Game Thread: Rio Grande Valley Vipers @ Texas Legends 2/13/2013 (Royce White... on the ROAD!)

i told all of the white haters

His has elite nba skills .,.!!

Morey rated top 5 talent at !!!

he is worth all the trouble

 

6pts 6 rbs 4ast
I sure dunno what elite is then

 

White has skills rockets lack in our pf/c/sf

- passing,vision, creating...
- box out, rebounding
- toughness

 

passing and vision.... easily best on rockets (nba elite for a foward)

boxing out rebounding ... second to asik on the team

 

lol for your info
We are already Top 8 in assists in the league
what we need is defense, accurate shooting and better movement without the ball

his weaknesses

 

If only he could shoot, defend, or be reliable. Ah, well, we drafted him. Maybe he'll develop in those areas.

 

lol... you can not teach vision and those passing skills...

his easily better post defender and rebounder then morris and patterson who both are soft.

white also has better low post moves then those 2

 

You are not allowed to both lol at each other. One of you take it back.

 

there are thousands of patterson/ morris jump shooting soft power fowards..

there are not many of whites skills

 

Wasn't expecting him to be so .. healthy.

Sitting on your ass tweeting all day will do that to you I guess.

 

Can someone put up some Royce highlights from last night?

 

CF in the house. Well, me and my cuz (mavs fan) anyway. If watching the video we're first row, off center towards the Vipers bench, me wearing a red Rockets sweatshirt and black cap.

Having never sat on the first row of anything (wait, I seem to remember a KISS concert), anyway being this close to the court was an eye-opener...how the refs see anything is beyond me. When sitting this close you realize quickly b****ing about fouls is useless.

I went to get an analysis of the boys but got to caught up being just a fan sitting REALLY close to the court...maybe the beers got me side tracked too.

Have to admit, as critical I am of White, this guy is going to be either an elite 6th man (needs to find his shot) or a workable started. He certainly has a future in the NBA.

Overall it was a fun experience...especially when the second unit was in where I recognized everybody on the floor.


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true. not many that are so out of shape and still have skills to move

 

I'm actually impressed by how well he played, considering he looks 30 lbs overweight.

 

You can plainly see that the talent is there with Royce, but man is he out of shape and out of practice. His shots are freaking terrible. Fortunately his ball skills and rebounding are still solid.

Here's the thing: this guy is gonna have to play out the rest of the D-League season, and work around the clock in the offseason to even have a remote chance of cracking our rotation. He's gonna have to do a lot of work. I, for one, am not confident that he will put in the time to become a good player. The fact that he didn't even shoot on a routine basis while he was away from the team says a lot. This guy doesn't take basketball seriously.

I'll reserve judgement till i see him in summer league (and i'm definitely going), but i hope he realizes how far behind he is.

 

The talent is not the issue, the lack of being able to trust that he won't freak out at an important moment is the issue.

Let him be someone else's headache.

DD

 

Yep, I have zero trust in him.

He's like your super talented employee who might not turn up to work on any given day --- and you still have to pay him.

Get him out of Houston.

 

He's already here and his trade value is zilch, might as well hold your tongue until the Rockets can move him.

 

#BeWell friend...

 

#BeWell friend...