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[Red94]

New post: Which Rockets Players Have the Best Contracts?

[phaketrash]

Very nice, interesting read...particularly the part about Asik being valued appropriately (in the context of the metric). Most would say he is underpaid, but I guess that takes into account how the league in general "overpays" certain players...especially big men...relative to the value they return. 

[2016Champions]

Morey said himself, the amount he got Asik for was an incredible bargain. Here's an old but cool article with video clips that does a pretty good job of explaining why Asik's defense is so good.

[UBK]

"In simple terms, I looked at the ratio of a player’s salary vs. the median salary compared with the ratio of his win shares vs. median win shares" I think you mean "... compared with win shares" Also, is there any reason not just to look at win shares per salary? Looking first at the ratio of salary to median salary is just a scaling factor and makes the essential info sound more complicated than it actually is.

[UBK]

Never mind my last comment. The numbers weren't making sense from your short description but then I looked at the orignal article and saw it was based on last 3 seasons and you want scaling to be 1 for comparison. It is strange though how lower ratios are better and better but then a negative ratio is terrible. If you instead did the ratio the other way so that higher numbers are better the negative numbers would fall more naturally into place.

[Steven]

Morris wasn't traded for Robinson, Aldrich was. Morris was traded to clear up minutes for D-Mo and the newly aquired Robinson. I'm waiting to see which two players Morey is able to draft with his two second rounders he aquired from the two trades.

[phaketrash]

Wait, I thought we only ended up getting one second round pick? PHX's.

[2016Champions]

We got Sacramento's 2nd round pick too in the T-Rob trade. What a rape lol

[phaketrash]

Hm, I don't think so. I got confused too when the trade was first reported, because it was so damned ambiguous what we were getting from who. But in the post-T-Rob trade interview, Morey made it sound like we only had one 2nd rounder. I'm pretty sure in fact that we only got PHX's 2nd rounder. Seems confirmed on realgm. Anyone able to link where it explicitly says we have Sac's as well?

[2016Champions]

I've read quite a few sources that say there was a 2nd round pick in the deal, here's one of them: http://bleacherrepor...lti-player-deal

[timetodienow1234567]

It's only one 2nd rounder from Phoenix. Since the trades happened so close together, they reported both deals as one rather than the two separate deals that it was.

[blakecouey]

I've read quite a few sources that say there was a 2nd round pick in the deal, here's one of them: http://bleacherrepor...lti-player-deal

Just as a general rule, anything you find on Bleacher Report needs to be confirmed by a reputable source as well(cbs, yahoo, espn, etc).  They spit out rumors and incorrect facts far too often to be considered a reliable source.

[thejohnnygold]

Here's a link to the Rocket's transactions page on ESPN

[phaketrash]

Right, so confirmed, one 2nd rounder only, prob early 30's. I think Morey will work his magic haha.

[Steven]

Ok. So we only have to root against the suns and not the suns and kings.