DaDakota is now searching his scouting reports for a 3rd, yes a 3rd white guy he can compare and/or liken to Larry Bird in the 2006 NBA draft.
Please explain your vocab . if I don't know to what you are refering I am sure many others don't understand.
Morrison and Redick are the ones I would take...in that order. Yeah, yeah, yeah...their D is less than spectacular, but they do one thing very well..put the ball in the hoop from the outside. These are 2 guys who were regularly doubled and sometimes triple teamed last year..yet still were 1-2 in scoring. Last year..how many games did we lose becuase we couldn't hit a outside J. Having a legitimate 3 point threat on the outside is critical for the Rockets if they want to make noise next season and in the playoffs. If we do not address our outside shooting needs via FA, then pretty please with sugar on top....draft someone who will...
I will say up front that I never had any opportunity to watch Morrison play at all, but I have read a fair bit about him, and read reports of his competitive workouts, as well as his assertion that the only kinds of workouts that really matter are when they are against other players. Ostensibly this is because he readily accepts that he may not be the best athlete in the world, but that he feels quite confident that he can compete very well against, essentially, anyone at all. I cannot TELL you how much that reminds me of Bird. Bird was no athlete, really, but he is on the very very short list of 'Best Players to Ever Play Basketball, Period'. But Bird was not all that 'creative', as AM is being described. Bird was more of simply a guy who know how to beat you, knew he was going to beat you, you knew he was going to beat you, you even knew HOW he was going to beat you, and he still did it. Absolutely the greatest killer instinct ever. Anyway, the descriptions of AM bring to mind descriptions of a guy I never really got to see play, only in old film clips, as he was before my time. Does anyone else get 'Pistol Pete' vibes from this guy? When I keep hearing the 'creative' descriptions, the 'get his shot off from anywhere', and 'can make it from anywhere' talk, I actually start to think more of Maravich than Bird. Again, though, I may be totally off; it's just a feeling I am getting. In any case, there's no way you don't take the guy if he's available. Man oh man could this team and this league use another Pistol Pete along about now...
That's the thing, shooters can be found through FA and through trades, we don't have to spend a lottery pick to find a player that can shoot the ball. Just look back at the 04-05 season, guys like Wesley/Barry/Padgett/James gave us a ton of 3-pt shooting and all we had to give up was garbage players like Lue, Gaines, Nachbar, and an aging Jim Jackson. I understand the need for shooting, but I don't think we have to spend a lottery pick to do so.
As far as Morrison, he is not JUST a shooter. if you ever watched him play, he scored alot of his points in the lane and from around the free throw line area, its just that his ability to shoot consistently from long range didnt hurt his game but gave him an edge and enhanced his ability to score in those other ways. he is definitely not just a SHOOTER and its pretty insulting to even put him and padgett, barry, wesley in the same sentence
IF there was a prospect that had Larry Bird potential, it would probably be Morrison. Both guys have a knack for putting the ball in the basket, both are shooters, and both can drive to the basket. The problem w/ Bird comparisons is that Bird was an unbelievable passer, maybe one of the best passers of all time as well as also being a very good rebounder. Morrison does neither and actually turns it over more than he assists. As far as scoring, Morrison might be one of the better prospects to come out in a while, but from an overall game standpoint, he shouldn't be mentioned w/ a Bird or Pistol Pete IMO.
Morrison more than proved himself in the NCAA tournament. Many people think Gonzaga would have gone farther if he hadn't been playing with a 100 degree fever
morrison all the way... if we had morrison, talk aboot the rockets being a marketing wet dream!! black superstar, perimeter player, with shoe deal and the street cred. tmac asain big man, international superstar with humility. yao white 60's looking diabetic, with an AWESOME stache, and a cult following. morrison not to mention, these guys would ball it up. morrison reminds of dirk, just a little shorter.
You have to do more than just shoot if you want to advance in the playoffs. There is no way I would draft Reddick with the 8th pick. I see mismatches all accross the board on both ends.
Getting in late on this one, but Morrison is the obvious choice. I assume that is the consensus. Now that might get me excited about the Rockets again. Right now, I am very pessimistic about the Rockets near term future. The role players look like crap, play like crap, and actually are crap. TMac and Ming can't do it alone, and their health is still uncertain. Even if TMac comes back healthy, he is one tweek away from ending his season. The Rockets need a big time third scorer, bad.
"I concur" - Dr. Richard Robert Richardson III Morrison if we can so lucky, Carney, then Brewer. I like the idea of dropping to the 11th slot as some have suggested. We might get Brewer there and then some. The big question is..have we learned anything since last summer? Is moving up possible?
Name one shooter who is really available in free agency. Heck name three so we can see if you know what a shooter is. Last year one shooter was "available" and he resigned with Milwaukee. Reggie Miller is available but retired. Paul Peirce, Peja, Dirk, Nash, Kirk Heinrich, Ray Allen about sums up the other shooters and I don't think they are available. Even the Kyle Korvers of the world are locked up. The only "shooters" that really become available are specialists like Frahm, and Padget but they are not consistent or they would not be available. Guys that you can't leave open and can make you pay consistently are rare or they would never get rotated off of in the zone. You ever see any of the guys you mention get left wide open? How often do you see Ray Allen get rotated off of to drop in someones lap? When it does happen, the DA that did it finds himself sitting next to the coach. If Padget or Barry beat you, you take that and go on because it is worth the risk. Not worth a lottery pick? Are any of those "shooters" worth a lottery pick? Could anyone stop us with Peja standing at the top of the key daring you to drop in Yaos lap or stop Tracy from penetrating? I would give a lottery pick and both my nuts for a shooter as most basketball people on the board would. I am just curious who all these shooters we're going to get in free agency are for our mid level exception. I'll hang up and listen.
See Dirk Nowitzki....remember when Nelson was laughed at for picking him so high at #6....oh the irony. Thanks to the LeBron rule this draft is one of the weaker ones in recent memory. J.J is a proven shooter who would not be asked to carry the load on this squad. Despite his size and speed(or lack thereof) he rarely had problems getting off his shot. Last year was brutal watching game after game after game..us missing wide open J's. Personally in this weak draft...going with J.J at the 8 spot, IMO isn't that far of a reach.
