But the coach wants the ball move fast in everyone's hands .every one could be the finisher in our systerm. we need more easy baskets.
just read this opinion from a sports writer The Houston Rockets: For all of the anticipation about Tracy McGrady, Yao Ming, and Ron Artest all playing together, the future is not so bright for this trio. As anticipated, injury issues have kept them apart for much of the season, and the injury to Shane Battier has been the biggest loss of the season to date. With McGrady limping around like he's playing in the old All-Star Legends game, the Rockets need an infusion, and should get the Chicago Bulls on the phone right away. Kirk Hinrich is almost ready to go, and he's going to go right out of Chicago before the deadline. Why not Houston?
Kelenna wasn't strictly a JVG move. He could play defense and shoot. Kelenna was mostly a numbers game imho.
Didn't they keep John Lucas that year? Come on Hayes.....don't be apologizing now... 06-07 was his first year with us in training camp We had 14 players under contract that year, we had room for Kelena DD
Yo DD, do you or anyone else here ever chat on aim about the rockets? Most of my friends are die hard Celtics fans so it's tough to get any good free flowing Rockets talk going. Celtics fans, or at least the ones I know, hate every Rocket besides Brooks. THey absolutely love AB. Who doesn't though. Let me know either way,
We kept Lucas and Padgett because they had guaranteed money I believe. Later we traded Scott for Jake Tsakawhatever in order to get under the cap if I recall correctly. Trust me, no one was more upset when Buike had to leave than me. Edit: wait.. wasn't Mike Harris in there somewhere?
I thought they cut 2 for some reason at the end of training camp, and I thought that they should have kept Kelena... DD
I think this was the roster to open the season: 1. R Alston 2. D Anderson 3. J Barry 4. L Baxter 5. R Bowen 6. L Head 7. J Howard 8. J Lucas 9. T McGrady 10. Y Ming 11. D Mutombo 12. M Norris 13. S Swift 14. B Sura 15. D Wesley Sura never played that year. Maybe we should blame him for not retiring sooner.
Ok were gonna have to settle that tmac is gone he is technically here but the tmac of the past is gone, so here is my trade idea Tmac Head Hayes Scola to new york for Marbury Curry David Lee The benefits for us is marbury comes off the books next year and we get a third point guard which we need, we get david lee who is a beast 14 points 11 rebounds, and we get curry who isnt a bad back up center and he comes off in two years. Now the hard part would be convincing new york, they would get some value for lee in scola cause lee is gonna be gone from there next year, they get a lil bit of value for marbury in tmac, and they good back up players in head and hayes who all come off the book in 2010
I don't want to break the chemistry of the team to much. Scola has been our only consistent player, and Hayes has lock down D. I would rather just have a Tmac for Someone trade.
because he's a mediocre player who's way overpaid. I'd rather get Ben Gordon, frankly, even though he is undersized and jacks shots at times...he's a true scorer nonetheless. To me, the trade with the Bucks just makes too much sense: TMac, Rafer for Redd, Gadzuric, Ridnour this does hurt your 2010 cap availability, but either we're trying to win now, or we're waiting for 2010. I think Yao should still be good then, but he will be older, obviously, and there is no guarantee any major FA will want to sign with us anyway. TMac > Redd when healthy, and has 1 less year on his contract (Redd will almost certainly exercise his player option in 10/11), but is he healthy and committed? Ridnour = Alston, but gets paid more Gadzuric = horrible. somehow he gets 13 minutes a game. don't ask me how. the draw for milwaukee is both salary cap flexibility and TMac potential. they are currently 8th seed in the east, but they aren't going anywhere, really. TMac can keep them at that level, and then instead of $55 million of potential salary in 2010/11 offseason, they'd only have $29.9...way under the cap and maybe they can then entice some name FA to come play with Bogut and Jefferson. Redd can jack shots at times, but he would fit great in an "Adelman" offense, he is actually a 2 guard (which the team seemingly has none of right now), and he shoots his 3's at a solid clip. Ridnour is overpaid, but is certainly as capable as Rafer, and seems like he can manage a game as well - plus, it appears Brooks does up his game as a starter. Have to take the junk that is Gadzuric, but take it. PG: Ridnour, Brooks (don't care which one starts) SG: Redd, Von Wafer, Luther SF: Battier, Artest PF: Scola, Landry C: Yao, Gadzuric, Deke I think it's a no brainer at this point. the big draw for milwaukee
Was playing around on 2K9 and thought of this one: T-Mac/Scola to Miami for Marion/Beasley LOL - Mind you, i'm just screwing around. Miami probably wouldn't do that even though it fits their "rebuilding: but try to win now" philosophy. I'm just having some fun with the "TRADE T-MAC!!!" hysteria that's consumed this board. This would make for some fun units. Battier, Artest and Marion all on the same team = three guys that can defend from the 2-4. That gives you a ton of flexibility with whichever units you want to roll with. Then, there's whatever Beasley gives you.
