The Rafer trade is about locker room leadership too.

This might be your worst thread Dada.

 

i agree.
yao ming, it's your way now.

 

...added Morey. "He's a very good defender and rebounder on both ends. He is one of the top ten guys in the league in getting to the line and can kick it out to shooters. He knows his role and will know he needs to get the ball to Yao. He is really going to do what coach Adelman asks."

See what Morey said....

 

If Rafer Alston was preventing Yao from becoming the leader, you have bigger problems.

 

Leaders are natural born not made by others.

If you can lead you lead. If yao cannot be the leader simply because of rafer's presence and the team had to force rafer out in order to make the yao leader then yao definitely won't be a good leader!

 

Nonsense. They send Rafer because he tried to get in the way of some other player's attention to be this team's leader? The management need to signal to the public that Yao is the leader by doing that? I mean, c'mon!!!!!!

 

Morey saw a chance to get Cook while sidegrading his PG position, all the while promoting Brooks to a starting role.

Rockets goals:
Acquire a PF who can space the floor and add depth. - check
Promote Brooks to a starting role - check
Acquire Lowry who the Rockets have always liked - check
Get signifigantly younger at the point - check
Get more effecient scoring at the 1 - MAYBE

I'm really excited to see how this trade pans out.

 

Exactly. We need someone more aggressive to lead the team.

 

I have to say that Rafer the only one could be the leader since nobody can bring the toughness every night. I will more comfortable if Tracy still be able to play but now he is out of the season we can give up on going deep since AB does not have experience to handle the ball. Plus his size he will be eat up by other guards in the West.

 

If Rafer Alston was preventing Yao from being a leader, that doesn't speak very highly about Yao's leadership skills.