#1 Offseason Priority?

moofs · Post #21 » by **moofs** » Wed Mar 5, 2008 1:25 am

Hm. For Novak?

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$8.50 an hour sound fair?

KaZiSaiZ · Post #22 » by **KaZiSaiZ** » Wed Mar 5, 2008 1:33 am

moofs wrote:Hm. For Novak?

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$8.50 an hour sound fair?

fair enough with.......... health benefits....

BaYBaller · Post #23 » by **BaYBaller** » Wed Mar 5, 2008 1:38 am

moofs wrote:It's good to know that the most anyone can offer him is the MLE. I was worried that re-signing him was going to have potential to completely screw our cap.

Does anyone know of any instances of teams throwing offers at guys just to make another team spend more?

Actually the reverse is true. Most teams don't give competitive offers because they know their current team will just match it. And if they offer too much to try to beat out their current team (i.e. giving Landry the MLE) it becomes a huge risk.

That's why most players who get big paydays are usually unrestricted free agents.

edit: I believe we have a team option on Novak next year because we ended up using part of the MLE on him.

Post #24 » by **TMU** » Wed Mar 5, 2008 1:44 am

Address the C issue through the draft/free agency... Diop will be nice.

What kind of money do you guys think Novak will get? Isn't he expiring? off to the Rio whatever vipers?

Novak has a team option for next season.

Post #25 » by **TMU** » Wed Mar 5, 2008 1:45 am

MaxRider wrote:maximum for player with 2 years or less experiment is the MLE
team can't offer more than MLE

That's good to know... but I hardly believe that teams will offer him the MLE.

moofs · Post #26 » by **moofs** » Wed Mar 5, 2008 2:17 am

BaYBaller wrote:Actually the reverse is true. Most teams don't give competitive offers because they know their current team will just match it. And if they offer too much to try to beat out their current team (i.e. giving Landry the MLE) it becomes a huge risk.

That's why most players who get big paydays are usually unrestricted free agents.

edit: I believe we have a team option on Novak next year because we ended up using part of the MLE on him.

Right, I knew about that, and that somehow the money they offered is tied up until the player accepts an offer or rejects theirs (not aware of the specifics though). That's why I was curious if anyone had heard of that happening - not for an example of a good strategy, but for an example of a dumb one

A.J. · Post #27 » by **A.J.** » Wed Mar 5, 2008 2:19 am

resign landry
draft a center
sign a 3rd scorer

ChinaTown · Post #28 » by **ChinaTown** » Wed Mar 5, 2008 3:54 am

1.- GET YAO UP AND RUNNING.
2.- Sign C-Lan.

MaxRider · Post #29 » by **MaxRider** » Wed Mar 5, 2008 4:46 am

King Roosk wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

I think getting a reliable backup C in case Mutombo doesn't return is more important then your #4

I agree with your first 3 though

didn't we traded for some center draft's right?

Jaykoolzboy · Post #30 » by **Jaykoolzboy** » Wed Mar 5, 2008 4:50 am

1. Make sure Yao is injury free
2. Make sure Yao is injury free
3. Make sure Yao is injury free
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100. Make sure Tmac is injury free

wadero · Post #31 » by **wadero** » Wed Mar 5, 2008 3:31 pm

Get Yao Healthy
Figure a way to draft anyone of these guys ( Hasheem Thabeet or Serge Ibaka) we will have to move up to get one.
Resign Landry
Sign a free agent Shooter(Gordon Giricek)
Dont resign novak, trade hayes for somthing maybe draft postion for the 2 kids I discussed above!!! :clap:

DraftBoy10 · Post #32 » by **DraftBoy10** » Wed Mar 5, 2008 3:55 pm

#1- Re-sign Landry
#2- Re-Sign Green
#3- Develop Green, Landry, and Brooks
#4- Sign a veteran swing to the LLE or a small portion of the MLE

J-Mezzy · Post #33 » by **J-Mezzy** » Wed Mar 5, 2008 4:23 pm

I thought the Rockets had 23 games left???

Baller 24 · Post #34 » by **Baller 24** » Wed Mar 5, 2008 4:34 pm

Wait, so its the Rox option to pick him up after this season correct? And after the end of next season, teams can go after him, but we can match any offer right? I think Landry is safe here, theres no way the Rockets are letting him go, we will match any offer that any team has to offer. But I doubt there is a team out there that is stupid enough to offer him the full MLE, for a player that has just gotten out of his rookie contract...

Oh wait, sorry I forgot this league had a team called the Knicks, who take players with big contracts and offer players big contracts, and ruin there respect level around the league...yeah so just hope Isiah Thomas is fired by then

Shabi__5 · Post #35 » by **Shabi__5** » Wed Mar 5, 2008 5:28 pm

I saw a lot of people here saying draft a center , imo we should always draft the best player available , especially in late 1st round picks like ours.

Post #36 » by **King Roosk** » Thu Mar 6, 2008 4:48 am

J-Mezzy wrote:I thought the Rockets had 23 games left???

Come on bud, read the first post of the thread.

Post #37 » by **King Roosk** » Thu Mar 6, 2008 4:48 am

MaxRider wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

didn't we traded for some center draft's right?

I'm not sure. Trade with what team?

texasholdem · Post #38 » by **texasholdem** » Thu Mar 6, 2008 9:48 am

King Roosk wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

I'm not sure. Trade with what team?

he's probably referring to the draft rights to Sergei Lishouk we got from Memphis for Badiane's rights in the Bonzi deal

Post #39 » by **King Roosk** » Thu Mar 6, 2008 11:45 am

texasholdem wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

he's probably referring to the draft rights to Sergei Lishouk we got from Memphis for Badiane's rights in the Bonzi deal

Ah I see.

Well, now that we're supposed to be signing Justin Williams I say we see how this plays out. If Williams can contribute for us, then we may have found our backup C. It'd be great if Williams pans out because then our roster would be set, and we could focus on moving BJax's expiring for another scorer.