With the latest news that Barry has signed and Mutombo will sign next week, the Rockets have completed their roster of 15 players. We all know that the Rockets are not done yet with their wish lists of free agents hoping to sign the LLE or teams that will agree to a sign and trade. With the amnesty deadline(august 15) getting near, will the Rockets waive someone to open a spot as well as to save luxury tax or trade someone with the goal of completing the final piece? Who will be waived or who will be traded?
We should drop Moochie just cause I don't see him getting minutes someone help me out with finding his salary Weatherspoon is just lard on the bench....and on the court if you want to compare his game....when I say lard I mean taking up space and being slow....no disrespect just saying
I am pretty sure we still have one more roster spot left. Thats why the rockets are still pursuing other players, if not, then the front office is really stupid. Maybe its cause you counted Head, and the rockets might not intend to have him on the roster this year.
I am pretty sure we still have one more roster spot left. Thats why the rockets are still pursuing other players, if not, then the front office is really stupid. Maybe its cause you counted Head, and the rockets might not intend to have him on the roster this year. Probably want to send him to the NBDL or whatever.
I don't know. Head at 22/23 will probably be counted on to produce right away, and probably will be at least kept on the active roster to get some experience. Pardon me if my interpretation is wrong, but I believe that each team can have 14 active players and 3 on the Inactive Roster, and two in the NBDL. If I'm wrong, could someone explain?
Trip I believe its that teams will be able to have a max of 14 players...of those 14, players with 2 years or less experience may be sent to the NBDL...i believe a max of 3 may be placed on the inactive list...
I just checked on the Internet and teams are required to keep an average of 14 players on their rosters. So I think maybe a max of 16 is true, which would mean that we max out at 16 after we sign Mutombo.
^What do you mean by average? All i know is that we arent maxed out on our roster. I heard that we are looking to fill in another roster spot. The rockets are still pursuing free agents withe the LLE. If 16 is the max, we still have one more spot anyways.
Are you guys counting right? According to the official site roster, we've got 15 players right now, counting Mutumbo- Baker, Barry, Bowen, Head, Howard, James, McGrady, Mutumbo, Norris, Sura, Swift, Ward, Weatherspoon, Wesley, Yao.
isnt there something wher ewe can put one of our players on the injured list and that would not count towards the roster, i mean like putting one or two players on teh injured list even thouhg they are not.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"># Each team is required to carry 12 players on its active list and one player on its inactive list (which will replace the injured list). Teams may have a maximum of three players on their inactive list (subject to hardship rules, which will apply in the event that a team with three injured players on its inactive list has a fourth player that suffers an injury). Players sent to the NBA Development League (see below) will continue to count on a team?s inactive list. # The league has agreed to guarantee that, on a league-wide basis, teams will maintain an average roster size of 14 players over the course of the season.</div> There we go. I was wrong. So it's still a team max of 15 players, which means we max out now at 15.
Honestly, Wesley, and Weatherspoon are probably the best trade bait we have. Despite what some people think, Ward serves no purpose on the roster, niether does Moochie. Baker should be cut A.S.A.P. All those guys are just deadweight we can use to bring some guys in who can really contribute. I would love to see Baxter and Glover make the team. Both are young, and hungry for playin time.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting cheen0:</div><div class="quote_post">isnt there something wher ewe can put one of our players on the injured list and that would not count towards the roster, i mean like putting one or two players on teh injured list even thouhg they are not.</div> I think u could <u>only</u> have 15 max: 12 to the active roster (the ones that are going to actually play), and 3 injury spots?? (for fakes or just pure trash )...I think that's how things work (from my observation of playing ESPN NBA 2005 for da ps2 )
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Rock4life:</div><div class="quote_post">Honestly, Wesley, and Weatherspoon are probably the best trade bait we have. Despite what some people think, Ward serves no purpose on the roster, niether does Moochie. Baker should be cut A.S.A.P. All those guys are just deadweight we can use to bring some guys in who can really contribute. I would love to see Baxter and Glover make the team. Both are young, and hungry for playin time.</div> Ward, Moochie and Baker probably won't see much time, but cutting them lose won't save the Rockets a lot of money, and keeping them until their contract year would make them good bait in a year's time. I'm all for keeping the players. I have seen both Glover and Baxtor with Toronto and I have to tell you that Glover isn't anything special. He has won Summer League MVPs in the past that didn't translate to anything in the regular season. He's a good shooter and scorer but his defense is mediocre. He won't be a superstar but can be a rotation guy in the right system. Baxtor, meanwhile, impressed me with his rebounding and post moves. He could be a poor man's Elton Brand, although he isn't as good a shotblocker as Brand is.
Guys it was Weatherspoon who was waived by the Rockets this evening. With the Rockets payroll reaching $67M when Mutombo signs this week and the luxury tax threshold begins at $61.7M, the Rockets are obligated to pay $5.3M in luxury tax for the coming season. Weatherspoon is the logical choice with his one more year contract of $6.35M. That means the Rockets won't have to pay luxury tax this season. Leslie Alexander(poorest team owner in the league)would be so much relieved to save a lot of money.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Trip:</div><div class="quote_post">I have seen both Glover and Baxtor with Toronto and I have to tell you that Glover isn't anything special. He has won Summer League MVPs in the past that didn't translate to anything in the regular season. He's a good shooter and scorer but his defense is mediocre. He won't be a superstar but can be a rotation guy in the right system. Baxtor, meanwhile, impressed me with his rebounding and post moves. He could be a poor man's Elton Brand, although he isn't as good a shotblocker as Brand is.</div> Great point!! But being that he's just a role player, I wouldn't expect for Glover to be anything special, or a "superstar". I would expect for him to come in and do his job. With his size, and overrall game, he can be more valuable the Wesley. Baxter needs to make the team too. I like his game, and he should fit the system perfectly.
I think the waiving of Weatherspoon today opens up a roster spot to bring in one more player from the free agent market. If none of the Amnesty players make their way to our team, I'd be very content if one of Glover or Baxtor fills the spot.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Aug. 16, 2005, 1:09PM Rockets use break on taxes Weatherspoon waived to save on luxury penalty By JONATHAN FEIGEN Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle The Rockets gave themselves a sizable tax cut on Monday and picked up a valuable roster spot in the process by waiving seldom-used forward Clarence Weatherspoon on the deadline to take advantage of the NBA's tax amnesty provision. The Rockets could be more likely to make a subtler roster move, possibly to bring summer-league star Lonny Baxter to camp with a roster spot to win. With the signing of Stromile Swift last month, the Rockets still have three power forwards ? Swift, Howard and Vin Baker ? under contract, not including Ryan Bowen, who is more of a small forward but started three games at four in the playoffs last season against Dallas. But with Howard only recently resuming full workouts after recovering from a heart condition, the Rockets could want to add another power forward to assure depth at the position.</div> SOURCE ^^ I just took the main pieces (more like what I wanted..) <div class="quote_poster">Quoting Trip:</div><div class="quote_post">I think the waiving of Weatherspoon today opens up a roster spot to bring in one more player from the free agent market. If none of the Amnesty players make their way to our team, I'd be very content if one of Glover or Baxtor fills the spot.</div> neways, I just wanted to add that I also think Lonny would make a great addition to the team...our king of summer league could actually be more productive or just as effective as our current/past forwards (Baxtor who actually shows up ready to play unlike Badiane, who of course needs more secret training ). to Baxtor, to Baker and Spoon.
Baxter has had previous experience in the NBA, so we know what we would get. And to tell you the truth, we wouldn't get much. He is a player who is a consistent atr at summer leagues but cannot convert that into the NBa.
