Are there any other tall players the Rockets can pursue now?

by grungedave on Jul 2, 2009 5:43 PM CDT in Random Commentary

It looks like Marcin Gortat has rejected the over-the-top wooing efforts of Daryl Morey. Translation? It appears that the only legit center on the free agent market has spurned the Rockets' advances to sign with the Dallas Mavericks. Yes, Mark Cuban somehow out-bid Daryl Morey. Damn him.

So, uhhhh, are there any tall or even tall-ish players available that the Rockets can sign? Let's face facts - Yao Ming ain't walking through that door until at the earliest March of 2010, so we need someone to man the center position. There isn't a Dikembe option this year. Of the remaining options......... Brian Cook refuses to step inside the three-point line. Scola and Hayes will battle you, but they simply are not true centers and are undersized at the "4" position to begin with. Joey Dorsey would probably do anything (other than giving up strippers cold turkey) to get on the court, but he's not an NBA center.

That doesn't provide the Rockets with much good news. Shit.

Damn you, Mark Cuban!!

That pony you bought to impress Gortat better be within the salary cap restrictions!!!!!

To all those people who have been demanding the Rockets "trade Yao!" for the last five years... I guarantee that you will miss him a whole hell of a lot more once next season begins and you see how lucky we've been to have him.

(oh, and in other bad news... it looks like Ron Artest is not coming back either. LeBron is putting on the moves to get Crazy Pills legalized in Cleveland. Though a locker room with RonRon and the Fat Ass practically defines the word "volatile". Poor LeBron. He has no idea what he's getting himself into.)

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Hey, dave

couldn’t we do like a designated FA and trade rumor thread? Might be a better alternative to three different people submitting the same fanpost every few hours.

Your friendly neighborhood Dream Shake mod.

by Only_A_Lad on Jul 2, 2009 5:54 PM CDT reply actions

what's wrong with 3 fanposts?

We don’t give the fanposts the big, bold treatment unless they are really groundbreaking…

but yeah, anyone can start a “Free Agent Rumor Thread” and I’ll do my best to dump general stuff there.

by grungedave on Jul 2, 2009 6:42 PM CDT up reply actions

haha

We are going to be the joke of NBA.
no true SG. Wafer is gone. Maybe taylor who is a rookie can help.
Battier on SF -zero offense.
4 PF’s and no center.
Great. About trading Yao, i didn’t want that. We should have had a better backup for him way back to cut his minutes. no one thought about that. His backup was weaker than him even though he was a excellent shot blocker he can’t provide much.
Fuck dallas i’m going hate this year

by Sidwho on Jul 2, 2009 6:18 PM CDT reply actions

It looks like Marcin Gortat has rejected the over-the-top wooing efforts of Daryl Morey.

Didn’t read anything about Gortat signing anything. Touring facilities isn’t a good sign, but it’s not final.

oh, and in other bad news… it looks like Ron Artest is not coming back either.

Sauce plz.

by DribbleHooper on Jul 2, 2009 6:48 PM CDT reply actions

Soooooo....

Mark Cuban has potentially outbid the Knicks and the Rockets for a 36 yr old point guard and a 4&4 guy? I mean I’m on the Gortat bandwagon, but if he’s giving 30m over 3 years to Kidd and more than the mid level exception for Gortat, all power to the guy. Wonder how that’s gonna work out with Dirk and Howard trying to get extensions this year or trying to resign them once they become free agents in the summer

by jroberts5 on Jul 2, 2009 6:57 PM CDT reply actions