Chase 'Air' Budinger was amazing tonight. A double-double on his first start is great! Hope McGrady impressed Riley.
As much of a rollercoaster it's been for T-Mac this season it was really nice to see him out there tonight. Brought back some good memories when Bill yelled out the "T for 3"
wow..nice game C-Bud!!! Start Chase over Shane!!!! (lol..well maybe not yet). Will be interesting to see how Adelman plays Ariza..we had great ball movement and distributed scoring (Brooks, Scola, C-Bud, Landry in double digits)...also DA with some quality minutes give props to the Aussie
Brooks looked fantastic tonight, I much prefer him taking the majority of the shots vs. Ariza. Tracy showed some positives. Laughing/joking with teamates, good elevation on some jumps. Budinger was superb, fits the bill much better than Ariza in this offense. Landry/Scola looking solid as usual. Great win!
Everyone played well tonight. Tmac got to play(but only like 8ish mins.)....Trevor wasn't playing and shooting awful. Brooks dominated the entire game. Back to reality tomorrow.
Hear ya,Landry will get some more minutes instead of Luis. Ariza/Chase/Battier can share minutes. Tracy might be able to as well if he remains healthy and if he plays well. It is tough,but we have to do the best we can.
Awesome, awesome game. Surprise return of the mac, c-bud kicking ass and taking names, AND AARON BROOKS???!! What??!! He is amazing.. Very, very nice game to watch, I'm proud of my rockets tonight.
Budinger is the real deal. His all around game is just special and he ought to keep his starting job.
16/12/5 very good game by chase hard to see him playing well against a jr smith/melo wing combo as opposed to jerebko but still great great game for his first start
What's alarming to me though is that despite the huge lead all the starters logged heavy minutes. Its like a setup job for a huge ass punkin' at the hands of the Nuggets.
don't know why adelman/morey thinks ariza has any potential beyond a role player. cbud is probably a better player than ariza already at this stage of their careers. and cbud fits the offense better since he likes to catch and shoot. tracy looks good. moving was fluid, didn't try to get involved too much offensively, tried hard defensively, rebounded... he needs at least 4-5 more games before he gets more comfortable.
I really want to see a combo of Ariza and Budinger in starting line up. Chase is a very good set up man, he is very good at using his size and length to find people with quality passes. I think Ariza would benefit from geting good looks from him.
