Chocolate City Jordanaire wrote:penbeast0 wrote:You really think Asik is ready to go back to being a reserve behind Gortat without complaint?
I'm not ready to trade Porter unless it's for a core player which I don't think TJones is. He has looked good in limited minutes but not #3 pick good. (Assuming the Wiz front office knew what it was doing -- sigh)
Yeah, I think he's pissed with the Rockets and wouldn't object because a lot of time Nene would be injured. Asik would play the same minutes as in the past, either way.
If anything, Gortat might come off the bench for Asik.
Bigger, younger, and not up for a new deal would make Gortat have a lot less leverage. Marcin just wants to win. He came off the bench for Howard for several years. Gortat would finish game for Asik. I also think either guy can play PF.
It would also make some better trade potential moving forward.
Jones was top 5-9 projected in the fall of '11 before not putting it all together his final year and falling a bit. He was on my list of best values in the '12 draft, and I gave the rockets high marks for drafting him. Exactly the kind of talent you target when you've got a pick between 8-16, get the guy with the tool kit to be a stud if he can figure out how to put it together and use it well. Looks like that may be happening.
Have no interest in trading Porter, you couldn't sell lower on him than right now. Seems insane to me, and I HATED the pick. I was a Noel/Bennett/Oladipo supporter. Its way way way too early, and Porter hasn't gotten a chance to do squat yet. We'll see where he's at 18 months from now. I would definitely consider dealing him during the '15 trade deadline if he had the body of work to attract suitors in a package for a young big man, but I think we're sinking or swimming w/the pick unless the team totally implodes like it looked like they would a week ago (not so much now).
Definitely a lost season though, really depressing. Hated the pick at the time, early returns were negative, but its not fair to pile on when he's nursing an injury. Never expected this, just expected middling Jared Jeffries styled "blah" returns (not the same player, just the same "meh" feel after watching him play, and after hating the pick in the first place), we'll see how it plays out. Just really disappointing.
At the same time, if his absence helps the team torpedo the season I'll take it, want this incompetent regime out, and some modern metrics geeks running the show, not a bunch of 65 year old retreads who couldn't find fangraphs or football outsiders with a gun to their head.
