I guess 20 shots are a lot of shots? I mean don't u want him taking 20. I guess 20 is too much,5asst is nothing and 6rebs from the wing sucks too.
This is where Rafter haters go way overboard. Instead of focusing on what Rafer isn't, you should focus on what he is. Rafer Alston is a role player at the point guard position. No, he's not Jason Kidd, Chauncey Billups, or Steve Nash. And no realistic fan expects him to be. But what he has brought the Rockets has been all we could ask of him. He gotten the ball to Yao Ming in the post better than any other player that's been on this team other than McGrady, and Strickland (for the few games and few minutes he actually played). And he did it for 82 games last season, Alston often plays the most minutes of anyone of this team. And when he's off the court, the team's +/- usually goes down, and performance suffers. When he's not playing - the team loses. And for all the crap Alston takes about his poor 3-point shooting. He made some big shots in the playoffs. A point guard shouldn't be measured solely just by his statistics. That's why I believe Billups is a better point guard than Nash, even though Nash has higher assist numbers and is flashier. What do you expect from Alston anyways? Most Alston haters are unreasonable in their expectations of him. He's the 3rd most crucial player to the Rockets behind Yao & McGrady.
Rafer is dissing Starbury... There is a big poster of different knick players and their nicknames at the garden, and starbury is "The Floor General".
You are making things up based on what you saw during JVG era and early this season when Adelman was still tentative in pushing his motion offense. Have you ever seen Tmac play while with Orlando?
Pretty clear point really. 47% good. 37% bad. It's funny, but Rafer Alston over the last 7 games is proving how terrible Rafer Alston was over the previous 180. And if we're talking about the past, the part you can't seem to recognize had problems, I was focusing on what Rafer was: a point guard who was relegated to being a shooter, and shot quite often at a miserable clip. Ask anyone close to the team -- it was a running joke last season (and most of this season). Not laughing at Rafer, but with him. His shooting was really bad, and he knew it. Think about it: The Rockets added three point guards in the offseason, spending $10+ million a year easy to do it. They shopped Rafer hard and could not make a deal -- that's just a fact. Rick Adelman has already said on record he expected Steve Francis to be his starter before the season. Is this adding up yet? I mean the Rockets may have been appreciative of some of the things he did, but I certainly don't think the they looked at Rafer Alston as "nothing less than a mark of stability for an otherwise unstable Rockets team". If you want to say T-Mac or Jeff Van Gundy were the wrong fits, then perhaps things will shake out differently for Rafer. It's a new coach, new system and new players (and T-Mac is out). However, when you consider the fixed variables last season -- the things no one expected to be changed (Yao, T-Mac's style/playmaking ability and JVG's halfcourt system) -- I don't see how anyone can't see at this point how woefully inadequate of a fit Rafer Alston was. Which shots are you talking about? Rafer was overall terrible shooting the ball in the playoffs. 33.8% from the floor and 32% from three. In Game 7 he was 3-11 and 2-8 from long range.
