Hypothetical: What If Greene is Really This Prolific?

verse · Jul 16, 2008

OMR:

yea. the review's helpful. some posts (not yours) are absolutely unreadable.

Layupdrill · Jul 16, 2008

SmoothOperator said:

I think you're onto something with this thread!

I'd like to add what if Steve Novak finally realizes his potential and puts up Larry Bird type numbers? Imagine those possibilities, especially once Aaron Brooks becomes the next Isiah Thomas. Now our needs at the 3 and PG position are stocked, and we can start exploring trades for an elite inside scorer.

HYPOTHETICALLY, let's say that the Spurs bite on a Luther Head, Steve Francis, and Bobby Jackson for Tim Duncan trade. I know it's a lot for us to give up, but we need all those players to make the salary cap work, and SA might require us to throw-in a second round pick as well.

With a line-up equivalent of Isiah Thomas, Tracy McGrady, Larry Bird, Tim Duncan, and Yao Ming, hypothetically, the Rockets win 75 games and lock-up the homecourt throughout the playoffs.

This opens up the ultimate hypothetical scenario. Cameron Diaz and Jessica Alba show-up at my place to watch the Rockets last game in route to a 16-0 playoff championship run. Their only condition is that we have a menage trois during halftime and that I don't get mad if they kiss after every free throw made.

I love hypotheticals...
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You just won this thread... thank you for that!

yobod · Jul 16, 2008

Matt78777 said:

Damn you guys are mean. Everyone dreams about their team doing the impossible. Let a guy dream. My best friend is a nets fan and we always used to joke that the best team would be a Nets/Rockets hybrid with Kidd, Carter, McGrady, Jefferson and Yao... that obviously wouldn't happen, but it was fun to think about.

As to the Greene hypothetical, I'm going to interpret it like this: Not that Greene will score 40 points a game, but maybe he's a legit 20 points per game guy in his rookie season like a Kevin Durant (who he's been compared to) or a young Rashard Lewis. With that in mind:

It obviously would be great for the Rockets, but it would pose some problems. Greene isn't quick enough to play the 2, and definitely isn't strong enough to play the 4, which means he would have to eat into Battier's minutes. Given his strength and rookie tendencies, he won't be that great of a defender, and definitely nowhere near Battier's level. So what do we do? Trade Battier? Let them platoon at the position? Try to play Greene at SG anyway? For my money, we would move Battier around, play him at the 2 or 4 depending on matchups, but start at the 3, with Greene coming off the bench as a scorer. We wouldn't trade T-Mac away or make any big deals apart from trading Bobby Jackson and Francis for a veteran to put us over the top. We go all in this year and next year, seeing if Greene's sped up development is enough to take us all the way. Depending on how we do, we retool in 2010 accordingly. Obviously, t-mac becomes expendable if Greene becomes a high volume scorer. Given that Greene will still be on his rookie contract, we could afford to sign a big free agent or medium sized ones without breaking the bank,

And that, my friends, is my hypothetical.
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The open mindedness I was looking for

ktvoss · Jul 16, 2008

Donte Greene will be like Marquis Daniels or Josh Howard...

I'm thinking Marquis Daniels if he gets lazy once he gets a couple of years in teh league but I do feel he will start off really good.

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