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Official 2018 NBA Offseason Thread: the preseason cometh

RChildress107 said:
I don’t buy that GSW was the only place he could do that. Probably the best spot but he could have signed with Houston, Boston, or to a lesser extent Philly and gotten the same thing.
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No team offered him a contract other than Pels and Warriors. Thus, your premise is entirely conjecture and has no merit. Those teams could have reached out to him and chose not to do it.
 
RJKarl said:
No team offered him a contract other than Pels and Warriors. Thus, your premise is entirely conjecture and has no merit. Those teams could have reached out to him and chose not to do it.
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Other teams would've gotten involved had DeMarcus or his agent let it be known that Cousins was available for the mid-level exception. Cousins wanted to go to GSW after getting recruited by Draymond, Durant and Klay.
 
RChildress107 said:
Not that interesting or accurate.
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If you would've told me before free agency started that any team could've had Ariza for 1 year, $15 million I would've thought you were crazy.

Last year the Rockets won 65 games and came within a hair of beating the Warriors in the WCF by (in their words) being "obsessed" with building a wing-dominated, switch-heavy team that could defend the Warriors on one end and spread them out on the other. They've been in the luxury tax since before the dawn of time and knew they'd have a hefty tax bill to keep what is clearly a championship-level team together. It's not like Ariza just signed for 5 years, $135 million or something.

I really hope there's some method to the madness of letting the only 3-and-D wing the Rockets could've given any money to (given their Bird rights) walk to the worst team in the entire league for not that much money and no long-term commitment.
 
KidA23 said:
If you would've told me before free agency started that any team could've had Ariza for 1 year, $15 million I would've thought you were crazy.

Last year the Rockets won 65 games and came within a hair of beating the Warriors in the WCF by (in their words) being "obsessed" with building a wing-dominated, switch-heavy team that could defend the Warriors on one end and spread them out on the other. They've been in the luxury tax since before the dawn of time and knew they'd have a hefty tax bill to keep what is clearly a championship-level team together. It's not like Ariza just signed for 5 years, $135 million or something.

I really hope there's some method to the madness of letting the only 3-and-D wing the Rockets could've given any money to (given their Bird rights) walk to the worst team in the entire league for not that much money and no long-term commitment.
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In other words .... tell me whyyyeee?
 
KidA23 said:
If you would've told me before free agency started that any team could've had Ariza for 1 year, $15 million I would've thought you were crazy.

Last year the Rockets won 65 games and came within a hair of beating the Warriors in the WCF by (in their words) being "obsessed" with building a wing-dominated, switch-heavy team that could defend the Warriors on one end and spread them out on the other. They've been in the luxury tax since before the dawn of time and knew they'd have a hefty tax bill to keep what is clearly a championship-level team together. It's not like Ariza just signed for 5 years, $135 million or something.

I really hope there's some method to the madness of letting the only 3-and-D wing the Rockets could've given any money to (given their Bird rights) walk to the worst team in the entire league for not that much money and no long-term commitment.
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2&2 Slider To Leyritz said:
In other words .... tell me whyyyeee?
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With CP3 and Capela both getting an extension, the Rox are going to be way over the tax limit. Adding Ariza would probably cost em another $60 million.
 
Pilchard said:
Other teams would've gotten involved had DeMarcus or his agent let it be known that Cousins was available for the mid-level exception. Cousins wanted to go to GSW after getting recruited by Draymond, Durant and Klay.
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This. It’s not like the Warriors masterminded this shit. Boogie basically called them and said I’ll take your midlevel exception. All they had to do was say yes.
 
RChildress107 said:
Yeah he could. He only needs to demonstrate that he’s healthy, over his old shit, and capable of producing at 90% of his former self. He can do that in a 10-15 game sample size on the biggest stage. Especially considering what the market is likely to look like next summer.
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You think someone's giving Boogie Cousins a max deal for $140 million off a 10-15 game sample of 20 minutes per game?
 
buckets said:
oh ok, rchildress has convinced me otherwise i guess
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Nah you’re right. Let’s just go ahead and pen in the Dubs this year and the Lebron, Kawhi, KD, Boogie, etc. Lakers for the next three. The team that just won 65 games and were a CP3 hamstring away from a championship has no shot for the next 4 years. Got it.
 
RChildress107 said:
Nah you’re right. Let’s just go ahead and pen in the Dubs this year and the Lebron, Kawhi, KD, Boogie, etc. Lakers for the next three. The team that just won 65 games and were a CP3 hamstring away from a championship has no shot for the next 4 years. Got it.
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They lost ariza, don't have any room to sign anyone else and CP isn't getting younger
 
buckets said:
They lost ariza, don't have any room to sign anyone else and CP isn't getting younger
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He’s also not getting any worse. Like Lebron, I’ll believe the drop off is coming once it’s here. The Warriors aren’t getting any younger either.

In the Rockets system, Ariza was the best of three interchangeable parts but the gap between him, PJ, and Luc wasn’t huge. The real difference is between Luc as that third interchangeable wing and whoever fills Luc’s spot (Gerald Green, Purdue rookie, MCW, other minimum dude?). Considering that Luc was injured during last season’s playoff run means we shouldn’t worry too much about that drop off.

And given that the Warriors just signed Boogie for 5.3 million I don’t think we can utter the phrase “they don’t have room to sign anyone” about a contender anymore.
 
RChildress107 said:
I don’t buy that GSW was the only place he could do that. Probably the best spot but he could have signed with Houston, Boston, or to a lesser extent Philly and gotten the same thing.
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Regarding the Rox, I doubt Cousins will ever play with CP outside of Team USA, they really dont like each other.
 
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