No one is thinking that. He is what he is. An under the MLE value pick up. The Rockets wanted a stop gap C but only for so much, see Marcin Gortat, and they achieved that.
He is not Brad Miller or Divac. He averaged 0.8 assists and he is not a strong rebounder. He reminds me more of Okur, offensively versatile. He can rise up and nail the 3 pter. Great FT%, FG%, and 3pt%, Not a stroung rebounder or blocker, poor passer.
looks like another brad miller to me. Nice pick up morey, just what we needed, more range, and size to go along with a post game. Maybe we can bring deke back to coach him up on some defense
what's this guy's defense like? i see his offense isn't too bad, can spread the floor or post fade. can he bang with other centers?
Hope he can shoot free throws because the way he flails around he's going to draw a lot of fouls or get beat to hell. That said i'm good with this. Cheap, tall and can shoot a bit. He'd be a nice change of pace backup for Yao if we were going to have Yao that is.
he has many weaknesses to his game, as others have pointed out, but considering his extremely low cost, it was a very smart move. hopefully he can use this season to develop his game. if he turns out to be talented, we can limit yao's minutes significantly when he returns the season after next.
Ok. We acquired the rights to him. What do we have to do now to get him on the court. There's no International Law orcing him to come over and play for us right? Does anyone know if and when he intends to come over? Knowing Morey, I hope I'm correct in assuming that he's about 5 steps ahead of me and already figured that part out before he traded for him.
Anderson looks better than any of the scrubs left on the free agent scrap heap. I'd rather have a better player but beggars can't be choosers. He may make a good back up when Yao comes back.
Solid pick-up, but I don't think Andersen's the answer to our lack of low-post presence. His statistics overseas aren't eye-popping, and he's already 29. He'll provide depth in the frontcourt, but Morey needs to make another move to acquire a proven big man. We sent Atlanta cash and future considerations, so I'm guessing that means we surrender one of our second-round picks in the '10 or '11 draft...
No way, no way. Perhaps swap of 2nd round positions is 'future considerations'. Perhaps rights deal for Childress could ensue. Perhaps, perhaps...
The guy is quoted as saying he wants to be here (NBA). I'd guess the contract has already been worked out.
Morey never would have traded for him if he didn't have a deal in place. Andersen has a deadline to get signed for July 15th which is why the trade went down today. No reason to think that Morey did all of this just for show.
He is our Vlade Divac, but wayyyy more talented. Looks like he will fit in with adelman's system perfectly. Daryl Morey = Best GM in Houston, and in the top 5 GM's in all of sports.
