[Various Sports Websites] Grading the Rocket's Draft

hmm it seems like no one on these website learned of the carl landry acquisition which would make the draft a bit more acceptable imo seeing how he is a front court type banger.

oh well locker room material for the rooks to prove everyone wrong

 

We have a temporary solution: James Singleton was just released by the Clippers, and so was Daniel Ewing. Singleton is now basically free for us considering before it was rumored to cost us JL3. I hope we bring in Ewing for a shot on our team. He is a local guy and might play his way onto the team.

 

brooks' height has been anywhere from 5'9 to 6'1. nice job, media.

 

these idiots act as if the draft was our only avenue to address our frontcourt and we're now going into next season with chuck hayes as the only power forward and 5 point guards on the roster.

it's similar to the reasoning that many here had against the mcgrady trade claiming we would be left without a backup center with cato gone. lol.

 

tru dat.

 

Yeah, these idiots don't know anything about Basketball.

Wait until the National Papers weigh in on the ROX draft performance.... we will now be compared to the likes of Atlanta, Boston and the old Clippers organization when it comes to draft choices!!!!

The one's who didn't give us a D or an F are simply being kind.

 

ESPN: Ford

Houston Rockets Grade: D+
Round 1: Aaron Brooks (26)

Round 2: Carl Landry (31), Brad Newley (54)

Analysis: New Houston GM Daryl Morey might be the resident Rocket scientist, but I don't get this draft.

Brooks is an undersized point guard who's really more of a 2-guard in the Earl Boykins mode.

Landry is tough and physical, which fits a need in Houston, but I don't think he's as good as Glen Davis, who was available.

Newley has talent, but does he really want to be a role player for the Rockets? If not, he can just stay in Australia and be a star.

Morey is smart, and he might make me look very stupid in a few years for saying this, but I think the Rockets' draft was one of the worst of the night.
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It was the lowest grade he gave. But the end sounds a little optimistic... haha

 

if Brad could play in the NBA as a role player - im willing to bet he'd take it. Problem is he wont even achieve role player status.

if someone can tell me how to post pics (or do i need to be upgraded to member to do this?) I will post a pic of me and Newley taken last year.

 

maybe morey see something we all don't


From the traing camp vids it look like big baby has slow feet ,aybe they noticed and went with somebody with quicker feet.Maybe the 2nrd round big we picked up is a chuck hayes, but with more speed and is more athletic then hayes?


Maybe brooks has the foot quickness to stay in front of nash?

I'm pretty sure he is a better scorer then rafer just by watching the vids.

we do need more players who can create thier own offense and who are quick enough to cut and get inthe lane right?

I'm pretty sure we will not go in the season with just chuck and novack at the for alone...maybe our gm is smarter then we think....for some reason I like the brooks guy.

 

Upload the pic to a hosting site, like photobucket. Then get the url of the picture and paste it in your message between [ img ] and [ /img ] with the spaces removed.

 

cheers- i'll have a crack at posting it next week as I just realised i dont have the pic here at home.

 

I'm so tired of all the media outlets grading drafts THE DAY AFTER the draft...How meaningless is that?

All you can really grade is....Did the team get the best value for their pick according to player rankings, and did they fill a need? That's it.

These people have NO clue how these players are going to develop or perform at the next level and what value or impact they may have. It's all about NBA production and there is no proven formula for that before a guy actually steps on the floor and plays in the league.

So in the end, I could care less what these idiots have to say....and you should too.

 

I agree with the media, our draft makes no sense. Especially, when you consider who was left on the board. The Rockets got smaller, crazy. And the rationalizations are worse than the decisions.

 

Its not just who we drafted, its how we negotiated, although from a team building standpoint, if they don't expect a rookie to help this coming year, I can't believe we didn't grab Splitter, who's a far better player than Brooks.

Sure, we did trade a future 2nd for SEA's pick, which was good, but then we took Landry, who was projected to go a lot lower. If Morey thought Landry was better than McRoberts, Fazekas, Davis, Fasenko, Williams, Davidson, Gasol or Byers, then he could have traded down and grabbed 2 picks, from Portland or Golden State, and gotten a couple players, instead of one.

Why we didn't buy PHO's pick in the first place, I don't know. That should have been insurance, in case the MIA pick didn't come through, and between MIA, PHO or our pick, we could have gotten Fernandez, and shipped him off to IND for Diogu. But, when things didn't go as planned, bam, we were screwed.

We did this last year, where Portland jumped ahead of us and grabbed Roy. Last year, we should never have left that to chance, when we had a deal with Atlanta. We didn't want to let go of Head. Imagine Roy on our team right now, instead of Battier and Head. Way better.

Or we could have made the trade with LA of Head for Cook, swapped picks, and grabbed Crittendon, Smith, Fernandez, Almond, Splitter, whomever. We could have walked out of this with Cook and Crittendon (LA pick for Luther), Diogu (PHO pick trading Fernadez to IND), Splitter (our pick), and Landry (although I'd have rather taken McRoberts, Davis, Fazekas, Taureen Green, or Sun Yue). In 4 years, what we'll have to look at: Are Head, Brooks and Landry better than Cook, Crittendon, Diogu, Splitter and Landry. I don't think it's even close. As we go into trading season, having those 5 to trade with would have really helped us pull off that starting PF.

But, this seems to happen often with HOU and the draft. The one year I thought maybe we pulled of a good one was Griffin. lol ... oh well. We don't miss when we get #1's with Sampson, Dream and Yao. But, the rest of the time, geez. We suck at drafting.

The only thing that makes up for it, is we get lucky on various trades, where people force their way here, as in Francis and TMac. Hopefully, Morey can trade better than he drafts. We sure need a PF, PG and depth.

 

Anybody that thinks the Rockets would spend $3 million for a draft pick is insane.

 

Not surprising. Not surprising at all.

 

Yeah, most of the national media dont know the team. So they see a hole and then immediately feel it HAS to, no matter what, be filled in the draft. Even if said player is a stiff. Hey, it looks good on "paper" right? Take the big guy (even if he is too slow and would be a terrible partner to Yao).

Morey in his mind took the BPA. Because he knew that the aggregate result of the BPA PLUS an offseason trade/FA MLE would be the best result.

I dont see what is so hard to visualize this concept.

 

Well, it's not too bad considering this board was crucifying Morey about 10 seconds after the Brooks pick was announced.

Like it or not, the "mock draft"/"prospect ranking" is really the only thing fans/media has to base their opinions on at this point. In that regards, the Rockets did badly. Obviously, it means crap. I mean, the Clippers were applauded for drafting Olawakandi over I believe Mike Bibby with the first pick....

 

What do you expect from these reporters? They're just covering their a--es from their own mock drafts.

The Rox would have gotten an 'A' from these same writers if they drafted Splitter just because he was higher on their mocks, but the guy will make zero impact in the NBA IMO. Would you rather have a better team, or a better grade from armchair GMs?

Besides, any review that mentions the word 'need' when you're picking #26, or even #1 for that matter (which is why the Blazers traded Randolph), isn't worth reading IMO. Smart teams draft the best available, period.