You can tell he was taking a lot of boneheaded shots and too many of them in October and when he first joined the Rockets. Since then, he's gotten more and more efficient and is on a trajectory to reach his Atlanta Hawks prime stats. Also note, he is shooting the best 3p% of his career (somewhat not saying much )
People always talk about the Pistons improving after Josh Smith left, but why is it nobody talks about Josh Smith improving after he left the Pistons?
Because they want a "chucker" to fail and they want the Rockets to fail. It wasn't so much about love of the Pistons as it was hate for Josh Smith and hate for the Rockets.
we are, right now! btw has anyone talked about how we plan to re-sign him this summer? i don't think we have his bird rights. if that's the case, the most we can offer is the MLE.
I think the plan is probably to offer him the MLE and he'll probably walk because somebody else will pay him but maybe not. It'd be nice if he wants to stay but who knows what goes on in the mind of pro athletes.
You have some serious issues. Close the thread and dont open it. No one wants to see your pointless anger
awesome. thanks. so if thats the case, then we stand a good chance at resigning him. I'm happy with him coming off the bench and dmo starting at the 4 spot. this makes jones expendable, if anyone would trade for him given his health issues. morey probably won't trade jones until smith resigns, and/or jones raises his value by proving he's healthy and playing well.
Acutally he has spent most of time at the 5....Againist them he is a huge match up problem at least offensively
Has he really improved? Or is it his hot shooting from 3s and Howard's absence allowed him to stay on the floor more that accumulated those stats. When his efficiency from the 3s come back down to the high 20s or low 30s will his production from other area drop? That's the real question.
Josh Smith has done this before. Let's see him do it for a whole season before juming to conclusions. The overwhelming majority of instances have shown that this kind of improvement in his stats is a hot streak rather than an attitude change. We would be absolute morons to think otherwise. I've been really happy with his recent play, but that's not make me forget that he has only had one or two good seasons in his entire life with a variety of teams, styles, coaches, teammates, etc. He's turning the ball over waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much right now, and getting really trigger happy with the 3 ball. His FT% is unacceptable and should put him on the bench regardless of his other stats. Plus, if we promised him a starting spot to sign here then we also have to brace ourselves to see him play against better competition once he requests to join the starting line up again. Having said that - the eye test and the stats all confirm he's been improving steadily and has been playing at or above our expectations and he deserves props for that. As long as he doesn't stay at this level and keeps improving, I'll be happy. I'm also excited to see if he will play better next to Dwight - I want to see those two guys up against the Clippers and Grizzlies.
You're not even contributing to anything. Let alone the topic of the thread. If it's not a thread that caters to you then just go to the next one.
I'm thinking Josh Smith plays for either the MLE or Room MLE or possibly even a minimum salary deal next season followed by a minimum salary deal in 2016 and then gets a nice sweetheart deal from us in 2017, maybe max salary for one season or something like that.
