right now its: hill-thabeet scola-pat-montie bud-morris-parsons martin-lee-twill lowry-dragic-flynn lets see if the team and chuck can agree to a new contract. same with yao. i'm not counting on either. the back-court is very strong with a lot of depth. same at PF. obvious concerns at center and SF.
I can imagine Flynn will be traded along with Scola Hill Twill, Possible Pat if we have faith in DMO and are targeting a good center. Who knows though. I'd hate losing Pat but this draft makes me wonder.
Yao/Thabbeet Pat/Motiejunas Morris/Bud/Twill Kmart/Lee/Twill Lowry/Dragic/Flynn Scola probably will be traded and Hayes will probably not be resigned if Thabeet is showing progress and Yao can walk Ohmmmsss - Mchale said yesterday that Motiejunas may play some 5. It's not an unusual stategy in the NBA to pull a rebounding C away from the basket with a shooting C
???/Thabeet/D-Mo Pat/Hayes/Hill Morris/C-Bud/T-Will K-Mart/C-Lee Lowry/Dragic/Flynn I believe Scola will be traded for a legit center and parsons won't make the team because T-Will and C bud are both better. So the big question is who will start at center Yao is done but I won't be suprised if he gets resigned but even if he is resigned he is in no condition to start, i don't trust thabeet to start yet but I think he may suprise people this year on the devensive side. So one thing I am hoping for is a Trade for a center including scola and fillers because i am hoping PPat can fill his void.
1000% agreed. Chuck is great and we all love the hustle, but the security blanket needs to go. And if Yao is willing....sign him to a cheap contract laced with incentives.....nothing to lose at this point... Either he comes back, gets hurt again and he's officially done.... OR, he comes back and logs in some quality minutes and we have the best C in the league on our squad....the *star* we've been missing.
The Rockets will play him some at the 5 spot. They have already stated this and you get no say in the matter. Besides, didn't Vesely get drafted by the Wizards? Go troll on there fan board.
I see what your saying but i dont think trading scola is the right move. Andris Biedrins probably could be had for Thabeet,J.Flynn, Twill..... http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=6l88cuc
nba.com says the Rockets have 18 players on their roster: <pre>NUM PLAYER POS HT WT DOB FROM YRS 15 Marqus Blakely F 6-5 225 10/22/1988 Vermont 1 10 Chase Budinger F 6-7 218 05/22/1988 Arizona 2 50 Marcus Cousin F 6-11 255 12/18/1986 Houston 1 3 Goran Dragic G 6-3 190 05/06/1986 Ljubljana, Slovenia 3 9 Jonny Flynn G 6-0 185 02/06/1989 Syracuse 1 44 Chuck Hayes C 6-6 238 06/11/1983 Kentucky 6 27 Jordan Hill C-F 6-10 235 07/27/1987 Arizona 2 5 Courtney Lee G 6-5 200 10/03/1985 Western Kentucky 3 7 Kyle Lowry G 6-0 205 03/25/1986 Villanova 5 12 Kevin Martin G 6-7 185 02/01/1983 Western Carolina 7 2 Marcus Morris F 6-9 235 09/02/1989 Kansas R 20 Donatas Motiejunas F 7-0 222 09/20/1990 R 25 Chandler Parsons F 6-9 200 10/25/1988 Florida R 54 Patrick Patterson F 6-9 235 03/14/1989 Kentucky 1 4 Luis Scola F 6-9 245 04/30/1980 Argentina 4 32 Hasheem Thabeet C 7-3 263 02/16/1987 Connecticut 2 1 Terrence Williams G-F 6-6 220 06/28/1987 Louisville 2 11 Yao Ming C 7-6 310 09/12/1980 Shanghai, China 8</pre>
Depth Chart Lowry -- Dragic -- Lee -- Flynn -- Williams Martin -- Lee -- Williams Morris -- Budinger -- Parsons -- Williams -- Blakely Scola -- Patterson -- Hill -- Morris -- Motiejunas Hayes -- Scola -- Hill -- Thabeet -- Cousin -- Motiejunas -- Ming Ming will be on the inactive roster to start the season.
Do you watch a lot of NBA games? Because the NBA has a lot of s*ck *ss centers, especially at backups.
I really wish we had summer league this year to get better feel for where our New guys can do. 5 dmo , hayes , hill , thabeet 4 Scola , pat, hayes, hill , morris , parsons 3 chase, morris , twill , parsons 2 martin , lee , twill 1 lowry , flynn , Goran If we get AB from Golden State he starts at the 5 and ever in that catagory moves down on the depth chart. I really thing Golden Stat will make a Push for Chandler or Dalembert Heck maybe even Nene. They are done with AB hopefully Rockets can snatch him up for cap space.
Well, with the players that we have now, and who I would trot out there if we didn't trade a soul, and assuming Yao won't come back. Hayes/Thabeet/Motie Patterson/Scola/Motie Morris/Budinger/Williams Martin/Lee/Williams Lowry/Dragic/Flynn We need to get a young center to grow with these guys, and then develop as a group. I cannot express how well I think Bogut would fit here.... Even someone like a Brook Lopez (if ever available). I think are odds, knowing our front office philosophy and our roster situation, are on us building a Pistons type of champion. Center/Thabeet Patterson/Montiejunas/Morris Morris/Williams/Budinger Martin/Lee/Budinger Lowry/Dragic Giving that rotation two seasons to really grow together could really yield great results. Montiejunas, Patterson, Lowry and Morris all could become star types for us. I think especially Monty. I see him as a boom or bust guy. I almost wonder about his body though? He added a bunch of muscle pretty dang quick.
Morey : "Motiejunas hey man" Motiejunas : "Yes morey?" Morey : "Got to tell ya glad you made it here" Motiejunas : "D.howard catch me if you can" Morey : "Hey D-mo," Motiejunas : "Yes Sir?" Morey : "PLAY *beep* Center or Die" LOL!!!! :grin:
