Has anyone noticed this, I cannot believe what I just saw on the box scores for this guy for the last 8 games. If this has been posted, I apologize. Cumlative Stats: Points 12.7, RBPG 5.30, APG 1.0 V. Cleveland 16 points V. Milwaukee 11 Points V. Washington 22 Points V. Toronto 21 Points V. Seattle 7 Points V. Dallas 7 Points V. Washington 12 Points V. Utah 11 Points V. New York 7 Points This is very profound to me, the guy was a worthless slug when he was here, do you think it was a mistake to get rid of him?
lol... i thought it would be another year or two before he came along but we werent willing to wait. now we want a 4/5 who can hit the outside shot, rebound and block. we shouldnt have giving up so quickly.
That is weird, but he isn't the only one. Stephen Jackson has absolutely been blowing up of late for them as well. However, the Hawks are a terrible team and we should be embarrassed that we nearly lost to them a couple of weeks back. I mean if the slug was doing this with the Kings or another good team, then I might think that we made a mistake.
Metaphor time... Lets just say that every NBA team is some sort of marine environment and the players in them are fish. the rockets, over the years, have been growing, from a bath tub to a pond, to a lake. Since then we have been getting bigger and bigger fish. Francis was a big trout when we were a bath tub, he was a big trout when we were a pond, he is still a big trout in our lake. Yao was maybe a salmon when he entered the league and quickly grew into a baby dolphin at the end of the year. this year he is growing from a baby dolphin into killer whale. Now, the hawks, when they had shareef, ratliff and jackson in the beginning of the year were a sizeable pond, maybe one of those nice little koi ponds that you see in those fancy japanese restaurants. reef and ratliff were sizable koi fish, pretty big fish in their pond. however when they got traded, as well as that quick loss of rasheed, the hawks quickly shrunk, shrunk, shrunk, they went from a pond, to a bath tub, to a sink to a fishbowl. the atlanta hawks are a fish bowl. in comes jason collier, a player with size but just too small to have any effect on the growing houston rockets, a team with fast growing fish. Collier was absolutely huge in the NBDL, which can be described as maybe a coffee cup, at most a grande at starbucks. when the hawks picked him up, he was upgraded from a Grande to a fishbowl. So obviously, if you have come to the end of this story, its obvious that the rockets are a much larger size of water compared to the hawks, the two teams simply cannot compare (erasing our earlier season losses from memory). a guy like collier is too small for our growing pond. So, what kind of marine animal is collier? A peice of crap. Simply more noticable in a fish bowl than a pond. THE END
Exactly. The Hawks have massive holes in their roster, which is why guys like Collier and Crawford are starting and why guys like Sura are playing 40+ mins. The Hawks are playing zero defense. They are simply trying to outscore people, which makes Collier's high point games a lil misleading. Collier's is getting his 12 pts on 9 shots a game. He would never get that here, and his 5 rebs and .5 blocks in 29 mins hardly should get anyone excited. Ill take Cato/Spoon/Mo at the backup 5 spot over Collier everyday of the week and twice on Sundays (Mo averages the same amount of rebounds as Collier does in less mins; that should tell you something).
just wanted to give props for having the courage to post like this. reading too much martial arts novels lately? i think it's awesome.
nyquil, There's just one thing I don't quite get in your story. How can a salmon grow into a dolphin, and then grow into a killer whale? I remember back in Biology 101, they taught that a salmon was a fish and a dolphin was a mammal. Perhaps your evolution theory is a bit too radical?
