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Great trade for Houston.
like Westbrook before him, Paul makes a lot of sense for Detroit...back with his old friend Griffin?
Great trade for Houston.
Houston just got Cancer....there is gonna be no Chemo to cure this one!!!!
Chris Paul gets to end his career on a collapsing, dying team in the middle of nowhere.
I guess I’m impressed Presti pulled that off. Westbrook’s contract was worse than CP3’s. At least OKC is rebuilding. Morey is begging to get fired, I guess.
Morey definitely got the better part out of this deal. Remember, RW is younger than CP3 and also has more value on the market. Those picks HOU gave up are all late picks and there are not many superstar FAs willing to sign in a place like Oklahoma. POS Presti should be fired for this he has pulled - they had KD, Harden, RW, Oladipo, Ibaka, Sabonis etc and achieved nothing. The amount of picks OKC now has looks good on paper, but it's not a fantasy. Phila has not achieved anything apart from one EC Finals appearance, despite having multiple no 1 and top 10 picks and they have been rebuilding how long - 6-7 years?
The pressure to get rid of CP3 is solely on OKC, because there are very few teams in the league who would give up some assets to acquire him. No way Heat is giving up Hierro or Adebayo. Maybe Johnson, Winslow or Dragic if they wanna get Wade out of retirement and put 3/4 of the brotherhood with CP3 and Melo on the floor for a 4-8 seed in the East. That will probably help to fill the arena as well.
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I'd bet that Blake hates Paul more than anybody
the Rockets didn't improve with this move. Westbrook can't shoot and Harden won't move without the ball. They will probably just be worse from 3 while everything else remains the same
In regular season? Sure. It will work. In playoffs? D'Antoni-Harden-Russ...Nah. They're three of the biggest playoffs chokers in the league.
Yea the rockets are better today much better than they were yesterday. And yes draft picks are huge but they can just be air if they don't pan out. My issue is the player they got back. If I were an owner maybe a Derozan-esque type of contract and player where I save over 100 million get an asset to trade that contrary belief has more value than Paul lol and worm draft picks as well. All while save a ton of money and maybe keeping ticket sales alive. If I had to take a contract on like that honestly I know he is s to trade with but just an example of rather take a Gordon Hayward from Ainge and yes I know they have kembra just an example bit if I'm not going to save the 100 million I'd roll the dice on someone who could be part of my rebuild or a derozan type playe/contract. Just doesn't seem like a real trade seems like a fantasy trade.
Chris Paul was damaged goods that could barely be counted on to last a full playoff run. Westbrook is a massive upgrade just by virtue of the fact that he can be counted on to stay healthy.
Wonder if Milwaukee has the contracts to match Paul. I could see them making a move tbh.
I guess Houston had to do “something” since they were at a dead end.
But we’ve already seen the ceiling of teams with Russell Westbrook. Last year, he already began showing the first signs of athletic decline. Normally, with a 30-year-old, the wisdom gained from experience more than offsets the coming off the athletic peak, but he’s never had much going on between the ears.
What Rockets fans can look forward to is a second-round elimination game in which James Harden is on fire through three quarters, but then Westbrook hogs the ball the entire fourth quarter shooting airballs and turning the ball over, and the Rockets blow a lead and lose.
As he ages, he’ll be “Bad Russ” more and more, with only flashes of “Good Russ.”
As he ages, he'll become DWade, who went from All Star to borderline starter in a season, or season and a half. Degenerative knees are a , and RW has had like 4-5 surgeries and cleanouts on just the one knee.
Couldn't happen to a better fanbase.
Thank ing god he didn't.
D'Antoni's Gameplan:
1) Harden stepback 3
2) Harden flop
3) Harden dribble-dribble-pass to Russ for a 29% 3-pt attempt
He was never coming here, because he knows that our FO is too smart to tie up $160M/4yrs in a chronically injured 30-something player.
Harden is already one of the worst clutch performers I've seen in a long time, maybe worse than Karl Malone. His sequences at the end of the Golden State series this season were atrocious. He even lazily inbounded a ball directly to Golden State when possessions were vital. He's a tremendously stupid individual.
Watching him and Westbrook crap the bed down the stretch of important games will be amazing to see. Which one will be worse? Which one will invent new ways of screwing their teams? Paul, for all his faults, could actually control a game down the stretch.
God no.. He is washed up. No contending team should want him..
they can’t move bledsoe and hill until december iirc.
okc looking to move cp3 soon.
Heard it was with the Heat. But I'm still expecting for cp3 to somehow end up with the Lakers
Anyone who thinks either Westbrook or Paul had or have significant positive value in a trade need to get head examined. The fact that this was the best deal available for Russ is pretty telling. He’s an awkward fit with most teams on a bad contract. By years 3 & 4 of that deal, he’s an albatross once his athleticism is sapped. He already can’t shoot.
Of guys who have chucked 5+ threes per 100 possessions (342 players NBA history, 5,000+ minutes), only Ronald Murray, Ronnie Price and Stanley Johnson are worse at it than Russ.
Of guys who’ve played 5,000+ minutes, Russ has the third highest turnover percentage in NBA history behind Robert Pack and Ernie DiGregorio.
Pelicans seem to be a decent spot for CP3. He can yell at rookies all game.
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