What? You've got it backwards. There are fewer defensive guards straight out of college. For big men, defense is often the only role through which they can carve a role for themselves. Chuck Hayes, Taj Gibson, Kenneth Faried, Omer Asik, and Festus Ezeli all made impact defensively in their first seasons. Usually, if a big man is a poor defender his rookie season he never becomes a good one. Scola and Landry, for instance, never became positive defenders.
Montrezl Harrell reminds me of a young Zach Randolph attitude wise! That alone is what I like about him.
A young Zach Randolph was a total attitude disaster. Let's hope he's not anything like Zach when he was young.
Yea don't know about that one - Zach had major attitude issues, Montrezl just has an insane motor and looks dedicated to the game.
So impressive with his tough play. If Harrell is playing for 76ers, he will be great and well known in NBA already.
It seems every hidden gem will not get playing time under the Rockets. Those two should replace Brewer and Jones
How long did it taking our coaching staff to finally give DMo a shot? Oh wait THEY NEVER DID they were FORCED too because of Jones injury LMAO SMH
Look how many players we have sent to RVG, and then they show us things that we never see with Rockets. They come back to the Rockets and are back to standing around/ catch and shoot type players - not being involved much in creating offense but reacting solely off of Harden. I'm not blaming him I'm blaming the offensive system of the Rockets
You people can't remember anything correctly. DMo played significant minutes his first year. He started playing after Patrick Patterson and Marcus Morris were traded around the all-star break. DMo started 14 games that year. He played in twice as many games, and played twice as many minutes as TJones. DMo would have played more minutes, but he had a lot of games where he got in foul trouble, and didn't play all that well. DMo also got significant minutes his second year, averaging more than 15 minutes per game, and playing in 62 games. TJones did get more playing time that season, but he deserved it, as he was clearly playing better than DMo at that point. In DMo's third season the coaches once again gave him minutes, and this time he finally started playing like an NBA player. DMo was given an opportunity to play starting his very first season, he just didn't take advantage of that opportunity until his third season. As for Harrell. I think he looks like a good player. But, should Harrell be taking minutes away from Capela and DMo? TJones is already playing fewer minutes with DMo back, and I assume DMo will be getting most of the minutes when 100% healthy.
Hopefully he gets the call-up for the next few games due to our current bigman injury/illness/rehab situation.
We did. His name is Chris Finch. If you really want to improve ball movement, hire D-League quality defense.
The highlights look great but after further review, Trez only had 6 rebounds, 0 blocks, 1 steal in 39 D-League minutes. He needs to be taught better positioning and team defense.
