Gosh HillBoy, do you think that maybe him playing the CENTER position when he is a skinny Power Forward might help expose him a bit? Why Adelman is not starting Miller when he was brought in for that very purpose is beyond me. DD
This is precisely what I never joined JHill chorus (formerly known as the CBud chorus that is soon to become the TWill chorus) because the guy is basically a draft mistake by the NYK. For an 8th pick in the NBA lotto, he is amazingly bad and I maintain that if he could play, he'd still be playing for the Knicks who were desperate for players yet Hill was on the bench. It now seems that maybe, just maybe, D'Antoni actually knows what he was doing when he benched Hill.
Man how are you going to say Budinger has failed when he has seemingly broken out of his shooting slump? It's a bad time to say he's playing bad right now when he's doing exactly what he's been told to do. Also yeah, lets just completely ignore every single good game Hill has had.
Defensive purposes. Miller/Scola combination would get mauled in the paint... that would likely be the weakest defensive frontline in the league. While Hill's no defensive stopper, he has the ability to atleast contest at the rim and alter shots.
He doesn't know when to rotate and when not to....and doesn't have enough sand in his britches to hang with big bangers like Nene.... DD
So now because he sucks as a center, you want to now maintain that he's a power forward? How convenient. I can see where this is leading because I saw it happen with you & JVG: Blame Adelman . It's his fault that management hasn't furnished him with players who can fit his system - that same system that Les wanted when RA was hired (I watched the press conference - it looked exactly like the one Les held for JVG). I am looking forward with great anticipation to your upcoming "Holy Crusade" to get Adelman fired because he was unable to win with a bunch of guys who couldn't play. After all, it worked against JVG, didn't it?
Yep, it is all me baby, I have the power of the web in my hands !! LOL - whatever. JVG dug his own grave by having crap playoff strategies, and getting outcoached by a rookie in Dallas when he was up 2-0 and coming home for 2 games. DD
Now you're taking Rick Adelman's side just because Jordan Hill can't play center...wow. Can't you see that when Hill was coming off the bench as a "POWER FORWARD" he was producing very well and as soon as he a started playing as center his production level decreased immediately. From what I see it is Rick's fault. But this is something Adelman shouldn't be fired for I mean cmon...
No, JVG dug his grave with you and the others by playing a low scoring, half- court defensive style of basketball that was boring to watch but just so happened to win a 4th NBA title for the Spurs. The Rockets were losing and they were boring so Uncle Les fired JVG and brought in a more "offensive" minded coach in Adelman. Unfortunately for Adelman he is now facing the same problem JVG did when he was head coach: a front office that cannot craft an effective strategy that puts a competitive team on the court. In the end, it will RA who will be the fall guy just like it was for Rudy T and JVG before him.
Hey, sometimes you got to change the coach, JVG was done like dinner, and I think Adelman probably leaves after this season too....as for the rest of your take about the front office, sometimes it is hard to get a superstar, everyone in the league is trying....not everyone gets lucky....and when you have one, you have a decade or more to build around it...our shot was Yao...and that was ALMOST a superstar ....just never quite got there. DD
Center, PF, whatever - he's a project player who is not very good, period. Had he been able to play either position, the Knicks wouldn't have dumped him. But apparently, you weren't around for the great DaDakota holy war against JVG whom DD blamed for all of the Rockets' failings. He flooded the GARM with post after post after post blaming JVG's coaching incompetence for the Rockets' lack of success. And, as this season slips farther away, I can see him mounting his mighty steed once again to ride forth and wage war on Rick Adelman because he, like JVG before him, dared to lose with a team full of players who couldn't play championship basketball. It's going to be epic...
JVG was a terrible coach in the playoffs, he sucked, he had no answer for any other coach that made a change, JVG just kept doing the same thing, and it burned him, he got fired because of it. I am sorry you don't have your favorite coach anymore.....oh well....I am a big target, it is all my fault...lol.... I am secretly Les Alexander, and am going to bring Ron Artest back, just so you leave again..... BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA DD
Why do you keep using this bad logic? If Scola was never a good player then the Spurs wouldn't have dumped him. If Nash wasn't a good player then the Mavs wouldn't have dumped him.
You need to stop making threads that hype up players, and start making threads about how crappy they are. This way, if you jinx them, it will be in a good way.
And exactly where does that leave them DD? Starting all over again in 2011? Or will DM & Les continue to sit around waiting for some stupider than themselves to bail them out with a one-sided trade? I really curious here because it's been 15 years now since that last title and I have grown weary of wandering around in the NBA desert of mediocrity.
If Lowry wasn't a good player then the Grizzlies wouldn't have dumped him. If Marc Gasol wasn't a good player then the Lakers wouldn't have dumped him. If Tracy McGrady wasn't a good player, then the Raptors wouldn't have dumped him. Just because a team doesn't like a player, doesn't mean that player sucks.
It leaves them as a competitive team that is looking to trade assets for a shot at one, or flip young players for picks to get one. A much better place than having their hat out and wishing on a star. DD
Now who's using "bad logic". Scola was dealt because the Spurs were so loaded at his position, they had no room for him. Nash was let go because Mark Cuban is a dumb ass. Instead of working out a contract before he expired, Cuban while in genius mode declared that Nash was "done" and let him walk. Way different from a guy who was drafted 8th and then jettisoned.
