Tmac says he is going to get 22/8/7...his pts are down, but his team is better, but then again he has way too much talent and not many great guards..' I say he gets 26.3pts,7.2rebs,6.5assists,1.9stls,1.2blks in 39.5min of play he is capable of such defensive numbers he can block and steal
haha so funny..hahahahahahahaha...funny.. do you write your own material...cause that is from you right?
i actually think tmac will average a healthy amount of points considering he'll be taking up a lot of the scoring left by cat and steve. if steve and cat cat chuck up enuff shots to average 35 points between them, tmac can and will average at least 25 pts a game.
Here's my prediction: 24pts, 5 assists, 6boards, 1 block, 1.3 steals Here is my prediction about Hmmm...'s prediction: 24pts, 29 assists, 6 boards, 1 block, 1.3 steals
Interesting thread. I'd go with Tmacs own prediction. I wonder how many shots there are going to be? Considering the Rockets play a slow it down game, would you guess they will average 85 pts.? Maybe 90, with new firepower? What percentage shooting do you think the team will average ? 40%? 45%. If Yao and Tmac are getting the bulk of the shots and both shooting at a high percentage, we might get somewhere close to 45%, but probably we'll trend a little lower. I'll just go for .45 and y'all adjust it. So, 90 points divided by .45 = 200 shots, minus points off free throws, which I'll say average around 20. So that's 180 shots to go around. Chart it. percentage of total shots - Yao - 25% x 160 = 45 attempts Howard - 10% x 160 = 18 attempts JJ - 10% x 160 = 18 attempts Tmac - 30% x 180 = 54 attempts ? and the mysterians - 5% x 180 = 9 attempts bench brigade - 20% with 10% - Taylor x 180 = 18 attempts with 10% everyone else x 180 = 18 attempts Ok - the total shot attempts per player seem high. What am I missing?
t-mac can score 25 pts. per game without trying. no way his average drops below this, he's too damn good.
OK, So I was stupid about the 2 points. Someone else try this : 76 shots x 2.3 pts per shot = 174.80pts x .45 shooting 78.66 pts scored plus 10 points from freethrows without a shot attempt = 88.66 pts per game. --------------------------------- Yao - 30% of team shots x 76 total shots = 19 attempts, with .50 shooting plus free throws = 22 pts Howard - 10% of team shots x 76 total shots = 7.6 attempts with .45 shooting, plus free throws = 12 pts. JJ - 10% of team shots x 76 total shots = 7.6 attempts with .45 shooting, plus free throws, more for 3ptrs = 11 pts. Tmac - 35% of team shots x 76 total shots = 26.6 attempts with .45 shooting, plus free throws, 3ptrs = 25 pts. ? point guard - 5% of team shots x 76 total shots = 3.8 attempts with .45 shooting, plus free throws, 3ptrs = 6pts. bench brigade - 10% 10% of team shots x 76 total shots = 7.6 attempts with .45 shooting, plus free throws = 12 pts. total points 22+12+11+25+6+12 = 88 ================================= Somebody bail me out here, but that's what I'm getting right now.
I figure he won't go OVER these numbers... 26 points, 7 rebounds, 6 assists, 1.5 steals and blocks, 44% on fgs, 35% on 3 point fgs...
Here is Yao's number this season, Min: 32.8 FGM-A : 6.52-12.5 (52.2%) FTM-A : 4.40-5.44 (80.9%) OR-DR : 2.40-6.60 (9.00) I don't see him jump to 19 attempts from 12.5. I'll be happy if he play 35min, average 16 attempts per game, which is 30% increase. With his 5pt FT per game, he'll average 22 pts. I do see his rebound number goes up to 10+ since Steve & Cato left plenty of defensive rebounds behind. I don't know how these two will play out, but I hope both of them will just do what you predicted, no more than 10% attempts. JJ took 11.3 shots per game this season, which was 15% of the total offense, that's a bit too much for a role player. Tmac took 23.4 attempts last year, with 7.5 FT attempts, that's 27 actual shot attempts. I don't see him drop down below 20 attempts next season, it's more like 20 FGT + 8 FTA, that's about the same as he did with the Magic. The Rockets' success will be decided by how good Yao will be, not how much pts TMac will score. If Yao can average 22+pts, 11+rb, with dominating defense, the Rockets will go deep in the playoff. A team can only do as well as their big man in this league today.
Sane, how can you go on about how Journalist who claim T-mac will not improve the Rockets will eat their words, and then predict 23ppg at a 43% for the man? Using the umotivated, frustrated, speaking of retiring, deciding to not play the final games of the season for the team, 41% he had last year over the rest of his solid career FG percentage? There's no way, T-mac comes into this Rocket's line up, as motivated as he is, with Yao and have a FG% lower than 44.7. 24-26 PPG .450 FGP 6 rpg 5 apg 1.5 bpg 1.5spg
