Our potential young players who played good in Preseason aren't gonna be getting minutes to get better. It happened last year the year before. Chase is going to continue to start, ffs. Lee will still get minimal minutes. Patpat will still get minimal minutes, even less now that SD is sign, ffs. Hill, see above. Morris, won't even break in, Dleague is best hope. So much potential on this team but its being held up by two offensive only players. But it happens to all teams until someone gets injured (Lowry in our case). So is a injury needed? Or a trade before hand? A trade will be too late. Think about it, would Lee still want to play here when its contract time if Martin is still here? Who cares if he is RFA, teams are going to offer him a starting contract because their are teams who can surely use him. Yeah, sure, Martin was almost traded already. That doesnt mean he is on the trading block. Just means we had a chance at an all-star. But those trades don't come around which is why Morey jumped that. We know Martin is injury prone too. Ooooh we, what if trade dealine comes and he gets injured. Not some fake Tmac crap but legit injured or maybe he stayed injured by the time TD comes along. Not to mention MOREY LIKE KMART. Dont get me started on Dalembert. He doesnt make us a contender by far especially JHill can continue his Preseason games (but lets not go there because its PRESEASON and only that). Sure we should get 6-8 seed with SD now, but then what? But then what?!?!!?
If we are going to be really real, Rockets should just rebuild. We aren't going anywhere with the current roster, might as well try to see if the Rockets could get picks for this upcoming draft.
Ok, lets be real. There are only 66 games this season. There will almost be more opportunities to play here than it will to play with the Vipers. There should be many opportunities for our young guys to play.
Compressed schedule. It's hard to play back-to-back-to-back sets without any rest. I doubt Scola would still be effective in his 3rd game at 36 minutes. They will likely give the vets, especially the guys around 30 yrs old, more rest during the compressed schedule. Rockets are unlikely to play on Thursday, so it will basically be multiple back to back sets and some weeks with a game every other day. These younger players would get less playtime in an 82 game schedule, where the starters have 1-3 days rest between games.
Hey coach. This is actually more of a reason for them to not get more minutes, just the opposite. less minutes if were trying to compete. Each game MEANS so MUCH MORE
Rest time. Scola would still be effective after 2 days rest. If Scola is winded after playing 3 games in 4 nights, Patterson will have to come in earlier. Duh.
Sorry, whats up? See you are back to your old ways. Seriously, we only have one back-to-back-to-back and many back-to-backs so that is awfully tiring on older legs. They are going to need every bit of youth on the roster to last this season.
One or both of our championships were gained as ~a 6th seed. We have never been a dominant team, never a perennial division winner.
Scola's knees were aching after the 8 games in 10 days during the summer. Scola isn't a spring chicken any more. If they want to win, it's better to have Scola when he is effective not when he is playing through knee pain. He'll be fine as long as he gets plenty of rest and Patterson gets more playtime.
Yes but Scola will never be the type to say when he is tired or ready to get off the floor. We all know this. But McHale doesnt and/or wont know when. He will stick with the average time for starters.
thats exactly the problem!!! Thats all the youth is going to do is back up. Some of these youth have already proven they are ready to start and someone of them are almost there. They wont get those minutes though Thats what my thread is about ;S Minutes. We got the youth. Thats no doubt. But the Youth wont have the needed minutes.
I do agree with you about Lee..... He will get an offer sheet and sign one this summer that will probably range from 7-10 mil/year. If Morey does not want any part of that, and (he won't if Martin is still a Rocket), then Lee needs to be moved come deadline time. Preferably, I would try and trade Martin and offer Lee an extension and he will be the next man up at SG. Just like Lowry when AB got injured/traded and Bud when they traded Battier.
The difference there? Are your seriously putting that out?? You guys had a superstar on the team. Not a all star but a super star. And then an all around team supporting him. Please dont compare that to now, where we dont even have an all star.
After playing 3-4 games in 4-5 nights and a veteran coach who has been in the league for decades can't recognize that his players will be wasted? You have to give Kevin McHale credit. He has played in the league. He knows how it feels to play multiple games in just as many nights. All he has to do is look at Scola with his hands on his knees or taking breaks on defense. It's like Duncan an Ginobili. You see their minutes cut during some stretches, because they are wasted.
Ok, guess will have to hope and see. You say give him credit when I say he has to earn it. He is coaching a whole new squad not to mention his previous coaching gig was a bunch of youngs, no legit aged vet. So lets see when Scola is playing 37 minutes with 2 left in a close game. See how often this happens because I have a feeling we will have a lot of close games. And in a shortened season, each game is worth so much more then a 82 season game.
We must not forget Martin. He consistently comes down with an injury when plays more than 32 1/2 minutes. If Martin and Scola are injured and need a month to recover, there will be that many more games in a compressed schedule than in an 82 game schedule. There might be 15 games in a month, instead of 12. Yes, keep playing them heavy minutes. The young players will become starters upon injury. It worked for Chuck Hayes and Yao Ming and Budinger and T-Mac. http://www.nba.com/playerfile/kevin_martin/career_stats.html
