Hearing: Omri Casspi most likely gets waived by Pelicans after Asik three-way trade is completed Tuesday. Casspi then gets to pick new home
— Marc Stein (@ESPNSteinLine) July 14, 2014
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Hearing: Omri Casspi most likely gets waived by Pelicans after Asik three-way trade is completed Tuesday. Casspi then gets to pick new home
— Marc Stein (@ESPNSteinLine) July 14, 2014
Was just about to post this. I'm happy with Casspi, but if they plan on moving him... then what could be the plan? He's a servicable backup if you ask me. Something is up..Originally Posted by eballa1
Uhm he's the only real 3 on the roster...why waive him at all since we actually wanted him as a part of the team?
Is Casspi's contract not guaranteed? He was supposed to make 1.06 million next season. If we wave him does he count on our books or does it in fact free up his 1 million elsewhere?
Any yes, now we have no SF's, something has to be up.
Have to have a trade lined up for a SF, only thing I can think about, we could just use the RLE to sign someone like hamilton. Unless we are trying to clear more cap for someone like sefalosha or marion.
Sefalosha got picked up by ATL. Marion though, that'd be awesome.
According to wikipedia, his contract is un-guaranteed this year.
didn;t know that, thanks.
Man i'm hoping some team out there thinks they can turn eric gordon around lol.
i don't mind them waving Omri. give a young guy that spot. casspi goes team to team & everyone thinks he'll hit his potential and he never comes close. probably just a guy houston wanted off their books
I don't understand why we even included him in the deal though. Houston could just have easily waived him themselves. Unless we need the roster spot, I am kinda disappointed he was not retained as a backup (or at least included with Babbitt to get a slightly higher salaries SF from a team looking to dump a player). There must be some other plan though.
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Yeah I'm confused as to why we would just dump Casspi.
Scalpers have found a way to sell tickets legally above face value by attaching a worthless trinket to it. Here is this pen and two tickets for $1000. Now, it's legal.
Most people throw out the pen afterwards.
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Huh? Casspi was not needed in the deal to make it legal. The only thing I can see is if maybe another team is looking to unload a player that we value more and we need the roster spot (maybe to take a second player in a deal). Hopefully, eventually it will make sense.
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It's a position of glaring need, and as a backup he's great depth.
Maybe we didn't want him as a player in the first place. Also, doesn't this give us cap space?
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It only gives us 500k in cap space because we only have 11 players on the roster (assuming Smith+Young make the team) so there's a cap hold.
From what I read Casspi's contract becomes guaranteed in august. Perhaps we wanted him to play in summer league to see what we had before his contract became guaranteed and he didn't want to. It's all guessing though at this point. I trust Dell (except for when it comes to matching RFA's)I am sure there was a reason...
And maybe (likely), the staff likes Miller or Southerland or Babbitt or Fells or D. Jones or Southerland or some other min. FA better than Casspi.
We don't know all the motivations. Maybe, for some reason Houston wanted us to cut them as opposed to them having to do it.
We can't know everything that went on when the teams discussed. My main point was that it happened, and if he is waived, he is the pen. Obviously we didn't want him. We wanted Asik. We got Asik.
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Just yesterday you said Casspi will be a solid backup and he's better than Miller or Southerland. I'd have to question the coaching staff if they liked Miller better, jeez.
that was his opinion but here he says maybe the staff likes them better.
Doesn't matter what I think though, does it? If the staff likes another guy better, then they are the evaluators. Also, like I said, it's not just Miller or Southerland. Fells and Jones showed out yesterday. Brandon Rush is holding a workout for teams in Vegas. Plenty of options. If they don't like Casspi's game, they don't like it. As I said on the pod last night, not much of a defender and his shot takes an hour to get off. You listen to Gates and all he keeps saying is that we are looking for SF's who can defend their position.
That ain't Casspi.
Someone in the summer league is going to be a better SF option for us.....
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Casspi was needed to make it work on Rockets end. Pels never had any interest. Waive him. Done and done. Right back where we were 24 hours ago. Dell did a masterful trade, has Room and min contracts plus intriguing options in SL to fill the SF position.
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