to be a rockets fan doenst mean you have to agree with everything the rockets do and say 'yea keep doing the same thing bc it is really working ' and have a chipper smile on your face and say this team has it figured out! give me a break. you obviously live in a fantasy world. this guy is 100% right. do you think chase budinger and martin are going to take us to title town ? no. they aren't. call a spade for a spade. this isnt YMCA basketball, we dont have to support everything the team does bc we are 'fans'. grow up, peter pan, count chocula.
I agree Kevin Martin must go, but ONLY if we get high upside young talent in return, the same thing for Scola... Because lets face it guys, both of these players (KM and Scola) are wasting their prime years without any chance at even sniffing a championship chance, and on a team that will be forced to rebuild sooner or later.... Plus Martin has already stated he doesn't want to be part of a rebuilding process, so might as well ship him out because the rockets(no matter if you like it or not) are heading toward that direction..
If he brings in a Superstar the Rockets can build around right away or a draft pick that you know will be a very high one, then I'd be for it. Otherwise, no thanks.
The question is: Is this even possible? Can you attain high-upside players at low risk, and, not just relative to our team high-upside players? Can we get players that have real star potential this way?
Martin was brought in cause we got a heck of a deal considering Tmac's value was crap and all we had to give up was Landry.
K Mart was playing the best defense I've ever seen him play last night. There are some people you just can't stop, and Kobe is one of them. You can't ask one guy to shut down Kobe, Martin did about as good of a job defending him 1v1 as you can ask for. Look at Pao's stats from last night, are you saying Chuck didn't play good D on him either? My only problem with Kevin last night was he wasn't going to the ball in OT. Other than that I have no idea why you would want to let him go.
Tell that to manu ginobili... i really wish we could have him instead of martin, i can dream with luis and him playing pick and roll/pop.
I don't think Kevin Martin is supposed to be a team's leader, but that's what many of us are expecting of him. Much like Scola, I think that Martin would benefit immensely from adding a defensive big, or a star G/F. This would make up for some of his defensive laggings, while taking away almost nothing from him on the offensive end. AB hasn't risen to the occassion lately. He isn't shooting worth a darn.
30 points on 15 shots yet it's still enough to trigger a knee-jerker. Look, I get it: he has his limitations both defensively and as go-to-guy. Okay. If he was making $17M per year this would be appalling to me too. But at $11-13M per year? I don't think so. He's good enough to be the 2nd or 3rd best player on a championship level team. Dude has never played with a dominant big man (which, coincidentally, our lack-thereof is what's holding us back). Let's see what Morey has up his sleeves with this year's trade deadline before we definitively decide who must stay/go. Insert a dominant big man and next year people will be clamoring for a perimeter scorer/shooter just like Martin.
