Your right it is RA's fault Remember when steve Francis made his comeback RA refused to play him because of his stubborness But when the rockets lost 5 or 6 games in a row RA's hand was forced and he changed his lineup. Maby we should cheer for the rockets to go on a loosing streak so RA changes his a and someone else gets Arizas minutes Seriously...w
So what? Shane Battier had 0 points despite being pretty much unguarded by the Suns. Lowry had more turnovers than points. Let's not even talk about the horrible defense Scola played on Frye, allowing him wide open looks all game long. If anything, that resulted more in the loss than Trevor's play.
Exactly. Rafer went to Orlando and won, Artest went to Lakers and is winning, Ariza just won a championship. Battier has a positive impact every year before this one. All those guys are good role players given right situation. Unfortunately Rockets always missed something due to injury and lack of talent for the past a few years,and people keep blaming them just because they only appreciate scorers. Both Ariza and Battier will be good once Yao comes back to give them open looks.
I'm with the OP on this one. Before that god-awful three pointer at the end, I thought Ariza played a pretty decent offensive game and his threes in the second half were huge in keeping the Rox in the game. Not excusing his late-game performance, but really, no one played defense tonight at all. Frye burned Scola all game from behind the arc, Battier was a zero on offense, Kyle had some bad drives to the basket and shied away from open jumpers late in the game, and Hayes/Anderson didn't exactly overwhelm either. Team game, team loss.
This may have been posted somewhere else, but Trever is last in the league in Field Goal Percentage. 2009-10 FIELD GOALS LEADERS : Field-Goal Percentage Displaying results 101-119 of 119 found Results: « Prev 1-50 51-100 101-119 AVERAGE TOTAL PLAYER NAME, TEAM NAME GP PPG FGM FGA FGM FGA FG% 2PM 2PA 2P% 101 Andres Nocioni , SAC 33 10.3 3.8 9.1 126 300 .420 80 170 .471 102 Ron Artest , LAL 29 12.1 4.4 10.4 127 303 .419 83 182 .456 102 Rasual Butler , LAC 33 10.5 3.8 9.1 126 301 .419 78 160 .487 102 Mehmet Okur , UTA 30 12.6 4.5 10.7 134 320 .419 100 227 .441 105 Rodney Stuckey , DET 33 19.0 7.1 17.1 235 564 .417 229 529 .433 106 Corey Brewer , MIN 35 11.9 4.8 11.5 167 401 .416 156 347 .450 106 Andre Miller , POR 37 11.8 3.9 9.5 146 351 .416 138 310 .445 108 Gilbert Arenas , WAS 32 22.6 7.9 19.2 253 616 .411 190 435 .437 108 J.R. Smith , DEN 28 15.4 5.8 14.1 162 394 .411 111 239 .464 110 Danny Granger , IND 17 24.4 7.6 18.6 130 317 .410 78 171 .456 111 Stephen Jackson , CHA-GSW 33 19.2 6.9 17.0 229 562 .407 184 409 .450 112 Baron Davis , LAC 33 16.2 5.5 13.7 182 451 .404 139 311 .447 113 * Brandon Jennings , MIL 32 19.0 6.9 17.2 222 552 .402 160 398 .402 114 Russell Westbrook , OKC 34 16.4 5.8 14.6 197 495 .398 176 417 .422 115 John Salmons , CHI 33 13.2 4.7 11.8 154 390 .395 106 253 .419 116 Vince Carter , ORL 30 18.1 6.3 15.9 188 478 .393 142 331 .429 117 Devin Harris , NJN 24 16.4 5.2 13.5 125 324 .386 110 253 .435 117 Peja Stojakovic , NOH 30 11.2 3.9 10.2 118 306 .386 49 127 .386 119 Trevor Ariza , HOU 34 16.0 5.9 15.7 201 533 .377 137 326 .420
I am not saying Ariza is the only guy playing awful. AB needs better court vision and passing skills....etc But Ariza is developing arrogance while playing horribly. NOW, that deserves some bashing
He is asked to do too much. That's what 40mil sitting on bench do to you. Replace Ariza with any MLE player in NBA won't make Rockets much better. So there is no need to blame everything on him.
So there are only 119 players in the league? Gee I could swear that 30*13>119. Anyways, yes, Ariza's shooter and overall game is awful. But lets remember back to when Kevin Durant was a rookie in his first season. The first half of the season, he was exactly like Ariza. Can't handle the ball, can't shoot. He looked awful. Then in the second half of the season, he figured out how to be a more efficient scorer and he had about 50% fg in the second half. I'm not saying its sure to happen with Ariza. Its just too soon.
And more importantly, did he just compare Trevor Ariza to Kevin Durant? It was QUITE clear Durant was a gifted scorer, so no surprise that he "got it" later that year. Ariza is NOT a gifted scorer. Like I have said before and Ill say it again, Ariza is a tremendous player if he is your 4-5th option right now. Maybe later he'll develop into a third option AT BEST. He is no all-star, and he struggles because he takes All-Star shots sometimes (like the 3 tonight). Part of his shooting percentage is poor shot selection, but quite honestly he just is not shooting the ball well. He is missing many open looks as well. Part of his poor play is being asked to do too much, part of it is low-confidence and frustration. I think his problems will come to an end soon though, because as the season progresses Aaron Brooks and Carl Landry are becoming the go to tandem. Chase is also coming on, so his shots will increase. The days of Ariza shooting 15+ jumpers are over IMO, and if he shoots 10-15 shots per game im ok with that for now.
Ariza playing off Yao has the potential to be amazing. Anything this year is just gravy IMO. That said, I am in total agreement with your post.
we just need tmac we will be a okay how can u loose faith in your own houston player im related to hakeem olajuwan and saw hi every game and he prays with me at the masjid and we talked about tmac and ariza and even how rockets are talking about trading yao ming ... but majority of hater fans want it to happen ... so if we loose and keep on loosing we wont loose cuz of the players we will loose cuz of houstons decision we all knew tmac had injuries and we had stupid coaches like gundy but theres no i in team right?/ so tmac takes the blame cuz hes the leader but the worst is that if we have no leader we have no team basically i say houston rockets wont make no playoff or even pass the 2nd round.. we havent passed it since 1997 thats b4 mcgrady hello just think for a min haters dnt blame crap on him blame your self for loosing a great person great player... great leader he did stuff that no one ever did tmac in my book is better the kobe and lebron hes healthy and rockets dnt wanna give him more mins B.s i swear if we loose and dnt even make the playoffs then guess who will get blamed ?? adelman and morey for a b.s trade!!!!!!!!!!!
I wonder how much of a whipping boy Eric "Sleepy" Floyd would have been on this board if the internet was alive like it is today during his playing days with the Rockets?
I didn't realize there was a thread for this but since my last post in another thread probably should have been here, I'll repost it here as I think it makes some sense in the context of this thread too.
