Why Morey should make a trade sooner rather than later

Trevor is shooting a bad percentage, not ZERO percent. That means he's still making some. If you watch games, the shots he's missing most of the time arent the easier ones. It's the shots where he has to try ot make something happen, which would NOT happen if the team's two stars were playing. And morey did ask him in a way to take that role, not ncessarily make up for yao and tmac since that's impossible, but morey did promise him a feature role. I dont think Morey or Ra expected the transition to be perfect, they expected Ariza to struggle some. He'll struggle all year, and next year when he doesnt have to do so much he'll be able to settle in somewhere in the middle, where he still does things, but not too much.

And Bud isn't exactly the definition of efficiency. He's only shooting 2% better from FG and about the same as trevor from 3pt range. They just do it in different ways and Budinger is limited a lot more by the staff, therefore he doesnt come out looking as badly, which is a good thing because as a rookie that could completely ruin his confidence and progression. Trevor, being a vet, is less likely to be affected that way.

 

Was it this tense last year? I don't remember it being that way.

 

I keep saying it - Teams DO NOT often make in-season trades in January and back. It just doesnt happen that much.

Here's a 2007-2008 season summary

Just be patient. February is the magic month.

 

Lauradelenn....
Forgive me for asking this, I know you're not supposed to, and of course I'm assuming you are a girl. If not my apologies. But, how old are you? Just wondering because you don't see many girls on sports forums and I was just curious. If this is really dumb, which I myself suspect, just ignore me. I had a bad breakfast......whatever that means. I'm an idiot.

And so not to neglect the true purpose of this thread, there is no need to make a quick trade, esp. just for the hell of it.

 

Haha, thank you, Captain Obvious?

It's the magic month, because the trade deadline is mid-February...

 

You are only looking at this season. What's the point of making a trade for this season which gets Rockets to 1st round playoffs only but stops Rockest from being better next season and beyond?

Dalembert only makes sense for this season. But assuming Yao comes back healthy next season, do we really need a 12 mil backup center coming off the bench? Yao/Andersen/Hayes would be good enough at center position. That 12 mil could just kill the chance of Rockets to get another impact player for a championship.

A young team like this with Yao coming back is fine. If you get an all star player, trade for it. Otherwise, keep cap room to sigh another impact piece.

 

Sounds like you're guessing too.

 

MLE might be enough for Morey to pull something off. With Dalembert on the team, we not only we won't have the money to sign MLE player, we might even risk not being able to resign Scola or Lowry.

 

Rockets is willing to trade for Bosh, but does Toronto want to do that now?

Build around Igoudala isn't get you anywhere either. The best bet for Rockets is still hoping for a healthy Yao.

 

Two words about an MLE player. Trevor Ariza.

 

Who gets a championship ring given right situation.

 

we need money to resign scola and lowry. I'd rather lock those guys up, especially lowry, than ruin it by getting screwed over in a rushed trade.

 

Six words about that championship ring. Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol, Andrew Bynum. Your're right, that was the right situation. Now who do the Rockets have that compare to those 3 without making a trade. Nobody. Wrong situation to try to get by with just signing an MLE player.

 

Ariza is superstar in waiting for mle money

 

I really hope you're joking.

 

Rockets have a collection of good players. Andrew Bynum wasn't even good in last year's playoff. Ariza actually was better than him.

Say you make a trade to get Iggy,Dalembert and kill the cap room. First Iggy is not Gasol, it's not a sure thing that he'd help Rockets that much. 2nd, you might loss Scola or Lowry because of that.

That gets you in a worse situation than we are in now.