The only way we can make our own big three is trading for Artest ,to take Ron to houston we must send scola to Kings.i know some fans don't want to sacrifise scola for artest , but i think is a smart deal scola + someone for Artest. As scola's contract will expire in the summer of 10 ,when many great stars including Kingjam will have the player option.Even though we have bird rights for scola ,but it makes no difference, as many rosters' contracts will be repiring by then ,including 2.2mfor t mac and 5mfor rafer,then our salary quantity will be under the cap.If scola would perform like a superstar ,which we all hope ,then morey will have to offer him a big contract at least 10m per year.then we will have no cap to sign Kingjam or Roy,whom we need yet can't afford. If we intend to make breakthroughs ,we must Kingjam ,having to let scola walk then.it's better to trade him than letting him walk with nothing back. we trade scola for Ron ,then sign him at about 10m for 2 or three years in 09.The rookies are important for rockets because we must stay strong until 09,we must make Kingjam believe rockets is a team that can win the championship.King jam pays more attention to the ring than dollars.After all,artest can make our team better and make it possible to sign james ,so why not fulfill the propersal. Scola and Bjax as a package for Artest.
This thread becomes a comparison between Yao and KG. IMO,KG is more dominant in defense and Yao is more in offense(if the NBA referees be more impartial). Generally,I think KG is better.
wow.....1 year ago, they also say KG and Pierce like this .but then they got the rings.That makes the only difference.
If we got Ray Allen, for a draft pick we would have a good chance of winning the ring. Shane gets to come off the bench in a Posey role. Skip better than Rondo. Scola better than Perkins. Yao and KG is a wash. Tmac has a very slight edge over Pierce. Deke better than PJ Brown.
oh really, what were they before this year? you also forgot pierce and kg have another all-star on their team by the name of ray allen. they all SUCKED for stretches in the playoffs but at least 2 of them show up at a time. yao and tmac have who? oh yea, rafer alston. the different is huge. ray allen or rafer alston as your 3rd scorer?
on offense, i believe yao would be more consistent than kg. kg shot more jumpers for a big man more than i ever saw outside of dirk, which was pathetic. however, his defense and rebounding are superior to yao. the playoffs tmac can do what pierce did with ease. pierce was great on defense however, and i'm not sure if tmac can replicate that 04-05 defense on dirk. he played great D v. utah so i'm sure he can. like we all have been saying a thousand times -> WE NEED A 3RD SCORER. everything else is good. if we have that 3rd scorer, the offense wouldn't go through tmac/yao so much that yao can rest more and tmac can focus on D. that 3rd guy can be the playmaker some time to relieve the pressure off of tmac. we CAN make tmac that great defender again. just alleviate his responsibility. we CAN make yao a fresher player again, just reduce his playing time. those things can be done with a 3rd scorer.
With Tracy instead of Pierce, the Celtics would not have gone 7 games with Cleveland and Atlanta. He would have swept them and the Lakers. Everyone know he would have swept Detroit. With Pierce, the Rockets would be a lottery team. You guys don't know what you have until it's gone. He will only be here for 2 more seasons.
What??? Celtics are a perimeter oriented team with great defense, PP score in the paint more that KG.
well the fact that i dont think Mcgrady will take the Celtic to the final is that he doesnt attack the basket as well as Pierce and he isnt that agressive, the Celtic would lose game 7 to king james if Tmac was on the team.
No I would not , I like Yao because of his present personality. Yao is a Sportsman and KG is a street person completely different
i think you're mistaking the reg. season tmac with the playoffs tmac. last yr he avg 9 ft attempts a game, which is more than paul pierce. tmac does attack the basket in the playoffs (we're talking about the playoffs right). if tmac had that supporting cast he wouldn't have sucked the first 6 games for it to go 7? you do know pierce literally sucked the first 6 games of that series right? 2 games he scored under 8 pts
the year he went deep he had antoined walker putting up 20-10 and was an all-star playing in the weak east. but true, pierce had advanced beyond the first round before kg and ray came along.
Yeah, just stating the facts though I'd take Mac over Pierce most days of the week. Pierce is more durable though.
all i'm saying is the OP must be smoking something if he thinks we didn't have a ray-allen type of scorer, we wouldn't have done the same thing. give this team ray allen and we might just steam roll through the playoffs, esp. in the pathetic east, rather than having to go to game 7 two times v. VERY weak teams like the hawks and cavs.
