Brooks McGrady Iverson Lot of shooting going on there. Pray McGrady and Brook come off this season as more of facilitators if this signing goes down.
If its just for a one year rental, then why not do it? He'll come off of the books next year, give us some scoring at the 2, and be trying to play his tail off, and hopefully act like a team player so he can get a better contract for the next year.
I wouldn't mind him here on a one year deal. What do we really have to lose? There have been some rumblings on other sites (hoopsworld) I know I know, that's why I have not taken it too seriously. But i'm starting to believe there has at least been some dialouge between the Rockets and Iversons agent. Purely speculation on my part of course. In a season where expectations may be low, and scoring may be tough to come by, why not?
No way! Are some of you forgetting how he acted in Detroit? He cried, refused to come off the bench and helped get a coach fired. He was such a detriment that Dumars essentially issued him a "You're officially injured -- stay the hell away" order. AI is a dying breed of basketball player. These dribble-dribble-dribble ISO players are being phased out of this league. The last thing this team needs is another ball-stopper to pair with McGrady. We all saw how poorly T-Mac and Artest functioned on the same unit. There's little sense in trying that approach with an even bigger ball-stopper in AI.
I think with the personnel the Rockets currently have, they'll be able to really spread the floor and that would benefit a guy like AI tremendously.
I'm not interested in giving benefits to AI. I'd rather not stunt AB's development by having AI on the same team.
Why the hell not? Worst case scenario he makes Mcgrady or Battier that much more expendable to acquire assets at other positions.
Disagreed. It's not spacing that AI needs, it's touches. AI won't be happy unless the offense is running through him and so long as he's the primary ball handler. He won't come off the bench so where do you even start him? I'll throw my TV out the window if the idea would be to bench Brooks in favor of him. So he can't start at the point, which means he's playing the two. Problem? If AI is playing the two then you need a tall, defensive-minded PG to pair next to him. Our backcourt would get absolutely shredded with two 6'1" guys. ....and did I mention he and T-Mac wouldn't be able to play on the same unit? There are problems with this idea from every single angle.
first of all, we don't have the money to do this. but even if we did i am opposed to it. sure it would give us the scoring we need, but an iverson and brooks backcourt would be disastrous. we'd be so small in the backcourt that opposing teams would just abuse us. if we had a bigger guard at the 1 then i'd be for it, but we don't.
Absolutely. Low risk on a season a lot are giving up on. It would not hurt to try and add some offense. The defense will suffer but the team needs to put points on the score board to win.
I don't see the point for the Rockets. Are we going to take Brooks or Lowery out of the rotation for Iverson? I can't see iverson playing off-guard given our PGs lack of height.
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I def understand what you are saying. I'm not a huge AI fan, and agree he can be a problem. I could see him behaving well enough in our locker room though. I would say absolutely not if it were any other season. My thoughts are I would roll the dice with the team as is. If there are other moves going to be made to better the team then I would say no. The thing that would worry me most besides the obvious defensive liabilities with an AI AB backcourt, would be getting JT enough playing time to hopefully develop. And no, we probably don't have the money he wants anyway
Chuck Hayes ($2.1 million) + Brian Cook ($3.5 million) + $3 million cash for Iverson in a S & T. Only the first year of the deal is guaranteed. Gets us down to a 15 man roster.
