Rockets land Scott Machado, Zoran Dragic + others for Summer League

Can't tell where the neck stops and face begins.

 

Parsons would be eligible. I imagine he and Patterson may play some, but give more time to others. For Patterson, it'd mainly be rehab.

Patterson / Smith / Leuer
Motiejunas / White / Jones
Parsons? / Morris / Simpson
Lamb / Dragic / Christmas
Machado / Fortson

Surprise, a complete log jam at the forward slots. Will be curious to see if/how much they use Jones and White at the 3, and how much Motiejunas slides up to the 5.

 

zoran and zoric. classic names.

 

No way does Patterson plays in summer league. Also doubt Parsons plays, given that he's already our established starting SF. No need to play guys that we already know what their capable of, what we need to do is play Morris and the other rookies to see what we got in them.

The way I see it, Motiejunas will be moved to the five and one of either Jones or White will be move to the three, to relieve some of the glut at the PF position.

Donatas Motiejunas / Greg Smith
Terrence Jones / Jon Leuer
Marcus Morris / Royce White / Daimon Simpson
Jeremy Lamb / Zoran Dragic / Dionte Christmas
Scott Machado / Courtney Fortson

 

I like Machado

I'll be watching him

We always find those little crafty PGs some how

Maybe Machado is the next in line

 

I think Patterson mentioned he might want to play for rehab reasons. I agree with Parsons though - there's no reason whatsoever for him to want to play in SL.

 

I missed the other guys from Feigen

Jerai Grant -- 6'8'', 220 with a 7'0'' wingspan...and a poor jumper. In otherwords, an undersized 4. Athletic, though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezOwI5fvnDk&feature=player_embedded. Son of Harvey, nephew of Horace
Eli Holman -- 6'8'', 250, with a 7'4'' wingspan...also probably a 4, but in this case probably Morey's 2nd go round at a Joey Dorsey type.
Fogg is a 6'3'' guard who can shoot

Patterson / Smith / Leuer / Holman
Motiejunas / White / Jones
Parsons? / Morris / Simpson / Grant
Lamb / Dragic / Christmas / Fogg
Machado / Fortson

You could argue Patterson, Leuer, Grant, Motie, White, Morris, Holman, and Jones are all really power forwards. Awesome.

Not sure we can actually carry 16 guys. Probably did a nice sell for Machado -- probably 8-9 guys on this team will be on NBA rosters, and it will give him a good shot for a 3rd strong PG job.

 

I knew they'd hear me about Scott Machado. He just might mess around and make this team.

 

Thanks for the info.

According to Feigen, it is not determined whether Patterson or Parsons will play. My guess is they play maybe in a game or two max or just hang with the team and scrimmage.

http://blog.chron.com/ultimaterocke...names-to-already-packed-summer-league-roster/

I also don't think Leuer needs much summer league time. He got fairly regular minutes on the Bucks as a rookie already.

Of course, one big overriding question is which of these guys will still be with the Rockets come July 13th. For now, I'm thinking the regular will be:

Motiejunas/Smith/ Holman
White / Jones
Morris / Simpson / Grant
Lamb / Dragic / Christmas / Fogg
Machado / Fortson

Probably going 9 deep each game, with some guys playing one game but sitting out another.

 

Yea I really like machado hope he does make the team

 

He played in New Rock!

 

I've never actually seen Machado play, but with in my pre-draft reading, his name and description really stood out; to the point I thought we might buy a second round pick for him.

 

Machado is a GREAT pickup. Wouldn't be surprised in the least if he made the team, and maybe even became a high-quality backup. Was the 2nd best passer in the draft after Marshall

 

I think i remember reading somewhere that Pat was working hard this offseason to develop his game, and he said he was going to participate in summer league. Maybe i'm mistaken, but i think Pat's playing.

As far as Machado, this is very exciting. He was supposed to be an early 2nd round pick. I remember that Houston brought him in for workouts and liked him a lot. If we had a 2nd round pick this year, there's a good chance we would have used it on Machado. Now we get him into camp for nothing. Classic Morey.

 

So Zoran and Goran are related? Wow nice.

 

There was a glowing write-up in rockets.com on him in the PG section, rated together with Marshall as two of the best pure passers to have come out of college for quite a while.

Worth a read.

Hope he can make it as the 3rd PG. Perhaps even second.

 

Machado is playing in a weak conference with fast paced offense as a senior, so his numbers are inflated. Also his defense is poor even in that conference. He doesn't have many phisical advatage except he's pretty strong for a PG.

That being said, he improved in college and does have nice passing skills and good perimeter shooting. His best chance is to be a third string PG at the end of the bench for now. We should definitely take a closer look at him and hope he can improve on defense.

 

Splash here and a splash there.

 

Lol our team is to deep. Patterson would be best to sit it out.

 

Summer League champs once again!

Donatas
Jones
White
Lamb
Machado

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