hells to the no, far as im concerned yao tmac scolandry are untouchable and battier unless the price is right
No Sheed! Get Artest! Artest should be our no.1 priority this off-season. I don't think the Rockets or the Kings need to wait until the trade deadline to deal for Artest if we're dealing young talent/picks for Artest. Kings get to develop young players right from the season's start and they are not going to make the playoffs anyways next season. Kind of like the KG trade except on a smaller scale. Aaron Brooks Chuck Hayes luther head 1st round pick next year's first round pick for artest do you guys reckon the kings would accept this deal?
I have said this before... Prince... looked at Yao with Man love about a year and a half ago... just like Tmac did with Yao the year before he came over to the Rockets... this would make my day...
I've always like the game of Tayshaun Prince...maybe we can swap Battier with him coz he mentioned before that he wants to play for Detroit which is hometown...but Prince is also a defensive specimen..we would still need to get that 3rd scorer..
and wakes up goes onto youtube and sees a billion videos of the towel in Yao's face. But seriously it would be a freaking Dream seeing Sheed and Yao on the front court, just don't take Tmac or Battier then the team would be perfect
did someone actually suggest tim thomas? tim thomas? c'mon now... tim thomas is absolutely horrible and only interested in a fat paycheck. he had one good fraction of a season with phoenix, a team that played zero defense and just hoisted shots up. from there he chased the $ - what a surprise - and went to the clippers. the clippers! let's see now...stay with phoenix and make some noise in the playoffs or steal checks in LA...hmm...let's steal checks. of course, his production dropped significantly. after all, he's not there to win. he's there to steal checks. and you guys actually want to bring him to houston??? wow. just...wow.
Actually, I think Rafer would be a perfect backup PG. What we need is a WC starting calibre point guard, not a backup. Bobby Jackson and Aaron Brooks is more than enough for the backup PG position at this point. Although I think we need to emphasise Rafer's defensive abilities a bit more, he just doesn't rate against the top PGs in the WC. The only PGs in the West I think he is better than is Earl Watson and Anthony Carter, and those two teams are trash at the moment. Yeah I agree we don't need players over the hill at the moment, e.g. Sheed. don't we already have Scola?! Billups is the only logical trade target. Even then we've got nothing to trade for him considering they wouldn't want Battier and we don't have much else of value to them.
And as good as Rasheed was, I don't think he could help us for more than year. First, he is not the one from Portland and early Detroit that would almost be a godsend. But he will be 34 with a $12 million dollar contract and sending a younger quality player out the door. And his number, next year could be comparable to an ever improving Scola. Speaking of which, they had similar numbers this year: Regular season Sheed - 12.7 ppg, 6.6 rebs, .432 FG%, 1.7 Blks, 30 mpg http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/w/wallara01.html/ Scola - 10.3 ppg, 6.4 rebs, .515 FG%, 0.2 Blks, 24 mpg http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3653/ Scola (as starter) - 13 ppg, 7.7 rebs, 53%, 0.3 Blks, 28 mpg http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3653/splits;_ylt=Auhun8TjEbbWGmsF8XZnN32kvLYF/ Scola is nowhere near the defender Rasheed is, because he can't consistently guard the likes of Duncan, Garnett, and Nowitzki. But he is probably a better offensive player at this point than Sheed. Considering it was his 1st NBA year, most international players usually get better in their 2nd and 3rd year. Even with T-Mac and Yao on team, we could very well see his average past Rafer's and shoot towards 14 ppg to 16 ppg. Since alot of poster are so concerned that we can't match up with the Lakers and even Suns, especially fake Rocket fans. I don't really think it is time to blow the ship up, yet. Landry and Scola could very well be the missing pieces, along with starting pg.
I am not sure what other offers Detroit would field for Wallace, but, man, he would be perfect for the Rockets. He has a nice perimeter game, plays great defense and has an edge to him that would benefit this bunch. The downsides are there, just like they are for Artest. He's not getting any younger, has the emotional maturity of Crispin Glover and he won't be cheap. Our big asset is cap space with the expiring contracts, but his $12 million salary is coming off the books next year, too. I guess it depends on just how bad Dumars wants to shake it up. I would be willing to lose Landry to get Wallace.
If Landry comes out to be an expensive player (say full MLE which i doubt) i would say trading him along with B-Jax and Head for Rasheed is a good option. But only if he accepts to be a third Scorer and to give up some of his minutes for Scola to play around 25-30 mins per game. 12 off Rasheed, and 12 off Yao.
I don't think he that good in defensive end anymore, KG drop the most point in the post season. He look old and slow at times and complaining for everything while taking days off. He is just a big name, past his prime. And looks like Detroit will have a great deal in a trade with the Nuggets
I meant it to Scola, but you are right about Rasheed, though. Scola, there is the chance for improvement. But with Sheed, I know at somepoint he is going to become liablity or drop enough not to help us on the defensive end. I would feel differently if he had Mutombo's work ethic.
It's another reason, why we should hang on the Chuck Hayes, he has shown that he can guard and even slow down the likes of Boozer, Bosh, and even Duncan....he can be handful. And is perfect as our backup starting center or forward.
Rockets should trade for Rasheed Rasheed and all the other Detroit starters are available, and Rasheed is the most likely to be moved (since his contract is up in 2 yrs and they have readily available young bigs to replace him) - Rasheed is only good for 2 yrs at his peak level, but we need to win right now and yao and tmac only have about 2 yrs at their peak as well. - Sure he may like to smoke it up and has a temper, but we need some fire on our team. Plus, he accepted being a 6th man this yr and should be willing to be part of our new big 3 ha. - He's a beast at the 4 / Can slide over to the 5 - Can match up with the tim duncans - Has a good outside shot although he shoots the 3 too much - He brings height, a strong rebounding and shot blocking presence that we've sorely been lacking at the 4 (with Rasheed as the starter, we would have the flexibility to bring Scola and Landry off the bench and have a real bench for once) - We don't mortgage the future by trading away scola or landry, but don't we have some attractive or expiring contracts to offer? battier, bobby jackson, aaron brooks, etc. i'm not sure if we trade away our 1st round pick this yr (maybe next yr's first rounder), but if you had a shot to get rasheedie - wouldn't you take the chance? - if we trade battier, we need to pick up an athletic swingman in the draft to guard the athletic 2/3 so TMac can rest on D, but besides that - i say we pull the trigger.
I kinda think Rasheed is done. and that is sad to me personally because im a big Sheed fan and advocate.
Hasn't this been brought up already? I would love to get Rasheed at the right price. He may be done being a superstar but hey if he just does the things that we need him to do, since we already have Mac and Yao, then why not?
