No Tmac, no Artest, no Ariza, no Yao..the Rockets are boring once again

and you mentioned T-Mac, Artest, and Ariza as examples?

both Ariza and Artest saved their respective roles on Championship Teams with stellar play LATE in their playoff runs.

I defended McGrady here to no end and for what? a 22 game winning streak and excuses after excuses.

you sure aren't helping your argument.

we have TWO world Class players in Scola and Yao, and so much firepower we don't know what to do with it.

During the nbatv team preview, they mentioned how unique this team was while going down the roster. they just kept mentioning all of our under the radar players like chase, chuck, and shane who are going to be ready to make a difference.

martin, lowry, brooks, miller. should I keep going?

 

T-Mac gave us one exciting year. That's it. The rest of the years we were bored to death with low scoring games in the 80s. I'm so glad T-Mac is gone. Even when he was healthy he would walk up the court on a fast break.

This new team is the most exciting Rockets team I've ever seen post championship era. We're so deep and we can actually run a fast break!

 

I finally agree.

DD

 

Hell no we don't...I don't agree to disagree with your innane point.

Trevor Ariza sucked balls, he was horrible and no 2 month stretch where he was average at best will ever change that.

Morey made a massive mistake signing him, and by the grace of his hard work, he was able to find another sucker to take him and get a cheaper better player in Courtney Lee.

Morey doesn't always hit it out of the park, but he gets rid of his mistakes very fast....Artest and Ariza one and done....smart man, that Morey.

Way smarter than a lot of Rocket's fans apparently.

DD

 

All of them.

DD

 

T-Mac a physical specimen? T-Mac can't even run or jump anymore.

A dead body in the morgue is also a physical specimen, and that pretty much describes T-Mac at this point in his career, completely lifeless.

 

True story

 

W22_Streak...

SOLOMON IS THAT YOU?

 

First of all, all gambling isnt the same. Trevor didnt know how to pick his spots, he just went for it....he would gamble on a post up, leaving the man open where he just had to pivot to get a layup. Ron did the same as well, but ariza did it more. Gambling isn't bad, if you know when to do it. Doing it when the chance of success is low AND it leaves your teammates at a disadvantage is not a good thing, especially when it's done multiple times a game. Im not sure i'd say they're flat out selfish..maybe it was just overconfidence, i dont know..but that's looking out for yourself more than the team.

I haven seen Wallace enough to say much about him...but based on the words you used, such as " he was once bashed" and "now everyone hails him", leads me to believe that he improved his defense or became more consistent. People don't change their views if player's play the same, unless there is a significant change in winning, which there hasnt been for Charlotte...unless you count this past season, is that when his defensive rep changed?

Ariza's games against Kobe, especially the first one, was primarily fueled by emotion...he was clearly trying to show LA what they were missing. It's what every player does against a former team that traded them or didnt resign them. He's also more familiar with Kobe, so he should be able to guard him better than battier. Yes, he still would do a solid job if he had never been Kobe's teammate, but this is like declaring Bad Miller is a way better offensive player than Yao if he comes in here and cruises through Adelman's offensive system. He should cruise through it. Yet, ariza's D on Kobe was never as good as it was in that first game and never that much better than battier's after that first game either. It definitely wasnt better against the rest of the league either. We dont play LA 82 times a year.

You dont have to have shot blocking to be an uptempo team... an outlet pass on a rebound is just as effective at starting a fast break and we have a great outlet passer in chuck and the rest of our bigs are solid at it. A defensive rebound happens a lot more often than a block, which means more opportunities for a fast break if you chose to take advantage of it. We also have a ton of guys who can get steals at any moment. You're focused on one or two steals trevor got that led to his dunks, but i'll gladly take a steal by Lowry/Brooks/lee/martin/battier/hayes that lead to one or two passes which leads to a layup/dunk/fts. Teams don't get style points.

And why so much emphasis on ariza's steals??? he's never averaged more than 1.8 a game and his career avg is 1.3, that's hardly exceptional and not much better than Lee (1.4, 1.4), battier (1.6, 1.1), lowry (1.4, 1.0) and hayes in limited PT (1.1, 0.8)....and those are guys on his team, not even the league leaders........also take into consideration how much ariza played, he led the team in PT and had a whole lot more than chuck and lowry...if you adjust the PT they'd all probably be right there with him

 

Well golly gee Beav, neither did anyone else on the team and they didn't suck as bad as Trevor.

Excuses are like assholes, everyone has one, and if it is not yours it stinks.

Yours stink.

DD

 

Stromile Swift.

 

Without Ariza the 22 win streak would not have been possible.