's old and may not be able to give them consistent minutes. Despite the glut of big men they've got, some Knicks fans are interested in Cato. And yeah, it's crazy how highly valued Cato is now where all we used to think about before was how to unload his contract.
Houston media, fans and team in general have a much more positive view of Cato than before. He has a much better attitude, works and rebounds hard. Cato is seen as an asset rather than a liability now.
In my dreams. If you could get it to work capwise and the Hawks would agee, I'd do this in a HEARTBEAT. While I don't necessarily think it would make us any better this year, this would be a fantastic nucleus to build around over the next couple of years. SAR would be the perfect third focal point for a Yao/Steve team. He could get enough points off putbacks, post-ups, & passes from Yao out of the doubleteam to keep the "need more than one ball" from being the kind of problem one encounters by having their "third star" being a 2 or 3. A Parish/McHale style high/low post offense would be very viable. And by playing them together at the start and finish, but keeping one or the other on the court for most of the time in between, you'd always have a strong inside presence. Of course there are always two things between me and most of my dream trades -- the salary cap and getting the other team to agree to it. That's part of why I like the Rice trade and the trade exception. It gives us a lot more flexibility with the cap side of things and leaves us only having to overcome the other barrier -- getting the other team to have a momentary lapse of reason.
