ESPN: Rockets wait for other young talent to take off

Still waiting.....

DD

 

Yay! An article about Eddie Griffin!!!!

Well at least they didn't say anything bad about him. They must not know about his shot.....I hope he can develop somehow and utilize his strengths and not show his weaknesses.

 

"I love our big men, man," Mobley said. "(Soon), no one is going to mess with us. Because the mistakes they're making now, they won't be making later

I think this should only apply to Yao at this point. oh man, when you point out the same thing 10 times to the same guy and he made the same mistake the 11th time you know there is something no right.

 

nice quotes. thx for posting Houstone!!

can an Admin edit the title of this post to include "ESPN.com" in the title to avoid duplicates.

 

I think Griffin needs to seriously work on the mechanics of his shot. TMo did it in the past summer and has improved considerably. Griffin needs to do the same. He also needs to learn some low post moves and play smarter man defense. In other words, he needs a lot of teaching on the fundamentals.

 

Nice article. I agree that EG when he develops will be a prefect complement for YM. I don't understand why everyone here seeks the Kurt Thomas banger type. Think about it the likes of Kurt Thomas and Brian Grant are now all 30+, they would be way past their prime when YM fully develops and then we would have no PF. Let EG grow with YM and we will have a great frontline for the next 10 years.

 

He needs some of that Larry Bird Arc. That would get him to at least .420 FG and 12 ppg. He'd be just fine with those numbers right now. It's not like we are asking that much. Let's go griffin!

 

This is what I would like to see from Eddie:

.500 FGA, 10-11 shots/game, 6 FTs/game, 10 rebounds/game. That translates to 14.5 points, 10 rebounds/game.

 

eddie is becoming a liability...

his love for the 3 is a joke and he is a very let me stress very poor mans robert horry

will someone please tell him he is NOT a 3 point shooter??!?!?!

 

good article. nice find Houstone.

An Eddie article, dont know if I have ever seen one of these before.

 

I think it will be good for Eddie not to shoot a single 3-pointer in a season. This should force him to develop his inside game.

 

I really would like to see Eddie change his shot in the offseason to add more arc. His shot may suffer early on (I equate it to Tiger Woods changing his swing after he won his first Masters), but dang, it's not like he's shooting that high a percentage now. And the added arc will give him more rim rattling buckets. As he fills out, I know Eddie will be fine.

 

He is another Robert Horry, if you people cannot see what he is doing then you need to keep watching.
He is doing EXACTLY what horry did, He shoots outside shots and does not really wanna bang with the bigboys for fear of getting injured.
Horry never played hard for us until playoffs so he could have an extended career.

Griffin will break out I just hope its soon.

 

Good post! Better moniker. Are you from Atlanta?

 

eddy curry and tyson chandler have been putting up so decent numbers in the last two weeks, i don't know what lit the fire under their arses but i hope it happens with EG. those two play much more of an inside game than EG does, and go stronger to the bucket than he, but i think for these young guys, its a switch that just gets flipped at some point, its just having the patience to wait for it. i'm not overlooking the facts that EG has some serious problems with his shot selection and his release, but when he decides to start going to the bucket strong, he'll be ok iA.

 

Good article on Eddie! I think we all forget he is only 20 years old. He has a lot to learn.

We all want his progress to be huge, to allow us to get into the playoffs THIS season because we have been out of the playoffs for the past couple of seasons. But in reality this "new" team officially started last year when we got Griffin and Yao Ming this year. We are very young and have a lot to learn.

The Rockets believe in Griffin enough to turn down a number of trades for him such as the reported Rashard Lewis trade in the summer and Shareef trade before the deadline.

It pains us I know, because we want to get into the playoffs this year and need his performance to be solid....but we need to show patience with Griffin.

Nothing would be worse than to press to get into the playoffs NOW and trade Griffin versus giving up on a guy that could be huge for this team for the future.

Chris

 

I think the best thing that could happen to Griffin, is if he began running cuts by Yao like Steve, Mooch, Cat, and Posey do. He's pretty fast for his size, so it isn't that hard to believe that he could do it.

All that he would have to do is dunk the ball, and that can't be that hard for Griffin... Right?

 

i love yao, but he isnt god for gods sake!!!... eddie isnt there for yao... he is there for the rockets and its fans... that goes for yao. francis, and the rest of the team

you must have mad yao disease...

 

Instead of worrying about Yao's development or Steve and Cat, Eddie is really the key. We see Yao's natural progression and we already know what Steve and Cat can do.

If you haven't figured it out by now, we still need 1 more really good player (along with a veteran backup PG) to be a serious title contender.

Just imagine the possibilities if Eddie develops, we trade Rice's contract next year, Nachbar starts showing some potential, and we sign a FA veteran PG like Darrell Armstrong or Lucious Harris.

This team could become really really good, really really fast.

We have several opportunities to improve our team and if we "hit" on just a couple of them, watch out.