I really love Shane. But it appears to me that if Chase develops as his understudy and can learn Shane's defensive intelligence and positioning that Shane is making himself expendable. I'd sure hate to lose him. But if a trade for Bosh or Amare materialized involving him, and Chase had developed to at least adequate defensively, it sure would be tempting to trade Shane.
There's no way that Budinger will develop into a defensive player even remotely near Battier's caliber for years, if at all. Assuming that he does, it will be far enough down the road that Battier will be about at the end of his career anyway.
The posters in this thread claiming a rookie that has yet to even play in his 1st NBA game has "hit the rookie wall" obviously have no clue what the "rookie wall" is.
Budinger's Preseason stats: 28.1 MPG, 0.386 FG%, 0.273 3p%, 0.769 FT%, 3.6 RPG, 1.8 APG, 10.9 pts. It's not impressive at all. Adelman gave him a lot of playing time. If he keeps playing like this, I don't know how long Adelman's patience can last.
He will be fine i think his rookie wall came early. By comparison his numbers would reflect Kevin Martin in his sophmore season. So Budinger is a Kevin Martin potential with Rip Hamilton simularities. Rockets can't be that lucky, but still too early to make judgements.
His last 3 or 4 games he was pretty bad shooting, but pretty good on everything else. The question is, where does his real shooting lay? On the good side of 45% or the bad side? DD
Maybe what you see is glimpses of it. Not everybody goes through a Rookie wall they may go through slumps or may shocase glimpses of a rookie wall. Like i was saying it's too early to tell. They been practicing hard and traveling and playing with not much rest so his legs are probably not adjusted to the grind and mix of things just yet, but that will develop natrually.
Eeerrr He is a rookie, isn't he? No messiah. Adelman would still play him and tell him to assist more.
Preseason shooting %'s, whether bad or good, are hardly anything to get worked up about. Teams practice constantly and at high intensity during the preseason, which effects the legs, which effects the shot. Chase was a lights out shooter during draft workouts, summer league, and Rockets training camp practices. He's getting open looks and they haven't been dropping as much as we'd like, but his form is consistent and his release is quick. In addition, he's been making great decisions with the ball. Behind any second round pick that plays the most minutes of anyone on his team during their first preseason, there's a coaching staff with a lot of faith. They aren't sweating anything right now.
--absolutely, no one respected his shot before. Now the word has gotten out because of his performance early on. He has been rushing his shot and it has not looked smooth. Smooth Jazz will shake it eventually
