I don't have any idea what the discussions between the Rockets and Damon are about but I do know that if your franchise player says in the paper he wants Swift and Stoudemire you better at least send the jet for them and take them out to dinner. You absolutely want Tracy to feel like he has input and that the team is making moves to win. Remember why he is here and not in Orlando. Besides how do you know if he would take a paycut to play here till you ask him.
IMO, this looks like a done deal. They just need to work out the contract and money details. With Damon hopping on, hopefully Stro will make him have no choice but to come to the Rocks. This is too good of a team to pass up. In reality, if Damon openly said he wanted to join the Rockets, Tmac openly said to the media that he wanted Damon, then the Rockets are giving HIM the royal treatment/tour, its basically a done deal. The only setback I see is if Damon was high like a mofo and asking more money than he is worth.
Do you guys remember when half the board was drooling over getting stoudamire. That couldn't have been more than a few years ago. I just think you need a 6'4 guy there to make us a champion. I believe James is adequate because he's so dynamic. But I'd like to see us go a little bigger than the rat from Harry Potter.
I don't know how it would work, but I would love for the following to happen: Blazers send: Stoudamire + Derek Anderson Rockets send: D. Wesley + B Sura + 2nd round pick (or something else) I have no idea if this is even possible or if it can take place under CBA terms, etc, but I would think that we have had a wonderful summer if we can get both Stoudamire and Anderson while giving up an expiring contract in Wesley and a guy who will be injury-prone from now on (Sura). We can all dream, can't we?
you had me up until "54" but then you added in "Hornets" I'd take Stoudamire. He's still a good player. And putting Sura at the 2 spot ain't good but it ain't bad either. If we sign Damon, we'll have him, Mike James, Wesley and Sura (barring any S&T deals). Not the back court players I want fighting over a starting 2 spot, but I guess it will do. Maybe we can do a S&T giving Portland Wesley and Spoon or Baker for Damon and Derek Anderson. Granted, Anderson is injury prone but that would solve the 2 spot position in a flash.
the NBA is full of mismatches. everygame there is a mismath to exploit. thats why basketball is team sport. there are 4 other guys on the court that can help damon if needed to...
in the dallas series....when dallas went small. howard was too quick for yao ming and yao ming was to tall/big for dirk. it then falls in the players hands to find ways around it and who has the most will to win.
in today's open floor, everybody shoots the 3-ball, NBA, NOBODY (and I mean NOBODY) knows how to post up any one example: Dirk Nowitzki.
from forchette49: It's possible, I guess, but does anyone here have a clue where Portland is trying to go this year? It's hard to see Allen going into rebuilding mode, or anyone being enthused about next year's FA's. What do we have to offer them except James and expiring contracts even if we did make a run at landing DS, and SAR in a S&T? There are some inept franchises floating around, but I don't view Portland that way and everything I've read about them this offseason has made me scratch my head.
You realize the irony in that statement right? The same Hornets team that didn't look much different than a summer league roster? I could have dropped at least 30 on them myself. Hell, they had Nachbar starting the 2nd half of the season!
This is not entirely accurate. Actually we started improving long before we got Wesley while we still had JJ. It was the day they inserted Sura in the starting lineup at point guard and we had already won 5 or 6 straight at the point we traded for Wesley. When we got Wesley, he shot around 20% from the floor for the first two weeks after the deal. We continued to win because of Tracy's stellar play during that period but we were in the middle of the roll when we got Wesley.
Basically, when it comes down to it, we need to quit f*cking around with guards, and get ourselves a damn PF. We already drafted that bum, Luther Head, to go along with Wesley, Sura, James, and Jon Barry.
Is that why Tracy McGrady, one of the best players in the NBA, didn't do it when they played these "scrubs"?
