Don't go there. This place doesn't tolerate "toilet mouthes" very well. You can enjoy the friendly dialogue (note the "smiles" useage) or you can be ignored. It's a shame 'cause you seem to have some hoops sense - now work on your common sense.
GATER, If you haven't noticed, teeloo and R0ckets03 are jabbing each other as friends. There is little need for BBS parenting around here. Now, be nice everyone!
While I'm finding it harder and harder to be patient with Rice and his shooting slump I am holding back on blasting him because of the Mo Taylor situation last year. The first three months of the season MoT could not find the basket and made a ton of mistakes. The majority of the board (including myself) was calling for Mo's head. Then in the second half of the season MoT starting hitting outside shots and became a pivitol part in the Rockets offense taking on the load of the scoring in the early part of games and helping to spread the floor so Cat and Steve would have plenty of room to drive to the basket. In Walts first year he was horrible the first 3 months until Rudy finally pulled him around xmas and inserted Cat into the starting line up and moved Shandon to the three. Shortly after that Walt either came out of his slump or just started getting comfortable and started shooting lights out. Walt was placed back into the starting line up and the Rockets finished that season with a lot of wins at the end. I think I will at least give Rice till the begining of the year before I start passing judgement on his game.
My guess is the main thing slowing Rice is his health. I was thinking since about the first few months of his last season with Charlotte, I have only seen a "reasonable shadow" of Glen Rice once, maybe the last month or so of the Lakers regular season through the playoffs during Shaq's first title run. I don't know if it is better to let him play about 24 minutes per game, keep him a little in the flow of the offense, and hope his health gets better, or put him on IR for a couple of months for dedecated rehab and bring him back say the last six weeks of the regular season. I guess the staff thinks the former is the better option, what does concern me is his production (again, I assume this is directly related to his health) hasn't improved with an offseason of rehab and limited time with the Knicks much of last year. However if we can get that "reasonable shadow" of Rice (I have no delusions that he will return to say 97 almost undefensable form), like how he played for the Lakers (a dead-eye shooter who is adequate in other phases), he would add a lot to the offense.
Yeaaaah tilu. Oh and putting Glen Rice on the IL for a couple of months is a very very bad idea. We have bad enough offense in the first quarter as it is. Rice still gets some respect from other players. They know that he can go off any time and have to respect him as such. I have no problem with Walt starting over Rice though. Walt is hot rite now, and Rice can be our main scorer off the bench. He will get more shots that way to get into a groover.
Shooters need legs and feet to shoot well. Rice legs/feet are gone. He has 0 lateral movement and you couldn't slide a drivers licensce under his feet on jump shoots. Check video of his game before and after the injury. As a result, we got spoiled milk with a good expiration date.
I'd like to see the Rockets post up Glen Rice a couple times a game. That'll perhaps get him involved, give the opposing defense something else to look at and give our guards a play off on occasion. Of course Rice would hafta be able to either make his shot or create an opportunity for someone else more than 28% of the time
Thanks Crispee. We do actually know each other. We actually will be related in a few years when he marries my sister-in-law. I actually know his mom, his dad, and his brother. Notice I did not say anything negative about them, all I said was they are my friends(the truth). And we actually do share season tickets. I am not going to respond to the common sense crack, because I assume you didn't know I was stating the truth.
I agree with you. However I don't see it happening. As bad a player as Pippen turned out to be, he also was an effective post up player like Rice has been in his career. I may be wrong but I don't believe Rudy every used Quitten in the post either. Rice can still be an effective scorer and player, but he should hold off on planting himself at the 3 point line less right now untill he gets his stroke back(if ever). Wish we still had Bullard to do that.
Acutally it happened yesterday agains the Jailers. Rice had two to three consecutive post up opportunities against Bonzi. One resulted in a layup and another in an assist. I think Rice can be a very effective post up player. Actually he might be our best post up player. Steve, Cat, and Kenny like to face the basket. Kevin is below average in post up. Rice probably is our best back to the basket player.
I would rather say it and have it not needed than to not say it when it would have been approriate. Or maybe I was just having flashbacks of that East Texas Lawyer who was here around draft time and PO'd everybody - HP/crispee included.
Must've missed that. Hope it becomes a pattern instead of the exception. I hope Rudy realizes that there is a connection between Rice having his season high and getting some post up chances allowing him to feel more a part of the game and get in the flow. Nothing helps a shooter more than some easy baskets. And for Rice with the height advantage he usually has over the defender, its pretty easy for him to score down low.
Rice seems to be coming around, dropping 14 points last night. Slowly but surely he's getting into shape and getting into rhythm. Remember, Rice never really had a serious injury that kept him out like this, so he's learning to re-adjust to his old style while at the same time getting back into shape.
Correction, you are talking about last year when Mobley became a starter, and Walt never did make it back to the starting lineup last year. Last year, he got benched, and didn't really do much the whole year until his 3 pt shooting got better in the end. Mobley never really replaced Walt as a starter in 1999-2000, either. In Walt's first year, we sat him down in December for Bullard/Rogers. While we did go 3 guards for a little bit after the Barkley injury, it was because of Barkley, TMass, Cato and Dream were injured. It was more that 3 guards allowed us to play Bullard and Rogers. Bullard/Rogers became the starters. If anyone replaced Walt, it was Bullard. It was our only choice, due to injuries. We weren't going to start Bullard, Walt, and Rogers (who played some CENTER a couple of games), and Kenny was not ready. Anyhow, this didn't last too long, and Walt was back in in January, when we got Anthony Miller and Hakeem back, Bullard remained PF, and Mobley returned to the bench. He didn't come out of his "slump" really until late March, his first year. And then we went 10-7.
That's cool Gater. I am actually a lawyer. But I didn't wait all these years to finally post on Clutchcity to piss off people.
Rice prime time was looonnnngg gone, since he was with the LAKERS! Come on guys, everybody think he is the third best player that the FAKERS ever had, but Jackson knows he ain't worth 7 million per season.So, he traded his ass, to NYK!
I guess Rice's great game vs. the Sonics answers this question(right now anyway). In a game with the Franchise out and the Rockets needing more offense, Glen Rice delivered a statement on whether he will be the Rockets savior. 24 minutes = 0 points! All together now: Rice Sucks!
