Will it soon be time to move Battier for a starting PG?

Trade Scola instead

 

I don't think you'll get much for Battier. I'm not saying he isn't worth anything but he would only good for a team that is trying to contend. He wouldn't be a great fit for someone like the Kings or the Grizzles.

Not only that, if you pick up a PG, you would have to do something with either Brooks or Alston. The good thing is that Alston could be a very attractive trading piece for next year. He's contract comes off the books before the summer of 2010. $5,250,000 is a nice expiring contract for someone who's getting ready to bid for the summer of 2010.

 

Yes trade him for CP3 or Dwill

 

if we are going to make a trade for a PG this year it would have to include alston in the deal and i would rather trade artest than battier. artest is a FA this year and there is no guarantee he will be back next season.

 

Battier for Mo Williams could be very good........

no, we don't need one more PG before we can get rid of Rafer simply because
no PG is better than Rafer once they become Rockets.

 

Rafer needs to go first. He HAS to go. I don't even think he's a good back up. If we trade battier or scola or anyone else for a PG, that robs the team of a contributing roter spot, we lose a significant piece, gain another, but still keep the weak link in Rafer. We need Rafer to go out himself so HIS roster spot can be replaced.

 

I'd have done anything to get Mo to replace Rafer and make Les' investments meaningful.

Morey a C for his crap work on PG situation.

 

See the sig.

 

The one thing that the Rockets are going to have to do over the summer is to find a back up center and figure out if they really want Artest. As of right now, you can live with Rafer being the PG.

If T-Mac is ever healthy again and if he can come around for this season, he will be the one with the ball in his hands. He's great at finding players that are open. The only problem I see with that is you can't have him passing it to Yao. Yao isn't as great on catching the ball through traffic. T-Mac would make his money on the shooters or through Carl Landry. If you guys remember last year, Landry scored a lot of T-Mac.

The one thing about Alston, he can get you a steal and he doesn't turn the ball over that much. That's very important in the playoffs. He just can't score though.

 

Rondo couldnt shoot last year.. but he was intelligent enough not to shoot, unfortunately rafer thinks he can shoot so were screwed

 

Nope, trade the expiring Ron Artest.

DD

 

Im sorry but I will respectfully disagree with that idea

 

This is one area where even the genius Morey has failed to upgrade, the starting point. Thats why I was surprised we got Artest when the bigger hole seemed to be starting point (at that time Brooks was still suspect as a backup even). I'm not saying we should trade Battier, we missed him terribly when he was out, our help D was down right disgusting. But good God, if I see Rafer go to the lane on 3 people and instead of passing it to wide friggin open players for dunks put up ugly floaters for air balls, I'm gonna pull my hair out !!

 

Well when have the big three and he should pretty much limit himself to a distributor but hes so bad it might take us down a notch to the big 2.5

 

I agree, not to mention Artest has been playing decent enough if we packaged him with Rafer we could even maybe get an All Star point guard from somewhere. We just need a pointguard with high field goal % and is one of the assist leaders in the league. Nash or Bibby come to mind if they would ever be dumb enough to do it. I'd settle for Hinrich though but I wouldn't give up Artest for him.

 

Not going to happen for a multitude of reasons.

* Battier only makes $6.4m. Try to find a PG upgrade at that price w/o throwing a bunch of junk (Head, Hayes, etc.) into the deal. (For perspective, Mo Williams cost the Cavs $8.4m).
* Battier will make $7.4m in 2010-11. This is the season after the Summer of LeBron. The summer every team is trying to have cap space for.
* I hated the Rudy Gay trade and I love having Artest on the Rockets. But Artest is a FA this summer and there is absolutely NO guarantee he'll be back.

The Rockets haven't had a solid rotation the entire season. They'll wait to see how everything works before making any adjustments.