Is Patrick Patterson Our Swing for the Fences Pick?

Raven · Jun 25, 2010

Quality role players on rookie contracts have amazing value. It's not just Morey who wants low cost high production players. Every GM looks for them. First, Saint Patrick needs some PT to showcase his abilities. Only then, will other teams covet him.

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topfive · Jun 25, 2010

Old Man Rock said:

Patrick Patterson is clearly a good guy with a great work ethic. The Rockets say he was 6th on their board. But he wasn't 6th on anyone else's board. Bryan Colangelo thought ED Davis was a much better prospect just one pick before.
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Everyone thought Brooks and Landry were selected way too early as well. I think Morey just has a better system for rating players than most other "experts" do.

Old Man Rock · Jun 26, 2010

topfive said:

Everyone thought Brooks and Landry were selected way too early as well. I think Morey just has a better system for rating players than most other "experts" do.
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Brooks and Landry were primarily the work of Adelman Cd and Hinkie. Morey gets credit fro Dorsey and Taylor. Budinger was primarily Adelman.

Seriously I know this thread is getting old so I will write this as my final post in this 0 star rated thread (if it were possible).

Let me be clear I don’t want to walk away leaving the idea I dislike Patterson. Draft day I said among the players that I thought had a chance to drop to 14 I would take Patterson, Sanders Aldrich and George in that order. I really liked the work ethic and character of the kid and he seemed so consistent. I felt Patterson right now is better and we are in win mode now. But immediately after we picked Patterson or maybe after the Bucks picked Sanders I felt we made a mistake and we took the safe pick as opposed the pick that would make us better.

But that doesn't mean I disliked Patterson just I would have patterson 7th on my board not 6. So that should make it clear I like Patterson and I am only having a little buyer’s remorse. A little remorse because I believe Sanders gives the Rockets all the tools we need and are lacking on this team. A running shotblocking rebounding big who can play defense and score down low. And I don’t believe he is that much of a project and that far behind Patterson right now.

And I am not alone in my opinion of the man. The NBA’s best excutive of the year, John Hammond said those exact same things about Sanders. The Rockets next choice if Patterson wasn’t there was Sanders. Yes Riley reported that 14 of the first 15 picks were on the Rockets board which pretty much means Sanders was one of the Rockets first 14 choices. He could have been the 7th choice on the Rockets board for all we know.

Like I said earlier I think Sanders brings what the Rockets need from a big more than any other player not named Favors or Cousins and that’s rebounding, shotblocking and the ability to defend down low. But he wasn’t our pick and Patterson was and he is now a Rocket and I am happy we have him and will cheer from this day forward. Of course I will be secretly watching Sanders from afar because I am now a fan of a kid I knew nothing about 3 months ago. Anyway that's all I have to say on the subject and I can't wait for the summer league games. Go Rockets Go PP

Z-Ro&Trae · Jun 26, 2010

TheFreak said:

Dorsey is better than Hill
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negative 5 stars

rocketicon · Jun 26, 2010

Old Man Rock said:

So Yeah that is the truth. I wish we would have picked Sanders over Patterson. I may be the only one in the world that does. The fact is they're really quite similar in many of the boxes the Rockets check. Sanders is a stand up guy with a great attitude. And so is Patterson. I think they both have great work ethics.

The big difference that I see besides size is Sanders didn't play high school basketball until he was 11th grade. He was 16 and measured 6'2". A late bloomer who didn't get much attention in high school. No one to mentor his game. that mostly continued in college. Thats exactly opposite Pattersons career. he was always on the recruiters boards. NBA scouts looking at him in High school. Invited to all the High school event , Nikke Hoop Summit mcDanalds High school games. He got it all with Duke Florida and Kentucky chasing him. And Sanders had VCU. VC who?

Colleges never thought to be something special. He by his own admission said he was uncoordinated and didn't like the game when he was a kid because much better players his size. But then he grew. Still no love from the big colleges. His coaching was okay the first 2 years not so much his last year when they changed coaches. But Sanders has managed to improve on his own. His had big games in the tournaments and if you watched the games he effects the game much like Yao does in Houston. Teams stay away from him. That's not the case with Patterson. Also neither of them are accomplished back to the basket scorer. But while Sanders had a lot less experience doing it he shot an amazing 55% from the low post a much better number than Patterson. Patterson is stronger and more accomplished so he is definitely the safe bet but I would have liked us to take a chance on someone who I think could bring a more needed skill and that's shotblocking and low post sscoring. The end
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1. Teams stay away from Sanders but not Patterson- I bet that has zero to do with the surrounding cast they played with. I can't remember exactly who PP's teammates were, but I think I remember a few of them being pretty good.

2. In 3 seasons at Kentucky, Patterson never shot below 57.4%. So yes, 55% is nice and all, but its worse than PP's worst season in FG%.

3. You used the Pacers drafting George as an example earlier. Who the hell says we should be using a similar strategy as the Pacers??? Have you seen them? The one pick they have had over the last half decade that's been worth a dang is Granger, who was maybe the SAFEST PICK, of the entire first round that year.

Lastly, I am not sure I have seen it mentioned much, if at all, in this thread. Patterson aaveraged 18 and 9 shooting 60% as a Soph. Had he come out last season he was DEAD LOCK top 10 draft pick. For the sake of his team he deferred touches to the #1 and #5 picks in this year's draft. He is a guy that has quite a bit of upside in addition to being a player that you would consider to be a "safe" pick.

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