For all of you who are salivating to trade yao- hold your spit, he is worth close 100-150 million for the franchise. This is a business first. And dont freak out about "Suns" style basketball- if the idea is to win the championships. It is Detroit and Spurs- and while it may be fun to watch, the bottomline is rings. Yao and Tmac are NOT tradeable assets.
Yao's contract is not that huge yet and you guys want Garnett and T-Mac together so much? Doesn't make any sense. Most of teams esp. their bosses would love to trade for Yao with their franchise players. But I don't see a combo of Garnett and T-Mac can work out on this team either. Don't get fooled, Garnett is a jumper shooter than a poster player and T-Mac will be downgraded to R.Davis by his side. All these guys on this thread are so naive to believe that we can play run & gun once we get rid of Yao, it is simply wrong. It needs a TOP 5 PG in this league to be efficient in that playing style to begin with. Do we have that asset?
in a heartbeat. yao for kg makes the rockets a better team in every way. now the other players in the deal would make or break the deal. i love yao, but i'd take a champion at heart like garnett over yao any day of the week.
Well, people were saying healthy TMac and Yao were scary before playoff started. After all said and done, Boozer and Deron Williams will proven to be a more duo than TMac and Yao.
nah..... we can handle Boozer, we survived his 41 pts, didn't we? It was Okur's long range shots, it was AK's late surge, it was harpring's mid-J that killed us. And even then we almost survived, if only our role players can shoot half as decent as they did in the regular season..
NO WAI ! People don't understand how close we are to getting over the hump. Losing to the Jazz was a role-player problem, not a Yao/T-Mac problem. Don't do anything crazy. Don't fire the coach, don't change the system, don't trade T-Mac, don't trade Yao. Doing any of these things will destroy chemistry and hold us back. Lets for once have a good off-season in which the players we acquire actually help the team. Look at all the acquisitions we had over the summer. Only Battier helped us, and we had to give up Swift and Gay to get him. We're a defensive team, so we should probably try to get some DEFENDERS with size, length, and/or athleticism. James Posey and Jamaal Magloire look pretty good. Magloire would do a better job on Boozer than Yao. Posey will help us guard all the shooters the Jazz have. I don't want to use the draft to get a PF unless we can trade up to get a player who was an upperclassmen in college like a Joakim Noah. In the draft, I'd go for a backup PG that can learn under Rafer. If we can trade up to get Acie Law IV, that would be awesome. Don't forget about the possibility of getting Francis if the Knicks buy out his contract. WE'RE RIGHT THERE! DON'T DO ANYTHING ABSURD!
