At least this year, he did acquire another PG at the deadline. Last season, he traded away Brooks for a 3 who never played after his first 2 games as a Rocket. But I agree, Morey should've known better. Canaan was a pretty decent replacement for Bev as a starter(at least offensively). Although it became pretty clear by the trade deadline that McHale did not wanna play him for some unknown reason. Even in garbage time, he was the last guy off the bench. The moral of the story is GET A G-DDAMN STARTING CALIBER POINT GUARD THIS OFFSEASON!!! Rockets management has been neglecting this for far too long. Stop trying to plug in unknowns like Bev, aging vets like Terry and Pepperoni, or 2nd rounders like Canaan. Go get a legit PG who can lock down that position for the next 5 years during this title window we've got with Harden.
What is the point of Nick Johnson? I thought he was supposed to be a plus defender? He's not much of a distributor, but then neither is Bev.
Damn that'd be a tough blow, hopefully he can play through it. Our playoff chances aren't nearly as good without Bev, he had been playing better as of late it seems.
I don't get mad with posts but this one I do . So **** off idiot . Sorry I had to It's his fault that his point guard got injured ? Shut up
The problem with Johnson is he's kind of a tweener. He's really more of a shooting guard in a PG's body(albeit an insanely athletic body). Not to mention he's not a particularly good shooter and he's gotten almost no playing time since that stint back in December when the Rockets had their previous rash of injuries. I hope he does get some more minutes over the next few weeks so we can see if he can earn a spot in the rotation. He is a decent defender and pretty solid on the break. I'd love to see him out there with Brewer and Smith.
Marc J. Spears Yahoo! Sports says that it could be season-ending surgery! We are F***ed Defensively!!!
I'm not sure what basketball they're watching. Bev has not been himself, but anybody who wants either one of those guys matched up w/ Curry/Paul/Lillard/Parker/Conley/Russ is truly on one. I'd normally agree that he'd be the one guy to grit it out and play through it, but the fact that he took himself out of the game immediately last night is pretty telling. This is a guy the training staff has had to fight w/ over wanting to return from injury on multiple occasions.
The trades Morey made were straight up r****ded. Shved and Canaan were 100x better than Terry and Prigioni.
False, that would be whoever you consider the PF starter since you would still have two PFs that could easily be starters. At PG we're going to heavily struggle. Now I agree with others, Harden should play major minutes at PG and put KJ/Brewer in as the 2 to fill the hole/provide defense.
Shved is too unreliable. But Canaan had proven he could step in as a starter and at least provide offense. And it's not like Bev hadn't already been hurt this season. Morey played with fire for the second straight year and got burned again.
Well the good news is that Baron Davis is available. He is trying to make a comeback and all. JK in all seriousness though it looks like Prigioni and Terry are gonna have to step it up, unless McHale is going to play Nick Johnson. Doubt that happens though.
Johnson better get some minutes. If for no other reason than to not wear out Terry. I also imagine we'll see lineups with Harden at the 1, Brewer at the 2, and Ariza at the 3.
Wonder if Nick Johnson could step in. He seems like he could hang on the defensive level. Not the shooter though.
