Start Kenneth Faried at the 4

I really hope we re-sign him.

 

It's a very bad matchup no doubt. I wonder if House can muscle up and slow him down. DM/TF should complete a deal with him quickly. He is not a starter by any means, but he is the best option available.

 

Wait austin didnt pan out?

 

PER? Really.

Eric Gordon PER is 11.

That stat doesn’t tell the whole story.

He’s a solid rotation piece.

As a 4th guard you can do a lot worse.

I like shumpart but he’s not about to start shooting the 3 ball any better than rivers and his PER is 9.75 for the season.

So he’s below replacement level also.

 

Shumpert isn't great but is still a marginal upgrade over Rivers because of his defense and experience.

In case you haven't been paying attention, Gordon has been mostly terrible for the season so yeah, PER is a pretty reliable stat especially from an offensive perspective.

 

His 40%+ 3p rate is not sustainable. Including tonight’s game, he is a career 8/36 from downtown. In fact, he made a quarter of his career makes in tonight’s game alone. Like Ego he will eventually go back to his mean.

 

We need both...or we need one of House/Shump but we definitely need Rivers because he's a better point than Gordon and can spell Harden and CP3.

He's going to get his hot and cold spells too and he's fiery as well. All these guys we picked up...Manimal, Rivers, Shump, are dogs who fight for every possession.

I don't know if we are going all the way but I can tell you no team is looking at the Rockets and wanting to play them in the first round or second. We are going to be an extremely hard out.

 

If Durant and boogie leaves in July, GS total payroll is 108 million with Thompson at 30 million. They can sign Kenny faried at 9 million.

 

Yeah he really sucked this game vs warriors. We almost lost because of him.

 

That 3ball is deadly lmao.

If he can seriously start hitting 3's consistently then we've hit a jackpot.

You can argue he's not a good defender, and that can be valid, but if he can seriously stretch the floor well enough to play full-time PF minutes then his impact for the team would be HUGE for ONE single reason...

Rebounding. Capela + Faried on the boards is a great luxury, we can comfortably switch again having one big in the paint to rebound at all times, add on that both are lob threats, if Faried is hitting 3's, it's a really nice situational combo.

 

Shump should help with this too

 

I also like and vote for starting Faried at the 4, moving Tucker to the 3, and bringing Gordon off the bench. We may have stumbled onto something. We were just too small the way it was. I cannot remember the last time Houston had three players with double digit rebounds. Looking forward to seeing how well it works when Harden returns to the starting lineup.

 

Before last night he had 6 career makes with 3 of them as a Rocket. At this point, over half of his career makes have come in his 14 games as a Rockets.

 

We likely will only offer minimum which he will turn down for MLE somewhere else.

 

These are Faried's per 100 possession numbers. His numbers are incredibly consistent across his entire career. How I interpret that is that he plays hard all the time and never takes games off. He doesn't have another level. However if he can start hitting 3's at a decent clip (34 percent or higher), we have found our long term solution at the 4. Let's hope we can keep him with the MLE next season.

Season	Age	Tm	Lg	Pos	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS	ORtg	DRtg
2011-12	22	DEN	NBA	PF	46	39	1037	8.9	15.2	.586	0.0	0.0	8.9	15.2	.586	5.4	8.1	.665	7.0	10.3	17.3	1.8	1.7	2.3	2.7	5.7	23.1	123	103
2012-13	23	DEN	NBA	PF	80	80	2248	8.5	15.5	.552	0.0	0.0	8.5	15.5	.552	3.7	6.0	.613	5.8	10.6	16.5	1.7	1.8	1.9	2.5	5.3	20.7	116	102
2013-14	24	DEN	NBA	PF	80	77	2178	10.0	18.4	.545	0.0	0.1	.000	10.0	18.4	.547	4.5	7.0	.650	5.3	10.0	15.4	2.2	1.6	1.6	3.0	4.3	24.6	113	106
2014-15	25	DEN	NBA	PF	75	71	2086	8.9	17.6	.507	0.0	0.2	.125	8.9	17.4	.511	4.8	6.9	.691	5.8	10.2	16.0	2.1	1.5	1.4	2.8	5.1	22.6	111	106
2015-16	26	DEN	NBA	PF	67	64	1694	10.3	18.5	.558	0.0	0.1	.500	10.3	18.5	.558	4.0	6.6	.613	7.0	10.2	17.2	2.3	0.9	1.8	2.7	5.0	24.7	116	107
2016-17	27	DEN	NBA	PF	61	34	1296	8.6	15.7	.548	0.0	0.2	.000	8.6	15.4	.556	4.9	7.1	.693	6.9	10.5	17.4	2.1	1.6	1.5	2.2	4.7	22.1	123	110
2017-18	28	DEN	NBA	PF	32	7	461	8.2	15.9	.514	0.0	0.1	.000	8.2	15.8	.517	3.9	5.5	.706	7.3	9.1	16.5	1.9	1.3	1.4	2.5	5.5	20.2	116	110
2018-19	29	TOT	NBA	C	26	12	531	10.7	17.7	.606	0.6	1.5	.375	10.2	16.3	.627	4.1	6.8	.608	6.5	10.3	16.8	1.7	1.1	1.6	2.1	5.4	26.2	127	110
2018-19	29	BRK	NBA	C	12	0	118	10.1	17.0	.595	0.4	2.0	.200	9.7	15.0	.649	4.1	6.5	.625	6.1	11.8	17.9	0.8	0.8	1.6	2.4	3.2	24.8	120	108
2018-19	29	HOU	NBA	C	14	12	413	10.9	17.9	.609	0.6	1.3	.455	10.3	16.6	.621	4.2	6.9	.603	6.6	9.9	16.5	1.9	1.2	1.5	2.0	6.1	26.6	129	111

 

It’s nice to have Faried, but he’s an abysmal perimeter defender.

 

i have really noticed this. i think there's a misconception that he's a good defender, when in reality he's not. He rebounds, he might block a shot a game, he's got a high motor; always going for the ball. But as a defender it really feels like he'way behind in his development. I'm wondering if that's just the way he's been coached or what, but he's way to athletic to be a sub-par defender. Wonder if some more time with Jeff BizD will help that.

 

I don't think it's a misconception, it's very well known. He just has terrible defensive instincts, and isn't terribly smart either.

Sometimes high engine guys like him react too much, and for NBA guards that's easy to exploit.