martin wrote:

franco12 wrote:I'd love to see if we could get Goran Dragic- maybe a couple picks, Kemba, Kevin Knox, Mitchell?

You are giving up playable assets and picks for a 35 year old who is out of the rotation for his own team? WTF

Im not capologist but at least look at the damn contracts before spewing idiocy. Dragic contract expires this season. Makes 19mil. Toronto took him as part of Lowrey deal. The money part of the deal.
35 years old and breaking down. really, “Couple of picks and Mitchell? And the get two years of Kemba? Im sure toronto chomping at the bit for them. He gonna turn it around here?

Briggs, remember all those stock trades you used to talk about? Like you had some basic math skills?
Well Rockets pay Wall 43 mil this year 49 next.

If things do not get better and we end up with 30-35 wins or a 10th seed play-in, just stay on course, use the draft and make the right trades that bring in Thibs-type players. We shouldn't look at making the playoffs as this huge necessity. We need to remember it's just year 2 of this regime. They need more time. We leapfrogged expectations last season but when this regime started, we were realistically looking at year 3 or 4 before we become a playoff team.

SergioNYK wrote:I just hope we do not repeat what we did in 2014 and fire Thibs like we did when we fired Woodson. We had a huge decline from 2013 to 2014 and Woodson was the scapegoat. I think we need to stay the course and not make any stupid panic moves - like trading the farm for Lillard.

If things do not get better and we end up with 30-35 wins or a 10th seed play-in, just stay on course, use the draft and make the right trades that bring in Thibs-type players. We shouldn't look at making the playoffs as this huge necessity. We need to remember it's just year 2 of this regime. They need more time. We leapfrogged expectations last season but when this regime started, we were realistically looking at year 3 or 4 before we become a playoff team.

While I don't think Woodson is a good coach, I agree with you in everything else. Everyone always has expectations, Everytime. When those expectations are not met we get upset and we start placing blame. And we use our previous expectations to justify our blame.It's a vicious cycle. This season's expectations were overblown imho. I did not do the win predictions because this season I wanted growth, wins would come regardless. Instead we got a setback. Time to reassess needs

SergioNYK wrote:I just hope we do not repeat what we did in 2014 and fire Thibs like we did when we fired Woodson. We had a huge decline from 2013 to 2014 and Woodson was the scapegoat. I think we need to stay the course and not make any stupid panic moves - like trading the farm for Lillard.

If things do not get better and we end up with 30-35 wins or a 10th seed play-in, just stay on course, use the draft and make the right trades that bring in Thibs-type players. We shouldn't look at making the playoffs as this huge necessity. We need to remember it's just year 2 of this regime. They need more time. We leapfrogged expectations last season but when this regime started, we were realistically looking at year 3 or 4 before we become a playoff team.

ramtour420 wrote:

SergioNYK wrote:I just hope we do not repeat what we did in 2014 and fire Thibs like we did when we fired Woodson. We had a huge decline from 2013 to 2014 and Woodson was the scapegoat. I think we need to stay the course and not make any stupid panic moves - like trading the farm for Lillard.

If things do not get better and we end up with 30-35 wins or a 10th seed play-in, just stay on course, use the draft and make the right trades that bring in Thibs-type players. We shouldn't look at making the playoffs as this huge necessity. We need to remember it's just year 2 of this regime. They need more time. We leapfrogged expectations last season but when this regime started, we were realistically looking at year 3 or 4 before we become a playoff team.

While I don't think Woodson is a good coach, I agree with you in everything else. Everyone always has expectations, Everytime. When those expectations are not met we get upset and we start placing blame. And we use our previous expectations to justify our blame.It's a vicious cycle. This season's expectations were overblown imho. I did not do the win predictions because this season I wanted growth, wins would come regardless. Instead we got a setback. Time to reassess needs

Woodson was a good coach. Problem is that roster’s window had closed. We should have simply let Melo sign with the bulls and tanked the following season instead of only halfway tanking. OKC offered us a 1st rd pick for JR Smith on top of us having our own lottery pick

We aren’t in as bad a situation this year. Our roster still has a window they just need to play better

BRIGGS wrote:Obi toppin
Grimes
Quickley
3#1 picks
4 pick swaps for Damian Lillard
Who will tear his knee after he plays 3 games and signs a250 mm extension

So true