I agree it is not the answer to trade Alston. However, it is not in the team plan to wait for AB to develop into the starting PG. I believe we need to change now to win this season and next season or we will lose the following a few seasons to rebuilt.
Some people will not change. Right now Rockets were on a track of 7-3 and 8-2. With salary cap, every team has flaw. It's up to management and coach to cover your flaw and bring out your strength. I think coach JVG did it better.
Refreshingly honest; on the money. If everyone keeps the "rah rah Rockets" nonsense up, and never visits reality, the team will continue to flounder. Now Rockets, deal with it.
D. Williams Parker Nash Baron Davis Chris Paul Five PGs likely to be in the playoffs. Five guys who are all top 25 players in the league with a couple of them being top 5 or 10. You almost have to have an All-Star PG or at least one hell of a defender to slow these guys down if you want to compete. Williams and Davis scare me the most because of their size but anyone of those guys can win a series by themselves. Too bad elite PGs don't come in exchange for some bench scrubs and a former street baller.
tmac is shooting 44% from the field, with about 5 games where he shoots really poorly due to injuries. so he's shooting in essence 45-46%. that's VERY good considering he's a more perimter oriented player. kobe only shoots 44%. pierce shoots 42%. ray ray is now shooting 41%. alston is shooting what a double-teamed star does on his bad nights WIDE OPEN.
ur kidding me right? if tmac can't do it in his peak in the playoffs and they can??? parker and chris paul can't win by themselves. nash has an all-star team. davis is probably the ONLY guy b/c he can score at will sometimes and carry a team. but why are we fearing them? the centers nowadays suck like alston and we have yao ming. why aren't people talking about yao ming being a huge advantage to other teams? we have 2 advantages ourselves.
Honestly, what team in the west has a worse situation at PG than the Rockets? Maybe Seattle. Big Maybe.
Interesting. Probably you forget that 44% is the highest season since T-Mac come to houston. Career average is 43.9%.
They all suck, Alston is just another bricklayer. I don't know what it is but all our guys are shooting career lows. Name one guy outside of our rookies that has shot better this season than any of their previous career high?
How about this deal: Snyder James Francis Head To Cleveland for: Larry Hughes Shannon Brown Why Cleveland does this deal: Snyder and Francis are both expiring contracts. They would have 5 mil. off the books next year. James is the kind of bench player they are looking for. A PG who can create his own shot which they are sorely lacking. Head is cheap and he is a good shooter which they also need. Why Houston does this deal: Hughes is a big guard who could play PG as he does in Cleveland. This team isn't built on offense, and Hughes is a pretty damn good defender, during the course of his career always being league leader in steals. Historically he has been a decent shooter although since he has been in Cleveland he has struggled. Also has gone thru a lot of injuries. Can create his own shot as well from time to time. His play has picked up recently so maybe there would be hope there. Shannon Brown is a young 2 guard who doesn't get any playing time in Cleveland. His salary runs out after this year so if he doesn't work out, it doesn't burn the Rockets for years to come. The only problem is if Hughes goes back to being bad, the Rockets are screwed for sure for the next 3 years atleast. But if he goes back to being the player he was in Washington and what he has shown lately, he would be a perfect fit here. Our starting lineup would be: Hughes McGrady Battier Scola Yao I think that lineup could potentially be as good as any other in the West. Flame away.
These type of replies are just the worst. Why is this Alston "hate"? Couldn't this just be Alston reality? Much of what is in there are just stats. For a 7-game stretch, Rafer hit 46.7% from the field on 15 shots. In the 8 games since then, Rafer is hitting 35.0% from the field on 14 shots ...and the shots are only down because he's averaging 6 less minutes a game in the recent stretch. That's the definition of inconsistent. This article in my opinion is right on the money. What does Rafer being a POINT GUARD have to do with it if he's taking a high volume of shots? Does that shield him from accountability on his poor percentages? Parker is a terrible three-point shooter, but both are terrible this year (Rafer has been good lately and better overall in the second half of the season however). The massive difference (not pointed out) is that Parker takes one three a game, and one every two games the previous two seasons. Rafer takes between 5 and 7 threes every night.
nah, hughs wouldnt be much of an upgrade. He really doesnt loko good in a half court offense. his numbers were inflated in tha fast paced princeton offense in washington, but in cleveland he's been a bust. Tha fans theer fell tha same way about him that we feel about alston, only his contract is bigger. for what he's being payed we can get better.
The root of the problem (the raferness of the team ) is that both of our superstars are rafer in leadership. This team should not even be Rafer's team, but it is. It's a shame. I'd blame Yao&TMAC before I blame Rafer even if he is the league's worst starting PG.
Yao and T-Mac are far from blameless... and it's important to add the Rockets have won 9 of 12. It's not all doom and gloom here. But Yao and T-Mac are your core. Rafer is the role player. Each of the three are shooting a bunch. Unless you're talking about a massive change to your team (offseason perhaps), Rafer is the adjustment you probably make to improve shooting.
Agree with you on the adjustment with Rafer, especially if they want to advance deep in the playoffs. It's a shame Mike James has not stepped up.
It should also be pointed out that before this previous week, Battier's bricks were just as bad, and just as often....and his were even more wide open man, i'd even live with Rafer and Aaron if we could get us a 2 guard who could fill it up AND play some D, a Raja Bell type....
I would love to see the rockets aquire Sam Cassell, he's old but he can still close out games (ie.make his free throws and hit clutch shots). He would give this team some swagger.
Damn right. Trade MJ, Head & Bonzi or any other outside of the rookies, Battier, Deke and T-Mac. Give Novak while you at it. Another trade for a good SG and we're back in the race. Wally Szczerbiak, Wally Szczerbiak, Wally Szczerbiak... Sam Cassell, Sam Cassell, Sam Cassell.....
