So if I called you an unintelligent moron that should never post again, my claim may be just as unfounded as your's????
You don't see??? Yes, they are two different teams. Toronto will continue to struggle as long as they don't defend, meanwhile here in Houston we are Struggling to score, you know, "inept on offense" as Van Gundy says himself, and Mike James would be making those same jumpers our current players are missing, period.
Alston hasn't played long enough to make an evaluation on. The team was unfamilar with each other when he played in the beginning of the season, now he's been back for only a few games. I'd give him about 41 games as a Rocket to pass a judgement. To me until then the jury is still out.
Skip got 24 11 5 tonight, he had 3 solid games after he came back lately. He's far better at PG than that is M. James and a good scorer too. If JVG let him perform more as a playmaker while T-Mac out, he's gonna suprise those who bash him on this board. I have watched more 100 games of his, and I do think he's just lack of opportunities. He has led the team tonight, and they cut the deficits to 2 after T-Mac's injury. We still have the hope. Calm down pls.
http://www.torontosun.com/Sports/Basketball/2006/01/26/1412483-sun.html James shoots from the lip By STEVE BUFFERY, TORONTO SUN Thursday, January 26, 2006 Mike James decided to shoot the messenger yesterday after comments he made following Toronto's 122-104 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday night blew up in his face. James was critical of his coach Sam Mitchell for supposedly not doing enough to stop the Kobe Bryant juggernaut at the Staples Center, after Bryant buried the Raptors for a historic 81 points. "You can't point fingers at anyone, but at the end of the day, when a person's that hot, you can't allow somebody to be on a deserted island," James said in an interview on Sirius Satellite Radio's Full Court Press. "And we kept our players on an island the whole night trying to play him one-on-one. "I felt like we should have been double-teaming," James said. "Let Lamar (Odom), let Smush (Parker), let anybody else get 30, but he can't score another basket. And I just think there really wasn't a scheme." "You got to do something to let him know it ain't going to be this easy," James added. "I think some of the guys found themselves watching and I think even the coaching staff almost got mesmerized by it because after a while it just became a fiasco. It became like a little sideshow and that was the most frustrating thing about it." James said last night prior to the Raptors' game against the Chicago Bulls that he did not intend to single out the coaching staff for criticism. "The bottom line is this: The media loves to blow things out of proportion and they love to create drama and if they feel like it's going to be a drama issue, they're going to blow it up," James said. "It wasn't as big and it wasn't as serious as it (came out)," he said. "I was basically saying, we just didn't change our strategy from the first half to the second half. I wasn't attacking no one. It's not attacking no one's status, because at the end of the day, the Toronto Raptors lost the game. And it's not about how many points Kobe had, it's about winning or losing." James said that he talked to Mitchell and insisted that there are no problems between them. "It's nothing," he said. "It's nothing to even talk about. The game is over with."
If this is intended to serve as supporting evidence or something to that effect you've certainly earned a chuckle from me....
Give the Raptors a small amount of credit: They fired Babcock today and I expect them to fired Mitchell sometime after they hire a new permanent GM. Can someone name a current NBA coach LESS likely to return as an NBA head coach in the future? I can't.
i dunno i think james is playing decent on a horrible team. 17 points a game on the raptors isn't anything to cry home to.
All other things being equal, I have no doubt the Rockets would have had a better record this year at this point with James and not Alston when Yao/Tracy were out. The team was crying out so badly for somebody who can make a shot with one or both of those guys out it wasn't funny. And James has shown that he can score points. He showed it last year, and is doing the same this year Now, you can say "bad fit" all you want - but having a better offense = winning more games. As far as him leaving in the offsseason - who cares? We got him for a song, and paid him a bargain basement salary. If he left big deal - what did we trade for him, Reece Gaines? That trade paid for itself in about 2 seconds.
We traded a more talented player for a less talented player. No matter how you slice it the Rockets got the short end of the deal. Alston is a backup PG at best while James has proven he's a starter. I like Alston and I recognize he brings some nice qualities to the team, but the fact remains that he can't shoot to save his life.
james would have helped the rockets this year so far ONLY because everyone is injured, you plug him into the starting lineup with our starters and i think he wont do as well as Alston I liek alston, he doesnt try to do too much and the man can dish the ball, as well as bring it up at least trying to run a fast break i liked the trade from day one, and after he has come back his numbers are by no mean horrible and compliments tmac well
its easy for mj to put up #'s on a crappy team...the overall picture when everyone is healthy, alston fits in better because he doesnt take shots away from yao and tmac....do you remember him in the playoffs last year trying to take over...?
