re: NBA Free Agency Thread: Day 21

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wow what an arse you are!

HEY YOU! PROVE THIS ISNT A RUMOR SOME PEOPLE HAVE SAID IN HOUSTON!!!

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Exactly, now kindly exit the thread. You said "I" made the rumor up. Now you're crawfishing.

And I get accused of derailing the thread

I saw this page had grown 8 pages since last night and got excited

Oh the disappointment. Just a lengthy, slap-fight between the 2nd and 3rd best teams in fricking Texas.

yea ok. keep on keeping on.

Can we get an official Houston v Pelicans bitch thread instead of clogging up this one? This almost as bad as Saints/falcons shite
Derailing every NFL thread on the board

I agree, these pelican fans are terrible. Keep that shite on pelcians talk

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It's what happens when Boom and his personal arse kisser PortCity get butthurt and start posting

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More on Morey/Parsons for those who haven't seen it.

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It looked extremely likely (that Bosh would be with Houston)," Morey said. "Chris Bosh's camp was very professional throughout. Chris was definitely coming if Miami, at the last minute, didn't put all five years and that huge offer that we obviously couldn't match because of the rules."
Houston engaged in countless conversations, ultimately forging ahead on two significant trades, one of which they agreed to, while they were in the midst of hopefully adding Bosh.

"We had the offer to Chris, while it looked extremely likely, our deal for Jeremy (Lin) was going to go away," Morey said. "We had to move before we had the 100 percent (from Bosh), because the Lakers were ready to move on with other things."

Lin, in the final year of his contract, was moved the Lakers, essentially to clear cap space with his $8.37 million coming off the salary cap and to add a trade exception. Following the Bosh decision to stay in Miami, Houston faced their biggest dilemma about matching the contract on Parsons, who had started 207 games over the last three seasons in Houston.

"I am very happy for Chandler, he worked really really hard in Houston," Morey said later in the interview. "Whatever he gets, I'm happy for him. He's a great person, a great player. The Mavericks are a smart organization, they obviously wanted to get him.

"The structure of that (Parsons contract) is one of the most untradeable structures I've ever seen. That's why it came down to a bet of Harden, Howard, Parsons being the final piece because we would have had no ability to do anything after that. Harden, Howard, Parsons could have been good enough. I think Parsons is a tremendous player and I think he'll keep getting better. But It really comes down to is it better with that core or is it better with (Trevor) Ariza, plus the hundreds of moves that might be able to upgrade us in the other scenario. That core was going to have to be the core we had, because if we ever wanted to go after a different core, it wasn't going to be possible."

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It sucks to lose a Parsons but I've got faith in Morey to be able to add a piece that will make us better at the end of this season than we were at the end of last season.


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I'm not trying to play detective though.

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But It really comes down to is it better with that core or is it better with (Trevor) Ariza, plus the hundreds of moves that might be able to upgrade us in the other scenario. That core was going to have to be the core we had, because if we ever wanted to go after a different core, it wasn't going to be possible."

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And it comes down to players signing with Houston, they expect to be a part of the bigger picture, but they end up getting flipped for something else.

The more that happens, the less likely someone is going to want to sign a contract with you guys and the less likely those players are going to be happy. Players don't like being viewed as assets or traded from a place they decided that they like on a regular.

Which brings it back, if you guys had kept Parsons on that cheap 1mil or whatever contract this year, let him become a UFA next year, you still would have gotten production out of him, been able to flip him before the trade deadline, or see if he progresses even more and thrown a fat contract at his face in the next offseason.

A gamble that big was a bad mistake from the start and a lot of people said it as well. Sucks for you guys that you lost out on every star you courted and a key contributor to your team last year and got nothing in return.