If Barry is still looking at other teams at this stage, does that mean he’s not the point guard Matt Jackson expects the Rockets to sign by this weekend?
Interesting Blazer article on Barry. Clearly it looks like the Blazers are in the Brent Barry derby. But again, with Stoudamire and Anderson on the roster Barry would be coming off the bench, (at least this season). And the Blazers are a long way off from contending. Houston clearly is the better choice, stating PG spot open and a chance at a title. I think ultimately it will come down to money, no surprise. Which team will offer Barry the best contract. I think the Blazers would be willing to offer 4 years. The Rockets might as well.
Overspend? The BIG and over done contract we have offered Barry of couse isnt over "spent" right? We should have made a move for this guy and we didnt, i stil think its a big mistake. & even if the jazz matched the offer whocares, its just less money for them to spend in the market.
The problem there is that Arroyo is a RESTRICTED FA. The Jazz could wait up to 15 days to match the offer. And then during those 15 days we couldnt offer up our MLE to someone else. We would lose 15 days in the FA derby. The Rockets didnt want to risk that for a player that was most likely going to be matched by a team that has boat loads of money to spend. It would be lunacy!
If they were to offer him a contract the Jazz have something like 15 days to match the offer. And of course as every team does, they would drag it out until the last possible moment. That would leave us in a bad spot. We couldn't go after anyone else because that situation would have been up in the air.
Something i didn't know till 5 mins ago, after checkign some stats from last year: Damon Jones was 2nd in Assist/TO ratio and Jeff McInnis was 5th, pretty impressive. Also, DJ shot 36% from 3pt land, not bad. I think the Damon Jones idea is really growing on me.
Tmac/Yao will make him even better. At 28, he's also much younger than barry. Bring him for 4 years 15 million.
Ummm....no. Have you watched Arroyo play or seen his stats. Berry has more assists, more steals, more blocks, more rebounds and for the better part of his career, more points on average. Barry's only been a point guard for two years, and not in nearly as good of a system for a PG to suceed in, and he's already shown, to me, that he is better than Arroyo. Plus, he can fill in at the two and has 4 inches and 10 lbs. on Arroyo. I mean, if people are complaining about Barry's lack of one-on-one defense, Arroyo is even worse. Look, Arroyo will put up decent numbers over the life of his contract...but more because of who he plays for than how he plays. He is a system player and needs the Jazz system to thrive. If the Rockets don't get Barry, there are other fish in the sea I'd rather have ahead of Arroyo any day of the week.
DJ averaged about 6 assists/game in about 25 mins/game. How much of that was garbage minutes, how much significant minutes? How was he used?
Well, going by the fact that Milwaukee played well all year, and TJ Ford went down during the season, making DJ the starting pg for them, I figure he played a lot of meaningful minutes, and even in garbage time 6 assists would be tremendous, especially with an assist/to ratio of about 4.5/1.
I say sign a stop gap player and let him handle it with Lue, then next year go for Earl Watson, who should be an FA, or somebody else. No sense getting locked into a long term contract on leftovers. It's not like they're going to win it all next year anyway.
Perhaps Eric Snow in a trade, who knows. All I know is JVG wants a true point guard to pass, dribble, and not a shoot first player. Barry has a great shot, so settling for him would be ok, but do we really want him for that much and that long? I don't think the rockets do. We shall see
I cant arrgue w/ thoughs stats BUT i can say this, last season was Arroyo's FIRST time to acctuly get som playing time & he blossemed into a great pg in only his first year. Barry however has been around for 12 years & all his stats are just slightly higher than Arroyo's. What im getting at is Arroyo has many years and time for improvment where Barry dosn't. BUT none of this realy matters becuase he plays for the jazz now
With Toronto signing Rafer Alston and still having Alvin Williams for 4 more years, how about we trade Taylor + TE for Jalen Rose? A Rose/McGrady backcourt would be the tallest ever.
rose and mcgrady would be a lot of egos go around. jalen rose is overrated player imho. he needs like 30 shots to get 20 pts.
