LOL regardless, that is creating a shot... even if it doesnt go in... Anyways, what happened to Mike Harris?! I LOVED this dude. Hustles, can shoot decent, and plays with heart. i wish we sign him again.
Mike Harris was the bomb diggity, I still remember that Charlotte game where he went buck wild. I miss him.
yeah i love to see him playing like BEAST, but there are too many mike-harris-type undersize pf in our team.
You didn't direct this at me but the answer is easy. Ariza cannot handle the ball. Part of the SG job is to help the PG handle the ball when the defense chooses to trap. If the Rockets had a SF who could help with ball handling duties then maybe they could get away with Ariza at the SG. Unfortunately, Battier is a poor ball handler even by SF standards.
so what you r saying is that ariza cant do no better at handling the ball then artest and battier. im sure he can do just the same or better than artest and battier. then if he can do that we can start him a sg.
i guess artest handles the ball real well then right. as long as if he is productive at the position he will be able to play that position.
Artest is a pretty good ball-handler, I don't know how you can't decipher from watching games that he's clearly better in that department than Ariza and Battier. Battier at least has the ability to make tough passes, but it's simply too tough to move the ball around in the halfcourt if you don't have at least 2 good handlers. The offense would stall massively with a starting combo of Ariza/Battier, which is why I see Battier being moved.
Artest was lacking in handles, but he often used his body to create the space he needed to move up the court. When he kept his body between the ball and his defender he was fine, the only times I've seen Ariza dribble is when he gets a steal. Battier never/rarely handled the ball on an open court also. The few times he puts the ball down is on a rare drive, and even with those he loses the ball half the time. An offense where only Brooks can penetrate will be frustrating to watch.
Um what? Ariza can handle the ball....he just isn't as good at handling the ball as shooting guards and point guards. How do I know that? Because he can dribble the ball the length of the court for a dunk whenever he gets a steal. I'm sorry if I'm sounding like Captain obvious, but some of the arguments here against playing Ariza and Battier together are getting ridiculous. You're making Ariza look like some kind of immobile tower who doesn't know how to dribble based on what? The fact that he doesn't dribble behind his back whenever he zips into the court? There's nothing that Artest couldn't do that Ariza couldn't. If Artest can play SG with Battier, then so can Ariza. Ariza is only 24 freakin' years old. Don't you think he will work on his handles this summer? He might not become Steve Nash overnight, but I'm pretty sure Ariza already has adequate ball handling skills for the position, and he can only get better at this point. I'm not even sure why people are clamoring for a creator or a ball-handler at the SG spot. If what you're worried about are breaking down defenses or creating spaces, you need knock-down shooters,good cutters and excellent passers more than another ball-handling person. For the record, the Suns once ran this lineup: Steve Nash Raja Bell Shawn Marion Amare Stoudemire Kurt Thomas I see only one ball handler in that lineup, and it still worked quite well didn't it?
Anyone can dribble in transition. I think we all remember Yao crossing up SAR at halfcourt and throwing down a jam, but it's much different when someone is sticking you in the halfcourt. Your Steve Nash comparsion makes little sense, because Brooks isn't Steve Nash. His decision making is poor and he makes some of the worst kickout passes I've ever seen. Even if we pretend Artest isn't a better handler than Ariza, you have to realize this team is different now. We could get away with Brooks as a lone penetrator if we could still play inside out, but we don't have Yao this season, so we have to get more dribble penetration.
I'm thinking the center we're trading for is Gortat. Orlando won't lose him for nothing. They need to replace Turkoglu so they'll be targeting a PF. We would need to part with Landry which I would hate to have to do. But we need a C more than a backup PF at this point. This also makes sense from a timing perspective since Orlando has 2 weeks to match.
I doubt Morey trades for him. Morey lost interest in Gortat, after Gortat asked for the full MLE. Dallas thinks he is worth the full MLE. If there is any trade going through, it would be to Dallas not to Houston.
If I am not mistaken the Rockets have to wait a full year after matching Orlando's offer for Landry last year in order to trade him without his consent. I think this date is a few weeks away. I think this means the Phoenix trade is back on. Brooks, Landry, McGrady for Stoudemire, Barbosa. We then will re-sign Von, and then Taylor and Budinger to similar deals as Dorsey with the MLE. If Stoudemire doesn't work out he walks next year, we trade Battier and we still have cap space to go after Bosh.
Not trying to nitpick,Orlando has 1 week to match. It will be interested if the Magic try a trade for Brandon Bass. He may not be the best fit with Howard, but he is better than Landry.
