This team needs a Kenny Smith type of PG. Dribble, post pass, and hit a J. Thats it. We dont need a multi faceted dude, just a bloke who can shoot and pass the rock around to the open man, not necessarily avg. 6 dimes a game or anything. If we could trade Alston for a D. Fisher, that would be PERFECT.
The main job of a point guard is not to get assists, but to run the offense. I'm sure VSpan will be a good player in the future like u said, but we are talking about this year. Rafer will give us the best chance of winning this year, not 2 years down the line.
how many shots has rafer missed in the paint- all his stupid a$$ floaters and finger roals always seem to miss (very badly)... and his assists suck badly.
Aside from yesterday, the Rockets have generally struggled with Alston on the bench. His +/- is +13.9 http://www.82games.com/0607/0607HOU.HTM He had a bad game, but that doesn't neglect the general trend.
Rafer is not a TOs machine, Yao has a lot more. The biggest problem of Rafer is he tries a lot of 3pts shooting and missed too many. Especially sometimes, he shoot 3pts even his teammates have never get in positions. This kind of shoots makes no sense but only exhaust our guys. BTW, Rafer plays much better with T-Mac in, cause he can pass the ball to T-Mac instead of some stupid shootings. Don't blame this guy too much cause he is still one of our best role players. When T-Mac comes back, everything is gonna be OK!
I think Rafer would be much better coming off the bench. The year he played for the heat he was a pretty good spark for the team and shot the three pretty well. The guy only started for 1 year in his career before coming to the rockets and that was in toronto so that aint sayin much. I dont think he is any more than a bench player. I think Luther Head would be a better improvement to the starting lineup. he and Tmac can split the pg duties. And dont tell me tmac cant play the point cause we need him to score and not get tired. He's been much more effective when he plays pass first
I think that might actually work with Luther as our "starting point" but TMAC being the primary ball handler. Although we would miss Luther's spark off the bench...but hopefully Mr. Wells will fill that role soon. Plus, TMAC would be better health wise for being play-maker first...scorer second.
ive never understood why people think rafer is, was, or will be a good 3 pt shooter? Ive said this since the preseason, he has never proven himself as a better than 38% 3pt shooter...ever! Why would he start this year? Because he practiced at it? yeah, sure. Also, why can't vspan help us this year? Why should we rely on rafer, who apparently likes to shoot all of a sudden (who said he is a true pg? avg 7 3pt attempts a game.) why cant we instill vspan and let him work out his kinks and mistakes early in the season so later in the year he can become that sam cassell type situation. Remember him? Rookie year, scott brooks backed up kenny smith, til mario went down with an injury. Scotty couldnt do much so sam started to play and he messed up at first but obviously we know what he ended up in the finals. Who says it can't be done? Rafer will live and die by the 3pt line, unfortunately a career avg below 37% will kill him as well as the team.
umm have u been watching these games? LUTHER as our PG would spell DOOM for the team.. he has to be the worst passer on this team.yes the WORST!! horrible decision and play maker.. . i rather him just shoot the 3 . .alteast we have a chance of scoring. if he passes its gonna be a TO
This is what I said one post before. Right now, Alston is the best solution for the 1. However, I expect Soan to have more potential tha he has. And finally, just consider Span's development: In pre saison he had 4.3 TOs/pg, now he has about 1.3. This is a huge improvement within few weeks. Furthermore, he learned his role in the team and he definetely plays for the team. I derive this from the fact that he atempts 3-pointers and concentrates on his strenths: penetrating, mid-range-shots,assists. If, by the end of this season, he reaches an ass/TO-ratio of >2 and about 5ppg, he will have had a successfull rookie season.
He would be spliting the duties with Tmac. He can bring the ball up the court fine, and he doesnt have to make the passes, Rafer isnt getting a bunch of assists, Tracy is. It would be fine to have him be the sarting pg/sg
Funny thing is. he doesn't have to. He proved himself an able distributor with last years 6.7 assist average with a bunch of scrubs, and I think it's T-Mac taking away his ball handling duties that has Rafer shooting so much, even though he's never a good shooter. With T-Mac out, I think Alston would be able to get back into a distributing role and passing to better shooters such as Head, Padgett and Novak insteading the ball being passed to him.
I dont think that happend in the last game I think when Tmac is out, Alston thinks he is the next best thing and tries to go skip vs the world ----> clearly something we do not need/nor ever need Someone needs to smack Rafer in the face and say "you cant shoot, but you can handle the ball and make plays, go do that"
I agree that with T-Mac out, Alston wasn't in his distribtuting mode, but admittedly, some of his three pointers were open so there was no reason not to shoot. However, surely Alston would've realised that he was missing a couple of shots right?
how about taking a couple steps in front of 3 pt line and shooting an 18 ft jumpshot? he doesn't have to take those 3pters....and there is a reason he is wide open so early in the shotclock.
