Ironically I think that Orlando is the perfect other place for Rafer to go to - a defense first coach like the one he thrived under (JVG, meet SVG), no pressure as a shooter (which seemed to be when he shot best), and not as many great PG to deal with in playoffs (Rondo, Mo Williams, AI, Bibby vs. Deron, CP3, Parker, Billups). I didn't hate him, but he made me cringe sometimes... I hope this works out for the Rockets the way Morey thinks it will...
yea and he'll turn the ball over much since he aint even a real pg......... the same people who love this trade are gonna come back a month from now saying "look, nobody thought we'd suck this much without rafer"
come back to me in a month........without yao with alston we had a winning record.........without tmac but with alston we had a winning record so without alston, we will have a losing record, put it in the bank
The only thing that really worries me about losing Rafer is ... I keep thinking of the Utah series last year and how we were so horrible in the games he was out. Hopefully AB and Lowry can handle the playoff pressure...
Good Thread If you Rafer haters are sick of Rafer's horrible 3s ......................... wait til you guys see Lowry's 25% career 3 point shooting
Thats not true Lowry is Chuck around the 3 point line, so that we won't have the spacing that we had with Rafer
Rafer? He sucks. Lowry's shooting may be bad but he's just 22; and can do a lot of things Rafer never could.
It's been almost 3 hrs since I found out that we got rid of Rafer and I'm still happy. Thanks for asking.
I'm happy. You pretend as if Rafer is going to take us to the promised land. Face it guys, this season we'll probably not go very far in the playoffs and once again we'll have the same team next year hoping for an injury free season. It's time to get a different mentality and start looking towards the future. At least now, we'll know what we have in Brooks; we also get another potentially good point guard for cheap. I don't understand why people don't like this trade. The Rockets are still a solid team and Brooks growth will be fantastic to this team. The team had gone as far is it could go with Rafer as PG and it was time to shake things up. This trade is great and I could only wish Rafer the best. He always was professional during his time here and I'm glad we gave him a home in a contending team with the opportunity to start for the time being (plus reunite with SVG).
http://www.nba.com/playerfile/kyle_lowry/career_stats.html lowry... 25% 3pt shooter 3.6/1.5 Assist/TO
this is my first post and definitely a alson hater, so yea im glad that alston is gone! but seriously though houston got robbed, brian cook and two random bums. the only way this trade could be good is if kyle lowry reaches the promised potential that he never got to reach in Memphis because the lack of minutes. the real reason though i wanted alston gone is so that brooooooks! could develope but now they got kyle lowry ? i hope that brooks plays way more minutes than before and hopefully starts over lowry. broooooooooooks!
