haha yeah I admit I am not a capologist. Thanks for any correction. If we can sign harringon our bubble players are Jones, Smith, Williams or Casspi, caanan? Thats how we should be thinking now we have howard and harden.
I have to disagree with you on this one. But that is OK. D-Mo had a TS% of 0.531 last season, was brutal down low with 0.626 FG%. Right now does anyone even know if Harrington can still play? I am not against upgrading the PF spot, I just do not believe that Harrington would be any sort of an offensive upgrade. I am willing to listen to your opinion on the defensive side though.
DMO did it against scrubs during downtime in games...c'mon how many mins did he actually play per game, 10? I'm one of the bigger DMO fans in the board, but you also have to be realistic, there's only been a few rookies who made impact in playoff teams, usually it's "washed-up" vets like Harrington and Camby who contribute a lot to winning a championship. Robert Horry, James Posey, PJ Brown, Mike Miller, Ray Allen...ring chasers like them want to win, and the only reason they're still playing is to get a ring. I feel like just like Camby, Harrington is at the stage of his career when he wants to win as well, and I think he'll do a lot of good things if we could get him on the squad.
If he could give us what he gave Denver a couple years ago, I'm all for it. Especially for the vet minimum. Low risk, high reward. He fits our team and would be a solid contributor.
I believe that you are incorrect. The 5 man unit of Lin-Harden-Parsons-Motiejunas-Asik was the Rockets third most used unit last season (and by far and away the most productive unit with over 100 minutes in the season). At 222 total minutes that unit accounts for 40% of D-Mos minutes, and I can reasonably state that it was never used against scrubs.
DMo sucks. Please stop overrating him. Dude has zero defensive and rebounding ability and really didn't show much shooting touch either.
Gotta love it when a person joins yesterday and the talks hysterical nonsense about a Rockets player. I thought all the ***ded off LAL fans had come and gone. Guess not.
D-Mo and Jones both have much bigger upside than anybody we are gonna be able to add, including Harrington. We honestly don't expect to win a title this year anyhow, give them a year. If they still haven't shown us anything than we can look to upgrade next year. Unless a Harden-like trade becomes available for Love or LMA i think we're done with significant roster moves.
Harrington however is much older, slower and shorter. Also Harrington lacks a killer inside game. Makes him a have to have in some fans minds though.
No, because Al Harrington is a much better offensive player and 3pt shooter. DMo could not hit wide open threes last year and got destroyed on the defensive end. He's seven feet tall and can't get a rebound or block. Yes, he has some post skills but that's not what we need at the 4.
A recommendation: stop functioning off your gut feeling and actually look up the stats. If D-Mo had a mere 3.4 more 3 pointers fall last season he would have the same 3 point shooting percentage as Harrington in 2011-2012. And Harrington shot a dismal 26.8% last season behind the 3 point line, in 23% of the minutes D-Mo had. How likely is it that D-Mo in his sophomore season can add 3.7% to his 3 point shooting average? Very likely. And how likely is Harrington to just fade away into retirement? Quite likely. So please stop pushing for some broken down old man of a basketball player to join a team dominated by high octane and high upside young players. Because I assure you, if D-Mo was not a high upside young player Morey would have dumped his ass by now.
Al Harrington is a career .352 3 pt shooter, D-Mo shot .289 from three last year. That's a huge difference. He also got worse as a 3pt shooter as the season progressed and not better. The final month of the season he shot .362 overall and .176 from three, just horrid. D-Mo will be lucky to be half the player that Al Harrington is. Again, people who think we're fine with the three headed monster of D-Mo, Jones, and Smith at PF are overrating potential and underrating proven production.
You don't waste a year with two top-10 talents in the NBA. This is unbelievably good fortune, and you never know how long it'll last. Just look at the McGrady-Yao era. I guarantee you, there is absolutely no one at Toyota Center that is treating this year as a developmental year. With Harden/Howard, this team absolutely can win a title next June, and any upgrades they can make are useful. It is so, so difficult to have a team like that in the NBA, and Daryl Morey of all people knows it. When you do, any move you can get to upgrade your supporting cast -- even incrementally -- is worth exploring. It's why they looked at Miller and Camby, and why they'll continue to look at various veteran role players whenever they present themselves. If Jones or Motiejunas are capable of delivering on their upside, they'll earn playing time through practice, the preseason and any time they receive during the year. Injuries will happen. If Harrington is washed up, we'd learn that pretty quickly, too. I'm just so sick of the "we're a young, developing team" mantra. Not anymore. We are a bonafide contender, and anything that might upgrade our supporting cast around Harden/Howard for next spring is worth looking into.
I think that the actual point of the post is Harrington. And rest assured good sir that Morey, the resident OCD genius, will have done due diligence on him. Morey will evaluate the risk and reward and if he is worth picking up he will be picked up. And quickly. It truly is nothing we have to be concerned about. You all act as if our GM was Kahn.
I completely agree. We are contenders now. No more of this starting players just so they can maybe develop crap. That's what the D league and practice are for. McHale should play the best current players and Morey should go after the best current players, period.
