[Chronicle Commentary]Dealing Yao or McGrady won't heal Rockets

Man, what a lousy article. He brought one piece of new information to the front: Pat Williams laughs

 

Equal value? If you'r talking about monetary value, yes, it's hard to match his salary. But game quality, I'm not even going to trade for him with Gay if I were the Memphis GM.

 

The purpose of the article is to present clear reasons why McGrady and Yao are both staying in Houston, no matter what fans with poor judgment or analysts that don't watch the Rockets (Magic) think. Good read.

 

Trading one of them will make this team worse because we will not get equivalent values. We need to add a good player preferably a PG. It doesn't have to be an all star PG, just one can pass and shoot to score.

 

Problem #1 - What top flight 3rd scorer PG that narrows the talent gap (the Rockets' equivalant of Parker or Manu) is available that can be obtained for some combination of Battier, Hayes, Alston, James, Francis or Head?

Problem #2 - If some GM in a moment of weakness gave the Rockets a 3rd scorer PG for some table scraps...is there any guarantee the tempo of the game or the passing essence critical for some form of motion offense would improve or even exist? Doubtful IMHO.

 

Yeah, I thought that it was a decent read. Its mainly to squash many of the comments users are leaving on the Chron's blogs. TMAC and Yao can work with the right pieces around them (caveat: which of course this team doesn't have unless the players miraculously start shooting better and slashing to the basket consistently) as long as the tandem of Yao/TMAC are in agreement and playing cohesively.

 

Writers always pimp the status quo, 'cause they have to interview those guys.

They can't just say "Trade his Sorry Ass" then stick a mike in a guy's face.

 

But if not,i think the team will be down this season.The team should get another
international player to keep lock room balance.

 

i dont no, but i dont think its likely to trade T-mac based on his up-down performance.

 

Everyone thinks a trade will automatically solve everything. You never know, we could make the wrong trade to deal T-Mac and actually become a worst team. Then what? Rebuild all over again? We are not going to get equal value for T-Mac, more than likely, less value. And honestly, I've seen enough of Yao to know that he is not ready to be the #1 guy. Mainly because today's game and rules are tailor made to suit the guards.

Remember, we are only 12-13. No reason to panic and abandon the ship. It's not like we are the Knicks or even the Heat.

 

That is possibly the worst article I've ever read in a non-elementary school newspaper. For his sake, I hope they called at 11:00 PM and told him they needed filler by 11:15. The HC needs to get shut down. Let's look at the stats:

Paragraphs with one sentence - 17
Paragraphs with two sentences - 9
Paragraphs with three sentences - 1
Paragraphs with four or more sentences - 0
Sentences starting with "but" - 3
Sentences starting with "and" - 2
Meaningful thoughts - 0

 

I also don't agree with much of the article. I agree that we can't trade Yao. He means far too much to the franchise, and he's the guy you want leading this locker room for as long as possible.

As far as "things will get better"
-->Sure they will, but does better mean title contention? Or does it mean a 50-win team that can't break into the WCF? Maybe others disagree - but that isn't good enough in my book. If we were bobbing around the Suns level, I'd hold out hope that we'd get to the Finals, but I have a hard time seeing this tandem get there.

"You can't get equal value for McGrady"
-->Of course not. But why would that be the goal? Chase picks and role players - build around Yao.

You may have to wait for this summer, but we absolutely have the assets to completely overhaul this team. Chase Hinrich or Kidd, chase a couple of marksmen, rebuild this team. Teams win championships.

Evan

 

good read, agree with some points.

1. rockets can't (won't) trade yao

2. they can't trade mcgrady cause won't get near-equal value.

3. it's still early (relatively). they could still put it together (maybe).

until then, they're stuck.

 

It depends.

If Tmac is going to keep dogging it, then getting a deal like.

Tmac/Battier/Head

for

Marion/Diaw/Barbossa

Would make a big difference.....especially in energy and while the Rockets may have lost individual talen, their overall team would have gotten better.

DD

 

But that deal is not going to happen ... which is what he's saying. You can't trade McGrady and expect anything like equal value in return (I think Marion/Diaw/Barbosa for Tmac/Battier/Head is close to equal value). Phoenix has to know that Marion/Barbosa are great fits in their system, while McGrady and Battier are not.

 

trade tmac.....I don't expect us to be contenders once we trade him, but we have all realized that we will never win ANYTHING with this man on our team....while you won't get equal talent in return, you can still get some sort of talent for him....what's the point of keeping a guy who won't get you out the 1st round???.....because he can still win you 50 games????.......trade tmac....it's the only solution.

 

Yeah it would made a big difference. But you are dreaming if you think we can get that deal or anything that resembles that deal. We are robbing the Suns blind with this one. Not to mention that the Suns aren't exactly struggling so I doubt they trade three guys that play a big role in their offense.

 

True, and when the players get traded they say it should have happened a long time ago.

 

I agree. The problem with this team is not McGrady. The problem is the general manager didn't put the proper pieces around him.

Is it T-Mac's fault that these idiots drafted Rudy Gay not to keep him but to trade him for an over-rated stiff of a player in Shane Battier. I remember when this deal was mentioned and I complained about it then. It was so obvious to me that this was a bad deal both in the short and long term.

Is it T-Mac's fault that the point guard can't shoot, the power forward can't shoot, the 6th man can't shoot jumpers, the shooting guard off the bench is terribly inconsistent. I think not.