(Rockets.com) Doubt Him If You Dare

We have a deep roster but we still lack a closer. Which doesn't make us a contender.

 

$20 Tip jar bet Ish Smith does not make the team (12). I think we just found our emergery PG in case of you know what....

 

You mean if they do Yao like they did with Tracy? Yea i get the picture. Yao comes back and playes limited minutes as did tracy then shipped out of town there after? Yea this does sound familiar.

 

I don't know about being as good, but then bench will be a whole lot quicker, faster.

 

Only difference is that Adelman actually likes Yao.

 

Rep for you.

 

is he the new von wafer of h-town?

 

Is this a real level of laziness, actually attainable by human kind, such that the finger cannot manage to click a button which requires fractions of a joule of energy to accomplish its task while the eyes read from a relaxed pose?????? I ASK YOU


Whew just got home from work. And I'm just poking fun.

 

Balancing rotation minutes is goin to be a nightmare for Coach, i just hope Patrick, lee and Bud get enough.

 

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Plenty more where that came from.

 

OremLK gave you Exhibit A.

Here are B:

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I think people on the team must have really disliked Ariza.

 

Ariza did one thing really well.

Telling Brooks to stop driving the lane in the closing seconds and just shoot the step back jumper.


I will all ways be thankful for that.

 

If the Rockets sign Dampier then I think you right.

Brooks / Lowery
Martin / Lee / Taylor
Battier / Budinger
Scola / Hayes / Hill / Patterson / Jeffries
Yao / Miller / Dampier

That's 15. No Johnson. No Harris. No Ish. Besides Taylor, I'm not even sure who gets put on the reserve. Jeffries? Patterson? Hill? Pick 2.

 

Don't forget about The Chuck Wagon and Brad Miller...

 

With the depth on this team, Adelman should tell players to go all out, all the time.

Forty-eight minutes of hell.

 

The common theme with closers is that they get to the line.


Brooks could be "Bibby-esque" and hit big shots, but he is no closer.

 

^^exactly what i was thinking....i hope thats not the case tho.

 

Not at all. Where McGrady demanded things be given to him before he earned them, Yao places the team well above his ego. He's got the full respect of his teammates and demonstrates to them daily that he'll work as hard as the odd man out trying to make the roster.

The team loves Yao and doesn't want him gone. The front office wants him to retire here. Yao is loyal to the franchise.

The team is doing the right thing - Yao literally has not played a game in 15 months. Even if the bone is healed, he's still getting his strength back and hasn't even gotten close to live action game conditioning shape. Guys miss 3 weeks and need several games to get their groove back. Throwing Yao into the starting lineup would be a disaster.

Take the season, slowly work him back in. At worst, Miller improves the center position versus last year simply by his size and allows Scola to play more at his natural position.

Yao's not going anywhere.

 

Courtney Lee maybe the new Doug Christie of the Sacramento Kings, someone that can do it all.