I'm not a big Jerome Solomon fan. I remeber when he had a show on 97.5 and I would always switch stations when he was on...
Well, that was my point. We have players we got cheap and still play as well as some of these overpriced clowns on other teams.
Daryl Morey did a great job in getting Budinger. Chase is like the 4th best rookie in the league right now. My question is, how bad did his old coach f' up at arizona, so that there was no attention whatsoever on chase during his college years? I mean, why was this guy not taken in one of the first picks???
I do like that Morey is sticking up for his team, but in the back of my mind I can't help thinking that he's stooping down to Solomons level when he should be acting much more "presidential" by not acknowldging such comments.
I think part of the problem with Budinger was that he had several different coaches durin his time at Arizona. Something like a new coach each season.
Solomon and Justice are the absolute worst! I'm glad the Chron always adds their name before their articles so I know to ignore. I'm with you also, I have no idea why the Chron employs them. They could do much better.
Solomon's stint on 97.5 showed me how little he knows about the NBA. When he writes something about the Rockets or NBA, take it with a grain of salt. He might actually be correct sometimes, but a blind squirrel will find nuts on occasion.
I think this goes back to the thread DD made about playing hard is a skill or not. Maybe soloman like a some us dont think of it as a skill. I think the whole playing hard without stars deal gets a lot of wear on this board as do "yao is the hardest working guy in the league" type of stuff. We could argue all day and people on this board will say yao is the hardest worker in the nba, but if the name amare comes up, he's just a athlete. No one ever mentions how he came in as a raw athlete that turned into a really good player. No one mentions how he overcame microfracture and a deteched retna which required him to lay face down 22 hours a day for like months at a time. No one mention his mid range jumper that is money and his free throw % is in the 80's all in a short period of time. All we can hear is yao is the hardest working guy in the league despite minimum improvements. I do think this team plays hard, but so do denver,ok city and a whole host of teams. That chicago team a few yrs ago that had 0 all stars that tok the wade and shaq led heat to the wire played hard. The bulls last yr without deng and a rookie pg played hard. The garnett and powe less celtics that made it to the conf finals played hard even with the defensive mvp on the bench. So i think the whole theory of they try and play hard and thats the only reason why they're a couple of games over .500 is cool, its just that too many people around here makes it seem like they're the only team that plays hard.
Man you are all over the place? Who ever said Amare was not hard working? And there are tons of teams that don't work hard all game long, they coast through 3quarters and turn it on at the end. DD
Maybe u misread what i said. It is urban legend yao is the hardest working guy in the league, but when amare is brought, no one talks about how he transformed himself from a a raw athlete to a high end all star player. There are not tons of teams that coast and then turn it on, there are a few and very few are top elite teams. Just because a guy makes it look easy doesn't mean he's not playing hard. Evereything doesnt have to look like you're swimming upstream.
Proof is in the pudding. A lot of people would pick, say, the Grizzlies roster over the Rockets one, but one is a young doormat and the other has a winning record. A lot of bad teams have been loaded with "talent."
Yao is a hard working guy, that doesn't mean Amare isn't a hard working guy. But when people talk about the Rockets team being hard working they mean everyone on the court is playing hard, and there are TONS of teams that don't have that. When you combine BBall IQ, Elite Athleticism and Hard work, you get Superstar players like Jordan and Dream, but there are LOTS of players that only have 2 of those 3 qualities and coast without ever getting much better. I would say this Rockets team probably has the most guys I have ever seen that maximize their talents......they get the most out of the least.... We have lots of high BBall IQ, and hard working players without elite athleticism...... And if you are going to have 2 of those 3 qualities.....I think those are the best two to have..... Think about it..... Elite Athleticism and High BBall IQ, but with a low work ethic are players that never quite reach their peak. Elite athleticism, High Work Ethic but low BBall IQ are also players that just don't quite make it. We have gotten tons of players with High Work Ethic and good BBall IQ, but average Athleticism. You could probably lump in height challenged as about the same as Atheliticism. This team works hard, because it has to..... DD
I don't remember anybody saying Yao is the hardest working guy in the league. Yes..he works hard but so does every other NBA player in the league. I believe it takes hard work to be in the NBA period. Sounds like you have a personal vendetta towards Yao.
Nope, i've heard to many posters say he's the hardest working guy in the league and think other guys just roll out of bed and are great. DD, you should know better than to measure how hard a team works. I think denver plays really,really hard and they have really good talent, but when guys discount the fact that guys play hard and have talent, some try to vault a team that just plays hard. Like i've said before, the buls with curry,chandler,gordon ,hinrich play very,very hard and had 0 all stars, but won alot of games and took the heat to 6 games and beat them a yr or so after wards. I can throw DD out on the court right now and he will play hard, that doesn't mean that he can win games. DD, you watch or supposedly watch alot of other teams and i see alot of teams with and without talent playing hard. Last year, the overachieving Cavs played very,very hard. The garnett less celtics played very,very hard. The pacers right now play very,very hard. I don't think the blazers or the lakers play as hard as they should, but a guy like kobe plays very,very hard. The heat right now play very hard as well as the hawks this season. Their talent shouldn't be minimized because they have it nor should the way they play whcih is very hard.
