Donatas Motiejunas cleared to return to Rockets practice

^^^ It's posted above.

 

JBB says "we didn't do a ton of contact stuff."

DMo says he's not in game shape, yet. "That's the hardest thing to simulate."

 

because you don't just throw someone out there who just had major back surgery into real game time situations. There's a process where you ease them back in especially if you value their worth to the team. he was just barely cleared a day ago and didnt even practice to the full extent today.

Everyone read the reports this summer and apparently they all said Dmo didnt suffer setbacks. Well guess what Dmo admitted himself that he suffered several setbacks which has caused him to be out this long.

 

I remember when DMo rode the bench in his rookie year (or was it his second year?) and then suddenly got some minutes and was absolutely exhausted, because real NBA game intensity is so hard to simulate.

 

Thanks HP

 

The one thing lacking for D-Mo, to be a complete stretch big, is the ability to take someone off the dribble from the 3-point line. He might be able to do it in certain situations on some players, but not the way Ariza can. Of course not many bigs can do that.

I didn't see most of last night's game but got the impression from the post-game analysis that there still isn't an emphasis on inside-out play. We'll just have to see if they try to develop that more if D-Mo is efficient down low. He certainly doesn't play above the rim and won't get alley-oops.

 

At this stage I'm wondering if a Capela / DMo front court is better for the Rockets future than one with Dwight.

DMo will get paid this off-season if he starts shooting lights out from 3s.

He'd be one of the most versatile bigs in the NBA.

 

I remember somewhere reading that the average 3PT% for an NBA player is 36%. DMo shot above that last season. If he improved at all in that area, he should get at least 10M a year contract.

However, DMo shined the brightest when the majority of his offense came from posting up, with only occasional 3pt attempts.

 

The contact in a practice it's not even comparable to a real NBA game when you dont play against teammates but opponents who bang you up on purpose and go full speed at you and try to take advantage of your physical weakness.

Maybe he will be ready in 1, 1.5 week if we are lucky.

10 M a year is for backup specialist bigs nowadays and that's even cheap. Maybe you meant to say at least 15M a year? If he manages to shoot at the % you say then yes I agree we are looking at 20 million a year contract. But who cares since he will have become a star with all those skills people expect him to have. Elite post game, and elite 3 point shooter. Oh and elite playmaking and what else? Oh yeah Elite defence and rim protection.
I'm surprised people haven't started calling him an elite rebounder yet too.

 

DMo does have elite post-game. And that's not an overstatement. He was a good 3-pt shooter last year, elite percentage for a PF/C, but not that much of a volume, and most of those attempts were fairly wide open. I don't remember people saying he has elite playmaking. He definitely can create for himself and find teammates with his passing though. So he has some playmaking for sure. He was a very good defender and rim-protector from the start last season, but later on dropped off.

Now, these are all facts about DMo. I don't know how anyone who follows Rockets basketball can dispute them.

 

but yes of course.
He is the personification of heaven. The difference between our garbage team and a WCF contender.
And pay more attention to posts about his playmaking. You may learn soon that he is also the epitome of a point forward as well.

 

yeah I agree. It's easy to FORGET but last year the Rockets were ballin with Dwight out of the lineup and DMO was hot. Now if the Rox can just put the Humpty Dumpty pieces together then maybe they can do it again

 

DMO is not an elite rebounder. People forget how we got demolished on the boards when Howard was out.

 

We get demolished on the boards when Howard is in too.

 

How is that relevant? What PF on the team is an elite rebounder?

 

He is not even a good rebounder. I love DMo, but I remember last year even when he would get the rebound, people would take the ball of his hands.

Hopefully, he will play like last year or even better, but lets not forget that he had a surgery and we should stop to make him an all - star player. He is an average / above average role player.

 

If he can consistently do what he's already shown he can do, even without improvement, a team will offer him a max. The only thing that will hurt his free agency is his back. That's going to scare a lot of teams away.

 

So you ask him all that. Bwhahahaha who does that.

 

You're talking to Bobby hahaha he will never agree with this because of his man crush for DMO. Dmo can do no wrong in Bobby's eyes DenisM.

 

Yet we won, interesting how being efficient and scoring lowers the need for rebounding.

DD