Could Motiejunas and Jones both move out of the rotation?

I'm sorry please clarify.
Who from ray Allen haslem or battier is a worse player than dmo or jones?

 

Despite what he's done in garbage time in the preseason so far, he's not actually a good rebounder, I'd doubt that had anything to do with it.

He looks like a guy who is a sharpshooter at certain spots on the court who can help spread the offense a bit sort of like Delfino or Garcia did last year. That'll almost certainly be his role on the team this year. He'll get spot minutes at backup PF and maybe some isolated PF starts if the matchup is right.

 

Not counting ray cuz he's a guard, you're saying you'd rather tjones or dmo over battier or haslem in our starting line up in a playoff series.

You can argue that battier isn't a power forward but he's played that position far better than our two guys.

 

NONONONO. Heat players on the down slope. Old. Rockets players 23 and younger. Have you no perspective? Allen?

http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/a/allenra02.html

And getting older by the day.

 

All of the above. Ray Allen at one point was amazing, but he's 1000 years old, same goes for Battier. When it comes to Haslem, he's a pretty good rebounder and defender, but he's absolutely nothing on offense and he's 33, if the Rockets offered DMo or Jones for Haslem right now they'd take it in a heartbeat.

 

DMo hasn't played that bad he has for sure out performed Jones. It was and off night last night for a lot of players which is understandable, but on an off night DMo still had 14 points and 8 rebounds in 24 minutes.

 

Sorry I meant to vote BOTH IN and I don't want to see the world burn. Maybe just my toast

 

Precisely. Thank you. The Rockets are not exclusively about this season. The future is hugely important too.

 

The previous season especially for inexperienced players such as Parsons is the most important.




And basically Parsons was a 50% shooter from the corner three last season.

The minutes played are especially important. Please note that Casspi's 3 PT% is minimally over D-Mo's last season. With about the same number of minutes.

 

I miss Scola. If we can only trade our two young PFs for him.

 

Parsons is going to clock big minutes at PF and Garcia is going to handle SF.

Beverly, Harden, Garcia, Parsons and Howard is going to be our best lineup and the one I expect to see on the floor in close games.

 

LOL, hilarious. The Pacers would make that deal in a heartbeat. Everyone here seems to overrate every PF on other teams and seriously underrate the only two PF's on the Rockets.

 

Fixed

 

No! Give that thought up. Morey will never ever do it. It is at the rim or from beyond the arc. It is not going back to the Scola days ever again.

 

And give it up because it would be an awful trade. The fetish for old has-beens is strange to me.

 

How about your 57 win 2012-13 Denver Nuggets?
http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/DEN/2013.html

If the other team goes small, them we can go small, and vice versa.


I am not saying that starting Asik will work. I am saying we have to try it because the alternative is to start one of these other scrubs.

 

I think they both need to be in the rotation. I'm not completely sold on Casspi yet and it will take more than preseason games to convince me. D-mo and Jones both have huge upside and need playing time to see if they can start tapping into some of that. I think the notion that as championship contenders we can't give any developmental minutes to players like Jones and D-mo with their upsides. It might be true that Casspi is better than both right now, but what's most important is how we are playing at the end of the season. And a D-mo or Jones that has realized some of his massive potential will be a much better player than Casspi. I think it would be shortsighted to look past a potential season of improvement for D-mo or Jones when deciding what will be better for the team. Besides Casspi can get minutes at the 3, its not like we have to play small all the time. Garcia should be able to guard a backup 2 well enough.

 

Again I don't know why you are grouping DMo and Jones together just
because they both play the same position. DMO hasn't played perfect
and I don't think you can expect a second year player to play perfect,
but he has played pretty good thoughout the preseason. I think he will
improve once he gets some consistency in his minutes and his spot in the rotation.

 

Would like to see Covington getting some minutes with the starters.