If I compare him to the rest of the league, hands down one of the greatest shooting big men in the league. Top 35 scorer in the NBA coming off the bench! Nearly 40% CAREER 3pt shooter (8 yr sample size). Currently one of the greatest shooting big men from the line at a career clip of 86%! This guy is tailor-made for this offense. Trying to knock the signing for DEFENSIVE reasons is laughable when Mike Dantoni is the coach. Lol some people don't understand the concept of an offensive philosophy.
Houston got its own bloated contract Congrats!!!! Now off to a good 48-50 win season and a mediocre postseason!!
yup, now together with harden, we have 2 players that opposing teams are just going to go at every time down court knowing there's an easy score to be had. and that's just the regular season. in the playoffs, anderson has shot terribly, i mean wretchedly. speights and channing frye have actually been good offensively and even they can't stay on the floor in big games because they're defensive liabilities. anderson will be a $20M bench warmer should we ever make the playoffs smh.
Look on the bright side good peeps, we finally have a big that can shoot a high percentage of his freethrows. LOL
For his skillset, and with the 35% rise in the cap, 20 million a year is a fair contract. We still have 25 million in cap to add a couple more pieces, and we have the Morey Eel to snag a player or two in trades. We are in good shape for a Mike D offense. Players are going to step up.
This is the same guy the Rockets were targeting a few years ago right? What were we going to offer him then?
I won't be watching this team next year. This is a horrendous and ridiculously overrated player. And 4 years too. Just wow. This team's only hope is to get high draft picks for the next several years.
Remember after Dwight signed with the Rockets, Orlando offered to take Omer Asik off their hands in exchange for Ryan Anderson? Morey thought he could do better. And so he kept Asik around as a "trade asset" for so long, Asik became disgruntled and it poisoned what had been a tight-knit locker room of the pre-Dwight era. The team ended up dumping Omer Asik one year later in exchange for a protected draft pick that became Sam Dekker. I guess Morey should've taken Ryan Anderson. Not only would the team have avoided poisoning the locker room... but they would've found the perfect PF to play alongside Dwight. A happy Dwight is a motivated Dwight, and a motivated Dwight is a productive Dwight. The past 3 years would've been very different if Morey accepted that Ryan Anderson trade.
He was pretty effective coming off the bench for the Pelicans. I'm assuming D-Mo will be the starter if he returns. I like the signing. The guy went through some tough stuff 2013-2015 with his girlfriend's suicide and the scary neck injury. But he managed to come back to and be productive, which says a lot about his mental and emotional strength. Last years Rockets team looked like it was lacking in both departments.
he's a career 37.7% 3pt shooter over 8 seasons, and has shot well below even that over the past 2 seasons. next you'll say he averages nearly 10 rebs too lol
As a strategy, it makes sense because last I checked whoever scores the most, wins... Now that being said, you are counting for your guys being able to outscore their opponents consistently. Also, Cleveland seemed to show how you can stop this strategy when it counts (one go-to scorer, size, and solid defense).
You guys realize that only 34 players scored more per game than this guy last year right? And of those 34 players, only 8 are PFs or Centers. Lol. Show me the player who signed for less on a friendlier contract that actually WANTED to come here.
If I may just ask, out of curiosity, what skillset is that? He hits the 3 at 36%, which is awful. He gets 6 reb per game, which is pathetic for a PF, and he doen't defend. And this team is paying 20 million for that? For 4 whole years?
