If you had a choice of these two squads: 1) The Rockets team that showed up for the mavs series last year 2) This year's team in a couple of months with sura back from surgery, same with yao, and some of the other guys together playing .. basically this team in the beginning of March What would yo utake to the playoffs?
For sure this years team with everyone healthy. We did not have a pass first PG last series that was healthy, Sura was not 100%, and did not have a true PF. This year we do with JW and Swift and at PG we have Alston. Also the addition of Head and Anderson makes the backcourt somewhat younger and more athletic which our team lacked. Last years lineup: Yao/Deke Bowen Tmac Wesley/Barry Sura/James Possible lineup for playoffs this year(if we make it): Yao/Deke JHO/Swift Tmac/Anderson/Bowen Wesley/Head/Barry Alston/Mooch/Sura(if he comes back) If everyone healthy you can easily see that this year Rockets have more better options than they did during playoffs last year.
well if garnett was healthy, this would be a no-brainer, but garnett was out when we played dallas :\
Remember, last year's team took the Mavs to seven games, pretty impressive. And last year's team MADE the playoffs. I still think we would be better with James than Alston. But, we really haven't seen this years team, together. In parts, not impressive.
This years Rocket team is on hurt and not playing. Lets get the people back and then we will see a better team than last year's playoff team.
There is no way to answer that.....especially since it looks like this years team will probably not make the playoffs. DD
