Will give all our bench players experience! Now JVG and the coaching staff can work specifically with head, swift, bowen, and wesley to step up their game. Besides, some of them need the experience in an actual games that cannot be taught in training. Then, everyone will heal up and the rockets will the the Championship Ring by storm. Grapejuices, The Next Prophet.
There isn't a bright side to these injuries. Here are more likely scenarios: 1 We will miss the playoffs because the team never got the chance to become a cohesive unit. 2 Yao will never completely shake off the rust after missing "several weeks". (This belongs in the Very Likely category). 3 Tracy will be completely worn out by the end of the season and his playoff performance will suffer. 4 Head will hit the rookie "wall" late in the year because of his heavy minutes. Wesley will wear out and completely fizzle like last season. Nice try at optimism, but Yao going down for several weeks is the straw that breaks the Rockets backs. It all falls on Tracy playing 40+ mins/game and carrying the team on his back. The key to everything is exactly how long Yao is out.
One possible bright side is that we give some of the players we are considering trading more playing time to increase their value. Of course, no one under JVG's system can really average spectacular numbers unless they are HOFers like McGrady.
There is bright side. Yes, the role players can get more time to find their roles. But the dark side is much bigger. It will wear down everyone, especially in a second oldest team in this league. JVG, build a young team from now on. Otherwise, go back to NY.
Here's the bright side. Stromile plays a lot of minutes and Van Gundy is forced to use him to show on the pick and roll defense by taking the big man that sets the pick and to set the screens for TMac on the other end. Then when Yao comes back, Stro is given those 2 jobs and Van Gundy adjusts the offense so that after Stro sets the outside screen, he runs inside and sets the screens to free Yao up to receive the ball in the paint area. Since Yao is out, we will obviously have to go to Howard for offense. Maybe JVG will see a new insight on the offensive end that will allow him to free up Yao even more when Yao comes back because he has to use Stro to help free up Juwan for shots.
baaaaa! build a young team..what are you talking about? The injuries to our young superstars have been the significant ones. the weak, they blame blame blame and point fingers. shoulda done this, shoulda done that. build a young team. simplistic fool! what's the griping about. A month to heal a toe. Big deal. The Rockets will be at 500 or better when a refreshed Yao comes back in early Feb because there is no better man to lead this team through the muddy waters than JVG. in miserable circumstances opportunites abound. watch 'ol cpt. Gundy at the helm. outta the cold misty fog he and his crew will come. with one eye on the horizon and the other on the larry o brien trophy glistening in the sun.
There's nothing positive to gain from being an injured team other than developing the mental strength and killer instinct to stop feeling sorry for yourself, forget excuses and go out there & do whatever it takes to win. I really think that's the only positive spin you could possibly put on the situation.
Its tough to see any bright sides but... Yao can use the next 6-7 weeks to gain more muscle in his upper body so he can get even stronger and more balanced. Experience for the rest of the team, and Stro is going to have to grow up.
Sure there is. Head and Stro get lots of minutes. Yao's body gets a rest. All the guys on IR get a fire in their belly waiting to get back on the court.... Regular Season goals, in order of importance: 1) Make the play-offs 2) Have a healthy, rested team that is peaking at the end of the season ... 3) about 2 months with most of the team intact ... 4) High play-off seed So many doomsayers. This season is nowhere near over. Assuming all our injured can get fully healthy by season's-end and we can at a minimum squeek into the post season we'll create some serious havoc. Nothing that has happened so far has ruled out either #1 or 2 above; #3 doesn't look so likely, but would be very helpful. That's all we need, #4 is a luxury. Just give me 8th seed (well, maybe 7th ) w/ a healthy TMac, Yao, Sura, Wesley, DA, Alston, Howard, Stro, Barry, Deke, Head, Bowen in April.
if the lakers had score 90-100 pts..we wouldnt have won that game. somehow they missed just as many shots as we did.
Somehow? Do you suppose it was because the Lakers were playing the toughest defensive team in the leauge. That MIGHT have been a factor. Just a thought.
If Yao Ming was only 6'5", he wouldn't be a very good center. But he's not and they didn't, so what's your point?
T. McGrady 20 D. Wesley 18 J. Howard 10 R. Bowen 6 D. Mutombo 2 L. Head 16 M. Norris 0 S. Swift 4 L. Baxter 0 my point is we cant score in the 70s and low 80s and expect to win. wesley is the only one that had decent pts. to me mcgrady should be up in the upper 20s. when he doesn't we need other's to fill up those pts. just my 2 cents.
we will need tmac to go back to his orlando days and average close to 30. wesley and head will both have to keep up the good work with a combined average of 25. jho and swift will have to combine for 25. that's 80 total. moochie, bowen, and baxter will have to combine for 10 a night, so we can average 90ppg. on top of all of that, we have to hold our opponents under 90 a night (obviously). IOW, everyone needs to step up on offense, and defense in order to win half of these games.
I would start swift, to see how much he can do as a starter. Deke can not play over 20 minutes a game, why not motivate swift, that's why he sign with us for starter job. In situation like this, if he is not starter, he will disappointment about himself, that's not good for his development.
deke can't play any minutes. he's injured too. swift will have to be the starting center, there is no other choice. i expect a lineup of: swift jho bowen tmac wesley -------- moochie, head, baxter off the bench.
