No doubt CD did his best in last years draft by bringing in Shane. But now look back, and had Portland not spoiled our trade with Minnesota, we would have Roy and Swift instead of Battier and Head. With Battier and Head, we have a better defender who can guard both athletic 2s and physical 3s, and a lot more 3 pt shooting (in reg season at least). On the other hand, our defense would suffer a little bit with Roy at 2 and Tmac at 3, especially guarding physical 3s, as well as outside shooting without Shane and Luther. But Roy can create his own shot, which no other perimeter player outside Tmac on this team can do right now. Right now, too many offensive possesions involves Tmac, which is a lot of pressure for him. Roy could defenitely relieve some of the pressure offensively. Which situation would you prefer?
lets play the IF game: if some how that worked out for the rockets and we had Roy. would JVG have played him over Rafer?
Roy Roy Roy. Gundy cost us Roy. Battier = overrated. Great for regular season. Mediocre at best for playoffs.
That's the problem. The Battier trade would have been alot better if he came in as our 5th or 6th best player. As it stands he is our 3rd best and none of our core rotation players look to improve significantly this off season. They are all pretty much at their skill caps with the possible exception of Yao. Alot of our personel changes have been questionable at best over the last 10 years. I mean out of the people we have drafted in the last 10 years only Yao (who was a first pick of the draft that fell in our laps), Head, and Hayes are contributers. Either we are consistently picking the wrong players or consistently doing a poor job of developing them.
I am pretty sure we did not draft Hayes. He was a free agent pick up if i remember correctly. Anyway though, I think Battier was brought in and was a great addition. Everyone thinks we gave up too much but I still feel adding Swift in was more for our advantage of dumping him from the books then giving Memphis more value. I mean honestly does anyone think Memphis is happy to have him signed for three more years. As for developing players, I dont think the Rox have been given enough credit for helping Yao turn into the player he has, first pick or not. He was not like other first picks due to language barrier and obviously the talent he had played against.
Roy will rot in the bench, because he is soft and not a good defender. JVG would have given him no more than 5 minutes a game, were he unfortunately ended in Rockets.
