CWood21 Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 11 hours ago, Pastor Dillon said: Best news of all though is that Gordon has some serious trade value. IF Lebron or Paul George decides to come here, we can get something nice for Gordon to send to a 3rd team for taking on Ryan Anderson. OUr pathway to cap space got a lot better. PAUL GEORGE please come to Houston. We can beat the warriors if you come. I get you're a Rockets fan and all, but please chill with the homerism. Eric Gordon doesn't have "some serious trade value". Best case scenario, you find a team whose willing to accept him as part of a salary dump with minimal (to no) incentives added. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KhanYouDigIt Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 On 5/24/2018 at 11:31 PM, KhanYouDigIt said: Rockets acting like they won the Finals. Warriors in 7 Great prediction sir. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pastor Dillon Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 21 minutes ago, CWood21 said: I get you're a Rockets fan and all, but please chill with the homerism. Eric Gordon doesn't have "some serious trade value". Best case scenario, you find a team whose willing to accept him as part of a salary dump with minimal (to no) incentives added. Lou Williams got a 1st round pick and Eric Gordon is better than Lou Williams. Hes on a very solid contract as well. He's also proven to be the 3rd leading scorer on the 2nd best team in the league. He has trade value. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoleINGout Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 3 minutes ago, Pastor Dillon said: Lou Williams got a 1st round pick and Eric Gordon is better than Lou Williams. Hes on a very solid contract as well. He's also proven to be the 3rd leading scorer on the 2nd best team in the league. He has trade value. I agree Gordon has value but about the same as Lou if not slightly more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pastor Dillon Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 Just now, DoleINGout said: I agree Gordon has value but about the same as Lou if not slightly more. hes worth a non lotto 1st to a playoff team. But we wont trade him unless a Lebron or PG comes. Rumor mill was that we had a chance to get Melo but it would have cost us Gordon and we said no. Gordon has more value to us than on the trade market, but we could get something other than a salary dump for him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWood21 Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 1 hour ago, Pastor Dillon said: Lou Williams got a 1st round pick and Eric Gordon is better than Lou Williams. Hes on a very solid contract as well. He's also proven to be the 3rd leading scorer on the 2nd best team in the league. He has trade value. First off, Eric Gordon's numbers this year are in line with his career averages. So let's not pretend like he's having some amazing year. He's due another $27.5M over the next two years. And he's making $13.5M so if you're moving him to clear cap space, you're going to find a rather limited market. Going by this LIST, all the teams with projected cap space are: Brooklyn, Chicago, Indiana, LA Lakers, Philadelphia, and Sacramento. At this point, you can probably cross the Lakers and Sixers off that list since they're looking to tie up their money in franchise-level players, not Eric Gordon. Brooklyn, Chicago, and Sacramento are all in the rebuilding phases, so they're probably more interested in getting assets in turn for eating salary. That leaves Indiana. I could see there being interest on Indiana's behalf. But what are they giving up? They're not giving up Victor Oladipo or Myles Turner. But let's breakdown that Lou Williams comparison. The Lakers dealt Lou Williams at the deadline to a Rockets' team for a bad contract (Corey Brewer) and a pick that was projected to be quite late (somewhere in that 25-30 range), which ended up being the 28th overall pick. Let's also not forget that Lou Williams made about half of what Eric Gordon is set to make next year. If that's your idea of significant, no wonder you and I don't agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWood21 Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 1 hour ago, Pastor Dillon said: hes worth a non lotto 1st to a playoff team. But we wont trade him unless a Lebron or PG comes. Rumor mill was that we had a chance to get Melo but it would have cost us Gordon and we said no. Gordon has more value to us than on the trade market, but we could get something other than a salary dump for him The Rockets aren't dealing him unless they're clearing cap space to sign LeBron, and which team exactly is going to give up their cap space for Eric Gordon AND give up an asset or two to do so? Nobody is going to do that. Eric Gordon is more valuable than Carmelo by virtue of not being on the albatross of a contract that Carmelo is. It has little to do with whose the better player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWood21 Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 1 hour ago, Pastor Dillon said: Lou Williams got a 1st round pick and Eric Gordon is better than Lou Williams. Hes on a very solid contract as well. He's also proven to be the 3rd leading scorer on the 2nd best team in the league. He has trade value. He's a neutral value at best. You're not going to get cap space AND a notable asset or two for him. You're going to be incredibly disappointed if you think that's the case. And you're missing the fact that Lou Williams was an expiring contract (i.e. no future cap implications) and making about half of what Eric Gordon is set to make next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KManX89 Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 I thought I'd post something I found rather "interesting": I find it funny how all these no-calls came during the Warriors' "run" and the Rockets suddenly couldn't make a shot to save their life after being up by 12 when this happened. The refs got paid by $ilver and/or Kerr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
showtime Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 D'Antoni is just an awful coach. That's pretty much it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oregon Ducks Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 20 minutes ago, showtime said: D'Antoni is just an awful coach. That's pretty much it. No, he's not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KManX89 Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 Here's just one of the many terrible calls/no-calls the Warriors benefited from. Draymond being his usual dirty self. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
showtime Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 2 minutes ago, Oregon Ducks said: No, he's not. The team was killing on two point attempts and driving to the basket. His coaching philosophy of just shooting the ball as fast as possible and jacking up an arse ton of 3's was stupid as hell last night. Loss was mostly on him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-ALL-DAY Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 12 minutes ago, KManX89 said: Here's just one of the many terrible calls/no-calls the Warriors benefited from. Draymond being his usual dirty self. Definitely a foul, but what was so dirty about the play? What am I missing here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kip Smithers Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 34 minutes ago, KManX89 said: Here's just one of the many terrible calls/no-calls the Warriors benefited from. Draymond being his usual dirty self. Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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