Analysis: 'Easier to shore up what we loose with Carl than get a scorer like Martin'

I was thinking about this too, and I think at the end of the day we have a very big hole at the 4. Jordan Hill is not ready, Scola getting more minutes is fine, but when Jared Jeffries comes off the bench for us, the team is going to flounder with interior scoring.

 

But the Adelman offense will still get guys their shots off of cuts and other things. If Jeffries has any ability to man the high post that will help eliminate his shooting woes. Heck, thats how Adelman essentially hides Hayes' offense in the starting lineup.

 

It's not even the off season yet. Rocket's make their big moves in the off season.

Artest for Greene, Scola for Spanoulis.

Morey mentioned the draft being very deep with bigs this year. Morey would only say this, if he thinks that he can draft a PF better than Hill.

 

The deal I heard was something like Amar'e for Battier, Scola, Cook, and a first round draft pick.

The only problem was that Phoniex didn't want to seen over Amar'es medical records/ have physicals (something like that)........basically they wanted to Rockets to by it as they saw it.

Morey, based on Stats lengthy injury history, declined as soon as this was brought up.

 

Only one first rounder? Heat offered more.

 

Nah, it was multiple picks. Scola/Battier/Cook/multiple 1st.

I think Daryl's quote really translates to:

"It's easier to get a guy who can drop in 17 a night than it is to acquire a guy who can go off for 40 on any given night."

 

It was multiple picks

Edit: LTF said it.

 

my bad, thoght it was just 1

 

Martin will compliment Yao well. But I think we all as a fan need to stop relying on Yao to come back healthy. The Rockets should go on with their plans with or without Yao Ming. Because it would hurt us more if we continued to depend on him.

But if Yao somehow stay healthy and productive, its a big plus for us. But what are the chances in that? He's getting old, a big injury like this will slow him down even more (Yao is just slow as it is), and he collapses when the defense close down on him...A franchise player should always be able to do well no matter what the defense throws at him. But Yao only has a few moves and not much of an counter attack offensive guy. Sure he clogs the lane and prevent players from driving in, but a good post big man would wreck havoc on Yao like Boozer.

 

For the rest of this year, Scola can definitely handle 34-36 mins/game, meaning we only miss Landry 12-14 mins/game. That hole will not be as deep as what we're gaining at SG.

 

Yes. I love Carl, but I can not find fault with this move either short term or long term.

Jordan Hill is a much better lump of clay to start with than even Carl was as a rook.

There is no team with a better history than the Rockets of developing big men. Let's turn CD and the coaching staff lose on this kid and see what he's got.

 

I think a further thing to look at is that when Yao returns, he will largely take up a big chunk of Landry's duties ie. getting the ball in the post and destroying the opponent, rebounding, etc. Combined with huge scoring wing problems, and I think it makes sense.

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I think we sign & trade for Amare or Bosh this offseason.

Does anybody know of any footage of any practices or shootarounds with the New Rockets involved?

 

Its more difficult than it appears to get comparable production to Landry.

Just real quick - think of all the good actual power forwards for all teams from the past 5 NBA drafts...? Probably cant think of any.

Lamarcus Aldridge, thats about it. Kevin Love if you're thinking deep enough. There's some PF/Cs like David Lee, Al Horford. But for the most part its a bunch of JJ Hicksons...Rockets are real lucky to have gotten Scola and Landry

What the Rockets "lost with Carl" is good frontcourt scoring, occassional blocked shot, upbeat ENERGY. Not much else. They can just get backcourt scoring in replacement like they did, then hope that better defending bigs can plug the hole.

 

Of course it's true. It's called getting Yao back next season.