We are good enough in every phase of the game except one unknown

He's a very unselfish player with high BBIQ, I think he could be convinced to be a super role player on championship contending team. And should not cost as much as Lebron.

 

You have missed my entire point of my post.

 

The unknown is health, not paint defense. Paint defense is definitely something we know about.

 

There is nothing - no eye test, no statistic, no performance history, no team demand history, no playing-time history - that would suggest any remote possibility that Wright is an upgrade to Capela. To suggest otherwise erodes your credibility on everything you say, which is a shame because many of your points have value.

Surely you can see how your dogmatic insistence on never yielding and repeatedly exaggerating what are often legitimate points to either make a point or to affect some superior, mystic knowledge of the game works against having a thoughtful discussion?

 

I agree with your basic point but I am sick of seeing repeated uncontested drives with no contesting the path earlier due to poor transition defense, poor communication and recognition when switching. There are about 10 drives a game I find myself screaming at the tv just trading baskets to pass the time like an all star game. These are some of the plays it looks like Harden is the culprit but actually it begins earlier. I don't expect him to follow after a switch or pick up a foul after that guy is already going in for a dunk or layup. As much on offense that we focus on spacing and not clogging we need to do the opposite on D at times. That play where they gave Lou the 3 at the end of the 1st where he went into the backcourt is a good example of great D. I really think the lapses are mostly a matter of focus once we get leads and I easily think if we did it more consistently this is a top 5 D. We are built the right way. Every team scores at least 90, you just want to make it hard for them ALL THE TIME.

 

I get it but think of it this way. We don't have the personnel to stop someone effectively once they penetrate our defense and moving towards the basket. Best we can do is foul in those situations and it's either a score, fts, or both. That's the price you pay for switching.

The alternative is you keep Capela as a rim protector and don't switch but then you get burnt in perimeter play. The tickets defense is a lot more efficient today then it was last year. We don't have great defensive big men to cloG the paint.

Instead of points in the paint as a medic we should look at points in the paint plus free throws made.

 

That's a good point - that whole Lebron to Houston thing makes me a little nervous anyway. A player that age with that many miles on his body making that much money is very risky and I don't want this team to be gutted for replacement level players + LBJ/ CP/ Beard. I like that we have a deep team and are still hanging with the Warriors.

 

We are saying the same thing. The change I am talking about is making it harder on the perimeter to encourage more jump shots or at least delay the action. This screw up happens in transition or a bad switch/rotation.

 

The reality is he has proven something though. He has proven he has the potential for a high ceiling and can be a difference maker at C. That IS something. What he hasn't proven is consistency. So yeah, it is wait and see in that aspect.

 

Right an I am saying the Rockets already do that. They already push teams to make perimeter shots, that's the whole point of switching is to prevent the PnR. Transition D - it's not going to be our strength. You have better transition D by limiting turnovers which is what we have been doing.

 

You want to trade him for this guy, featured in today's Lowe column:

 

It's too late to trade for that inknown commodity.

 

Our biggest flaw is paint defense? It's clearly the love affair between MDA and iso Joe.

 

Can Thon maker make shots??

 

To say that you don't know whether he is an upgrade over Capela (your exact words) is semantically the same as suggesting that he might be.

I am saying that categorically there is no chance that he is an upgrade over Capela, and that an unwillingness to admit this erodes your credibility.

 

fwiw: Morey just retweeted this, and Point #2 by Wright of things the Rockets have is rim protection. Doesn't Morey read this board?



btw: my take is largely in agreement that Capela's rim protection is not great, but if that is our weakest link, we have no weaknesses.

 

True, that's like saying the Bulls' weakest link was that Rodman provided no scoring from the PF position.

 

Damn, Maker making Bargnani blush.
Sabonis, who went one pick later, is 100 times better than Maker anyways.