[Chron] Unofficial scorer: Artest might not be enough for Rockets

I know I've read this before...unless this is one of the more potent deja vu moments in my life.

 

Well I got a quick question, was the team of 30 years ago a defence team? Or a completely all offence team like the washington wizards? (No defence) there's a lot of teams with 3 20ppg scorers but houston have 3 20ppg scorers on a team that relies on defence mostly to win games. I think that's what makes the difference here to the team the rockets had about 30 years ago with, malone, calvin, and rudy, to ron, yao, micgrady.

 

Let's play worst case scenario.

T-Mac 23ppg
Yao 22ppg
Artest 14ppg
Scola 11ppg
Rafer 9ppg
Battier 9ppg
Landry 8ppg
Brooks 5ppg
Barry 5ppg
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106 ppg

I'm not going to include Mutombo's 2ppg, Hayes' 4ppg, Head's 5ppg, or whatever Dorsey averages because they are situational players and wont be in the regular rotation.

I think we are fine scoring wise. The chron is obviously thriving Rockets related news.

 

lol so worst case scenario we average 117 ppg? I like the way you think! tell us about your best case scenario.

 

Im not sure about landry and battier averaging 8 and 9 a game, maybe landry do to shortage of centers. And he is the primary backup to scola but its alittle hard to see battier 9 a game

T-mac=33-35mpg
23-25 ppg

Artest=33-35mpg
17-20 ppg

possibly(likely) these players are going to play more minutes than what I listed because of close competitive games.

So saying battier gets about 15-20 minutes a game. 5-7ppg

 

Lol which is true, but, its always intresting to guess how much their going to average of course not every day t-mac is going to have 22-25 point nights or battier with 7 points nights. He might end up with a 20point random night but I always find it fun and intresting to project how much they'll average and how much they actually will.

 

The way the Rockets are built. And the type of scorer Artest is... I wouldn't be surprised if we are near the bottom in PPG. The difference will be we won't have as many droughts, and Artest will muscle shots up.

But guys... Artest was coveted by the contenders for defense. On offense he chucks it up, is a ball stopper, its all ugly offense man. Nothing smooth or fluid about it. Its okay though, we have what we need.

IMO we will look like a football team that tries to control time of possession. Slow, deliberate, calculated, etc... I dunno, maybe Adelman is a wiz.

 

Read Batkins first post verbatim. Steve Francis averaged 5.5ppg, but he only played in 10 games.

Who said we would average 117ppg? I gave you the worst case scenario ppg for each player. If everyone is healthy the entire season, with our offensive firepower and Rick running the show, we could average 106 ppg.

 

The Rockets will never average many PPG because we play a slow pace. This will continue to be the case as long as Yao's here. The Rockets are NOT going to average 100 ppg, even under best case scenario.

However, their offensive EFFICIENCY will rise with Artest, because we needed a shot-creator. Something that only Yao and T-Mac could do last season.

Artest may not be a great team-oriented offensive player, but the Rockets were really bad last year in offensive efficiency(something like 17th in the league).

 

This is really stupid. He's going to compare a different team and different league all together with today's modern team and league situation.

 

I can appreciate the spirit behind the article, but that was a pretty meaningless and trivial comparison, and quite a stretch, with all things considered.

IMHO.

 

Does it have to be a slow pace with a low post center? The Suns still scored 107.8 pts a game with Shaq in March. Shaq won't be winning sprinting contests, anytime soon.

 

Landry will definitely get his chance of 8-9 pts, when Yao gets injured this year. He's already shown that ability. I think T-mac's minutes and PPG will be lower. Adelman had to cut short Mac's rest time, last year, because the offense would stagnate too much with Luther Head and Bonzi.

 

The article was a poor attempt at comparing apples to oranges.

 

More like apples to peanut butter

 

My thoughts exactly. And somehow I think our three stars aren't going to score more than 55 points a game. Call me a pessimist. There's a major shortage of those guys at the moment.

 

This is a old article, I read it a couple of days ago.

My first thought was what about Hakeem, Cylde and the Chuckster? That was a team I thought was gonna be unstoppable, until we got mugged by Utah.