Josh Smith, Jason Terry and Corey Brewer want to return to Rockets

We will not move forward if D12 and JSmoove the AAU free throw crew don't improve by the free throw percentages to the high 60% low 70% range. Also, D12 must develop a 10 to 15 foot jump shot... Put the weights down son and get a jumper.

 

Lol at his age? A ten year veteran doesnt develop new skills out of thin air..

 

They're not going to improve their free throw percentages. These guys are 30 years old. They are what they are. Expecting improvement from somebody over 30 is just silly.

 

They are both 29.

But otherwise i agree, ridiculous to expect a new skill to suddenly appear.

 

Dwight Howard will never have a jumpshot, or shot 65% from the free throw line. If he was capable of it, it would have happened by now. If you think it's just a matter of more practice, you're just wrong.

 

Just trade Jones in a package for a point guard and sign Brandon Bass to play PF. Bass hits 80% of his free throws, is a consistent player, rotates properly, hits a high percentage of his mid range shots and plays hard.... If you can keep DMO without giving him up in a trade, let him play 20 minutes at the 4 backing up Bass and split the back up minutes with Capela.

That gives you a very solid front court... At that point Josh Smith can go elsewhere if he wants.

 

Plus, Bass and Howard played well next to each other in Orlando (albeit, that was several years ago). But you have to think that their skill sets would still complement each other well.

 

I like Brandon Bass. Was kind of surprised nobody traded for him.

 

They need to gain enough experience to level up.

 

Not saying it will happen, but didn't Charles Oakley and Karl Malone both become damn near automatic from mid-range in their thirties?

It's hard to change habits after 30 sure, but I would think any player can improve at any age if they truly work at it.

 

No to Brandon Bass. Yes to Jonas Jerebko.

 

Dwight Howard needs to stop posting up, that's basically all he needs to do. It's ok if he goes for the deep post position runs that he can do off screens, but the stand out from the rim and try to post up needs to disappear entirely, we'd be better off with Harden just chucking the ball over his head (and i wish that was an exaggeration)

But really I'd be ok with a front court rotation of Dwight, Capela, Dmo, Smith, short of an all star, that allows us to look at other situations of need.

Dwight isn't coordinated enough to develop a jumper, he's an amazing athlete, but his hand eye coordination seems to not extend much further than catch ball, dunk ball. He tried to develop one back in Orlando, but he just doesn't have it in him.

 

Lack of guard depth really hurt this team, not the play of these 3 in the playoffs. Although, I did take note to how many open 3s Terry was missing, says tired, old legs to me. If McDaniels can develop this summer to take some minutes away from Harden, that would be ideal. Still never would have traded Canaan for him, but that's a whole nother deal... We should be looking for 2 things first before re-signing these guys, someone who can create their own shot at the back up 2 (think Courtney Lee, Vince Carter, Crawford, JR Smith type) and a young athlete at the 1 (maybe in the draft?, does Nick Johnson ever develop?).

 

Again, this may be true but he has shown an ability to hit an open three on many occasions.

If he practiced it, he could do it. I don't mean three pointers obviously, but a mid range J surely. Right now it's about confidence. He does not want to take that shot for whatever reason. Fear of ridicule? Who knows.

These shots are going down nicely and his form isn't horrible. Interestingly it looks more comfortable shooting these because there's less time to think. Just let it fly.

Not advocating Dwight taking threes, just saying he has some range in him that should be explored more than it has been.


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And so on...actually not many more :grin:

 

can rockets afford them?

 

Gentlemen, disagree, Chris Webber talked about his marked improvement in free throw shooting by having a trainer with him the entire summer to shoot and work on free throws. So I disagree, with the idea of being unable to improve. Next, Dream added to his game every year and that is what players who are serious about winning do every year.

Your age has nothing to do with being able to improve, it's about your committment to excellence and winning.

If the Rockets want to win then those 2 (D12 and Jsmoove) must be to contribue late in the 4th quarter (last 5 minutes). If not, then we should trade them for what we can get.

 

kinda late in your career to decide to just start shooting 20-30% better from the line. Shaq never was, never will be a good free throw shooter, dwight is the same way. Josh has been up and down throughout his career, but dwight will not surpass 55-60% from the line.

 

You are talking about legends here. Is dwight the same as the Dream???

 

He's put years of practice into his post moves and he's still bad at them, what makes you think his shooting will follow a different path.

Dwight doesn't seem to be able to maintain muscle repetition and replication (that is, he can't maintain his form), no amount of practice will change that, and no people do not have an infinite improvement potential just through practice, humans don't work that way.

 

We can all say Dwight is who he is, but what kind of mentality is that? Dwight is not that old!!! He can still work on his game. He should've realised that with the injuries that he needs to expand his game. He simply hasn't. Still no midrange jumpshot or even something close to a reliable post up game. This guy is purely working on mustle and athleticism.