Is it odd that I am excited to see the Rockets record be so poor? And I agree with others, I think the Suns will be better than the Rockets. Gortat's numbers might go down a bit, but he's still a good center. Dragic will likely put up good numbers.
Don't be stupid. Lin wasn't even a rookie last year, let alone this season. He's age 24 and he's played 1200+ minutes over two NBA seasons.
Yes. But he is still pretty young and has only started in 25 games so calling him a rookie is not farfetched. Considering that those 25 starts were all consecutive and happened last season. It's understandable to view him as a rookie.
How do they project the win totals when they don't have prior history for the rookies to compare? I can understand when you add one or two rookies to a team, but the Rockets have Lin, who is kind of a rookie, Lamb, Motie, White, Jones, who are unknowns.
the more i look at rosters, the more i'm convinced, especially if we move Martin by the trade deadline, that Houston's got a real chance at having the worst record in the west ...and that is a good thing; a very good thing.
For those of you who think the Rockets should be ranked higher - ask yourself this: how may teams in the west have a player that you would rather have on the Rockets than what we have? Hornets have Davis and Gordon Suns have the ex-9th ceed Rockets pieces Portland has Aldridge
i found it's puzzling you are arguing lin is a not a rookies, yet 90% of the people on this board think lin is unproven because he played only a few games
Question: How many rookies have played 60 games in the NBA and 1200+ minutes? Answer: NONE. Jeremy Lin is a third year player.
I agree with you partly on how good you feel Jeremy Lin will make this time. My only problem with this is Lin and Martin appear to be a tad injury prone. Mostly Martin. When or if both go down for parts of the season will turn this team into a bad basketball mess for those games. Therefor they will have a bad record for at least this year until Lin/Martin can stay one full season injury free. On Martin I might not even count on him being on the team at some point after the trade deadline.
I think it is premature to call Lin injury prone. He wasn't prepared to be a starter with the Knicks and going from 0-35+ minutes over night (without the proper conditioning and training) will wear down anybody. I think now that he is prepared to start it would make more sense to see how healthy he stays next season (before calling him injury prone) since he has actually been able to use the summer to condition himself for starter minutes.
13. Portland Trail Blazers: 33.1 wins, 6.1 games worse The last epoch of Blazers basketball was utterly ruined by injuries, so Portland has effectively hit the reset button and projects to have a younger roster than all but four other teams in the league. Right now, this is just a franchise searching for an identity. this could basically be used to describe the rockets as well
No way we're that bad unless half the team goes down injured. We're going to be right where we were last year.
Bro, no Lee, no Scola, no Dragic, No Camby, no Dalembert, no Lowry. Instead we've got Asik, Lin and rookies, plus last year's roll players. I dont understand how any reasonable person can expect us to have the same record. Why do people kep saying this?
Obviously the win total will be lower but some people EXTREMELY overestimate the drop off in my opinion. I agree that 35 seems a reasonable number.
I think its because.... surprise, surprise.... Clutchfans folks are way overvalueing their rookies and crowning them the next great thing. Im hoping for a season kinda like the Hornets had last year where they really took it to some teams, but were just outmanned every night. Maybe some a Rudy type of victory against the Lakers or Heat to keep the spirits alive. The only problem I see with that is that nobody is blowing up Dell Demps' phone right now for Jason Smith and Greivas Vasquez. Both nice players, but players whose careers really suffered by being on a losing team last year. I really hope that doesn't happen to guys like Lamb, Terrence Jones, and Motiejunas.
i actually think the result is going to be binary: either lin & co develop great chemistry, play well together and rocket win 40+ games, or something is wrong we are sub 30
