Did Morey say Rafer is in the Rockets long-range plans!? What! I know 30% shooters are hard to come by, but was that a momentary brain lapse or what? Surely, that can't be the case. Rockets management has never been the brightest bulb in the box, but that is absurd.
Rafer can still handle the ball though. An absurd part of me wants to see Rafer start and James come off the bench for the scoring 1-2 punch.
I thought Les said "we don't talk about the players we trade away...so we don't talk about the old coach" or something like that.
exactly. i think his ego got too high after winning a championship, signing with the bucks as a starter, being traded to a playoff team (rox) as a 3rd option, then being traded to the raps as a second option. his career was definitely sky rocketing. however it all cam crashing down last season. i think he realized how lucky he was and will do the right thing from this point on.
So does Adelman talk more like George H.W. Bush or Dick Cheney? That side of the mouth thing has me confused.
Great to see Mike James humbled. This press conference compared to his phone interview after signing with the Twolves is like night and day.
Do any of you find it ironic that this trade to get Mike James here (again) is via Juwan Howard--the one who smacked James in the face with the ball and now it appears...will join a team with Alston (for the moment, or longer) the one he was booted-out for http://www.cbc.ca/sports/story/2006/01/06/raptors_rockets_summary.html The Houston Rockets injected some passion into their game this time around, but it still wasn't enough to beat a Toronto Raptors squad that won its fifth in a row on Friday. Toronto (11-22) downed the Rockets 112-92 at Air Canada Centre, their second consecutive lopsided win at home. Mike James burned his old club, scoring points 30 points, while adding eight assists and seven rebounds for the Raptors. Chris Bosh had a double-double with 22 points and 16 boards, with rookie Charlie Villanueva scoring 21 points and Morris Peterson adding 19. Mike James has to be restrained by his fellow Raptors after his altercation with Houston's Juwan Howard. (CP Photo/Aaron Harris) "I guess I'm not a point guard. That's what everybody's quote is to this day that Mike James is not a point guard, but for some reason I still continue to get seven, eight assists," James said. "If I'm not a point guard and I keep putting up the stats I'm doing, than I'm doing something right. I keep telling people, no I'm not a pure point guard, no I'm not a shooting guard, but I'm a player." In the second quarter, Houston's Juwan Howard took exception to James celebrating a basket too heartily. Howard grasped the ball and smacked his former teammate in the face with it. Both players received technical fouls. James had to be restrained by several teammates, and Howard was ejected from the game. http://www.insidehoops.com/alston-james-100405.shtml
