the rockets won with hakeem or hakeem/drexler and bombing away from the 3 point line and the lakers won with shaq and kobe and bombing away from the 3 point line. and the heat are winning with shaq and wade and 3 point shooters. a great penetrating guard and a dominant inside guy should be paired with 3 point shooters to spread the floor as much as possible and to make double teams as painful as possible. the rockets were damn near unbeatable when our role players were hitting their 3's. if they really got going, we won by 20. i think we should continue that trend. anything that hampers floor spacing for yao and tmac is bad. sprewell's mediocre shooting (definitely worse than wesley's even though wesley was very streaky) is not needed imo. it's not like 41.6% means he was good at the midrange shot. Latrell Sprewell is a cancer and doesn't fill any of our needs. exactly. when we need an aging, breaking down shooting guard with a mediocre jump shot and a history of being a troublemaker, we'll give him a call. all this wesley bashing is silly. the guy did an adequate to above average job all season on D. we ran into a deep team that could choose any number of matchups to use and happened to have a big guard to take advantage of him. what are you going to do if we have spree and someone else has a quick 2 guard we need to defend? trade back for wesley? and for all the cringing going on on wesley's 3's, he shot 38.3% on 3's with us and hit 10-21 in the dallas series (though he did suck at 2's). and he scored 11 ppg for us, 1 behind spree. and he fit in and had good chemistry. i'm failing to see how a guy who scores one more point a game and can guard bigger guards but leaves us vulnerable to quicker guards is an upgrade over a guy who shoots 6% better on 3's and fits in well.
I would do it for the right price. He would have been a great option to go to in the playoffs when Wesley wasn't playing well. He is old. He can still play. But he is in that state of a career when things go downhill. If he wants to be Mutumbo's partner in low minutes/high output..... do it. Sign him.
He probably had the worst season of his career this year and I can't really seeing him bouncing back at his age.I say pass on Method Man errr I mean Spree.
As with Donyell Marshall, I'm on the fence about Sprewell. Hopefully, we don't over pay for either. Vet min max for Spree. If it's a SnT, I surely hope the new contract length is very short. I will readily admit that I am no college hoops expert. But I think this is a deep draft and it may be driven by the age limit discussions in the next CBA. And therein is my biggest concern about Spewell. If we get a good perimeter player (Francisco Garcia, Kennedy Winston, or very lucky in CJ Miles), I think they should be in the rotation. They should not have a season of extended conversations with Mooch and Vin! On second thought after considering the draft....no. .................................................................................................... From Clutch's article Time will tell, but if he wanted size defensively to the point of potentially sacrificing chemistry, you have to wonder why he gave it up in Jim Jackson to get Wesley in the first place. I did some initial head scratching as well but the answer was obvious (at least to me) after a couple games. Contrary to what most in CC believe, the VG/TMac Rockets were a very good transition team. Their fastbreaks weren't "showtime" but they were pretty good. When he was part of the break, Jim Jackson had this annoying habit of stopping at the 3 point line effectively negating any advantage the Rox had in transition. I have many recollections of Wesley finishing at the basket. If VG has an interest in Spree, it's likely he thinks Spree is better in the open court (transition) than either Wesley or JJ.
