From the above: "Dwight's gonna have to play the four. More athletic and capable of doing that." - McHale(talking about Howard and Asik together) "All-star weekend we didn't really talk." - Harden (on Dwight) "We have to get home court. Took 57 wins last year. Memphis is really good. Clippers are good. OKC is good. Spurs are good. Those are the 4 teams going in who have proven a lot more than we have. We need to climb into that group and knock one out." - Morey "Between Dwight, Greg Smith, Donatas, Terrence Jones, Chandler, Omri Casspi, Covington, we're gonna find something that works at the four spot. We'll make it work again. Coaches have ways to be creative. It'll work fine." - Morey "I love going small. Frankly, I was skeptical Dwight and Omer cannot work but as I talked to the coaching staff and looking historically, even recently how Omer played with another big who couldn't shoot in Chicago, it was a very good lineup. It had to be great defensively. If we do it, we'll have to be great defensively. I go in pretty confident that it'll work. To coaches point, if it doesn't work, we won't do it." - Morey
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Appeared to be referring to who'd be guarding the opposing 4. Meh. We'll see, I guess. I don't think Dwight is all that awesome defending 4s myself and I'd rather have Dwight in/near the paint than Omer. There's a reason SVG usually put Gortat on opposing 4s when going big.
horrible ESPN article full of factual errors, as usual. maybe they'll get the facts straight now that the rox are the hot team and they'll pay a little more attention to the team. "But he struggled in his first full season as a starting point guard, and the Rockets have since traded for James Harden and signed Dwight Howard."... um... harden came before the season started. not after lin struggled then rockets traded for harden. btw, 13 and 6 as a first year starter for 82 games is considered "struggling"? geez what should his numbers be if he isn't struggling? and omer wasn't in LA or aspen because he was playing in europe, no? this guy made it sound like omer wanted to distance himself from the team, or the rockets wanted to marginalize him. where do they find these hack writers??
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Media day recap, featuring full interviews w/<a href="https://twitter.com/DwightHoward">@DwightHoward</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/JHarden13">@JHarden13</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/JLin7">@JLin7</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/ChandlerParsons">@ChandlerParsons</a> & <a href="https://twitter.com/dmorey">@dmorey</a>: <a href="http://t.co/YzEmbUubDz">http://t.co/YzEmbUubDz</a></p>— Houston Rockets (@HoustonRockets) <a href="https://twitter.com/HoustonRockets/statuses/383709769929728000">September 27, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
:spoiler alert: moses dies without getting to see the promise land. Is dwight saying we're trading moses for lebron? signed, over dramatic guy that blows things out of proportion. 32 days should go by fast. can't wait for tipoff!
So we are going run twin towers. It has been confirmed now everyone can stop saying that its not going to happen or we won't or that morey doesnt think we should. As for Asik and 'not happy' and requesting a trade I am sure that the agents are talking to GM all the time. I do not see it being anything other than normal for an agent to call morey and say for the sake of his client that he may want to be traded if he is going to sit. By the sounds of it asik is going to play and they are going to try to run asik 1st unit AND 2nd unit. So sounds to me like Asik is a pretty damn important piece to us going forward while we do have him. Asik said it himself he is here to play. Thats asiks job. play. People need to stop creating drama or insinuating drama about asik. Anyone that tries to stir drama like that is actually pretty petty and kinda ridiculous. This is not a high school rumor or tmz. Shame what gets passed off as fact. I thought Feigan was better than that.
Don't know if anyone else caught it (because the audio was so low) in the opening interview with McHale and Morey. Morey: Right now now we're not a 'complete' team, but come mid-April we expect to be GREAT. More changes on the horizon?
No, it's been confirmed that they will TRY to run twin towers. It remains to be seen if it will work. That's what training camp and pre-season is for. No one knows, not the coaches, not the players, not the GM. It's going to have to be proven on the court. But they will definitely give it a solid try to make it work. They owe Asik and themselves that much. He was huge for the Rockets last season. It would be negligent not to explore twin towers to see if you can capitalize on having both Asik and Howard. But its certainly not confirmed that they will run twin towers if it fails in training camp and pre-season. Gotta play the games and see.
That's why wade made the Instagram, so that Harden wouldn't want to come play at miami and Lebron can stay... IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW!!!
Why can't it happen? Are people seriously trying to say that Greg Smith> Asik with what we ran last year? The only thing I would think of is to be great defensively, have that anchor for 48mins. But if the minutes are staggered thats still very achievable. Heaps of teams run similar frontcourts, why cant we?
I think he's referring to complete as in completely finding their groove. He knows they may have some hiccups early on, as they try to mesh together.
