Here I am I am very happy to see him do well for I would hate to see his $11+Million value drop. My hope is he stays at this level of play till he is traded. He needs to be traded for a true ALL-STAR or really high draft pick(s) IMO. GO ROCKETS! (But lets keep our draft pick) The other posters were right Thabeet being played in the 4th quarter = a win.
The guys who come up here with "that changes your views about K-Mart?" don't get the main point. Yea, he's a terrific scorer and one of the best SGs scoring-wise, but that's not what makes somebody a great player. He's terrible on D while putting up 2.0apg and 3.6rpg over his career, along with 1spg and 1.8to. That's not what I consider a key player for a contender, he only provides scoring and sets the team back in every other aspect of the game. Valuable players can have horrible shooting nights and still carry their team to victories by playing great D, getting boards and assisting their teammates. K-Mart is a complete mess when having bad shooting nights because he can't make up by contributing in another way. See the ORL game, 4 points and ZERO rebounds, ONE assist in 32 minutes. He's useless and kills the team in these games. That's why I only see us progressing when trading him while he still has great value.
Toyota Center was real quiet yesterday too. I was kind of surprised. And to add on the K-Mart haters eat crow. F that, I say trade him while his stock is high as well as Budinger.
It wasn't crowded at all. I didn't even sit in my own seat (so I could sit next to my friends). Still the food lines are slow as usual.
I missed the game but will be watching it tonight thanks to league pass - looks like popo just gave up
He did and it is somewhat suprising. I'm sure he had his reasons and I think we all know why but still surprising to me.
Why is everyone down on Bud? I've never been a fan of his but he played good defense on Jefferson and switched onto Manu pretty well. What, did you want him to take shots away from the big 3 when all of them were hot?
He has been playing excellent defense, and he deferred to the hot Martin and Scola, he is playing as the consumate professional. People are overeacting, as usual. DD
Didn´t have the time to post. We made this game easier then it actually was, and that is all we wan´t when you have a back-to-back-to-back. KM showed how good he is. Lowry all over the place Dalembert is a monster Scola is too consistent Bud........ still think he is soft as hell, he need to be aggressive, I think he is afraid to make mistakes, and that is the worst mentality you can have when you are young, IMO.
This is key to manage these triple-backs. I'm glad for our depth at all positions. Some guys will be spent by day 3, but if McHale keeps rotating players the way he did last night, we'll be in better shape than a lot of teams.
See how that works when players numbers are down and they are looking for a new contract. Danger Will Robinson - Danger. DD
He does that a lot. I've seen him give up on games when his team is down 10 with 3 or 4 minutes to go. More than any other coach, he's very cautious about over-extending his regular players if the chances of a win become small.
How often does he have those games? 1 in every 30 games? Last year he had only 3 games below 10 points. His game may be very offense-focused but he is very reliable at doing what he does.
