How Many Shots are Available to the Rockets Starting Power Forward?

It's a legitimate topic for discussion among intelligent and reasonable people who actually want a discussion, not so much with the OP who stubbornly clings to his "me better than all u people" act and refuse to see his errors when multiple people point them out.

The OP talks about how he is educating everyone here on the use of advanced math when it's really very basic arithmatics misapplied to his own random. assumptions yielding numbers (5-6 shots attempted per 33 minutes) that do not square with reality.

I am perfectly happy to have the conversation with you and many other posters, but not with an idiot.

Whether the Rockets offense "needs" an "offensive oriented PF" depends on what you mean by these quotes terms. They team may not need, say, Aldridge or Love or Ryan Anderson at PF in order to win 50 games and have a top 5 offense in the NBA. However, it doesn't mean that having one of them wouldn't signficantly boost the team's chances of winning a title or even getting a top seed-- Miami probably doesn't "need" Chris Bosh to be a top level playoff team, either, with a potent offense given how great Lebron adnd (healthy) Wade are, but it doesn't mean that Bosh's offensive skills are not very very helpful to them in getting the 2 titles.

 

Just in theory, on paper, I don't think any of us predict that we'll win the trophy with our roster. We don't have enough to dethrone Miami or OKC. Lets say that's confirmed true at the end of this year. So why exactly would we want to stay pact? In hopes that the mediocre players grow into becoming star players? I thought the whole notion that you guys are arguing is that there isn't enough room for a third star player...so what exactly are you hoping for? That all of our C level players just improve a little bit to take us to the next step? Just get the third star(if it even becomes possible), and we'd be a much more attractive option and we'd be able to cut to the chase and get better mediocre players on cheaper contracts, without having to wait & hope that our players improve. Miami didn't stop at LeBron and Bosh, they got Battier, Ray Allen, Birdman, etc. You guys are just making it more complicated then it needs to be. Get the best players and get the right type of mediocre players around them. Don't get mediocre players and deny star players because they don't fit with our mediocre players.

You don't run out of space for great players other than cap space. We don't think that the olympic team will suck this year because they have too many great players. Miami pretty much always, always has either LeBron, Wade, or Bosh on the floor. Whenever two of them are resting, you have the other one holding down the fort. I like the idea of always having Harden, Dwight, or Love on the floor. That sounds pretty good.

 

Its obvious we need to see how well what we have works before we can seriously start a discussion on what we need to get better (know which piece or pieces we need to challenge the top tier teams). As January rolls around, that discussion can perhaps take place.

But it is fun to speculate ahead of time. IMO, someone like a Josh Smith type guy (top tier defensive player) at the 4 that can be persuaded not to take long 2's and is at least average from 3 would be a good fit. A player that can slow down and cause some problems for the Lebrons and Durants of the NBA.

After one pre-season game, the very early return says that the 2nd unit may need more priority than the 1st unit in terms of shoring up. Much of that is getting Asik in that lineup and developing defensive cohesion (which may come by itself in time without player changes).