Cap Situation Going Forward

Anyone else want to keep Gee or is it just Mee?

 

Whatever happens, we need to solidify our core now rather than wait for some garbage time situation come Feb. trade deadline.

Except for Artest, that **** has not worked in our favor in the Morey era.

Just trust the team you assembled and let them operate distraction free in what's a very long season and post-season.

 

We do have an Asik trade exception, but it is only $5.4M because we acquired Gee in the trade.

[Asik's cap hit ($8.4M - salary sent out) minus Gee's cap hit (~$3M nonguaranteed)] = $5.4M total TPE

 

the rockets are going nowhere. we're all used to it. a lot of us have been in this futile exercise of hoping to get back to a championship team since the 90s. nothing has changed. star players come and go. finding the right mix that makes for a championship team is a very difficult task. even two star players isn't enough without the right coach, right management, and right players around them. it's very hard to get all that right. or, everyone would have a winner. in the end, it's still just a business and a game. one team wins it all and all the rest are on the outside looking in.

 

I don't think we have an Asik trade exception at all actually because we turned that into a 3 team trade to acquire Trevor Ariza.

We have the Lin trade exception of around $8 million, but I am 90% sure we don't get a trade exception for Asik when we got Ariza as well.

 

It's funny to me, first Casspi, then Gee. Two guys that played together at one point, each trying their hardest to let the other win the starting job.

They both suck.

 

Who is WAY BETTER than last year?

The Heat?

Spurs? whose got 2 major injuries already?

Pacers? who may lose Lance?

How much the Thunders and Clippers had done to make you believe they are WAY better?

Oh, do you mean the Mavs? You are not kidding yourself right?

 

No, I misspoke earlier. Sorry.

This.

I corrected myself on Twitter later last night, but apparently people had already run with my earlier tweet.

 

ah okay, my mistake. Thanks for the update Bima always good stuff from you.

 

Bima,

Appreciate the reality check after a few bad days in Rocketville.

 

Pelicans.

 

We can combine Gee and the Lin trade execption to sign and trade someone for about 11.5 million . Maybe that is enough for Stephenson . We might also have to include a pick although a trade expect ion would be created in any trade where we use the Lin execption. Gee's contract is nice because it's 3 million non guaranteed so the team doesn't have to take back any salary if they don't want to .

 

Why will we be weaker?

4/5 starters return and Ariza is arguably a better fit next to Harden.
TJones and DMo are a year more mature.
Harden/Howard have another year of chemistry.

If we add a serviceable backup center before October, how are we weaker?

So many fans blinded by our alternate future that you forget THIS team was playing very well last season. The Eastern conference got better (or more parity) but the West is largely the same.

 

Pretty good analysis OP! Thanks!

Mozgov would be a decent backup C. I'm a fan of trying to get Okafor. Yes, he is coming off a major neck injury and no one has seen him play in awhile. It would definitely be taking a gamble for him...

But I wonder, since he is from Houston and is coming off that injury, if he would sign with the Rockets at the minimum?

If so, he's worth taking. If he can get back to even close of the great defense he had before, it would be worth it!

 

Howard, Harden, T. jones, Beverly

Ariza = cheaper Parsons

Daniels =better shooter than Cassp

Johnson or Canaan will become better backup than Lin

Capela = better finishing Asik on offense with same defense

WIth D- Mo, Garcia,Hamilton

9 returning from 54 win team. 2 better defensive players and 1 better 6th man.

Even if we don't add another pf (Beasley) we still have a 54-60 win team!

 

THIS. Can we use Lin's trade exception plus Gee to S&T for Stephenson? What would it take to get Indiana to bite on this?

 

I think what we're doing right now is building salary so that we have assets to send out in a trade.

At these prices, Capela/Papanikolau/Dorsey/Adrien are all positive assets which amount to roughly $5m. If you look at the team's salary situation, we did not even have enough contracts to attach our future picks to for us to make a trade.

Say we use out TPE to acquire an asset which would be of interest to Minnesota, and that Kevin Love is still with the Wolves after December 15. These signings will allow us to offer Minny Capela/Papanikolau/Dorsey/Adrien/TPE$8.2mplayer + NOLA pick + a future Rockets pick(s) for Kevin Love. Clearly if Love is available at the deadline, then the Wolves are not getting Wiggins or Klay. We have an attractive package of picks to offer + cheap and decent young players + expiring contracts for fillers.

Same applies to other available players like Millsap, Rondo, etc.

The key is turning the TPE into a player that can be traded (after 2 month restriction) because a lot of the people we're targeting make more than our TPE and the TPE can't be combined with other players or other TPE's.

What I don't know yet is whether players and TPE's can be sent out to different teams in a 3-team trade in order to receive one player. That would make our lives a lot easier.