Greg Smith sent to the D-League

He deserves to go to RGV. He cannot play D at the NBA level. Cole Aldrich is our only option for paint D to back up Asik outside of PPat's undersized overexertion effort. Cole may be being showcased for trade but he's our best option to back up Asik right now.

 

Sam is absolutely light years better at defense than anyone we currently have backing up Asik.

 

While Greg Smith has good hands and is a very good finisher around the basket, he is a huge liability on defense. I have noticed that there is virtually no interior defense when he is in the game.

 

Smith's playing time seemed to immediately increase when Sampson took over, and then immediately decrease once McHale came back. Just going by the eye test, it seemed his production was better under Sampson also. Not saying the team is any better or worse off either way, just commenting on his particular situation.

 

How is Hassan Whiteside doing? He would bring legitimate size to the backup C position.

DD

 

He is not playing to much.

 

Ohlbrecht is getting the majority of minutes

 

He needs to learn to play tough d without fouling so much

 

they want to win a title

so they sent Jones, Smith and White
with Machado, Goudelock, Macklin, Rice jr already there

 

Same old problem for Smith..inconsistent focus.

 

McHale seemed to be a fan of Cole Aldrich, but after seeing Greg Smith for a longer period of time it's become clear that he's not very good defensively. His ineptitude is pronounced though because he usually plays alongside Marcus Morris.

Asik/ Patterson should be treated like Harden/ Lin. Only one should be sitting at any given time unless someone else is stepping up.

 

He's only excelling in rebounds/min (more rebounds than Goudelock with only a 1/4 of his PT)

 

magnifying glassified...

 

Who is Devon Hardin? Is that Hardens brother? And is he just as good?

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Nick Nurse on why Rockets sent Greg Smith 2 RGV:"I think they wanted 2 send him a message. 2 b a pro every day &amp; u got 2 bring it every day"</p>&mdash; Mark Berman (@MarkBermanFox26) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkBermanFox26/status/301428099894108161">February 12, 2013</a></blockquote>
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Sounds like maybe he did do something stupid with that tweet and the one he tweeted out a couple days ago.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Learn from all mistakes</p>&mdash; Gregory Smith (@Ju_Smith4) <a href="https://twitter.com/Ju_Smith4/status/300830015472418817">February 11, 2013</a></blockquote>
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