Chase Budinger is missing wide open shots. I wish people would stop looking for other people to blame for Chase missing wide open shots. He's missed wide open shots this year when Lowry was in the game as well. It's on him, not who he's playing with. I agree that Lowry makes Chase better -- of course he does, Lowry makes everyone better (a claim you can't make about the other two Rockets PGs) -- but it isn't the big reason Chase is shooting 20% or whatever it is. And DaDa, I listened to the podcast. I've listened to you. It doesn't mean I agree with either. Morey said he likes the one defensive, one offensive balance lineup.. maybe I should go around and tell people that my argument aligns with what the Rockets are thinking since Morey said he prefers the balance of defense-offense and not two offensive players? Ackerman claims the first unit doesn't like to run -- that is complete fabricated CRAP! Scola is our best big as far as the running game, Martin loves pushing the tempo and drawing fouls in transition, and Battier feasts on running to the corner on open looks. The only person you can say that doesn't look to run is Yao, because is he unable to. I wish there would be a podcast or radio show where they have people of differing opinions and offer both sides of the arguments.
Haha -- I've entertained the idea. That would bring our total listeners up to you and my mom.. sweet!
I couldn't disagree with Ackerman more about Brooks NEEDING to start. Sounds like he's giving the Adelman company line (but, as you guys noted, not the Morey company line). As one poster said, it's not like Chase is not getting wide open jumpers and it's not like he's not playing with Lowry at all. Chase has stunk all year. There's no getting around that. He's a guy that lacks confidence and isn't really mentally tough. When the ball is going in, he plays well. When it's not, he lets the rest of his game suffer and he doesn't have the confidence to change the momentum. We've alway noted on this board that he can't put back-to-back halves together. Somehow the management has to convince Brooks to come off the bench. This team badly needs a guy who can create his own shot and score in bunches off the bench. With Scola and Martin, you have two guys who are scorers and who need to get the ball early to get going. Lowry gets them the ball. When does Brooks ever come out of the gate (in the 1st or 2nd half) on fire. He always gets it going when the benches start coming in. I just can't see the point in starting Brooks when you have Lowry and he's doing what he's doing. And... I haven't even gotten to the biggest issue which is the worst defensive backcourt in the NBA (and maybe NBA history) with Brooks and Martin together. Frankly, the fact that this is a debate is amazing to me. If you know basketball, this is a no-brainer.
i really wanted them to talk about a big issue for the rockets at the moment, and that is scola's minutes. he is playing almost all the game, eventually it's going to catch up with him.
Listened to the podcast. It's mostly a rehash of the Rockets' company line. I agree that the players are doing better in December especially making their 3's but the primary reason they are having a good December is that the schedule has since turned to their favor. December is full of teams that are at or below their level so it should be expected that they would be competitive in these games. Against teams like the Bucks, Pistons, Kings, Clippers & Warriors, this team's makeup is not a detriment. But this is a team that is/was still built for what I term the Yao in the middle strategy: Yao clogging the middle with a bunch of 3 point shooters on the outside. When they hit their 3's, they roll but on the nights those 3's aren't falling, PROBLEM! So I expect them to have a nice December but looking ahead to January, it's going to be brutal.
and the problem of course is going to be working in yao and brooks into the rotation, but why not wait it out till at least the 15th, and try and go for a big trade, that way you only add 1 "superstar" into the rotation. and that way our trading chips would be: brooks yao n.y pick our picks 1 rotation player ( martin, lowry, lee, scola, battier, miller, hill, hayes) jeffries taylor patterson budinger (including him out of the rotation cause of how he has been playing.) and we wont really mess up our chemistry that bad since our two main chips (brooks and yao) arent in the current rotation. i mean with the current rotation we are great, we only need that 1 superstar to score whenever we go on that stretch where we cant make a basket.
I'd be willing to bet Morey would be starting Kyle Lowry if he was the coach but he is not and based on your posting history you think Adelman is not much of a coach. So do you value Adelman's opinion on his players or not?
I think Adelman is a fine coach, I just disagree with him running his starters into the ground and a lack of timeouts. And yes, I value his opinion and know he knows more about the game than you or I...but nice try Dave..... And Morey is a numbers guy, not a basketball guy, I think a lot of people on this very board know more about the game than he does. DD
Nice try my ass. You constantly second guess the competency of the coach and management but you're the quickest one to post a link or quote when they say something you agree with then you turn around and tell people who disagree with you that they don't know what they are talking about because Jason Friedman said this or Rick Adleman said that. This post is a glaring example. You're freaking signature is a Morey quote saying Brooks is capable of being the starting PG on a Championship team (you added this when you got blasted for touting Brooks as the next Tony Parker and making other absurd statements about him) yet in the post above you're saying Morey doesn't know basketball. Awesome. This is like the 500th example of you talking out of both sides of your mouth.
Such anger...., of course I pick and choose what supports my arguments...so do you, so does everyone else......I clearly don't always agree with management, but in this case I do. Doesn't mean squat, each decision is up to me or you, or anyone else as to whether you agree with it. I will accept it if the team names Lowry as the starter, will you accept it if they name AB as the starter? And yes, I fully expect the whining to continue, that is what we as fans do.... ALL OF US.....Dave. And the "Nice try" is you trying for a gotcha moment...where there was none to be had....... DD
In the end, it looks like he did: For the past year, you've kept saying, "yeah, I guess just DARRYL MOREY agreeing with me doesn't mean anything..." Then today.. Huh? You can't go around trumping your argument as the one that Morey also agrees with then at the same time tell us that a lot of us know more about the game then he does. Also: You've just admitted that you take a stance and then after taking it pick and choose the stats that help support your argument. How can anyone take what you say seriously? You admitted to purposely leaving out stats that would be detrimental to your argument. Do you see why people get frustrated with you? A lot of people accuse you of purposely ignoring their arguments because you don't have a rebuttal. You're telling us that you pick and choose stats/quotes depending on if it supports your argument or not. It's the reason that so many people get angry with you and you feel "attacked".. because you have no consistency.
