I'd prefer my tickets don't help pay the salary of a sex offender. The Rockets are a classy group right now and I'd like them to stay that way.
BLAZERS GM JOHN NASH STATEMENT REGARDING FORWARD RUBEN PATTERSON "Ruben Patterson has been placed on the inactive list and sent home to Portland for the rest of this road trip for his behavior both on and off the court. We will not tolerate this type of behavior from any player. We will continue to demand a higher level of professionalism and personal responsibility from all of our players or we will continue to take appropriate action."
lol ...good one. Sign ruben patterson. We need havoc on defense that will cause the opponents to work and could transition into fastbreak points. We losing so he could help. I dont wanna be a squeaky "clean" loser. I would like to be like the "Bad boy" pistons.
http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/5113808 Patterson up to his old tricks in Portland Story Tools: Print Email XML Charley Rosen / Special to FOXSports.com Starting with his rookie season with the Lakers back in 1998-99, Ruben Patterson has always had trouble dealing with boundaries. Standard procedure is that during practice scrimmages players are advised to perform at about seventy-five percent of their game-time levels. Anything more strenuous increases the chances of serious injuries, bad blood between the competitors, and unnecessary exhaustion. At the time, Kobe Bryant was a third-year player and, at age 21, already a certified All-Star. Yet Patterson looked forward to practice scrimmages as a chance to outplay Bryant and prove to the coaches (Del Harris, and then Kurt Rambis) that he should be getting all of Kobe's playing time. That's why Patterson defended Kobe with an inappropriate ferocity that destroyed the proper tone of the practice sessions. And that's why one of Phil Jackson's first official acts when he assumed command of the Lakers the following season was to unceremoniously cut Patterson. Six years later, Patterson still hasn't learned his lesson. Limitations are for others. Patterson wants to start, play 40-plus minutes every night, shoot whenever the spirit moves him, while expecting his coach-of-the-moment, Nate McMillian, to passively accept his disrespectful and foul-mouthed expressions of dissatisfactions. In Patterson's Ptolemaic view of the universe, he is the sun around which all other entities revolve. The Blazers have no other sensible choice but to trade Patterson. But to whom? Are there any teams out there willing to bring in a guy like Patterson, who will always play hard, and always disrupt whatever sense of harmony any team has previously achieved. Perhaps the pitiful Hawks, or the clawless Raptors. But, no, the buzz out of New York is that Zeke the Clueless and Larry "Don't blame me" Brown are eager to deal for, and embrace, Patterson. Will wonders never cease? ----------------------------------------------------------------- He's a head case, I'll pass
Ok, After tonight it is clear we need someone with fire and skills.... RUEBAN !! Paging RUEBAN PATTERSON !! DD
Rapin' Ruben is the answer. If the question is, what cancer with a big contract do the rockets need to strike fear in the hearts of babysitters. He is a warrior though. If the rockets ever played a wnba team i'm sure he'd really rough the chicks up.
Yeah, the chicks like Yao, and Tmac, and Juwan & Stromile....all those chicks that are playing for the Rockets.
Would he want to come to the Rockets though? Given his history of antagonizing/not getting along with coaches, why would he want to deal with someone with Van Gundy's reputation?
He's not my first choice but I'd rather have him than Spree. I'm ready to bring in Q. Woods and Rodney White for workouts while we're at it.
You know, I've been opposed to bringing in Sprewell, Qyntel Woods and Patterson in the past, because I feel they're low character guys. However, the way this season is going, and particularly after that whoopin' last night, if you tell me Saddam Hussein could be a difference maker on our roster then I say bring him in!
For the last time, - portland would have gladly dumped that problem child and his ill conceived contract on any taker years ago - but the guy is uranium. Not only is he complete jackass and generally a bad guy with numerous on and off court incidents - he's not that good and he makes a lot 6m, with a player option for next year, that he would be an idiot not to excercise. forget about it, lock the thread, he's worthless.
