Thats what I'm saying. Why play around and give him 20 mins a night? Remember when morey kept saying he wanted to check mcgrady when the knee was hot? Well, if they're thinking of giving yao a deal, his whole body should be hot. The should play him the same consistent minutes as they would in a regular season. If he houlds up, fine, do the contract, but if he misses games with swelling and other injuriies, move on.
Morey has stated that Lowry and Scola are open to seek offers from other teams in order to find out their market value so the Rockets can match that. There is no reason for him to be lieing about that because they are restricted free agents, they have the ability to find as many offers as possible. So the ball is in the court of the players and their agents, not the Rockets. Maybe he does Low-Ball them both at first if there are no better offers, but if they are worth the money they are looking for then they will get those offers from other teams around the league.
They have no choice, much like David Lee last year....he will make a qualifying offer and then see if they get a bigger one..... I think one or both may have to take a 1 year tender and hit free agency in 2011. DD
Not at all, but it seemed like a scratch back sort of move...to avoid an Anderson Varejo type of deal that dragged on into the season. DD
I agree with DaDa. Battier and Ariza should also be better as well. I think people are really underestimating the impact that K Martin will have on this team next year with Yao on the floor. We now have a SG that can score 20+ on any given night and do it within the flow of the offense. We have 3 players that shoot over 80% from the FT line that will have the ball in their hands late in close games.
yeah, i don't thinks so, either. and i really hope that's not what this is about. i don't think this is a championship contender merely by getting yao back. at some point all of this has to be more about winning than stockpiling assets.
If you had been reading my posts I have been saying this for at least three weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ariza is not redundant but a building block of our championship team!
Teams that make a lot of moves do not usually win championships, you generally have to build from within......once you have a solid core. With Yao and the rest we are solid....just tweak...don't rebuild. DD
The Celtics made big moves to get KG & Allen to win their last championship. This year they're being led by Rondo (from within). The Spurs built from within (Manu, Tim, Dave, Parker). The Lakers made a major move with the Gasol theft. Point being, there is no absolute blueprint on building from within vs making major moves. The constant is that those champions all had an, as you like to say, "lead dog". Whether you get that dog from the Animal Defense League or breed them yourself is irrelevant. Point is: get one. As currently constructed, we don't have any Westminster pedgiree pups. We have scrappy, efficient survivor dingos that need to be led by something/someone greater than the sum of their parts. So if we have to sacrifice one or two of them (CBud or Hill), or the rights to one or two of their unborn pups (NYK picks), in order to get that AKC greyhound, by all means you do it. Lord knows they won't be led by the maybe-returning-healthy-for-a-handful-of-games Great Dane with broken lower extremities.
No you don't....you need to have a lead dog and talented players around them. Right now, the Rockets do not have a lead dog, unless one of them develops...probably Brooks...... DD
Most teams keep players together for a while to develop chemistry, teams that take large swings and misses generally fall short..... Right now, the Rockets have a great group of young guys that play hard, and are getting better, you want to ADD to that, not break it up, there is no guarantee that you getting a lead dog for all the good peices adds up. See : Tmac... DD
The kings actually stopped shopping martin around at one point....i think that's why there was no talk. It wasnt that morey did such a good job of hiding it. Sac just wasnt interested, until eventually a new deal was put together they liked.
Chris Bosh can be our lead dog and if Yao stays healthy, he will be our lead dog. Brooks isn't a follower, but is certainely not a leader on this team. I'd put Scola, Battier, and even Hayes before him. Even Lowry is more of a leader than Brooks. If the leader on your team is Brooks, I feel sorry for you.
Dude, if the Lakers win the whole thing, you're theory will be thrown right out the window. The chemistry of the Lakers drastically changed once a supposed hothead named Artest replaced quiet guy Ariza. You could also throw in the Celtics as well. They also got a supposed hothead in Wallace, and their chemistry was altered a bit as well.
