I love reading articles like the one below. It's an interview with a Blazers scout discussing Rudy Fernandez. http://www.blazersedge.com/2008/12/29/703803/born-s-corner-rudy-fernand
Another guy Rockets wanted, but did not have the draft position to take thanks for JVG. If he would have just tanked 6 or 7 more games that season and we would have nabbed him instead of the friggin midget. Thank you JVG for meaningless wins.
I remember last year I sent a mail to rockets management calling for a trade for Rudy. I was living here his improvement, LIVE, and was amazing. I appreciated he would be an NBA star soon and maybe in NBA they still didn't know it and we could got him cheap. But later, when I saw the Blazers that happy for having him (not trading him), I said in this forum that we could go for a similar player who still wasn't taking minutes from his coach. Is Marco Bellinelli. Bellinelli and Rudy have been compared in Europe since 14-15 years old, they're similar players and very complete swingmen. Marco is also a hell of player with and without the ball and would fit great in Adelman's offense, even better than in Oakland. But Nelson is finally discovering him... and the trade for Artest happened for Houston.
Rudy has a chance to be a very good player, but right now he's just a butterfly that mostly floats around on the perimeter who occasionally gets an alley-oop from Sergio Rodriguez. If he develops the ability beat defenders off the dribble to pull-up and post from mid-range, he can be a very good player. His court vision and passing are already very good and he's improving on defense (effort is not the problem). If he gains some strength and can finish in traffic, he and Brandon Roy will form an unstoppable duo that will terrorize opponents in crunch time. And he has big-time charisma.
I can't tell if you're just really strange or being sarcastic, but sarcasm usually works better when it makes a point. Quite a difference between the second to last game in an established lottery-bound year and a 52-win playoff season. Nearly 70% chance that one win in Denver cost the Rockets Brandon Roy. That should be painful.
Oh it hurt. Badly. And I'm also a little mad at the Celtics for trading for Sebastian Telfair. I don't think the Celtics would've drafted Roy with the 7th pick if they had kept it.
Being sarcastic. To think of it though, a matchup with the Spurs might have been more favorable than the Jazz in retrospect. Same thing with the 04/05 season... Rockets might have been better off as the six seed.
And what about the Hawks' obsession with drafting Admiral Ackbar and making a guarantee public? Pritchard threatened to take their guy and they backed off. Wankers.
