this would be a dumbass move. carter makes too much money and is as injury prone and soft mentally as tmac though not as talented i would not trade artest for carter unless its a multi player deal and we are picking up devin harris in the deal too, which i dont see happening so this rumor is bunk
artest is a bull but honestly, does he create anything when he has the ball other than shooting a fallaway or bullies his way into the paint? vc is a volumn shooter but can create and attack the gap.. something that this team lacks outside of mcgrady (a healthy mcgrady)
Carter is not injury prone. He's played basically every game this season, 76 last season, and 82 before that. His numbers have stayed consistent, and IMO he's one of the more vastly underrated players in the game. People keep thinking he's completely done cause of his age and the fact that he plays for New Jersey, but he's still there.
I am not sure I'd want to give Artest's defense up for another ball-stopper who has no regrets of chucking as much as Artest does. Granted Carter makes more, but some time that % will catch up with him. If there is a problem between McGrady-Artest, then we should get rid of Artest for a legitimate help to our inside-out game. Carter will be filling a void that McGrady needs to fill, and Carter fills that void, we sacrifice defense and have 3 players that demand the ball consistently. I don't know if I like it, but if Morey is on board, so am I.
Offense is not our problem, it's defense. VC won't have alot of big shots to make at the end of games if we keep getting behind by 20 to crap teams. And last time I checked VC isn't one to be mistaken for a defensive stopper.
McGrady can play offiense? So what? What has anyone done lately? The team went on to win 22 last yr, without Ron. They also pushed Utah to 6 games, 7 the year before. Without Ron. But Ron comes in, and now we want to send one of the others out? What kind of sense does that make?
Pull the trigger Morey. Carter attacks the basket, doesn't shoot horrible, and is better in the iso than Artest.
People keep saying that our offense would be better with Vince Carter. Last time I checked, we had no problems scoring. It's keeping the other team from hanging 124 points on us that's the problem. If the Rockets want to trade Artest, that's fine with me as long as it's someone that gives a damn on defense. I thought Artest would be that guy before the season started but of course he made me look stupid in believing that.
This would run contrary to everything Daryl Morey stands for. I'm calling BS on Broussard. Time and time again Morey has emphasized acquiring not just talent but talent proportional to contract value. Why on earth would we acquire an aging SG with a mammoth contract and many years left on his deal? This would cripple our team for years to come, on par with the Shaq and Kidd trades. Either this team works the way it is or we start over. The Astros would be the first to tell you that trying to slow down the rebuilding process only prolongs your run of mediocrity and does nothing to enhance your chances of actually mattering in the playoffs.
who was a real defensive stopper from last year's team? and van gundy's team in 06? so we got ron artest and his tenacious D, did it make us a better defensive team this year? its about team defensive, not individuals
I wouldn't mind getting Carter in here, they would have a good relationship, t-mac and carter. Additionally, Carter has a few buzzer beaters this season which we lacked all season. But what about PG position? If we had a good PG we would remove half our problems.
Luther, Rafer and Artest for VC and Battier and Hayes for Hinrich Hinrich, Brooks, Barry Mac, Wafer, VC, Barry VC, Wafer, Mac Scola, Landry, Dorsey Yao, Deke
Such a deal would suck and I will not root for the Rockets until TMac is gone. TMac has ruined the Rockets. He should be gone not Ron. This will be huge mistake by the Rockets just like the Pippen deal and Barkley deal.
oh really? a good relationship? http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/nba/news/2001/03/07/sayitaintso_raptors/ But McGrady blew off the Raptors, then blew them away by making it sound as if he was escaping a system that had held him down all these years and kept him hidden in the shadow of Vince Carter ... who, by the way, just happens to be his cousin. His mother even ripped Carter in a magazine article, worsening an already growing feud. For their part, the Raptors felt McGrady had misled them into believing they had a shot at re-signing him. They already had gambled on him once, drafting the 18-year-old high schooler in 1997 even though they were heading into just their third season. By hedging on his loyalty three years later, Raptors GM Glen Grunwald probably passed on trade offers that would have netted more than a conditional first-round pick.
The Barkley deal got us to the WCF. Lay off Chuck, he played his butt off. The Pippen deal, well, that sealed our doom.
If you think the Artest experiment should already be over so quickly, what about the Tmac & Yao experiment?
