Hey, I like Rafer. But you are crazy if you don't think he did bad this series. His best was bad. Sure, he hustled. He just does not have the physical athetic ability nor the defined offensive skills that we need from the point. If we don't get a point guard that can create and score, we are going to literally run McGrady into the ground. Dude has no business having to create for the whole team for the whole season. His first gift is scoring the basketball and we are losing that because he is so run down that his jumper is in shambles. Not to mention, he's one crashing drive away from a busted up knee. My goodness man. Get us a PG.
Rafer Alston played well in the second half. If you want to pin blame on role players in the postseason, Rafer isn't the one to focus on. Obviously, it's problematic that we didn't add a single rotation player to the squad other than Battier. I thought Kirk or Bonzi should have been added, and with Bonzi flaming out, I guess that left Kirk. We simply need something else off the bench. The argument that we're at our best with a very small rotation -- I sort of see the logic and lots of very goood teams follow that philosophy (Phoenix, Golden State come to mind). The problem is our 5-8 players in the rotation are VERY shaky. If you have 7 or 8 good players, you can get away with a short rotation. Our lack of depth, and the inability of the "supporting cast" to make an impact is what hurt us. We shouldn't depend on Tracy or Yao being spectacular just to have a chance to win. That's not fair to them.
you know who else could have provided a tremendous boost this series? every other player you just named who gundy was too ****ing stupid and stubborn to develop or let play throughout the season. gundy needs to go, period. stubborn is THE word to describe him. i dont feel like ranting on and on about him, but i'd be shocked if he's back (and sickened). good riddance.
No question we need a bench. I don't think Mike James is the answer. He's old, he's got a bad contract, and he had a mediocre season. But we need more outside shooting. We need a point guard who's reliable from beyond the arc. Think how many more games we can win with someone who hits 40% or more from 3-point land? The open looks were there all season. And we need power forwards who can knock down the 18-footer. Juwan was too unreliable. And Chuck has no offense aside from layups.
Rafer got the Rockets 4 straight steals in the run that put us up by 5. Without Rafer, the Rockets lose the game by much more than they lost today.
NO! JVG should play Bonzi right at the start of the season even if Bonzi came to the team out of shape. JVG should play Bonzi so he can improve his conditioning and shape rather than feed bonzi in the doghouse! Without playing and get into sharp leads to easy injury and bonzi 's season was done basically right from the start!
The problem with Kirk is he just doesn't score enough and the more time he got the more dumb things he seemed to do with the ball.
His refusal to give out minutes and develope any type of bench during the regular season is also quite frustrating. Novaks shot would have fit well if he would have been allowed to grow. Watching BOKI nail threes for New Jersey while he could not get a whiff of the court here is another reason I hate Van Dummy.
I like this: "James is nothing great but he would have been better than what we had" That's the whole point. We aren't declaring that he's Vince Young, our lord and savior. It's just simple fact that James is a gamer. He has toughness and balls big enough to fight the fight. Look at the Jazz's roster and look at who contributed throughout the series: Boozer Williams Fisher Harpring Giricek Kirilenko Okur We had what... McGrady Yao Battier Alston James would have helped this team a whole lot. Not because of his perimeter shooting but because he can finish around the basket.
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Kirk isn't the answer. He's too dumb to be efficient enough to be effective. Man, you could see this coming. We are off for the year because of our backcourt, specifically the point guard play. Neither Rafer or Luther are the answer back there. By the way, Boki is moving on. That two bit two-dimensional player that can both shoot the 3 and take it to the rim and cram it.
It was not the trade kicker tonight, it was his stubborn refusal to stop the Jazz pick and roll by running a zone. Yao will NEVER....NEVER....NEVER be fast enough to cover it, he is just too big....... It has been a problem all year and JVG failed to help his big man out, which basically set the team up for failure. JVG must go.....sometimes a change in the coach gets more out of the players. Rudy anyone? DD
