In retrospect: Should we have taken Parsons' option?

Not at all. Unless Morey had some sort of handshake agreement with Parsons(which would never have lasted with guys like Cuban out there), why do it? And don't give me any nonsense about Parsons being upset about the 4th year option being exercised and leaving next summer out of spite. If the Rockets had improved their roster, gone deeper into the postseason next year, and were willing to pay Parsons just as much as anyone else when he became an unrestricted free agent in 2015, he could've easily been resigned at that point.

I get the gamble Morey was making. But it was a dangerous one. He assumed he could attract a Melo or Bosh to be the Rockets' 3rd superstar while matching whatever offer Parsons got. The problem is he apparently overlooked the fact that Melo and Bosh don't want to play in Texas(and haven't exactly kept that a secret) and that Parsons could get some crazy max offer from another team that would be difficult to match.

 

Bad move by Morey. But it IS salvageable.

If we get Bosh its a total success.

If we get no one apart from keeping Parsons then it is an utter failure.

And before someone screams money issues: I wanna say: we made 40.7 million last season. Nobody is asking you to pay these players out of your own pockets.

 

hell no. I can't even believe some are trying to argue that it was.

 

i thought it was a bad choice when it happened, and it looks even worse now

 

BTW, you may want to change the thread title. It asks if it was a good idea to decline Parsons' option. But the poll itself asks if we should have picked up Parsons' option. I would answer no on the first and yes on the second.

 

good point, I almost made that mistake as well.

 

it was a great choice to do it, if we waited another season, we wouldn't be able to match the deal because he would have been unrestricted

 

players sign offer sheets all the time and are matched, fans get way too down in the dumps if another team signs a player to an offer sheet

 

Keep him, lose him, doesn't matter. Overrated

 

If they are gonna match it, why does it matter? Morey figured out a way to get 4 max contract players on the roster. Sounds like he won to me

 

But now we're stuck either paying him max money a year earlier or letting him sign with a division rival with nothing to show for it. Oh, and thanks to the crazy deal he got from Dallas, it may have just screwed up our shot at signing Bosh since we can no longer pay him the max without giving away D-Mo AND T-Jones.

Imagine instead if we'd kept him for another year at just under a mil, filled out the roster with a couple of solid role players or a star like Bosh, and gone deeper into the postseason next year. You really think he wouldn't consider resigning with the Rockets in 2015 assuming the team was willing to give him the same amount of money as anyone else in the league?

 

Max money ? how is 15 million Max money ? isn't Max 20+

the only thing that will screw up the Bosh deal is LeBron going back to Miami

Have faith, fans go way to crazy on here and have no patience

 

doesnt matter what we think. Matters what Howard and Harden think

 

It's not just that bro. We just got played by MARK FREAKING CUBAN. If we do match we will have one of the worst contracts in the NBA. If we don't match we lost Parsons.

 

If this happens (a very long shot now imo) then Morey needs to be the next President of the United States as he'd be a genious to have pulled this off. As it currently looks, the max deal we had on the table for Bosh is going to come up about 5 mil short now thanks to Parsons cap hold based on the Mavs contract offer which spells doom to me in the Bosh deal.

 

Max money is the maximum money any one player can make per year on a contract. Your Max is determined by your previous contract.

 

Nope it wasn't. Use him for one more year, sign max X player or good role players.

But in reality it's going to go like this, wait on bosh meanwhile everybody is signed. Bosh goes back to heat. 1st round exit again. Hire new coach and give another false hope of winning. Dwight and James catch on and no other superstar will touch Houston again.