UPDATE: Rockets get Budinger with Taylor and Llull

[TMACFORMVP]

The Houston Rockets have traded for the Central Florida's Jermaine Taylor, the 32nd pick whom the Washington Wizards just selected.

Denver sold the rights to the 34th pick Sergio Lull to the Houston Rockets, a league exec. told Y! Sports.

Detroit is trading the rights to Chase Budinger to the Houston Rockets for a future 2nd round pick and cash, a league exec. tells Y! Sports.

http://twitter.com/YahooSportsNBA

[TMU]

Yes! Jermaine Taylor.
Thank you Morey.

[Munchlaxatives]

And Sergio Lull

[TMU]

And Sergio Lull

Lulz... who?
He's from Spain so I expect him to be as good as Ricky Rubio.

[Crackfool]

Did we just buy both of them?

[MaxRider]

who? huh? what?

[DraftBoy10]

Any info on these guys?

[Guy986]

[Munchlaxatives]

We just bought Michael Jordan and a Spanish Gary Peyton. Enjoy.

[Young_Star11]

Have heard good things about Taylor.

[Bow2Yao11]

Sergio Lull draws comparisons to Jose Calderon....not bad...

[TMU]

Taylor is a terrific athlete with great perimeter scoring abilities. I'm sure there are areas that he needs to work on (passing, ball-handling, etc) but he's a true SG and was a great scorer in college. He worked out for the Rockets back in May and Morey was impressed (as indicated by the trade).

I don't know anything about Sergio Lolz. Any info will be appreciated.

[TMACFORMVP]

We got Budinger as well.

[TMU]

We got Budinger as well.

Thank you Morey. That's 2 players that I wanted. Hopefully, the team can rely on them in the near future. 3x 2nd-round draftees. I'm gonna say we owned the draft.



p.s.: Am I the only one who's excited about these trades?

[MaxRider]

waste of money

[YoungMoney23]

In Morey we trust

[Teckon]

Sergio Llull's report on DraftExpress look really good to me. Seem better than Brandon Jennings as Sergio is a starting point guard in Spain league.

I extracted some info from DraftExpress in the other Draft watch thread.
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=918125&p=19946554#p19946554

[TMACFORMVP]

I know we're not supposed to link to other forums, but I don't know how to extract the original link of the interview. Here's the interview with Taylor:

http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?t=170883

[tisbee]

Hell Yeah on Taylor,the scoring machine the bench needs in case Wafer wants too much.
Llull can prob be stashed,looks more like a shooting PG,may be Brooks replacement if the Rockets make a big deal involving Brooks.
Frak no on Budinger. Has perfect skillset for an Adelman offence,but is softer than melted ice cream. Somewhere Ribalding is shaking his head and muttering to himself as he knocks back another-or three.

[Teckon]

Chron's article on the draft picks is out:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/spo ... 98343.html

Taylor seem excited to be picked by the Rockets