I would not trade House for Ariza. However, I’d love to get a player in Ariza’s mold that can add length at the 3 and be a great bench option or a starter in a pinch. House may not be a defensive stopper, but he’s well above-average defensively, and young enough to continue to improve in that regard. The Rockets starting lineup (Westbrook, Harden, House, Tucker, Capela) has a DRtg of 90 in the first eight games, despite the team allowing more than 120 points per game. There’s little reason to mess with that group. Morey needs to figure out how to make the bench not bleed points when they are on the floor.
House has been awesome, I knew he was gonna be our guy during that Washington game. I didnt know hed be this good, congratulations to him.
Yep. Or, imagine if the Rockets had kept Caboclo last season, and he is House/Tucker’s primary backup now.
He's also put in the best effort of anyone on the team so far. Sometimes it seems like he's the only defender getting back in transition. As for his playoffs, I think he'll be okay next time around. He'll have a full year's worth of seasoning, and he won't be as amazed to be in the playoffs. Least year, he was like a deer in the headlights.
I'm not talking about the current ariza, im talking about the younger one who would hit 40 percent playing alongside John wall..... A starting small forward on our team needs to be a stopper period, otherwise were going to have Russ matched up with a great offensive player, and no house is not well above average. He can't guard klay.Steph.KD, kawhi, PG13, LeBron, etc...... We need a starting three on our team to guard these guys one on one as good as you can get.
Last year I would agree, but man, I am very interested to see House defend those stars this year. His lateral quickness and intelligence on ball has seen a vast improvement. With PJ's tutelage, I don't think it is out of the realm of possibility that Danuel House can become one of the NBA's best defenders.
We need another 30 minute a night wing that has a long wingspan, can defend well and hit open 3's regardless.
Lol who cares about net rating this early in the season all of the team's wins are against lotto teams so whatever net rating you have is skewed. OTH Capela was starting during the beatdowns handed by Bucks and Heat so I'm not surprised if that bumped up the net rating of Tucker at C even more. Relying on Tucker at C is just a recipe for disaster in the playoffs the team won't get any rebs and miss a ton of 3s as usual. As for House not playing well in the playoffs it doesn't matter considering his salary he is getting paid like a scrub so even if he plays like a scrub the Rox still getting what they paid for.
How many wings do you need we already got Harden, Gordon, Maclemore, House and Thabo playing the wing lol. It's not like Dumbtoni has a long ass rotation EG, Harden and House already got almost all the mins at the wing. What we actually need is a Brook Lopez like player who can provide spacing so Tucker can play PF instead of C and Dumbtoni stops all this small ball nonsense.
I am interested too and am rooting for him....but there's only so much you can teach....arms aren't long enough, nor does he have the quickness to get right up in someone's face while also defending the drive..... He needs to give them room....that's not going to work against an all star...
LOL, do you think we are the only ones who've played bad teams? Your just a write a signifcant amount of data because lol, oh they are bad teams, they dont count. Thats not smart bro. Idk if you realize, but we didnt get beat down by the Bucks. And one game isnt gonna skew the data THAT much for the amount of minutes played. Our Tucker lineup is our best lineup. What, so because he doesnt get paid that much, people shoulndt have expectations for him?
One game IS gonna skew the data if you have less than 10 games played. Not sure why you are even trying to argue this. Each game has 48 mins and an 82 game sample size so that's 3,936 mins. Rockets only played 8 games so far so even if Tucker played every single second as a center that's just 9% of the entire sample size. How d hell is that significant? Yes, as a free agent signed to just 3M people shouldnt have unrealistic expectations of him. That's why his market value is only 3M and not the max. 3M players tend to be just warm bodies on the roster anything above that is gravy.
Mike D’Antoni should be given life in prison for playing Gerald ****ing Green over him in the playoffs last year.
Maybe, maybe not. You're right it is a small sample size. But the thing is Tucker at center had a high net rating last year and the year before that so yea I do think that is significant. And dont you think for as bad as our defense has been that Tucker at center is our best defensive lineup? This board is the one who did that not me. Im just saying he wasnt as good in the playoffs as he should have been, he wasnt even playable on either end. He just wasnt ready. And if you think anyone right now just expects him to be a warm body, than you are in the minority.
House played like garbage in the playoffs. I think House should have been given another chance, but once you start sucking, it's hard to get back in MDA's good graces.
Well I dont think that is significant at all tbh, the more I watch the Rox play the more I realize almost all the season data is meaningless. The Rox for example has a winning record 5/3 however 6 of those are vs garbage teams and who cares about stats in those games? Knowing that Harden shoots lights out vs GSW defense is different from knowing he struggles vs Bucks defense. In the same way unless we can filter the net rating to only show vs good teams then I think the data doesnt really say much. Whether or not Tucker can defend lotto front courts is tbh irrelevant since we wont meet them in the playoffs. And for me playoffs are all that matters at this point, they can be 8th seed for all I care. As for House he is like a janitor showing promise to be a manager. Since he is overqualified for his salary so far then obv you have expectations for him but if he effs up he is still a janitor at the end of the day so it would be dumb to get mad at him for not doing more than what he is paid to do. 3M is not starter money, that is end of the bench money, like Gerald Green or Ryan Anderson money. You HOPE he does more but you shouldn't expect him to do so cuz playing more is not his responsibility.
You can't just ughh....you cant like ignore that much data. We beat a lof of good teams with that lineup as well. The point, is the data disagrees with your eye test, Tucker at center hasnt been hurting us, two years ago should even prove that to you. Your just sticking with your eye test and that tells you even less. What? So this is all about money, your money defines what you are as a player?? We shouldnt expect more from house cause he makes 3 million...lol .....okay man lets just end it here, we disagree on way too many things.
