With the addition of Dalembert, the Rockets will have some interesting choices to make. IMO, the final roster will round out as: Dalembert / Thabeet Scola / Hill / Patterson Budinger / Morris Martin / Lee / T-Will Lowry / Dragic Future Vipers: Parsons / Lin / Adrien (contracts) and Smith / Cousin / Blakely (non-contracts) Trade Bait: Flynn (probably for a draft choice)
Lowry, Dragic, Flynn Martin, Lee, TWill Budinger, Morris, Parsons Scola, Patterson, Adrien (partially guaranteed) Hill, Dalembert, Thabeet Smith & Lin (fully unguaranteed)
Lowry, Dragic, Flynn, Martin, Lee, TWill, Budinger, Morris, Parsons, Scola, Patterson, Adrien, Hill, Thabeet, Dalembert We only have one spot for someone without a guaranteed contract. I say it goes to Adrien.
I'd take Lin over Flynn. Lin knows how to play the game and when you watch him you just get a since that he's making a positive impact without much statistical evidence of such. Not so much Johnny Flynn.
Dalambert/Hill/Thabeet Scola/Patterson/Smith Williams/Budinger/Morris/Parsons Martin/Lee Lowry/Dragic/Flynn Cut Jermaine Taylor Lin and Adrien to RGV
Guys. Lin hasn't played at all during this preseason stretch. Unless Flynn has the worst game of his entire career in this second half... Lin is getting cut. But its ok. Superstar Lin will get a lot of attention being an unrestricted free agent.
14 guys: Lowry/Dragic/Flynn Martin/Lee/T-Will Budinger/Morris/T-Will/Parsons Scola/Patterson/Hill Dalembert/Hill/Thabeet Maybe you keep Adrien, but I don't really care.
Dalembert/Hill/Thabeet Scola/Patterson Morris/Budinger/Williams/Parsons Martin/Lee Lowry/Dragic/Flynn
I am most interested in how minutes will be divided between Patterson(4), Morris(3-4), Twill(2-3), Courtney(2). Seems like there could be a bit of a logjam to me.
Lowry/Dragic Martin/Lee Budinger/Williams/Morris Scola/Patterson Dalembert/Hill/Thabeet I think the above is for-sure our 12 man roster. Thabeet has shown he can block and rebound in a limited amount of time. Another 7 footer can't hurt to have. At this point, I think Parsons has a solid chance of being the 13th man, and will definitely see time in the D-League. Lin vs. Flynn and Adrien vs. Smith are toss-ups in my opinion. From what I've seen, Lin is a better point guard then Flynn. Plays good defense, plays well off the ball, and actually makes smart passes. Adrien and Smith are fairly equal in my eyes. We definitely have a logjam at the one, with so much talent there. Perhaps we should make a trade or two to ship our unwanted pieces off for some cash or draft picks for the '12 draft. Thoughts?
Lowry/Dragic/Flynn Martin/Lee/Parsons Budinger/T-Will/Morris Scola/Patterson/Adrien Dalembert/Hill/Thabeet
What I learned about our roster tonight: Thabeet is tall, but he can't run at all. It pains me to think he's taking a roster spot that belongs to Mr. Chuck Hayes. Lin >>> Flynn.
