It looks like Chase is more than enough of a replacement to Von

Not sure if this is a good comparison, since I haven't seen him play much this season. But from seeing him in college, and limited pre-season (I live out of market), I would say that he reminds me of a young Glenn Rice...

 

Just look at his stats

10ppg in 17 minutes on 52%+ shooting....

If you double that, or basically give him starters minutes he would be the teams leading scorer.

He is McGrady's replacement.

DD

 

Who goes to the bench when T-Mac comes back? Once Tracy gets back into form, I say send Battier to the bench. The Rockets are going to be harder to guard at that point, because in some situations you can play T-Mac, Battier, and Ariza together along with a point guard or put T-Mac at the point and play all four; T-Mac, Chase, Battier and Ariza.

But as you said, they are putting to much of the play making responsibilites on Brooks and/or Lowry. It showed in the Laker Game.

 

Yes,good point. He could help us offensively.Luis,Carl and the even improving Hayes aren't enough. I wish Dorsey wouldn't be so far behind in his development either,we could use extra rebounding and defense.If Taylor was doing well enough to get some valuable minutes,it would have helped too. We missed Chase the other night against the Lakers.

 

Kudos for the Rockets/Morey keeping an eye on Chase throughout the whole draft, seems to me Chase was a projected first round pick that dropped for whatever reason. If he would have been drafted in the late first round, no one would have qualms about it. In the middle of the 2nd round, an absolute steal and I don't know what the other teams who were also targeting Chase were thinking.

I'd keep him on the bench and bring him along slowly. He's going to have games that he's going to struggle making shots and getting torched by quicker swingmen. The Brent Barry comparison is sorta wrong cause Brent was a combo 1 and 2 and Chase is more a combo 2 and 3, Chase doesn't have PG skills like Brent had.

 

see if you can catch the name of our new player on the first dunk
hint it's the first name of budinger:

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possibly a hint to his future potential? probably not to that elite level, but one can hope/dream. or a fusion of both players

 

Me and Egghead are the only ones here that aren't suprised about Chase's performance so far.


He had always been great vertical athlete with deceptive lateral quickness; a tremendous shooter; a good finisher; can handle the ball decentl and can be a very good passer and playmaker off the pick and roll.

I guess the people who doubted our praises about him prior to the draft are all quiet now huh?

 

Buddinger looks great on the floor, absolutely. Comfortable with the ball in his hands, coming off of picks, spotting up, filling the lanes on the break. The kid is a huge surprise this season.

Kyle Lowry pushes the ball incredibly well, getting easy baskets for other players and forcing the other team to foul him, and the player who runs the floor with him the best, Buddinger.

But, as for being a replacement for Tracy McGrady, don't underestimate everything Tracy used to do for the Rockets. The system the team runs right now is nothing like the post up/iso Tracy offense it ran before Rick got here, or for the time Tracy/Yao have been healthy with Rick around, and Buddinger can in no way replicate Tracy offensively. Tracy would initiate the offense, beat people off the dribble, post up at the elbow, and get other people layups and dunks with his passing.

Don't get me wrong, I love Chase, but just because he has great basketball IQ and athleticism/shooting, he cannot do what Tracy used to do. He is scoring in the flow of the offense and fits in better than Tracy would at this point, but if teams were to key on him as they did with Tracy, I'm sure he wouldn't be able to replicate Tracy's contributions. But with this team as currently constructed, Buddinger looks great, especially considering he is playing off the bench and as a rookie.

 

I think Budinger's numbers have a lot to do with Lowry. Those two with Landry make our bench very good. Keep it that way.

 

Chase budinger is an absolute steal I love Morey. Imagine next year with Yao plus a free agent like Joe Johnson we would be awesome.

 

This team does not need a TMac, it needs a smart heady, team oriented player that can fill it up and play within the team concept.

Thus the replacement for Tmac comment.

DD

 

If the Rockets make the playoffs, you'll see why this team needs Tmac, or a Tmac type of player. This kind of ball doesnt work in the playoffs, the games always slows down to half court execution.

 

interesting thought.

 

yessir

 

We played without T-mac, last playoffs, and went further than we ever have.

 

Not really, try again. Nobody on the roster can do what a healthy T-Mac does.

 

btw does chase have any post up game?

 

What take 25 shots a game, make about 40% of them, and walk the ball up the court, while playing half arsed defense and whining about your touches?

Sure, lots of guys can do that.

DD

 

He apparently did some in college, but I haven't seen it in the NBA.

I would love for him to get some lessons from Hakeem, like Kobe did. He could pick up the footwork, since he learns quickly. It could be something he does during the next off-season, while he gets adjusted this season.

http://www.draftexpress.com/article/NCAA-Weekly-Performers-21109-3105/

 

How about the simple ability to command double teams?