I have in the past been pretty harsh on Rafer and even compared him to Moochie. i believe at one point at the start of the season i wished for his conviction in a seperate threat titled " what do you do when rafer shoots'. I hereby admit that i was wrong and regret any ill that i had wished upon him. He is the man. especailly love his heart and last night after his trash talk ( even more than his game) i was very impressed.
do we really need a new thread for this? Couldn't you have apologized in one of the numerous anti rafer or rafer appreciation threads?
Before we get all teary eyed about Rafer, I feel like he owes Rocket's fans an apology for the way he played over the last two years. He stunk more often than not. He shot us out of MANY games. He missed more game changing, critical shots than any Rocket, maybe ever. He is streaking now, but, just remember, the Rockets did almost everything humanly possible to replace him. At present, he is playing great, but his past criticisms were earned. He and Head almost totally disappeared in the playoff series against Utah. It is not personality, it is performance.
Rafer has stepped up. I have been waiting for him to slow down but he hasn't. Keep up the great work Mr. Alston we will need it in the coming months!
I've never heard of Mt. Appologies, but I'm curious to know how Rafer acquired an entire mountain during the course of the NBA season.
Anyone had a right to compalin about his shooting before. But not directed at ACL1: I hope that everyone learns to recognize the other strengths in a player's games instead of just a blanket 'he sucks' when he's having problems with one aspect of the game.
I too applaud Skip on his recent play. He has really stepped it up, I only hope it continues. Past performance suggest this is an upward bleep and not what we can expect in the long run. Then again, maybe hooking up with Mr Peanut and his style of play has provided a permanent elixer. I sure hope so. Go Rockets! 20+ wins in a row
YEAH!! F HIM!! He should have been playing this way all along. He needs to average 30 points and 14 assists a game for the rest of year and next to even out all the crappy games he had last year and before. Rafer doing well only makes me more pissed at him. But seriously, I will take what he's doing now but I'm still mad about years past.
Rafer is looking good! Still a few mistakes to be corrected! Rafer is looking good! Possibly this is an illusion due to the fact that Yao Ming isn't playing and we dont notice his poor play making where Yao Ming is involved!
rafer's come a long, long way and deserves all the credit/praise that he's getting.. keep it up skip!! we'll need it
Rafer's presence still scares me... I'm still afraid that he could go cold at any time, and I'm not sure how much it will effect us if he does. I mean, he has been a god-awful shooter for almost his ENTIRE CAREER. Are we really all convinced that everything is suddenly all roses after some magical switch flipped 20 games ago? With that said, I do think he'll be alright though. I think he's going to level off at just over 40% for the rest of the season... which should be "good enough" (god I hate that term). If he really has somehow learned to shoot, and/or this offense is really all he needed to correct his game, then this team is very, very scary.
